A cursed or 'baadhit' horoscope?

This is one strictly for record purposes. Nadi and KP astrologers, in my limited experience, are quite rigid when it comes to some things. Only a few I have met are open to impacts of things like Saturn's 7.5 year cycle, efficacy of remedial measures and few other matters that were elucidated by traditional astrologers. Which brings me to the question of cursed or baadhit horoscopes. I have no experience with them but I was pleasantly surprised to read about these in a book by Suresh Sahashane ji. 

Let me first put the charts and significators up (Nadi and KP):

This friend of mine is facing several health issues for the past few years. Started with an accident involving a animal, followed up by weight loss, viruses that were dormant from childhood getting reactivated, loss of appetite, menstrual issues etc etc etc. At point point the native was rushed to the hospital as the doctor feared a brain tumour but nothing was found (thankfully). But you can imagine the wide range of issues the native is facing. The worst part is that doctors in two different countries are unable to diagnose the native's problems for the past several months. Most treatment appears to be a 'hit-and-trial' sort.

The native is currently in the Dasha of Rahu. This makes diagnostic confusion, that is normal for the planet's nature. So I was not surprised with the doctors initial confusion, but after several months, this is getting ridiculous.

Even looking at it Astrologically, Rahu does not signify any major illness, that left me perplexed as well. Certainly not enough to cause the native to be effectively bed ridden for months. Even though medical astrology is not my strongest suite, this was beyond even the most basic understanding.

Lost in this thought, I happened to flip to Page 396 of Suresh Shahasane (SS) jis book (Phaladesh Khand) on KP. Chapter called Rahu Ketu - Phala aani Upay (Nodes - results and remedies).

SS talks of  completely weird problems that people have brought to him over the years and how they could be related to the horoscope being 'cursed'. To ensure that the problems are genuinely due to such a horoscope and not just in the imagination of the native, SS gives us some rules to check.

Primary rules are:

1) At the time of examination of horoscope, Rahu/Ketu must be the Dasha lord, OR

2) Whichever planet is the dasha lord should be in the star owned by Rahu/Ketu, OR

3) Rahu/Ketu must be conjunct with the dasha lord, OR

4) Kalsarpa dosha ie. all 9 planets on one side of the axis formed by Rahu and Ketu, OR

5) Rahu/Ketu conjunct with Sun/Moon/Lagna lord

Any one of these rules being satisfied will be the first check that there indeed exists a curse from a prior life. In my friends horoscope, two conditions are being satisfied: 1 and 5 (Ra conj. Sun). 

If above is satisfied then SS recommends a second check. At the time of examining horoscope:

1) Ascendant star lord should be Rahu/Ketu OR

2) Moon star lord should be Rahu/Ketu OR

3) Moon or Sun or Lagna lord should be conjunct with Rahu/ Ketu OR

4) Kalsarpa dosha in the time/ prashna kundali.

Condition 3 can be seen as satisfied with with Sun being conjunct with Rahu in Virgo. So SS has examined the truth of the curse from not only the birth chart but also the chart of the time and place when the said birth chart was taken into examination by the astrologer. Only if both these charts agree can we say that there is indeed something specially wrong with this horoscope and its native.

So if there is a problem, isn't there also a remedy? Well...yes and no. 'Yes' because remedies do exist and 'No' because they will not work in certain cases. Either the individual will refuse to do them, or they will be done improperly or irregularly or something or the other will cause the remedy to fail. If such failure is seen from the horoscope, then there is no point is giving a remedy to the native at all.

SS gives us another set of rules to apply to check if the remedy will be effective or not and only if atleast one of the below is satisfied that the astrologer should even venture to suggest a remedy:

In the natal or prashna horoscope:

1) 9th lord or Jupiter should have aspect on 6th house OR

2) 9th lord and 6th lord should be in conjunction OR

3) 9th lord should aspect 6th lord OR

4) 9th lord should be posited in the 6th house OR

5) 9th CSL should be significator of the 6th house

We can see from my friend's natal chart, that Jupiter has its 7th aspect on the 6th house. So one of the conditions can be satisfied and a remedy can help.

What can be the possible remedies? Usually the native is advised to worship that form of God that represents the planets in the 9th house. If multiple planets exist then exclude those planets that are lords of the 8th or the 12th house. If still more than one planets are in consideration then cast a chart for the time of examination and use the planets in the that prashna chart's 9th house to finalise which form to worship.

However, in this case the 9th house has no planets in the natal chart at all. In which case we choose the 9th lord planet (Moon in this case) to figure out who to worship. SS suggests that an even better option is to worship the deity that represents the 9th CSL (Saturn in this case). The various deities are as follows:

Sun - Gayatri/ Surya;  Moon: Shiva; Mars: Ganapati; Mercury: Maruti; Jupiter: Dattatreya; Venus: Devi; Saturn: Maruti; Rahu: Shiva; Ketu: Ganapati

So based on the two planets in this case, Moon and Saturn, we have two deities for my friend to worship: Shiva and Maruti. Hindu Philosophy considers Maruti to be an avatar of Shiva himself, so we are not too far off.

But this horoscope presents a unique problem. The 9th house lies in Cancer at 29 degrees 59 minutes 49 seconds. So literally even a few seconds ahead would push the 9th house into Leo thus changing the deity to be worshipped as not only the 9th lord would change to Sun but 9th sublord would change to Ketu. Also the native is not Indian, so the obvious issues of mispronunciation were also deterring me from suggesting this remedy.

The other solution would be to ask her to wear stones, but it has been my personal experience that this remedy is not the most effective especially for someone so harassed by fate. SS says that for people with Rahu conjunct with Sun and Mercury and facing dire circumstances wont be helped alone by prayers and chanting.

Towards this end, my final recommendation to my friend will be to conduct a Maha Mrutyunjay Jaap. As she herself cannot do it, it can be done in India. The nature of Maha Mrutyunjay Jaap is itself health augmenting and would thus be appropriate in this case all the more. Let see, what happens.