Tópico: "Medicina astrológica" na Índia

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November 4, 2006
Satyen Mohapatra, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, September 06, 2008
First Published: 01:11 IST(6/9/2008)
Last Updated: 01:14 IST(6/9/2008)
Feeling ill? It could be the planets, says govt study

Planetary positions may have a strong influence on people’s health, suggests the initial findings of a University Grants Commission (UGC) project.

The five-year study, nearing completion, is being conducted by the Delhi-based Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha’s department of medical astrology.

The department has been recording the birth details of patients and their medical history from Delhi hospitals, and has a databank of over 1,000 horoscopes. In nearly 75 per cent cases, a strong co-relation is found between the prediction of occurrence of a  disease at a specific time and its occurrence,” Dr Prem Kumar Sharma, head of the medical astrology department, told HT.

With a Rs 32 lakh grant, the  project is studying the impact of planets on the heart, diabetes and mental diseases.  Doctors from AIIMS, Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital and Moolchand have been involved.  “As planets move through the 12  zodiac signs during a lifetime, it affects health depending on whether the planet is moving through inimical signs or/and friendly signs,” said Project Deputy Co-ordinator Jyotish Behari Lal Sharma.

Sumitra Padmanavan, head of Science and Rationalists Association of India, argues that astrology is not a science. “It developed 2,500 years ago when our knowledge of astronomy wasn’t complete.”



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Era só o que faltava...

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...Delhi-based Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha's department of medical astrology.

Doctors from AIIMS, Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital and Moolchand have been involved.

Sumitra Padmanavan, head of Science and Rationalists Association of India, argues that astrology is not a science.

Impressionante. Veja abaixo.

"In the early 2000s, under the Bharatiya Janata Party led government, astrology became a topic of political contention between the religious right and academic establishment, comparable to the "Creation science" debate in US education. The University Grants Commission and the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government decided to introduce "Jyotir Vigyan" (i.e. jyotir vijñāna) or "Vedic astrology" as a discipline of study in Indian universities, backed up by a decision by the Andhra Pradesh High Court, despite widespread protests from the scientific community in India and Indian scientists working abroad. In September of the same year, the Supreme Court of India issued a notice to the Ministry of Human Resource Development in reaction to petition. In 2004, the Supreme Court dismissed a further petition, judging that the teaching of astrology does not qualify as promotion of religion.This refuted all the claims set by the petitions filed in the court." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyotish

http://www.hindu.com/2004/05/06/stories/2004050602931400.htm

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Segundo item mais pesquisado na Internet, a Astrologia é exemplo de profissão do século XXI. De acordo com o coordenador do curso na UBC, professor Maurício Bernis, a sociedade está cada vez mais procurando orientações astrológicas. "É uma profissão tão séria quanto as outras. Existe uma busca muito grande de serviços astrológicos como mapas, orientações pessoais, análises empresariais, horóscopos e outros. Com a criação deste curso, a UBC estará auxiliando para que os profissionais da área possam se especializar dentro do País", completa.

E também: http://www.astrologia-tradicional.com/content/view/5/6/

É... Tem gente que realmente leva o assunto a sério...

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Fatos (http://www.indianchild.com/life_expectany_mortality_india.htm):

The average Indian male born in the 1990s can expect to live 58.5 years; women can expect to live only slightly longer (59.6 years), according to 1995 estimates. Life expectancy has risen dramatically throughout the century from a scant twenty years in the 1911-20 period. Although men enjoyed a slightly longer life expectancy throughout the first part of the twentieth century, by 1990 women had slightly surpassed men. The death rate declined from 48.6 per 1,000 in the 1910-20 period to fifteen per 1,000 in the 1970s, and improved thereafter, reaching ten per 1,000 by 1990, a rate that held steady through the mid-1990s. India's high infant mortality rate was estimated to exceed 76 per 1,000 live births in 1995. Thirty percent of infants had low birth weights, and the death rate for children aged one to four years was around ten per 1,000 of the population.

Factóide: medicina astrológica na Índia.