Healing properties of various Gemstones

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MAGNETITE

Stimulates endocrine system. Improves blood circulation. Helps in meditation.

MALACHITE

A green copper carbonate.
Malachite contains copper and it is claimed that it is helpful in the treatment of rheumatism and also in regularizing menstruation.
Used in the treatment of asthma, toothache. Improves eyesight.
Raises one's spirits and increases hope, health and happiness. It attracts physical and material benefits and brings prosperity.
It assists wise rule and helps remove mental blockages hindering spiritual growth.
It relieves any congestion in the body and helps with confusion and lack or purpose and insecurity.

MARCASITE

Gentle physical strengthener. Makes one feel more able to cope with any problems and difficulties.

MIMETITE

Helps communication, grounds and insulates.

MOLDAVITE

Small glassy (translucent) green stone believed to be associated with meteorites.
Eases epilepsy, brain imbalances and malfunctions and autism, particularly if brought on by excessive sensitivity.
Assists conscious communication with star-seed sources and is a healing balm for the deep longing - and heartfelt yearning - of many people to "go home".
Moldavite also helps one to understand one's true purpose in life.
A stone for transformation.

MOONSTONE

Moonstone is an opalescent feldspar. It is claimed to promote long life and happiness and is said to attract friendship and loyalty towards the wearer.
It acts as a mediator between mind and emotions and allows peace of mind and accessibility to one's inner self.
Helps soothe and balance emotion.
In healing terms, it is often used to reduce excess fluid in the body and to reduce the swelling caused by this fluid.
Used in women suffering from pre-menstrual tension.
Gives inspiration, encourages personal attachments. Helps obtain humanitarian love, romance and sensitivity.

MORGANITE

This stone strengthens the larynx, lungs, thyroid and nervous system.

MORION CRYSTAL

A smoky quartz crystal. so dark as to be black instead of the more usual brown. Very good for grounding.

MOSS-AGATE

Moss agate is said to cleanse the emotional body and release anger and frustration.

OBSIDIAN SNOWFLAKE

A grounding stone - makes the user face up to responsibility.
Dedicated to change, metamorphosis, purification, fulfillment, inner growth and introspection.
Deflects negative energy.

ONYX

A variety of agate.
The onyx is reputed to improve concentration and devotion. Perhaps it is for this reason that it is frequently to be found in rosaries.
Helps hearing problems, heart trouble and ulcers.

OPAL

Helps lung conditions, increases assimilation of protein. Assists the control of one's temper and calms the nerves.
Aids the development of one's psychic ability. Sometimes considered an unlucky stone, perhaps because it causes one's thoughts - good or bad - to rebound upon oneself!
Above all, it is a stone of love, but if the lover be false its influence is reversed, and the opal proves a sorry stone for faithless lovers.

PEARL

Promotes antibodies and fights infection.

PERIDOT

Peridot, as well as being recommended as a cure for insomnia, is said to aid the digestion and placate the nervous system.
Improves bruised eyes.
Can cleanse and heal hurt feelings, helps mend damaged relationships.
Attracts occult powers to the user. Develops inner vision; the stone of the seer.
Counteracts negativity and opens the mind. It acts like a tonic and heals the physical body and can be useful in reducing fever.
Also used in treating emotional states such as anger or jealousy.

PETRIFIED WOOD

Restores physical energy. Helps hip and back problems. Aids past-life recall.

QUARTZ CRYSTAL

A natural crystalline silica. So many uses and properties that it needs a whole book to itself!
The Quartz Crystal attracts the powers of light and energy and is said to be an excellent powerful general healer and dynamic working tool which works on all levels - strengthening, cleansing and protecting.
Purifies air.
Protects against harmful electrical vibrations.
Assists the wearer to think intuitively. Amplifies and transmits subtle vibrations.
The symbol of elemental wholeness, containing the four elements of creation. Assists development and integration of our entire being.
Assists us to amplify, focus, direct, transmit and store energy.
Its greatest attribute is known to be its use as an aid to opening the psychic centers, enabling the ability to meditate at a deeper level and to free one's mind from the mundane and the trivia.
It releases the higher consciousness and develops mystical and spiritual gifts.

HODOCHROSITE

Prevents mental breakdowns, balances physical and emotional traumas. Improves eyesight, kidney, pancreas and spleen. Inspires forgiveness, heals emotional scars, attracts love.
Helps one face reality and new situations. Assists integration of physical, mental and emotional fields.

RHODONITE

Restores physical energy (especially following trauma or shock).
Strengthens inner ear and improves sense of hearing. Aids vitamin absorption.
Increases language skills, raises self-esteem. Helps maintain loving state in every-day life by bolstering one's resolve not to give in without one having to be aggressive or non-loving.

RHYOLITE

Rejuvenates physical beauty. Helps increase self-expression and to speak with greater clarity.

ROCK CRYSTAL

Relieves diarrhea, dizziness, hemorrhage, kidney troubles, spasms, vertigo. Helps ease pain anywhere.

ROSE QUARTZ

This lovely stone is claimed to be one of the best stones to use in the treatment of migraines and headaches of all types.
Calms emotions, helps suffering due to emotional trauma, heals wounds of neglect giving inner peace.
It is also said to stimulate the imagination and the intellect and to open up the heart to inner peace, self love and self recognition.
It is a very healing stone for internal wounds, bitterness and sorrows.
It promotes forgiveness, love and friendship. It makes one more receptive to beauty, hastens recovery and gladdens the heart. The Venus - or love - stone.

