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Use a bed without a storage box, keep the floor under it swept and keep peeli sarson under the mattress; the negativity picked up during the day drains away and bad dreams stop.
When Saturn is exalted (sign 7) or swagrahi (signs 10 or 11), especially as a kendra lord sitting in a kendra, a painting of fish swimming in water in the West grows business and brings justice.
When money or work due from someone is not coming, yellow mustard is thrown in the direction where that person lives while holding the wish; the person is drawn back to you.
Sitting on the toilet with the left nostril closed, the teeth pressed together and the feet raised on a small footstool clears the bowels in seconds and protects the teeth and stomach.
Turning the toilet seat so the user faces North or South, never East or West, corrects about half the dosh of a toilet even when it stands in a wrong zone.
When the East is fully blocked by an adjoining wall, make an opening (duct) from the top on the East side so the overhead Sun can send its rays inside at its time.
The tortoise represents Shani and belongs in the West (earth and water element); a brass or quartz crystal tortoise, or a painting, placed there gives long life when it faces North or East.
The tree of Jayant is sandalwood; since it cannot be grown in a pot, plant tulsi at E3 and stand a small sandalwood stick in the pot so the fragrance spreads through the house.
The elephant represents Rahu, whose zones run from South to South-West (SSW, SW, WSW). In south-facing or nairitya-facing houses with the entry there, two brass elephants with raised trunks pacify the door dosh.
The vajra, the weapon of Indra, hung at the Mahendra pad or buried in its ground removes obstacles and demonic influences blocking happiness, prosperity and work.
The swastik represents and balances all five elements, removes vastu doshas and suppresses the troubles of the nine planets; a special vastu swastik design can extend any cut or narrow zone, such as a cut South-West.
Fire and water in the kitchen should be at least four feet apart; when they are closer, stand a vertical slab of the same platform stone between them.
Slightly warmed banyan leaves tied over a swollen part of the body remove the swelling; the healing comes from the natural green colour of the leaf.
Vedic vastu describes that a water body in the West, the place of Varun, with one lotus blooming in it reduces all the vastu doshas of the house. It must be raised above the ground, never dug.
The water element mandna is used from NNW through North to NNE and NE to balance an imbalanced water element; it suits industrial, commercial and residential buildings.
Keep water in a gold vessel, or in a copper lota covered with a pyramid, at the Surya devta pad and drink it on waking to absorb the power of Surya.
For a main door on a wrong West pada, hang a metal toran of copper, brass, bronze, mixed metal or ashtadhatu made as the ashtamangal symbols, or a yellow or white swastik bandhanwar put up on a Saturday.
A picture of bright white gandharva nagar clouds, cloud formations that look like palaces, hung at the Parjanya pad fulfils plans and wishes and treats a dosh at E2 without other changes.
White horses represent the Moon and the water element; they are placed in the North-West, always in an even number such as two, because the Chandra swar takes even counts. They sort out financial problems.
Where a problem persists, create a window at the point where the sun's gold-bearing rays fall at sunrise; if no opening can be made, draw a symbol such as a swastik there so that it captures the energy and fills the place with it.
When a washing machine stands in the wrong place, a wooden platform made to a particular aay size and placed under it generates the element needed there.
If stairs must be built in the North, leave some space from the North side and make them of wood, which also represents Mercury; a cement structure needs even more space left.
Yellow gomti chakra are rare but special: even one kept in the galla (cash box) at the business place brings back stuck money. Kept together with kali haldi (black turmeric), it boosts business, earning opportunities and prosperity.
For stock that is not selling or land that will not sell, cleaned yellow mustard is purified by circling a camphor flame over it (prasuk karan), energised with 11 malas of a mantra and, on a Monday or Wednesday, put into pits at the four corners.
When someone feels their shop, marriage or work has been bound (bandhan) by black magic, a havan of yellow mustard is done with the person seated before it; its smoke frees them from the binding.
Yellow mustard is always tied into the marriage knot (gathbandhan) so the bond stays firm and no negative energy cuts it, and into the bride's knot at vidai so nothing affects her on the way.
If someone has left a cut lemon (a black-magic totka) at your door and you are afraid to pick it up, throw energised yellow mustard over it first and then sweep it away; nothing will happen.
Yellow mustard spread under the mattress helps whoever is in trouble. A cushion (gaddi) filled with 5 or 10 kg of mustard is made for the owner to sit on, and a sick child or a child who cries all night is laid on bedding filled with yellow mustard.