Tradition links Mercury with intellect, speech, learning, writing and talking, accounts and trade. Below are Mercury-related options to choose from: the ₹0 ones first, then the rest; which one you take up is your choice.
Eating or sharing a simple grain or fruit linked with the planet, on its weekday.
On Wednesday, include moong dal, moong chilla or sprouted moong in a meal.
When: Wednesday
Do
On Wednesday, add green foods such as spinach, bottle gourd, green peas or guava to your plate.
When: Wednesday
Don't
The planet's weekday fast or Ekadashi, within your health; ask a doctor if unwell, pregnant or on medicines.
On Wednesday, eat one simple meal (such as moong khichdi) or only fruit; remember Ganesha or Vishnu in the morning.
When: Wednesday, starting on a Shukla-paksha Wednesday
Do
Don't
Tradition links Mercury with devotion to Vishnu; on Ekadashi, keep a fruit fast or eat once, without grains.
When: Ekadashi of each fortnight
Don't
Everyday conduct tied to what the planet signifies: respect for elders, honesty, discipline.
For planets adverse in transit, Praśna Mārga lists this conduct: obey elders, listen to the Vedas and Puranas, keep the mind pure. Read or listen to a good text for a little while each day.
When: Daily
Phaladīpikā links Mercury with the learned man, the artisan, the clever accountant and the Vishnu devotee. So Mercury's remedies focus on study, writing and honest dealings (this form of conduct is tradition).
When: —
Think before you speak, don't mock anyone, keep your accounts clean, keep promises on time, and speak kindly to sisters, aunts and young children.
When: Daily
Do
Don't
Clothes or flowers in the planet's colour on its weekday, and the direction linked with it.
For planets adverse in transit, Praśna Mārga prescribes clothes and flowers of the planet's colour; Mercury's is green. On Wednesday wear something green, even a handkerchief or a border, and keep green leaves or durva in worship.
When: Wednesday
Do
Phaladīpikā gives north as Mercury's quarter. You may face north while studying or writing, and place Mercury on the north side in worship.
When: While studying or in worship
Feeding cows, dogs, birds or ants, serving elders and people in need; never harming any creature.
On Wednesday, feed green grass or green fodder to a cow, or at a nearby gaushala.
When: Wednesday
Don't
Keep soaked moong or bird grain and a bowl of clean water on the roof or balcony.
When: Wednesday or daily
Do
Don't
Watering or planting the tree linked with the planet (e.g. shami for Saturn, peepal for Jupiter).
BPHS names apamarga as Mercury's samidh (sacred fuel) in havan, so tradition treats it as Mercury's plant. Plant it in a pot or yard, or water it where it grows (planting and watering are tradition).
When: Wednesday
Do
Tradition links Mercury with Vishnu; grow tulsi or any green plant at home and tend it on Wednesday.
When: Wednesday
Don't
The planet's name-mantra, beej mantra or a stotra, a few calm minutes a day.
After bathing in the morning, sit somewhere quiet and chant 'ॐ बुधाय नमः' 108 times (one mala).
When: Wednesday morning, or daily
Do
A beej mantra from the tantric tradition; chant it 108 times on Wednesday.
When: Wednesday
BPHS names Maha Vishnu as Mercury's presiding deity. Read or listen to the Vishnu Sahasranama on Wednesday (the choice of stotra is tradition).
When: Wednesday
Don't
Lighting a lamp on the planet's weekday or visiting a temple linked with it.
BPHS describes offering the planet flowers and cloth of its colour, sandal, a lamp and incense. On Wednesday evening, light a ghee lamp at your home shrine and place green durva.
When: Wednesday evening
Phaladīpikā counts 'the place where Vishnu is kept' among Mercury's places. Visit a Vishnu temple on Wednesday; in North India, visiting a Ganesha temple on Wednesday is also tradition.
When: Wednesday
Don't
Simple, harmless totke from Lal Kitab (a separate tradition); nothing that harms rivers, animals or property.