RUBY

A deep red transparent gemstone, a form of corundum.
As well as aiding intuitive thinking, the ruby is believed to increase levels of energy and divine creativity.
It is often used to alleviate disorders of the blood, such as anemia, poor circulation and menstrual problems.
Also used in the treatment of rheumatism and arthritis.
Improves fever, pain and spasms.
Alleviates worries, lifts spirits, improves one's confidence, intuition, spiritual wisdom, energy and courage.
Encourages self-nurturing in those with a poor self-image.

RUTILATED QUARTZ

Rutilated quartz is said to be of particular benefit to those who suffer from respiratory complaints of any form such as asthma, bronchitis etc.
Increases tissue regeneration.
Rebalances different levels of consciousness.
Improves decisiveness, strength of will.

SAPPHIRE

Helps bleeding, insomnia and nervousness.
Stone of friendship and love, attracts good influences.
Gives the wearer devotion, faith, imagination and peace of mind.

SARDONYX

Stimulates self-control and protection.

SELENITE

Selenite calms and clears troubled minds and is useful in personal meditation and visualization.
Stabilizes one's emotions, bringing them under calm control.
Natural environmental record keeper. Helps to clarify one's innermost thoughts and to expand one's mental powers.
One of the most powerful healing stones!
Used in past-life recall and in regression therapy. Can be used in any healing treatment but should only be used by a qualified crystal healing therapist who is able to handle and direct the powerful energies properly.

SMITHSONITE

Calms and clears, good to use in high anxiety situations.
Helps after nervous breakdowns, relaxes over tense muscles, also good in childbirth. Neutralizes red energies.

SMOKEY QUARTZ

Smokey quartz disperses negative patterns and vibrations, and transmits a high quantity of light.
Good luck talisman. Helps protect soldiers on active service.
Improves abdomen, kidneys, pancreas and the sexual organs. Increases energy fertility. Encourages survival instincts. Stimulates and purifies energy centers.
Grounds and stabilizes energies, helps lift depression. Draws out and absorbs negative energies, replacing them with positive ones.

SNOW QUARTZ

Strengthens immune system. A softer energy than clear quartz.
Used in meditation.
A stone which gives one serenity and powers of inner contemplation. A peaceful stone!

SODALITE

Sodalite is a good stone for oversensitive and defensive people, improves courage and endurance.
It balances and stills the mind and clears rigid thought patterns.
Helps logical and rational thought, and intellect, widens the perspective.
Blue sodalite is reputed to assist in lowering of blood pressure and balancing the metabolism. Aids sleep.

SPINEL

Attracts help. Makes the wearer strong in character.

STAUROLITE

Used to help people who suffer from over caution or doubt.

THULITE

To help those people who are resisting a condition or relationship which they regard as discouraging.

TIGERS EYE

It is claimed that tigers eye will counteract feelings of hypochondria and the onset of psychosomatic illness and will also give a feeling of self-confidence.
It is especially good for clear thinking and helps one to see a problem objectively when confused or emotionally affected. It releases tension and develops will-power.
Good for asthma.
Helps people gain insight into their own faults.
Protects from witchcraft and evil.
Attracts good luck.

TOPAZ (yellow)

A yellowish transparent mineral.
Topaz helps to overcome stress and soothes nerves thereby helping one to achieve a deeper sleep.
It is also good for colds and flu. Strengthens blood vessels, improves blood circulation, varicose veins, sense of taste.
Good for liver trouble.
Improves the intellect, develops psychic abilities, calms both mind and body.

TOPAZ (blue)

Throat disorders, calming. Inspires leadership ability, psychic insight, spiritual and artistic growth.
Helps with clarity and concentration.

TOURMALINE (general)

Prevents lymphatic disease. Balances, protects, calms, gives self- confidence and cheerfulness.
Useful for meditation.
Attracts inspiration, goodwill and friendship. Protects wearer against misfortune and anaemia. Grounds high-frequency energies into the physicality.

TOURMALINE (black or green)

Strengthens nervous system, regulates blood pressure.
Deflects negative energy, attracts prosperity.

TOURMALINE (blue)

All throat problems, thyroid, speech impediments.
Promotes clear verbal expression, dissolves mental friction, emotional constriction.
Carries a high electrical charge and if rubbed briskly one end becomes positive and one negative, the energy can then be directed wherever peaceful energy is required.

TOURMALINE (watermelon/pink)

Heart balancer. Promotes understanding of self and emotions.

TURQUOISE

A bluish green precious stone. Turquoise helps the ability to express oneself and verbalize freely. It is good for laryngitis and nervousness in speech.
It is said that turquoise will grow pale on a sickly person and recover its color when returned to a healthy person.
Can strengthen entire anatomy and helps improve all diseases.
Shields the wearer from harmful influences, attracts friendship.
Used in meditation. Also for the development of intuition. Brings one wisdom. It reminds us of both our spiritual nature, our earthly inheritance and its beauty.

UNAKITE

Helps balance and gives one stability.
A grounding stone.

VANADINITE

Helps with throat problems and communication.

VIVIANITE

Symbol of rebirth, burns away old ways of looking at things and gives you a new perspective on life.
Helps clear vision at all levels.

ZIRCON

General healer. Helps liver complaints, childbirth, insomnia.
Promotes spiritual sight and understanding.

ZOISITE

Strengthens the male genitals and the female cervix. Helps to increase fertility.