It's now increasingly evident that vastu shastra can particularly help better women's health. Vastu practitioner Chavi D Sharma gives you 20 pointers

VASTU shastra is known to have effects on one's health, happiness, success, finances, etc. And often when you misplace a certain element in your environment, it can actually do you harm - depending on your personal balance of energies. The following tips apply to most people and can help you enjoy better health.

• Your kitchen should ideally be placed in the Eastern or South-Eastern portion of the house. And whoever is cooking should face the East while doing so.

• Having the main door in the South-West results in chronic sickness, especially bone-related problems.

• Dark coloured or black curtains should be hung on the Southern windows to avoid skin diseases.

• You are more likely to conceive if you sleep in a room in the Northern portion of your house.

• Always meditate in the North-East corner of the house.

• Windows in the West aggravate cold, cough, asthma, sinusitis, etc.

• For great skin, place your bathroom in the East or North and keep light-coloured water containers.

• To ease any sexual problems, your bedroom should be in the North and you should sleep with your head towards the South.

• Keep drinking water in the North-East -this helps keep your kidneys in good shape.

• Avoid heavy things in the East and keep it as open as possible to keep your nervous system and eyes healthy.

• Insomnia (sleeplessness) can be cured by leaving the North-Eastern part of the bedroom vacant and by sleeping with your head towards the South.

• Cracks on the West walls badly affect the female reproductive system.

• Lactating and menopausal women are advised to spend their mornings in the North-East part of the house.

• To keep your circulatory system fit, sleep in the North East.

• Your digestive system is likely to suffer if your cooking platform is in the South West.

• Face the East or North at mealtimes and don't face the South if you are bed-ridden.

• Keeping cash in the North West corner of the house will make you more extravagant.

• If you live on the top floor of your building, make sure the overhead water tanks are in the South West corner. And paint them dark to keep the water pure.

• Toilets in the East or North prove to be very harmful and lead to mental depression.

• Avoid having tall buildings or trees in front of your main gate. This helps keep your lungs healthy.

• The medicines and the first aid box should always be kept between the North and North-Eastern part of the house.