"Medical Astrology is the art of observing our human body within the context of time. It is essential that everyone has awareness about their body and how it operates during every phase of their life. Only when an astrologer becomes a physician or conversely when a physician acts with the full knowledge of astrology do they respectively attain completeness: otherwise, their knowledge is only incomplete. Medical astrology helps us to integrate spirituality with astrology for the betterment of our own life and those of others. Medical astrology gives us the power of observation to see how the five elements of nature within our body undergo various changes at every stage of our life. Armed with this knowledge, we will be better placed to enhance the quality of our life through the modern physiology and through the ancient science of yoga."

Tiruppur S. Gopalakrishnan (GK) is well qualified in the field of Medical astrology. He has trained over 27,000 students in various methods of astrology, in a span of 25 years.

Having created new methods of astrology, he has also trained people and published books on them His books talk about the new method of naadi astrology that he has created, namely the chandra naadi, degree system astrology.

He has released books in many languages like Tamil, Hindi, English, Kannada. He has written about nine books on prasannam and is specialized in lectures to students on the Chozhi prasannam, Ashta Mangala prasannam, Jaamakol prasannam, Thamboola prasannam.

He has also written and published the book "Medical Astrology" in Tamil which is very easy to understand. He has been publishing many books with the help of Srirangam S.Balaji M.Phil(Astro) who also helped translating this book into english for the benefit of many people.

Medical astrology is an exclusive and extensive subject dealing with astrological influences, inferences and interferences in the field of the diseases, diagnosis and treatment. In the olden days, doctors were well versed and experts in the system of astrology. They prepared the medicines, mostly herbal, on auspicious days, stars and this. The treatment was based on the horoscope of the native. The star on the day of the onset of the disease was taken into account to point out the likely time of recovery from the disease.

At the same time, both the subjects Medicine and Astrology are so vast and to master both of them is not a simple task. In this book, the common and the most prevalent ailments are analysed and the corresponding astrological aspects applied and explained. Very simple and handy rules have been formulated, which will serve as a ready reckoner in identifying the physical ailments. The erudite astrologer can guide his clients not only for cure, but, also forewarn them and can prevent, postpone the onset of the ailments. He can thus prepare them against the onslaught of diseases.

The stars, the rashis, the bhavas, the planets, the planetary combinations, the planetary aspects, the transits of major planets like the Jupiter, the Saturn, the Rahu and Ketu, are all influencing factors in disease formation and also in the recovery. The dasha, bhukthi and antara periods help to identify the likely time of the onset of the diseases and the cure. All these mentioned factors have a definite contributory role to the diseases process, individually and cumulatively.

The astrological rules have been given for every disease. The positions, combinations and aspects of the planets and their roles are explained.