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Agate

Semi-precious stone, said to improve natural vitality and energy and to increase the self-confidence of the wearer. It is believed to be especially beneficial to athletes and those taking any kind of examination or test, or anyone who has to call upon sudden bursts of mental or physical energy. Agate balances the emotions and calms the body, mind and feelings. Aids general healing, reduces fever, hardens tender gums, gives courage and banishes fear. Helps to develop powers of eloquence. Stone of health and good fortune.

Albite

Strengthens the lungs, spleen and thymus.

Alexandrite

Helps the nervous system, spleen, pancreas and testicles. May be used to amplify colour therapy.

Amazonite

Generally used to help soothe the nervous system and to give relief to those suffering from emotional disturbances. Also helps with metabolism and growth. Useful when trying to express oneself more clearly. Regulates and improves thinking abilities.

Amber

Not really a stone, but the yellow-brown fossilised resin of trees. Used to best effect by those suffering from throat infections, bronchial disorders or those prone to asthma or convulsions. Also useful for rheumatism, intestinal disorders, earache, bladder trouble, nerves or bone-marrow deficiencies. Calming, can absorb negative energy and help the body to heal itself. Used for making and breaking spells. Helps lift depression and suicidal tendencies.

Amethyst

A purple-coloured quartz used as a semi-precious stone, the amethyst is known as a spiritual stone and is used for general healing and meditation. It is said that sleeping with a piece of amethyst beneath one's pillow promotes intuitive dreams and inspired thought. Many healers consider it useful for the relief of insomnia and to bring solace in times of grief. Amethyst clears, purifies and helps with addictions, stress or tension. It also protects against blood disease, the toxic effects of substance use, acne, neuralgia and fits. Soothes and calms the mind, raises the spirit, re-balances and increases intuitive awareness, protects from negative vibrations. Traditionally believed to protect from drunkenness.

Anhydrite

Strengthens the kidneys and ovaries.

Apache Tear

Used in 'grounding' one's energies; also helps soul reflection.

Apatite

Strengthens muscle tissue, helps in co-ordinating basic motor responses. Helps those who suffer from stuttering and is also used in the treatment of hypertension.

Aqua-Aura

Improves heart, lungs, throat, and thymus. Good for those suffering from emotional trauma. Aids release of inner emotional tension from deep within the body. Helps meditation.

Aquamarine

A bluish-green transparent beryl, the aquamarine is believed to be most useful when dealing with problems of the eyes, liver, throat, stomach, nerves, and glands. Relieves toothache, improves sight. Preserves innocence. Quickens intellect, increases self-knowledge. It is also reputed to promote clear and logical thinking and for that reason is often carried as a 'good luck' charm by those taking examinations or being interviewed for a job. Brings inspiration and new ideas.

Atacamite

Strengthens the genitals, thyroid and the nervous system. Used in the treatment of venereal diseases, including herpes.

Auricalcite

Similar to smithsonite.

Aventurine

Said to be useful in relieving migraine and in soothing the eyes. A traditional method of using this stone is to leave it in water overnight and bathe the eyes in the water the following day. Aventurine water can also be useful for bathing irritations of the skin. Aventurine is a soother and helps relax one for a better night's sleep. It also relieves tension and shock. Improves vitality, equalises blood pressure. Encourages creativity, gives the wearer courage, independence and serenity.

Azurite

A natural blue copper carbonate, said to be an aid to psychic development, azurite is a very powerful stone. It aids meditation and has the ability to penetrate your deepest subconscious fears. Used as a general healing stone it also relieves arthritis, joint disabilities and reduces hip joint pain.

Beryl

Helps with heart problems, liver trouble, mouth, stomach and throat infections. Improves intellect, strengthens willpower, guards against stupidity and mental disorders.

Bloodstone

A deep-green precious stone flecked with red, bloodstone is believed to help overcome depression and melancholia - especially when worn by the sufferer. It is also said to help those who suffer from psychosomatic illness and pains which have an emotional rather than a physical cause.

Bloodstone purifies the blood and detoxifies the organs, particularly the liver, kidneys and spleen. It helps to allow light into the body. Provides vitality, strengthens idealism and the will to do good. Increases one's talent, stimulates the kundalini and balances all of the chakras.

Blue-lace Agate

Blue-lace agate is a very calming stone helpful for freely expressing oneself. Provides cool and soothing energy which is good for neutralising red energies such as anger, infections, inflammations, fevers etc. Helps to open the throat chakra.

Blue Quartz

Helps improve heart, lungs, throat and thymus. Good for people suffering from emotional trauma. Aids the release of inner emotional tension from deep within the body.

Boji Stone

Has general healing qualities and assists tissue regeneration. Strengthens all the chakras and meridians.

Calcite (gold)

Carries the golden healing ray. Gives comfort, helps lift depression. Good for most ailments.

