Can a birth chart tell me whether I am ill?

No, and this page does not attempt it. What it does is state what named classical verses say about the first, sixth and eighth houses of a chart, who their karakas are, and how the three legs of each house stand under Phaladeepika ch. 15. That is a reading of a chart, not medical information: it identifies no condition, rules none out, and is not a reason to start, stop or delay anything concerning your health.

Is the 6th house the disease house?

Not as BPHS ch. 11 v. 7 actually words it. That verse gives the sixth as the maternal uncle, doubts concerning death, adversaries, sores and the step-mother, so a relative, a fear, an enemy and a step-parent stand beside the one bodily item in the list. It is a house of affliction in a broad sense. Reducing it to a medical house and then reading every difficulty in it as bodily is exactly the over-reading this page is built to avoid.

What is the Trimsamsa (D30) and what does this page show of it?

The Trimsamsa is the thirtieth division and one of the few unequal ones. BPHS ch. 6 vv. 27-28 cuts an odd sign into parts of 5, 5, 8, 7 and 5 degrees for Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus, and reverses that order in an even sign. The page reports which of those five lords holds each graha's amsa, because that is a computable classical fact. It shows none of the classical readings attached to those amsas, which belong to Stri-jataka material this app permanently excludes.

Why is there no percentage next to a health period?

Because the number would be an invention. The percentage the forecast engine computes is a weighted composite of a dasha connection, a double transit, an ashtakavarga check and a natal-promise check, and no classical text weights those four against each other. A composite the sources do not supply is excluded everywhere in this app, and printing one beside a health-shaped label would be the most misleading version of that mistake. What is shown is the window's dates, the age across it, and its two dasha lords.

Why do I have to opt in before the periods appear?

Because they read the sixth and eighth houses against maraka dashas, which puts them in the same class as the other sensitive techniques in this app, all of which sit behind explicit consent. Showing an unrequested health-shaped window the moment a page loads is what the gate exists to prevent. The reading you get without opting in is complete in itself: the three houses, their lords, their karakas and the Trimsamsa placements.

Does this page recommend gemstones, fasts or any other measure for health?

No. This page reads houses and reports a divisional placement; it prescribes nothing. Remedial measures in this app live on their own page, where they are drawn from the four classes BPHS's remedial chapter names, which are mantra, yantra, daana and puja, with gemstone identity resting on the Brihat Samhita's Ratna-pariksha. Nothing in this app frames any of them as a health measure.

Health Indications

Health indications - what the verses say about three houses

A reading of a chart against named classical verses. Not medical information, and not about any condition.

What this page reads, and why it is not medical information

This page reads the first, sixth and eighth houses of a birth chart against named classical verses, adds their karakas from Phaladeepika 15.17, and shows which of the five lords holds each graha's Trimsamsa amsa. It is not medical information. It does not identify or rule out any condition, and it is not a reason to start, stop or delay anything concerning your health. Where a verse speaks of affliction it is quoted as a statement about a house, not about a body.

That is a contract rather than a disclaimer, and it is enforced mechanically: a test walks every string this feature can emit across a population of real charts and fails the build if the vocabulary of clinical practice appears in one.

The word disease is not censored, because it is Phaladeepika's own word for what Mars signifies and falsifying a source to satisfy a policy would be worse. What is excluded is the language that turns a statement about a house into a statement about a body and what to do to it.

The three houses, exactly as the chapter words them

BPHS ch. 11 v. 2 gives the first bhava as the body and its build, appearance, the faculty of intelligence, complexion, vigour and frailty, ease and grief, and the disposition one is born with. Verse 7 gives the sixth as the maternal uncle, doubts concerning death, adversaries, sores, and the step-mother. Verse 9 gives the eighth as length of life, battle, adversaries, strongholds, the wealth of the dead, and what is past and what is to come.

Read as the chapter actually words them, the sixth house is not a medical chart. It is a house of affliction in a broad social and personal sense, and its own list says so: a relative, a fear, an enemy and a step-parent stand beside the one bodily item in it.

The page prints each verse's whole list for exactly the reason it prints BPHS 11.6 in full on the progeny page, so that a reader does not narrow a six-item house down to one item and then read every difficulty in it as bodily.

The karakas, including the one cell that carries two planets

Phaladeepika 15.17 assigns a karaka to each bhava, and this app ships the verse's collisions intact rather than reducing them. The first house takes the Sun. The sixth takes Saturn and Mars together, a two-valued cell. The eighth takes Saturn. Because 15.25 speaks of a bhava's karaka in the singular, a house with two karakas gets one verdict per karaka and they are never merged into one, which would be an editorial decision the verse does not license.

Alongside those, Phaladeepika 15.15-16 lists what each graha signifies in its own right, and that is where the grahas' own subject matter comes from rather than from any modern list.

