Health and Healing

Bedroom Rules: What to Avoid and Where Heavy Furniture Goes

Keep heavy furniture and cupboards in the South, West or SW of the bedroom, and avoid sleeping under beams or tanks, near electronics, facing mirrors or over clutter.

Bedroom

Bedroom Zones by Age Group: Children, Couples, Middle Age and Elders

A summary chart assigns sleeping zones by age: children, couples up to 45, adults from 45 to 60 and people above 60 each have their own suitable zones.

Bedrooms

Kitchen Colours: Platform by Zone, Floor, Walls and Cabinets

Choose the platform colour by the kitchen's zone and use ivory with orange for the floor and ivory with pista green for the walls and cabinets; the correct platform colour alone removes about 25 percent of a wrongly placed kitchen's dosh.

Kitchen platform, floor, walls and cabinets

Kitchen Don'ts: South Door, Open Kitchen, Mirrors, Toilets and Water Tanks

Rules to avoid in kitchen design: no south-facing door, no doorless or open kitchen, no central platform, no mirrors or water artifacts, no toilet on any of its six sides and no well, borewell or tank above or below.

Kitchen

Kitchen Location Results Across the 16 Zones

The kitchen is the fire element ruled by Mars. It is best in SE, then SSE, then West and NW; SW, NE and North are dangerous, and every other zone gives its own result.

Kitchen location in the house grid

Kitchen Platform Shape and Material: L or I Shape, Stone Under the Burner

Make the platform L-shaped or I-shaped, never U-shaped, and keep the burner on stone; ceramic tile is very good, synthetic quartz, marble and steel are acceptable, while laminate, wood and black stone are not.

Kitchen platform

Kitchen as the Centre of Emotions: Chauka Purity and Serving by Hand

The kitchen is the most important part of the house because the food made there shapes the mind, thoughts and blood of everyone; its old name chauka means a place of four purities.

Kitchen

Sleeping Direction: Feet Towards North, Never South

If the sleeping zone cannot be changed, changing the direction of the feet gives about 50 percent of the benefit. Feet towards North is best, West is second, East only for children and early risers, and South never.

Bed in any bedroom

Staircase Design Rules: Clockwise, Odd Risers, Landings and Equal Steps

Stairs must turn clockwise, have an odd number of risers, include landings and equal risers, arrive facing North or East, and have nothing harmful built beneath them.

Staircase

Staircase Results Across the 16 Zones

Stairs are excellent in SSW (the heavier the better) and good to very good in South, SW, WSW, West, WNW and NW; they must never be in the NE zone, the Brahmasthan, the North or right in front of the main door.

Staircase location in the house grid

Stairs Facing the Main Door: The Double Door-Height Distance Rule

Stairs right in front of the main door invite accidents and mishaps, but stairs that start at least twice the door height away (14 feet for a 7 feet door) are not treated as facing the door.

Main door and staircase

Zoning Inside the Kitchen: Fridge, Spices, Knives, Water and Vegetables

Grid the kitchen from its own centre and place items by zone: the refrigerator in SE, South, West or ideally NW, spices in the South, knives and cutlery in the SW, drinking water in NNE or ENE and the vegetable basket in the East.

Zones of the kitchen gridded from its own centre

Dining Area Effects in Each of the 16 Zones

West is the ideal dining zone because Varun gives coolness and taste; WSW, North, NNE, East, SSE and South also support eating, while ESE, SE, SSW and WNW disturb it.

Best: West. Very good: WSW, North, NNE, NE, East, ENE. Good: SSE, South. Moderate: SW, NW, NNW. Avoid: ESE, SE, SSW, WNW.

Dining Room Interior: Crystal Chandelier, Greenery, Flowers and God's Photo

Hang a sphatik (crystal) chandelier over the dining table, keep light colours, greenery and flowers, a good table and chairs, and a picture of God in the dining room.

Dining room

Keep Medicines in the North-North-East, Never in a South-Facing Drawer

Medicines kept in the NNE are charged by the healing rays of that zone; the North, NE, ENE and West also work, but never a cupboard or drawer that faces South.

