Gemstones & Healing Properties

GEMSTONES AND THEIR HEALING PROPERTIES

Disclaimer: Gemstones should not be used in place of seeing a doctor or taking medicine.

Agate

Agate enhances mental function, improving concentration, perception and analytical abilities. It soothes and calms. Agate heals the eyes, stomach and uterus; cleanses the lymphatic system and the pancreas; strengthens blood vessels and heals skin disorders.

Amazonite

Amazonite calms the brain and nervous system and aids in maintaining optimum health. It helps to see both sides of a problem or different points of view. It soothes emotional trauma, alleviating worry and fear. It dispels negative energy, aggravation and blockages within the nervous system. Amazonite is beneficial in osteoporosis, tooth decay, calcium deficiency and calcium deposits. It relieves muscle spasms.

Amber

Amber is regarded as the stone of courage. It balances emotion, attracts good luck, eliminates fears, relieves headaches, clears the mind, dissolves negative energy, and helps develop patience and wisdom.

Amethyst

Amethyst is called the “all healer”—it is one of the most effective crystals for healing people, plants, and animals. Amethyst is a powerful and protective stone. It is a natural tranquilizer, it relieves stress and strain, soothes irritability, balances mood swings, dispels anger, rage, fear and anxiety. It alleviates sadness and grief, and dissolves negativity. Amethyst calms and stimulates the mind, helping you become more focused, enhancing memory and improving motivation. Amethyst assists in remembering and understanding dreams. It relieves insomnia and encourages selflessness and spiritual wisdom.

Amethyst boosts hormone production, tunes the endocrine system and metabolism. It strengthens the immune system, reduces pain and strengthens the body to fight against cancer. It destroys malignant tumors and aids in tissue regeneration. Cleanses the blood. Relieves physical, emotional and psychological pain or stress. Amethyst eases headaches and releases tension. It reduces bruising, swelling, injuries, and treats hearing disorders. Amethyst heals diseases of the lungs and respiratory tract, skin conditions, cellular disorders and diseases of the digestive tract.

Ametrine

Ametrine is a combination of Amethyst and Citrine within the same crystal. It is a harmonious blend of the two energies. Ametrine inspires the flow of creativity and new ideas. It removes pain and tension while bringing energy and a sense of well-being to the mind and body.

Angelite

Angelite promotes communication and self-expression. It dispels fear, anger, and anxiety and encourages forgiveness. Angelite supports the throat, alleviating inflammation and balancing the thyroid. It repairs tissue and corrects blood deficiencies and helps to renew blood vessels. It aids in weight control and relates to the health of the lungs and arms. Angelite can be used for headaches, heart function, the circulatory system, and infectious diseases.

Apatite

Apatite clears away confusion, apathy, and negativity. It increases motivation. Apatite is helpful for hyperactivity and autism in children. It enhances creativity and intellect and clears confusion and frustration. Apatite aids in the absorption of calcium and improves arthritis and joint problems. It can help suppress hunger and raise the metabolic rate. It heals the glands, meridians, organs, and overcomes hypertension.

Aventurine

Aventurine is a stone of prosperity. It reinforces leadership qualities and decisiveness and promotes compassion and empathy. Aventurine stabilizes one’s state of mind, stimulates perception and enhances creativity. It calms anger and irritation and promotes feelings of well-being. Aventurine benefits the thymus gland and nervous system. It balances blood pressure and stimulates the metabolism, lowering cholesterol. Aventurine has an anti-inflammatory effect and eases skin eruptions, allergies, migraines, and soothes the eyes. It heals lungs, sinuses, heart, muscular and urogenital systems.

Calcite

Calcite connects the emotions with the intellect. It is an excellent stone when studying the arts and sciences. It calms the mind, stimulates insights, and boosts memory. Calcite cleanses and improves the functions of the kidneys, pancreas, and spleen. It dissolves calcification of the bones. Calcite alleviates intestinal and skin conditions, stimulates blood clotting and healing tissue.

Carnelian

Carnelian aids in the absorption of vitamins, nutrients, and minerals in the small intestine and improves blood viscosity and circulation. It helps reduce congestion, phlebitis, varicose veins, and skin irritations. Carnelian heals nosebleeds. It helps heal lower back problems, rheumatism, arthritis, and neuralgia. It accelerates healing in bones and ligaments and aids in the relief of depression.