Calcite (green)

Helps the kidneys, spleen and pancreas. Removes toxins from the body and alleviates mental fear. Aids mental clarity, soothes anxiety, calms turbulent energies. Expands awareness, aids intuition, links parallel realities. Good when undertaking mental change.

Calcite (orange)

Helps the gall bladder, improves physical energy and expands awareness.

Calcite (optical)

Improves eyesight. Brings spiritual understanding into challenging circumstances and situations. Helps when doing regression.

Carnelian

Semi-precious stone, a reddish variety of chalcedony.

Useful for understanding one's rhythms and cycles and it is said that if worn in a pouch around the neck by women during menstruation carnelian will help to ease stomach cramps.

Strengthens voice. Helps rheumatism and arthritis, depression, neuralgia. Aids the sense of touch. Used for infertility and impotence. Alleviates blood poisoning, fever, infection and nose bleeds. Helps in the treatment of sores, spasms and wounds. Protects from evil, elevates the spirit, grounds energies thus assisting concentration by clearing the mind and focusing one's thoughts. Helps daydreamers and those who are absent-minded.

Celestite

Helps to ease tension, opens the mind and develops awareness. Cools the overactive mind, helps to relax muscles. Elevates consciousness. Promotes peaceful co-existence and harmonious interaction with other aspects of creation.

Chalcedony

Improves bone-marrow, spleen, red corpuscles and heart tissue. Stimulates optimism and enhances spiritual and artistic creativity.

Chalcopyrite (peacock)

Helps cheer those with constant worries. Also improves prosperity consciousness.

Charoite

Dissolves fear including the fear of fear itself! Will help the fear rise to the surface so that it may be faced and dealt with.

Chrysocolla

Relieves nervous tension, emotional congestion, ulcer or stomach problems. Brings balance, cleanses all negativity, brings inner peace and contentment.

Chrysolite

Strengthens the appendix. Alleviates general toxemia and viral conditions.

Chrysoprase

Improves prostate gland, testicles, fallopian tubes and ovaries. Increases fertility.

Citrine

Yellow variety of quartz, claims to give a sense of direction to those who feel they have lost their path in life.

Helps to control the emotions and works with relationships and self-knowledge. Attracts self-worth, dissolves emotional blocks and induces dreams. Also said to be beneficial to people suffering from poor circulation. Strengthens the immune system; aids tissue regeneration. Eases toxic conditions particularly in the endocrine and digestive systems. Helps with diabetes and depression. Activates mental powers and clarifies thought. Improves self-image bringing confidence into relationships and environment, improving the quality of one's life, sometimes bringing prosperity. Reduces harmful effects of electrical products.

Conicalcite

Cheering stone, helpful with symbolic re-birth, helps strengthen new resolutions.

Coral

Hard substance formed of skeletons of various marine polyps. Said to promote general physical and mental wellbeing and to help in particular those suffering from anaemia, bladder conditions, colic and whooping cough.

In many parts of the world it is believed that coral can be used to ward off evil thoughts sent by well-wishers.

Crocidolite

Used to help those who become over-preoccupied with their own personal limitations.

Diamond

Master healer. An extremely powerful stone used for the removal of blockages and all emotional negativity.

Dioptase

An emerald green silicate of copper. A general healer which relieves mental stress, promotes abundance, relaxation, love and emotional expressiveness.

Heals the parts emotionally abandoned while experiencing heartache. Good for those who, through loss, fear to love again, helps heal the heart and helps one to be able to trust again.

Dolomite

Used to help those who lack resourcefulness and who have an acute fear of personal failure.

Emerald

Bright green precious stone that improves intellect and memory. Helps tired eyes and insomnia. Improves eloquence. Gives power to see into the future and grants success in business. Acts as an emotional stabiliser. Said to help release emotionally-based trauma. Opens up the heart to love, peace and healing.

Fluorite

Helps bring the spiritual into the material and quickens enlightenment. Helps heal holes in one1s aura where energy is drained. Grounds, balances and focuses one's energies. Absorbs and alters negative and other energies. Opens the chakras. Aids physical and mental healing. Strengthens bone tissue, especially tooth enamel. Relieves dental disease, pneumonia, viral inflammation.

Galena

Strengthens lungs, thyroid, and the nervous system. Protects against depression and skin diseases. Promotes self-confidence, pride and success. Improves imagination.

Garnet

Most frequently used as a general tonic for the whole system - physical, mental and emotional. It is regenerative and revitalising, strengthens the blood and helps with anaemia and circulatory problems.

Protects against infection, depression and skin diseases. Brings into consciousness the physical powers and is particularly recommended for those who need to improve their self-respect and self-confidence and to increase courage when dealing with changes.

Improves imagination. Assists in dream work and in past life recall. Increases determination, energy and courage. Attracts love, promotes bonding.