NNE (best), North, NE, ENE or West

Toilet Effects in Each of the 16 Zones

Zone-by-zone results of a toilet: SSW and WNW are workable, NW and ESE only in an emergency, and every other zone damages what that zone governs.

Workable: South-South-West (modern Vastu) and West-North-West. Emergency only: North-West (with a strong Moon) and East-South-East (septic tank). Avoid all other zones.

Toilet Interior: Glazed Tiles, Ventilation, Grey-White Colour, No Mirror

A toilet should be lined with glazed ceramic tiles, well ventilated, kept in white or grey, and should have no mirror facing the seat.

Every toilet and bathroom

Toilet in Vedic Vastu: Outside the Foundation, Never Attached

Vedic Vastu texts assign no place to a toilet inside the house and say its wall should not even touch the house foundation; toilets were built outside, and palaces placed them at the rear in the West-North-West.

Outside the house foundation; in palaces at the rear, on the lower side, in the West-North-West, reached by a pathway not joined to the main wall

Dwar Dosh: Leaning, Holed, Back-Side and Obstructed Main Doors

Even an N4 door fails if it leans, has holes, stands at a dead end, is reached from the back of the house, or is obstructed by a pit, tree, pillar or T in front. Such defects (dwar dosh and dwar vedh) cancel the good of the pada.

Main door and the area just inside and outside it

Main Door Placement Rules: No T-Junction, Temple, Open Courtyard or Door Above Door

A main door must not face a T-junction or a temple, must not open straight onto an open courtyard and must not have another door above it. All doors should be at one level, and the main door needs a porch and decoration.

Main door and its surroundings

South Door Padas and Their Results (S4 the Only Good One)

In the South only S4 (Grihakshat) gives happiness, peace, prosperity and business profit. S2, S3, S5, S6, S7 (the debt door) and S8 bring lack of children, servitude, suffering, selfishness, debt and disease.

Main door on the South side, from the South-East corner to the South-West corner

West Door Padas W1 to W8 and Their Results

In the West, W4 (Pushpadant) showers wealth and W5 (Varun) also gives wealth, while W1, W2, W3, W6, W7 and W8 bring short life, overspending, loss of money, government trouble, disease and a destructive mind.

Main door on the West side, from the South-West corner to the North-West corner

Window and Ventilator Rules: Allowed Padas, Outward Opening, Even Numbers

Windows and ventilators work on the lighter, higher layers of energy and are needed to let negativity out. Place them on the allowed padas, make them open outward, keep them in even numbers and ideally two-shuttered, and open them every morning.

All windows and ventilators; a window and its ventilator on the same pada

Blue Colour: Cooling, Antiseptic and Calming for Study

Blue is a natural cooling and antiseptic colour that brings devotion, truth and respect, keeps body temperature balanced, and gives mental peace and spiritual growth.

Study areas and patient rooms

Business Colours by Trade: Yellow, Red, White, Green, Black and Grey

Each trade has a supporting colour: yellow for every business, red for jewellery, chemicals, sweets and fire-related work, white for education, cloth and stationery, and green for health; black and grey only in small amounts.

Shops, offices, packaging, logos and sign boards

Green Colour Therapy: Antiseptic, Detox and Fast Healing

Green, the colour of the air element, is antiseptic; it removes swelling, brings happiness, reduces negativity and detoxes the body.

Hospitals, health centres and naturopathy centres

Lagna Lord (Lagnesh) Colour for Better Health

A person who falls ill often should use the colour of the lord of the lagna (1st house) in clothes and surroundings.

Marble Flooring: Best for Temples, Limited Use at Home

Marble is pure calcium carbonate that absorbs all the energy around it, which makes it ideal for temples but unsuitable for an entire home.

Temples, puja room, at most one drawing room

Oil-based Lead Paint: Never Use Where People Sleep, Work or Study

Oil-based paint contains lead that is released into the air and breathed in, causing cough, cold, eye irritation and disease; water-based paint should be used instead.

Bedrooms, doors, offices and schools

POP False Ceiling: Hollow Gaps Store Negativity, Dust and Bacteria

POP (plaster of Paris with gypsum and adhesive) false ceilings leave hollow gaps that collect dust and negativity and retain moisture and bacteria, so they are best avoided.

Ceilings of all rooms