How this remedy works
Mantra is the safest of the classical remedies: it can be started today, costs nothing, and cannot be worn against the chart the way a stone can. The Sankhya — the prescribed number of repetitions — is completed over weeks, beginning with one mala of 108 a day and building up. Sincerity matters more than arithmetic.
The Chandra mantra is chanted on Monday nights and on Purnima; the Mahamrityunjaya mantra is used for the same afflictions through Shiva.