Gemstone Properties Quicklist
Here are some of the more popular gemstones and their related healing properties. This information has been gathered from various sources and will be updated regularly. Please remember I am obligated to make the following statement:
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last update on 12/16/09
Agate: confidence, honesty, gaining respectful love and compassion from others, blood circulation, balancing physical and emotional bodies, grounding, reduces stress, increases intuition.
Amazonite: soothing, balancing, calming, throat and heart chakras, bone problems, muscle spasms, protection from radiation, gambling, success, nervous system, metabolism
Amber: Transmutes negative into positive energy, sunny and soothing disposition, calming the nerves, crown & solar plexus chakras, assuring promises, good luck to warriors. Fire Ceremonies, purifying, throat projects, kidneys, bladder, will power.
Amethyst: protection, opens crown chakra, developing spiritual and psychic abilities, overcoming addictions, banishing nightmares, dreamtime, headaches, pain, bruises
Andean Opal: Astral travel including protection and selection of location, divination, right action, heart lungs, thymus, water retention, muscular inflammation, spinal alignment.
Andalusite: Rational analysis, centering oneself, accessing ancestral and ancient knowledge, chivalry, using moderation in all forms, cellular oxygen, memory.
Angelite: Channeling, symbol of communication of love and light to The World, sheild of protection, dispels anger, astrology and calculating skills, building blood and vessels, fighting infections, thymus gland, throat afflictions, psychic healing.
Apache Tear: comfort in times of grief, forgiveness, spontaneity, assimilation, elimination of toxins, muscle spasms, absorbs negative energy, protection against psychic attacks
Aqua Aura: Combines properties of both quartz and gold. Activate crown and third eye chakras, attracts positive energy, master healer, nervous system, endocrine system, channeling, smoothes the aura, releases negative energy from all auric bodies
Aquamarine: reduces fear and promotes clarity and peace of mind, eyesight, creativity
Aventurine, Green: eyesight, perception, creativity, money, luck, intelligence, protects the heart chakra, calming, nausea, leadership abilities
Bloodstone: any blood condition, circulation, tumor like growths, sexuality, opens root chakra, physical energy and strength
Blue Lace Agate: cooling, calming, activates and heals the throat chakra, neutralizes anger, infections, fevers, inflammation, expressing oneself, fear of being judged and rejected, peacefulness, bones and skeletal structure, pregnancy, irritated eyes
Calcite: Energy Amplifier, remembering information during astral projection and channeling, remembering the body in a state of health prior to illness, teaching appreciation for nature and humankind, use appropriate color on chakra will clear and activate that energy center, kidney, pancreas and spleen function, assimilation and proper balance of calcium.
Carnelian: fertility, lower back problems, purification, protection from falls, past life awareness, sexuality, digestion
Cavansite: Intuition, second sight, channeling, psychic healing, protection against recurring illness, third eye, communication, eyes, bone loss and teeth, blood, releasing of endorphins, stabilizing pulse rate.
Celestite: Analytical thinking, communication and transfer of information from angelic realms, clairaudience, astral travel, wisdom, helps bring hope to ones in despair, excellent for those engaged in the arts, inner peace, dream recall, balancing Yin and Yang energies.
Citrine: digestion, reasoning, mental clarity, headaches, dispels negativity
Clear Quartz: master healer, for all conditions, amplifying effects of other stones, immune system, scrying, psychic abilities, clarity, vitality, memory, pain, headaches, crown chakra
Chrysoprase: Meditation, reflecting on truth, hope, insight, creativity, divine connection, faithfulness, impulsive/compulsive behavior, healthy boundaries, detoxifying, liver, removing heavy metals, relaxation
Emerald: opens heart chakra, discernment, eyesight, loyalty, money, right action, focus
Fluorite: self discipline, harmony, joint problems, teeth and bones, immune system
Galaxite: astral projection, subconscious mind, intuition, stress reduction
Garnet: sexuality, blood and circulation, opens the root chakra, good fortune in business, skin conditions especially inflammation, used to repel insects, protection against thieves
Hematite: grounding, tissue regeneration, dispels vulnerability, insomnia, adjusting the spine, blood conditions Herkimer Diamonds: Attuning one’s energy to another person, place, or activity (using two herkimers), clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy, dissipating harmful rays, dispersing toxins, correcting metabolic rate, releasing tension, recovering body memory.