Gem Silica - Chrysoprase

Apple green variety of chalcedony. Reveals will-power and is useful for dealing with depression and loss of incentive.

Feminine stone, ideal for menstrual pain and premenstrual tension. Helps after miscarriage, abortions, hysterectomies. Helps with birthing if held, worn or meditated upon during labour.

Cools fever, heals burns, calms nerves, helps thyroid imbalance, voice problems, neck/shoulder strain. Develops patience, kindness, tolerance, compassion, humility. Gives peace and serenity, emotional balance; eases sorrow and anger. Good for men who, traditionally, find it difficult to express their feelings or emotions.

Excellent stone for meditation and can assist the development of clairvoyance.

Grossuralite

Used in the treatment of people who fear emotional hostility from everyone surrounding them.

Hematite

A natural ferric oxide, hematite improves all blood disorders. Reduces stressful effects of air travel, combats insomnia. Enhances astral projection, promotes balance, focus, convergence and concentration of energy. Said to increase courage. Also claimed to strengthen the heart and is good for reducing a rapid pulse.

Herderite

This stone stimulates the pancreas and spleen and helps to restore the balance in erratic emotional behaviour.

Herkimer Diamond

Releases stress and tension throughout the body, boosts the power of other crystals by being used to close the circuit, particularly effective with boji stones.

Howlite (magnetite)

A natural sulphide or iron. Aids digestive system of abdomen and upper intestinal tract. Eases anxiety, depression, frustration and false hopes.

Strengthens astral body. Opens mind to new ideas, intellectually stimulating, links left and right hemispheres of brain facilitating communication between logic and emotion. Promotes powers of analysis and creativity, psychic development, memory, channelling activities, strength of will.

Pyrite is claimed to increase the oxygen supply in the blood, to strengthen the circulatory system in general and to be useful in clearing congested passages.

Ivory

Protects the physical body from injury.

Jacinth

Promotes spiritual sight and understanding. Used in childbirth. Helps in the treatment of insomnia.

Jade

A pale green gemstone said to help in relieving kidney complaints, bladder trouble and eye problems.

Yellow jade is believed to aid poor digestion. When worn as a piece of jewellery, jade is thought to provide protection from one's enemies and can be used for protection on long journeys.

Also used to attract good luck, for wisdom, for long life and a peaceful death. Helps to control dream content. In ancient China and Egypt it was widely used as a talisman to attract good fortune, friendship and loyalty.

Jasper

Coloured impure form of natural silica said to be both invigorating and stabilising, bringing stillness to a troubled mind. Generates an even rhythmic pulse and is also said to improve the sense of smell and to overcome depression.

Red jasper is known to contain iron oxide which is used medically to control excessive bleeding. It is claimed, therefore, that it can be useful in overcoming disorders of the blood. Also used for digestion and stomach problems, biliousness and bladder trouble. Protects from witchcraft, soothes the nerves.

Jet

A very hard lustrous form of natural carbon. Prevents deep depression, quietens fears. Protects from violence and illness. Aids grieving. Also used in healing to control and ease migraine and pain behind the eyes.

Kunzite

Alleviates anaemia, improves general tissue rejuvenation. Creates balance between heart and mind, clears emotional blockages. In meditation can balance negative emotional and troubled mental states.

Kyanite

Used in meridian points to stimulate flow of energy, or on chakra centres to clear blockages. Recalls past lives when placed on the third eye. Augments channelling, altered states, vivid dreams, clear visualisation, loyalty, honour and serenity.

Kyanite blades can make incisions in the auric field. Can also cut through layers of mental misconceptions and create new lines of energy for new thought.

Lapis Lazuli

A brilliant blue mineral, the lapis lazuli was called the Stone of Heaven by the ancient Egyptians and is thought by many to be the stone upon which were carved the laws given to Moses.

It is said to prevent fits and epilepsy and to improve the eyesight. Helps heart and spleen; protects against strokes; helps lift depression. Also helps with the acquisition of wisdom and truth.

A symbol of power and a mental and spiritual cleanser. Assists psychic development and mental stability. Gives hope and self-awareness and helps one face one's shadow self. The stone of friendship. Helps cut through superficialities to find inner truth. Aura cleanser.

Larimar

Soothes sore throats and tonsillitis. Helps express new ideas. Brings harmony between heart ad mind. Good for schizophrenics. Transmutes anger, greed, frustration to peace; calms excess energies by rebalancing.

Lazulite

Improves and stimulates the pineal glands and liver.

Lazurite

Stimulates visions and amplifies thought-form. Also used for tissue rejuvenation.

Lepidolite

Unifies mind and heart, heals whatever inhibits this merging. Used in the treatment of schizophrenia.

Lepidolite with Rubellite

Good for introverted, shy people who are unable to express love in external ways.

