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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.
Yellow mustard (Siddhartha) is the main protective and success-giving mustard; the red and brown mustard used in cooking also serves for nazar; white mustard, now rare in India, carries the strongest Moon influence and is the best for business success.
No zone suits everyone: a South-West bedroom, a West-South-West study, a bed in the West, or a South-facing seat or door can harm a person whose planet ruling that zone is debilitated.
Each direction has colours that suit it and colours to avoid, based on the friendship and enmity of the planets ruling the zones.
For an irregular plot, measure the degree of one wall or axis, draw a line through the centre parallel to that wall, set off the measured tilt to get exact North, and then mark the zones as usual.
In AutoCAD, draw a closed polyline around the plan to get its geometric centre, place the chakra image there, align its North with the plan and rotate it by the measured tilt.
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.
The logic used on paper works the same in AutoCAD, Corel or any drawing software: scale the house outline by the bhoomi ratios, divide by angles, and keep a ready template of the chakra and devta lines to overlay on every new map.