The three legs of each house are then judged by the same chapter as everywhere else in this app: 15.3 on the lord in the eighth, 15.4-15.5 on malefics in the sixth, eighth and twelfth counted from the house itself, 15.25 on all three legs strong, and 15.6 on all three weak with its counted rather than weighted intensity.

The Trimsamsa is shown as a construction, and its phala is permanently excluded

The D30's construction is BPHS ch. 6 vv. 27-28 and it is one of the few unequal divisions. An odd sign is cut into five parts of 5, 5, 8, 7 and 5 degrees belonging to Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus; an even sign reverses the order, so the first five degrees go to Venus, the next seven to Mercury, the next eight to Jupiter, then five to Saturn and five to Mars.

Which of those five lords holds a graha's amsa is therefore a computable classical fact, and the page reports it.

The classical readings attached to those amsas are not shown and will not be. They belong to the Stri-jataka chapters, whose character, chastity and widowhood verses this app permanently excludes; Brihat Jataka ch. 24 is that text's female-horoscopy chapter, and its opening verse is quoted in this app from Iyer's 1885 public-domain translation. So the page says which lord holds each amsa and stops, and it states the exclusion on screen rather than leaving a silent gap that could be mistaken for an unfinished feature.

The dasha windows sit behind a gate you have to open yourself

There is a set of Vimshottari windows computed from the sixth and eighth houses against maraka dashas, and it is off by default. Handing someone an unrequested health-shaped window on page load is precisely what the gate exists to prevent, so the windows are absent until you use the opt-in control on the page, and the payload says plainly that they are available rather than pretending they do not exist.

When you do open the gate, one thing is deliberately dropped on the way through. The forecast engine computes a percentage and a classification for every window, and neither is shown here: that number is a weighted composite of factors no text weights, and putting a percentage beside a health-shaped label is the single most misleading thing this surface could render.

What ships is the window itself, meaning its start and end dates, the native's age across it, and the two dasha lords whose period it is, all of which are facts about the Vimshottari tree.

Frequently asked questions

Can a birth chart tell me whether I am ill?: No, and this page does not attempt it. What it does is state what named classical verses say about the first, sixth and eighth houses of a chart, who their karakas are, and how the three legs of each house stand under Phaladeepika ch. 15. That is a reading of a chart, not medical information: it identifies no condition, rules none out, and is not a reason to start, stop or delay anything concerning your health.
Which houses are read for health in Vedic astrology?: This page reads three. BPHS ch. 11 v. 2 gives the first bhava as the body and its build, vigour and frailty, ease and grief. Verse 7 gives the sixth as the maternal uncle, doubts concerning death, adversaries, sores and the step-mother. Verse 9 gives the eighth as length of life, battle, adversaries, strongholds, the wealth of the dead, and what is past and to come. Each verse's whole list is shown rather than the one item that suits the topic.
Is the 6th house the disease house?: Not as BPHS ch. 11 v. 7 actually words it. That verse gives the sixth as the maternal uncle, doubts concerning death, adversaries, sores and the step-mother, so a relative, a fear, an enemy and a step-parent stand beside the one bodily item in the list. It is a house of affliction in a broad sense. Reducing it to a medical house and then reading every difficulty in it as bodily is exactly the over-reading this page is built to avoid.
What is the Trimsamsa (D30) and what does this page show of it?: The Trimsamsa is the thirtieth division and one of the few unequal ones. BPHS ch. 6 vv. 27-28 cuts an odd sign into parts of 5, 5, 8, 7 and 5 degrees for Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus, and reverses that order in an even sign. The page reports which of those five lords holds each graha's amsa, because that is a computable classical fact. It shows none of the classical readings attached to those amsas, which belong to Stri-jataka material this app permanently excludes.
Why is there no percentage next to a health period?: Because the number would be an invention. The percentage the forecast engine computes is a weighted composite of a dasha connection, a double transit, an ashtakavarga check and a natal-promise check, and no classical text weights those four against each other. A composite the sources do not supply is excluded everywhere in this app, and printing one beside a health-shaped label would be the most misleading version of that mistake. What is shown is the window's dates, the age across it, and its two dasha lords.
Why do I have to opt in before the periods appear?: Because they read the sixth and eighth houses against maraka dashas, which puts them in the same class as the other sensitive techniques in this app, all of which sit behind explicit consent. Showing an unrequested health-shaped window the moment a page loads is what the gate exists to prevent. The reading you get without opting in is complete in itself: the three houses, their lords, their karakas and the Trimsamsa placements.
Does this page recommend gemstones, fasts or any other measure for health?: No. This page reads houses and reports a divisional placement; it prescribes nothing. Remedial measures in this app live on their own page, where they are drawn from the four classes BPHS's remedial chapter names, which are mantra, yantra, daana and puja, with gemstone identity resting on the Brihat Samhita's Ratna-pariksha. Nothing in this app frames any of them as a health measure.