Useful Remedies to Placate Navagraha

In this post, I have described some very useful and effective Upay to placate, appease or remove and rectify the malefic side-effects of the nine main planets according to Hindu astrology. The remedies, which, I have selected for all the planets are among the most simple and easy to practice astrological remedies.

Sun- Surya
1] Recite the Harivansh Puran.
2] Eat any kind of sweet food stuff or snack, which you like before any auspicious or important occasion.
3] Immerse a piece of copper and jaggery in a flowing water body.
4] Worship Surya Devta, perform Surya Namaskar or chant any Mantra of Surya Devta.
5] Donate copper, jaggery or chana dal to any temple or religious institution.

Moon- Chandra
1] Keep rice grains and silver on the body.
2] Immerse a piece of silver in a flowing water body.
3] Offer milk as Prasad in a Bhairav Mandir.
4] Wear an unblemished Pearl.
5] Keep a glass of milk near your head while sleeping at night, in the morning offer the milk to the trunk of a Babul tree.

Mars-Mangal
1] Worship Hanuman and regularly chant the Hanuman Chalisa, Aarti of Hanuman or chant any Hanuman Mantra.
2] Keep your mother and paternal uncle happy and seek their blessings.
3] Keep decorative items made from ivory in your home.
4] Donate sabut masoor or masoor dal to any needy or deserving person.
5] Recite the Durga Saptashati.

Mercury- Budh
1] Make a hole in a silver coin and throw it in the sea.
2]  Recite the Kavach and Keelak of Durga Saptshati and Argala Stotram.
3] Clean the teeth with turti [alum in English]
4] Burn conch-shells and immerse them in a river or a canal.
5] Keep a diamond on the body but do nor wear it in a ring or necklace.

Venus- Shukra
1] Worship the Goddess Lakshmi and seek her blessings.
2] Wear an unblemished pearl.
3] Donate clothing prepared from silk to any person.
4] Donate a dish of dry vegetables and roti to poor and needy persons.
5] Offer grass to a cow.

Jupiter- Guru
1] Immerse 4 sticks of turmeric daily in a river,  canal or the sea.
2]Keep a Prasad of liquor in a temple of Bhairav.
3] Recite Harivansh Puran or Srimad Bhagavatam and worship Vishnu.
4] Apply a Tilak of Kesar[saffron] upon the forehead or the navel.
5] Donate yellow colored clothes to a person of clean disposition.

Saturn- Shani
1] Offer liquor as Prasad in a Bhairav Mandir.
2] Recite the Shiv Mahimna Stotram.
3] Keep iron and black salt[ kala namak] on the body. Try to apply black colored surma[ black kohl] in the eyes, if that is possible.
4] If possible clean your teeth with datun. datun is a special twig, which is used to clean the teeth.
5]  Never disrespect elders, always seek their blessings.

Dragon’s Head – Rahu
1] Worship Shri Ganesha and chant any Ganesh Mantra.
2] Immerse a counterfeit coin in a flowing water body.
3] Immerse coal in the sea.
4] Donate mooli [dailkon in English].
5] Immerse a coconut in a flowing water body.

Dragon’s Tail- Ketu
1] Eat Kesar[saffron in English].
2] Worship Shri Ganesha and seek his blessings. Chant any Mantra of Ganesha,
3] Keep gold on the body or wear gold ornaments.
4] Donate oil, wheat, gold or jaggery to a temple priest.
5] Pierce your ears.

Notes- Some of these beneficial remedies are also found in the Navagraha Dosha Nivaran or Shanti Totke contained in the Lal Kitab.

For remedies specific to each of the 12 houses of a horoscope and for each of the nine planets, please refer too the section on Lal Kitab Remedies.