Luvulite (sugilite)

Restores balance to pineal, pituitary and left and right brain hemispheres. Helps with autism, dyslexia, epilepsy, physical coordination problems, visual problems, spiritual problems.

Magnetite

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

Malachite

A green copper carbonate, malachite contains copper and is claimed to be helpful in the treatment of rheumatism and also in regularising menstruation. Used also in the treatment of asthma and toothache. Improves eye-sight.

Raises one's spirits and increases hope, health and happiness. Attracts physical and material benefits and brings prosperity. Assists wise rule and helps remove mental blockages hindering spiritual growth. Relieves any congestion in the body and helps with confusion, a lack of 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 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 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 claimed to promote long life and happiness and said to attract friendship and loyalty towards the wearer.

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, often used to reduce excess fluid in the body and to reduce any attendant swelling. Used for women suffering from premenstrual tension.

Gives inspiration, encourages personal attachments. Helps obtain humanitarian love, romance and sensitivity.

Morganite

Strengthens the larynx, lungs, thyroid and nervous system.

Morion Crystal

A smokey quartz crystal so dark it seems black instead of the more usual brown. Very good for grounding.

Moss-Agate

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, fulfilment, inner growth and introspection. Deflects negative energy.

Onyx

A variety of agate, the onyx is reputed to improve concentration and devotion which is perhaps why it is frequently found in rosaries.

Helps hearing problems, heart trouble and ulcers.

Opal

Helps lung conditions, increases assimilation of protein. Assists the control of one1s temper and calms the nerves.

Aids the development of psychic ability. Sometimes considered an unlucky stone, perhaps because it causes one1s thoughts, good or bad, to rebound.

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 power to the user. Develops inner vision; the stone of the seer. Counteracts negativity and opens the mind. Acts like a tonic, heals the physical body and can be useful in reducing fever. Also used in treating emotional states such as anger and jealousy.

Petrified Wood

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

Quartz Crystal

A natural crystalline silica, the quartz crystal attracts the powers of light and energy and is said to be a powerful general healer and dynamic working tool. It works on all levels - strengthening, cleansing and protecting.

Purifies the 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 the development and integration of one's entire being. Helps one to amplify, focus, direct, transmit and store energy.

Its used as an aid to opening the psychic centres, enabling meditation at a deeper level and the liberation of one's mind from the mundane and the trivial, is considered to be its greatest attribute. Quartz crystal releases the higher consciousness and develops mystical and spiritual gifts.

Rhodochrosite

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 everyday life by bolstering one's resolve not to give in without having to be aggressive.

Rhyolite

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

Rock Crystal

Relieves diarrhoea, dizziness, haemorrhage, kidney troubles, spasms, vertigo. Helps ease pain anywhere.

Rose Quartz

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. Also said to stimulate the imagination and intellect and to open up the heart to inner peace, self-love and self-recognition. A very healing stone for internal wounds, bitterness and sorrows, it promotes forgiveness, love and friendship. 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.

Often used to alleviate disorders of the blood, such as anaemia, poor circulation and menstrual problems. Also used in the treatment of rheumatism and arthritis. Improves fever, pain and spasms. Alleviates worries, lifts spirits, improves 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 such as asthma, bronchitis etc.

Increases tissue regeneration. Rebalances different levels of consciousness. Improves decisiveness, strengthens one's will.

Sapphire

Helps control of 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

One of the most powerful healing stones, selenite calms and clears troubled minds and is useful in personal meditation and visualisation.

Stabilises the emotions, bringing them under control. Helps clarify one's innermost thoughts and to expand one's mental powers.

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. Neutralises red energies.

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 centres. Grounds and stabilise 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 snow quartz gives serenity and powers of inner contemplation.

Sodalite

A good stone for over-sensitive and defensive people, improves courage and endurance. 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 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.

Sugilite

See luvulite

Thulite

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

Tiger's Eye

Claimed to counteract feelings of hypochondria and the onset of psychosomatic illness. Also gives a feeling of self-confidence.

Especially good for clear thinking and for seeing a problem objectively when confused or emotionally affected. Releases tension and develops will-power.

Good for asthma. Helps one to gain insight into one's 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. 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)

A calming stone. Good for throat disorders. 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. Attracts inspiration, good-will and friendship. Protects wearer against misfortune and anaemia. Grounds high-frequency energies into the physicality. Useful for meditation.

Tourmaline (black or green)

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

Tourmaline (blue)

Helps with all throat problems, thyroid, speech impediments. Promotes clear verbal expression, dissolves mental friction and emotional constriction.

Tourmaline carries a high electrical charge and if rubbed briskly one end becomes positive and the other negative. The resulting energy can 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 verbalise 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 colour 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 and also for the development of intuition. Brings wisdom and also reminds us of both our spiritual nature and our earthly inheritance and its beauty.

Unakite

Helps balance and gives 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 one 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.

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