Chalcedony

Chalcedony absorbs negative energy and instills feelings of benevolence and generosity. It alleviates hostility and transforms melancholy into joy. Chalcedony eases self-doubt and creates openness and enthusiasm. It absorbs and dissipates negative thoughts, emotions, and bad dreams. Chalcedony lessens the effects of dementia and senility. It increases physical energy and heals the eyes, gallbladder, bones, spleen, blood, and circulatory system.

Chrysocolla

Chrysocolla draws out guilt, heals heartache, and increases the capacity to love. It encourages self-awareness and inner balance and imparts confidence and sensitivity. Chrysocolla inspires creativity. It helps to overcome phobias and reduce mental tension. Chrysocolla promotes truth-telling and impartiality, alleviates guilt, and brings in joy. It treats arthritis, bone disease, osteoporosis, muscle spasms, blood disorders, and lung problems. It detoxifies the liver, kidneys, and intestines. Chrysocolla re-oxygenates the blood, regenerates the pancreas, and regulates insulin. It strengthens muscles and alleviates muscle cramps. Chrysocolla heals infections, lowers blood pressure, soothes burns, and treats PMS and menstrual cramps.

Citrine

Citrine attracts wealth, prosperity, and success. It imparts joy, wonder, delight and enthusiasm. It raises self-esteem and self-confidence. Citrine promotes motivation and enhances concentration. It is emotionally balancing. Citrine reverses degenerative disease and helps balance chemical imbalances in the body. It is beneficial in the treatment of diabetes, it stimulates digestion, the spleen and pancreas. Citrine negates kidney and bladder infections. It helps eye problems, increases blood circulation, detoxifies the blood, and balances the thyroid. It relieves constipation and removes cellulite.

Emerald

Emerald brings loyalty and promotes friendship. It ensures physical, emotional, and mental equilibrium. Emerald brings in positive actions, eliminating negativity. It strengthens memory and imparts clarity of thought. Emerald treats disorders of the heart, lungs, spine, and muscular system. It aids in recovery after infectious illness, helps sinuses, and soothes the eyes, improving vision. It has a detoxifying effect on the liver and alleviates diabetes and rheumatism.

Fluorite

Fluorite absorbs and neutralizes negative energy and stress. It increases our powers of concentration, self-confidence, and helps in decision making. It improves balance and coordination, both physically and mentally. Fluorite heals ulcers and wounds, strengthens bone tissue, and alleviates rheumatism, arthritis, and spinal injuries. It eases the discomfort of shingles and other nerve-related pain.

Garnet

Garnet revitalizes, purifies, and balances energy. It inspires love and devotion and alleviates emotional disharmony. Garnet brings courage and hope. It regenerates the body and stimulates the metabolism. Garnet treats disorders of the spine and spinal fluid, bone, cellular structure and composition. It purifies the heart, lungs, and blood. It boosts the immune system and energy levels.

Hematite

Hematite is a strongly grounding and protective gemstone. It strengthens our connection with the earth, making us feel safe and secure. It endows us with courage, strength, endurance, and vitality. Hematite dissolves negativity and prevents you from absorbing the negativity of others. It helps to overcome compulsions and addictions, treating overeating, smoking, and other forms of overindulgence. Hematite restores, strengthens, and regulates the blood supply, aiding blood conditions such as anemia. It supports the kidneys and regenerates tissue. It stimulates the absorption of iron and the formation of red blood cells. Hematite treats leg cramps, anxiety and insomnia. It aids spinal alignment and fractures.

Howlite

Howlite is useful for calming an overactive or troubled mind. It aids in dispelling fear, resentment, anxiety and anger. It’s known as the stone of wisdom and compromise. Howlite aids insomnia, especially when caused by an overactive mind. It aids in achieving ambitions. Howlite strengthens memory and stimulates desire for knowledge, teaches patience, and helps to eliminate rage, pain, and stress. It balances calcium levels in the body and aids teeth, bones, and soft tissue.