Lal Kitab links Mercury with sisters, daughters and aunts. Meet them with affection, and now and then give a small green gift (green bangles or a handkerchief).
When: Wednesday
Lal Kitab links Mercury with the teeth; clean your teeth well every day (a habit, not a treatment; for any dental problem, see a dentist first).
When: Daily
On Wednesday, give a little whole moong at a temple or to someone in need.
When: Wednesday
Don't
Giving a small item linked with the planet, within your means, to someone in need on its weekday.
Both BPHS (84.25) and Praśna Mārga name gold as Mercury's gift. This is information; don't go beyond your means.
When: Wednesday
On Wednesday, give moong dal or green vegetables to someone in need, or notebooks and pens to a student.
When: Wednesday
Do
Don't
BPHS lists grain (paddy) cooked in milk as Mercury's offering when feeding Brahmins. Today's form (tradition): feed kheer or milk-rice to someone in need.
When: Wednesday
A bath with water steeped in the planet's herbs; skip it if your skin reacts.
For planets adverse in transit, Praśna Mārga mentions pouring the planet's medicated water over the body.
When: —
Add a pinch of nutmeg powder, a few drops of honey and a little unbroken rice to a bucket of water and bathe. Lists differ between traditions.
When: Wednesday morning
Do
Don't
A plant root linked with the planet, worn in cloth or an amulet; traditions name different roots.
Tradition gives the vidhara root for Mercury: on Wednesday it is worn tied in green cloth or on a green thread on the arm.
When: Wednesday, Shukla paksha
Do
Don't
The rudraksha of the planet's mukhi (e.g. 7-mukhi for Saturn), with a genuineness check.
Tradition links the four-mukhi rudraksha with Mercury. Wear it on a red or green thread at the neck or wrist.
When: Wednesday
Do
Don't
The planet's number yantra on copper or bhojpatra, for the prayer place; no claims of power.
Place a Budh yantra on a copper plate or bhojpatra at your home shrine on Wednesday; remember it with durva and a lamp during worship.
When: Wednesday
Do
Don't
A pandit performs the planet's japa or havan with a sankalp in your name; agree the cost beforehand.
BPHS gives 9,000 as the japa count for Mercury's Vedic mantra (opening: 'उद्बुध्यस्व…'). A pandit takes the sankalpa, worships the planet and then does the japa; it is often spread over several days or pandits.
When: Begun on a Wednesday
BPHS prescribes apamarga sticks for Mercury's havan, with honey, ghee, curd or milk, in 108 or 28 offerings.
When: After the japa
Sankalpa, Ganesha puja, Mercury puja (green cloth and flowers), mantra japa and a small havan. Usually ₹251–₹2,100 (from a short puja to one with havan); the full 9,000 japa can cost more, so ask in writing first.
When: Wednesday
Don't
Only for the chart's functional benefic planets; the lower-cost uparatna first, then a certified ratna. No gem is necessary.
A ratna (and its uparatna) is suggested only for planets that are functional benefics for your lagna: the lords of the 1st, 5th and 9th, and the yogakaraka. Every ratna is shown with its lower-cost uparatna, and the ₹0 options always come first.
Always show the uparatna (lower cost) before the ratna. No gem is 'necessary'; ₹0 options always on top.
No gem for children under 12. No gem offer during pregnancy, illness or grief (W12 rule).
The lower-cost option first. Worn in gold or bronze, on the little finger, on a Wednesday (uparatna, metal, finger and day: tradition).
When: Wednesday, Shukla paksha
Do
Praśna Mārga names 'garuda' (emerald) as Mercury's gem, in the context of adverse transits; wearing the gem of a chart's benefic planet is today's tradition. Gold or bronze, little finger, Wednesday (metal, finger and day: tradition).
When: Wednesday, Shukla paksha
Do
Don't
Lal Kitab is a popular, separate North Indian tradition; its remedies are shown here separately, under its own name.
Remedies are done with faith, regularity and patience; tradition sees them as a way to steady the mind and turn it to good deeds.
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