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Throughout the ages, gemstones have been used for various healing purposes of both the body and the spirit. The following list includes some of the more commonly used gemstones, and the purposes for which they have been used. Listed by stone name. ABALONE: Confidence, spirituality, heart, muscles, digestion. ACTINOLITE: Responsibility, industry, inflammations, liver. AGATE: Courage; symbolizes third eye; gives spiritual love & truth; calms mind; ulcers. Competition, eloquence, fevers, gums, circulation. Helps competitors in all sporting events, particularly athletes. Also assists eloquence and writing. Blue Lace Agate: Muscle tension/spasms; fluids, stress. Composure, growth, infections, inflammations, fevers. A stone bestowing calmness on the wearer, removing anger and irritation in its presence. ALBITE: See MOONSTONE ALEXANDRITE: growth, investment, nerves ALMANDINE: affection, inspiration, heart, eyes AMAZONITE: Clarity, insight, nerves, emotions, depression, growth. A talisman for students and scholars; it assists clarity of thought and insight. It is said that teachers favor work submitted by the wearer. Uplifting, relieving worries and stress and imparting fresh optimism. Protects against radiations from equipment and machines. AMBER: Career accomplishment, chest, bladder problems, seizures, grounds & stabilizes, healing agent, acts as a filter, radiates light & heat AMETHYST: protection, spiritual attunment, gives visions or opens spiritual and psychic centers, insomnia, neuralgia, acne, reduces mental tension, induces pleasant healing dreams, prevents overindulgence, encourages transformation and breaking of bad habits/addictions, promotes intuitive dreams, meditation, stress relief AMETRINE: This is a combination of two stones that occurs naturally. It is a combination of amethyst and citrine. Ametrine, therefore, has the properties of both of these stones. It helps to achieve a balance between the spiritual and the material worlds, allowing the wearer to realize that "all is One". It can also be used to enhance cooperation with others. Ametrine can be used for balancing yourself and to help create a feeling of connectedness and clearing. Also for resolution, teaching, teeth, metabolism APACHE TEAR: Projective. Element = Fire. Small, dark, smoky-translucent Obsidian pebbles. For looking within, protection, vision quest/purpose. Gently grounds and unblocks lower body and endocrine glands/chakras. Aids healing. Represents tears of grief shed by Native American women after their loved ones' deaths due to invading troops. APATITE: Clears confusion in the mental stratas. AQUAMARINE: Gives direction in life; aids spiritual visions; lifts spirit & calms nerves; reduces fear & enables one to express oneself; migraine; toothache. AVENTURINE: Courage in social and group situations; adventures in love & life; gives luck where perception is required; blood pressure ANGELITE: bravery, fortune, headaches, infections. An excellent stone for balancing the emotions, enhancing communication and overcoming challenges. Helps protect against worries. AZURITE: jewel of wisdom; revitalizes damaged tissue; good to use in hypnosis; stimulates thought and clarifies dreams; arthritis; joint pain; meditation; psychic development. ANTIMONY: intellect, progress, colds, flu, swellings APATITE: emotions, business, speech, bones APOPHYLLITE: tranquility, honesty, respiration, skin AQUA AURA: influence, arts, dexterity, throat, healing AQUAMARINE: insight, love, growth, allergies. Calms the nerves and strengthens the cleansing of the body. ARAGONITE: energy, activity, bones, digestion ASTROPHYLLITE: confidence, insight, recovery, reproductive, intellect AVENTURINE: Eyes, migraine, tension, insomnia. Assists the development of mental abilities and also stimulates healthy growth. It is also helpful to competitors to enhance their judgement and calmness during games. ANHYDRITE: Co-ordination, concentration, lungs, chest AZURITE: Activates brow and throat chakras. More assertive communication and alert, quiet, deep access to subconscious and other times/places/lives. Psychicness, creativity, decisiveness, deeper