13-05-2020, 05:56 AM
What we now call astrology was a very practical practical aspect of medicine in the course of the middle ages.
A cure for a disease could consist of three aspects:
- saying a specific spell
- eating or drinking a coction
- observing the time to do this from the stars
In case of urgency, one could leave out one or the other.
While we now know (or think) that only the second part was actually effective, this was not so at that time.
They did not know that a particular herb had healing power because of its chemical composition. It was suspected (for example) from the shape of the herb.
Astrology was a very 'real' part of medicine.
A cure for a disease could consist of three aspects:
- saying a specific spell
- eating or drinking a coction
- observing the time to do this from the stars
In case of urgency, one could leave out one or the other.
While we now know (or think) that only the second part was actually effective, this was not so at that time.
They did not know that a particular herb had healing power because of its chemical composition. It was suspected (for example) from the shape of the herb.
Astrology was a very 'real' part of medicine.