Jade

Jade is a protective stone. It keeps the wearer from harm and brings harmony. Jade attracts good luck and friendship. It soothes the mind, releasing negative thoughts. Jade brings insightful dreams. Jade treats kidney problems and adrenal glands. It removes toxins, rebinds skeletal and cellular systems, and heals stitches. Jade assists fertility and childbirth and balances body fluids.

Jasper

Jasper sustains and supports through times of stress and brings tranquility. It provides protection and absorbs negative energy. Jasper aids quick-thinking and promotes organizational abilities. It stimulates the imagination and transforms ideas into action. It supports during prolonged illness and re-energizes the body.

Labradorite

Labradorite banishes fears and insecurities and strengthens faith in the self and trust in the universe. It stimulates the imagination and calms an overactive mind, developing enthusiasm and new ideas. Labradorite treats disorders of the eyes and brain, stimulates mental acuity and relieves anxiety and stress. It regulates the metabolism and balances hormones. Labradorite treats colds, gout, rheumatism, lowers blood pressure, and aids in digestion.

Lapis Lazuli

Lapis Lazuli is regarded as a stone of harmony and truth. It releases stress bringing deep peace. Lapis encourages self-awareness, allows self-expression, and reveals inner truth. It stimulates objectivity, clarity and encourages creativity. It inspires confidence and bonds relationships. Lapis Lazuli boosts the immune system, purifies blood, lowers blood pressure, cools and soothes areas of inflammation. It alleviates insomnia and vertigo and overcomes depression. Lapis benefits the respiratory and nervous systems as well as the throat, vocal cords and thyroid.

Moonstone

Moonstone is a stone of inner growth and strength. It soothes emotional instability and stress and stabilizes the emotions, providing calmness. Moonstone enhances intuition, promotes inspiration, success, and good fortune in love and business matters. Moonstone aids the digestive system and alleviates degenerative conditions of the skin, hair, eyes, and fleshy organs (e.g. liver, pancreas). It balances hormonal cycles and aids conception, pregnancy and childbirth.

Mother of Pearl

Mother of Pearl is a protection stone. It is a stress relieving stone and is relaxing, soothing, and calming to the emotions. Mother of Pearl stimulates our intuition, imagination, sensitivity, and adaptability. It helps with clarity in decision making and is helpful for endurance, organization, and for home life.

Pearl

Pearl enhances personal integrity and helps to provide a focus to one’s attention. It brings truth to situations and inhibits boisterous behavior. Pearls treat digestive disorders and the soft organs of the body. In relieves conditions of bloating, increases fertility, and eases childbirth,

Quartz

Clear Quartz is known as the "master healer" and will amplify energy and thought, as well as the effect of other crystals. It absorbs, stores, releases and regulates energy. Clear Quartz draws off negative energy of all kinds. Quartz aids concentration and unlocks memory. It stimulates the immune system and brings the body into balance.

Ruby

Ruby improves motivation and setting of realistic goals. It encourages joy, spontaneity, laughter, and courage. Ruby encourages removal of negative energies, overcomes exhaustion and lethargy, and imparts potency and vigor. Ruby calms hyperactivity. It detoxifies the body, blood, and lymphatic system. It treats fevers, infectious disease, and restricted blood flow. Ruby stimulates the adrenals, kidneys, reproductive organs, and spleen.

Sodalite

Sodalite brings order and calmness to the mind. It encourages rational thought, objectivity, truth and intuition. It brings emotional balance and calms panic attacks. Sodalite enhances self-esteem, self-acceptance, and self-trust. Sodalite balances the metabolism, boosts the immune system, and overcomes calcium deficiencies. It treats the throat, vocal cords, larynx, and helps with hoarseness and digestive disorders. It cools fevers, lowers blood pressure, and stimulates the absorption of body fluids. Sodalite can also help to prevent insomnia.

Tiger Eye

Tiger Eye has the power to focus the mind, promoting mental clarity, assisting us to resolve problems objectively and unclouded by emotions. It dispels fear and anxiety. Tiger Eye stabilizes mood swings, and builds willpower, purpose, courage and self-confidence. It releases tension. Tiger Eye treats eyes, throat and reproductive organs, releases toxins, alleviates pain and is helpful in repairing broken bones and strengthening the alignment of the spinal column.