Iolite: third eye chakra, alcoholism, liver toxicity, migraines, meditation, cooperation
Jade: removes toxins, nervous system, kidney and bladder disorders, opens heart chakra, wisdom through quieting the mind.
Jasper, Red: dream interpretation, worrying, cleansing the blood, grounding, reflects negativity, enhances beauty, courage in the face of conflict, circulation
Kunzite: Aligns third eye throat and heart chakras, meditation and centering, facilitates achieving one’s goals by providing information on what action to take, and by removing obstacles, tones heart muscle, circulation, lungs, stress, openness, sensitivity, sensuality, maturity in thought and action while respecting the inner child, preventing possession by entities and protection from outside influences, rebuilding RNA/DNA, deflection radiation, security while maintaining a sense of freedom.
Kyanite: One of the stones in the mineral kingdom that does not need cleansing. Aligns all chakras instantly, calms the whole being with a special attention to throat and eye chakras. Communication, psychic awareness, connecting to spirit guides, dispels anger and frustration, mental awareness and reasoning, facilitates meditation, analyzing and dispelling problems in the energy field. Muscular and urogenital system, adrenal glands, throat, parathyroid glands, bridge between heart and navel chakras.
Labradorite: Balances, protects, and repairs the aura, finding one’s destiny, galactic energy, transforming intuition to intellectual thought, brain, mental clarity.
Lapis Lazuli: general healing, psychic development, prosperity, respiratory ailments, communication, throat problems
Leopardskin Agate (Jasper): promotes healing, accepting responsibility, patience, circular breathing, elimination of toxins due to environmental factors
Malachite: clarifies the emotions, release of negative experiences, money, protection from radiation, immune system, difficult childbirth
Moldavite: Powerful chakra opener, particularly at the heart or above. Activates the dream state. Wearing it helps manifest positive life change.
Moonstone: female energy, receptiveness, intuition, divination, creativity, reproductive organs, opens crown chakra
Onyx: grounding, memories, instincts, self control, bone marrow, feet
Opal: eyesight, inspiration, balance
Peridot: emotional peace, general healing, digestion, regulates cycles of all sorts, powerful shield against all energies good or bad (remove when doing energywork) protects against loss of healing influences when doing chakra balancing
Petrified Wood: Stone of transformation, ascension to the higher self, past lives, topical elixir for healthy hair and soothing to skin, Taoist thinking
Picasso Stone: artistic and creative abilities, insight, intellect, repressed thoughts
Prehnite: predicting future events, bladder and kidney function, facilitation in assimilating past memories when they become activated as to not cause emotional trauma.
Pyrite: Shield from negativity, protection, Drawing money, wealth, and luck, repairing RNA/DNA damage, lung projects, reduction of fever and inflammation.
Rose Quartz: alternative stone to open heart chakra, love, compassion, forgiveness, fertility
Ruby: passion, heart, circulation, vivid dreams, material wealth and stability, fever reduction
Rutilated Quartz: sexuality, strengthens love, relationships, eyes, tonifies lungs and blood vessel walls.
Sapphire: mental alignment, eases stress, eyesight disorders, astral projection, excessive bleeding, opens throat chakra, overcoming superficiality, healing of the earth, record keeper
Smoky Quartz: Solar plexus chakra, dissolving negative energy thoughtforms, anger, and resentment in the subtle body, balances yin and yang energies, grounding, protection, discourages healing crisis when used in laying on of stones (place points outward), creativity in business and sound purchasing, regulation of liquids in the body, disorders of hands and feet, cooperation.
Sodalite: lymph circulation metabolism, ill effects of radiation, immune system, opens throat chakra, communication, trust and self esteem, calcium deficiencies, group effort, eliminates confusion, promotes rationality
Tiger's Eye: clarity, vision, strength, bright outlook, broken bones, wealth, courage, eyesight, throat disorders, reproductive system
Topaz: Stone of success and true love, release from doubt and creating trust in the universe, communicating with the spirit plane, creating health and wealth, sense of taste, skin eruptions and wound healing, tool for transmitting messages of manifestation through the etheric plane.
Turquoise: Luck, rituals and ceremonies, elemental wisdom, respiratory ailments, communicating with ancestral spirits, cataracts, muscular circulation, skin disorders due to stress, absorption of nutrients, headaches
Unakite: making that which was evasive become clear, finding answers, releasing and removing energy blockages, fertility and growth Zebra Stone: physical energy, stamina, calcium and bones
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