insight, seeing truth, reduces depression, anger, abnormal cell growth. High copper content stimulates thyroid, sinus, skin cleansing, spleen, nervous system, mental and etheric bodies. AZURITE/MALACHITE: Psychicness; skin diseases; anorexia; calms anxiety; lack of discipline; powerful healing force to physical body; emotional release. BARITE: Decisiveness, writing, muscles BERYL: Determination, stability, nerves, stress. BLOODSTONE: Blood toxins, depression, spine. A variety of Jasper, this stone is primarily associated with the bloodstream. It encourages acts of kindness and charity. BORNITE: See PEACOCK ORE BOWENITE: Intelligence, leisure, head/scalp, tension. CALCITE: Thoughts amplified, aids memory and promotes greater intellectual capacity. CALCITE (GREEN): Mental healer; can be used in any situation when one is striving to reach balance; helps banish fears. CALCITE (CLEAR/PINK): Calmness, balance, stress, nerves, pain. CARNELIAN: Passion, focus, arthritis, rheumatism, neuralgia, cuts. Gives feeling of wellbeing; re-cycles past-life experiences; speeds up laws of Karma; helps arthritis; wounds. Favored by romantics to enhance sexual energy. It also assists concentration and motivation. Benefits all aspects of the bloodstream. CASSITERITE: Endurance, contentment, cuts, bruises, menopause. CELESTITE: Relaxation, sympathy, motion sickness, nerves, stress. This tranquil, cool stone exudes soothing energy. Ideal for meditation or just to 'turn off' the noise and friction of the world. Enhances emotional protection and good for anyone prone to undue worrying.communicating with cosmic beings and beings of light. CERRUSITE: Confidence, communication, antivirus, insomnia, nerves. CHALCEDONY: Stamina, refinement, tiredness, depression, circulation. Agate, Carnelian and Jasper are part of the Chalcedony family and this stone includes qualities from each of these. Therefore an excellent stone to improve and refine the character, opening new horizons in the arts, relationships, family togetherness etc. CHALCOPYRITE: Perception, restoration, lungs, hair. CHAROITE: Assertiveness, inspiration, nerves, cramps. CHIASTOLITE: Application, stability, rheumatism, veins. CHRYSOCOLLA: Awareness, expression, heart, stomach, blood. Aids expression and comprehension of concepts and complexities and so well suited to those involved with science and engineering. Also a stone for all aspects of the heart. Also helps alleviate personal fears and guilt; aids in the ability to speak one’s own truth. Enables one to consciously channel higher realms. CHRYSOPRASE: Passion, renewal fertility, ardour, genitals. Enhances insight into personal problems; aids tranquility; meditation; will power. A stone to refresh & invigorate physical love, particularly for women but also effective for men. (Keep this stone out of direct sunlight to keep color). CHRYSOTILE: Partnerships, generosity, veins, arteries, skin, lungs. CITRINE: Renewal, cleansing skin, Diabetes, circulation, cheerfulness; control over emotions; clear thought; overcomes mental blocks; dream inducer. The positive influences and vitality of this stone helps relieve anxieties, depression and nervous stomach. It helps those who are mentally 'lost' to seek a new purpose and direction. Leaving it under the pillow at night gives pleasant dreams. COPPER: Vitality Purification Blood, Muscles, Joints Full of vitality and energy, it can amplify the thoughts and feelings of the wearer. Creates awareness of self; achieves balance within all levels of self. Close to the skin it is reputed to assist arthritis, rheumatism and inflammations. CORAL: Creativity, travel, chest, anemia. Good for keeping thoughts in control for visualization and while meditating. CORUNDUM: Awareness, confidence, skin, eyes. COVELLITE: Communication, renewal, ears, nose, mouth, tonic. CROCOITE: Application, industry, sex organs. CUBIC ZIRCONIA (CZ): Man-made (cubic Zirconia or "CZ") is not nearly as strong/effective as natural. "Pink Ice" is pink CZ. CUPRITE: Awareness, teaching, circulation, bladder. SpiritKeep Home | Crystals & Gemstones Index Copyright © 2001-2002 SpiritKeep, All Rights Reserved. |
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