Lal Kitab, the "Red Book", is known for simple, low-cost remedies (totke or upay) that target a planet according to the house it sits in. This calculator reads your birth chart, finds where each of the nine grahas falls by house, and returns the Lal Kitab reading and remedy for every placement - no gemstones or costly rituals required. Of the 108 planet-and-house cells, thirty are hand-curated Lal Kitab rules; the rest are generated from the house's own domain and are labelled as such on screen.
Lal Kitab is a distinct school of astrology, set down in a series of Urdu texts in the first half of the 20th century, that blends Vedic principles with palmistry. It is best known for its upay - practical, inexpensive remedies anyone can perform at home, such as feeding animals, floating items in flowing water, keeping a piece of silver, or donating a specific grain.
These remedies work differently from classical Parashari astrology. Rather than prescribing a gemstone for a weak planet, Lal Kitab looks at which house a planet occupies and gives a targeted totka for that exact placement, aimed at calming a troublesome graha or supporting a helpful one. Nothing in the Lal Kitab reading depends on planetary strength, so the remedies here are chosen on a different basis from those on the gemstone page.
Lal Kitab reads each of the twelve houses as an area of life and judges every planet by the house it lands in. The remedy is matched to that planet-and-house combination, so the same planet can call for a very different upay depending on where it sits. Each planet also has a signature remedy that runs through its placements:
Read the two levels together. The signature remedy below is the one that runs through all of a planet's placements, while the tool additionally gives the totka attached to the exact house your own copy of that planet sits in - the more specific of the two, and the one to start with.
Nine planets across twelve houses make 108 cells, and no honest tool can claim a Lal Kitab verse for all of them. Thirty of those cells carry hand-curated Lal Kitab rules - the tradition's own signature prescriptions, such as the solid silver ball, feeding crows, burying a flute in a deserted place, honey sealed in an earthen pot, sweet chapati for dogs, none of which appear in any Parashari remedial chapter. Those thirty are cited to Lal Kitab's grah-phal, the nine grahas in the twelve houses with their upaya.
The remaining cells are filled by a template built here, from the domain of the house and the significations of the planet. That fallback is not Lal Kitab and the tool never says it is: it carries no citation and is shown with a note saying it was generated from the house's domain. The reason for the split is that Lal Kitab is a 1939 to 1952 Urdu and Hindi corpus of debated authorship whose editions differ on individual cells and which has no stable verse numbering, so its citation is topical rather than verse-numbered - and attaching that citation to a cell Lal Kitab never wrote would be worse than leaving it uncited.
For educational purposes. Astrological interpretations are traditional and not a substitute for professional advice.