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Gemstones A - L

Agate They are usually brown, yellow or dark red. They will bring good luck and can be used for eye problems and headaches. Agate will bring good health, good fortune and a long life. It increases self confidence, gives you strength, courage, support, balances emotional energies, and gives you happiness and protection.

Amazonite Amazonite encourages faith and hope. It has a strong potassium content that straightens the physical stamina and can offer you additional strength in handling your day-to-day stresses. It regulates thinking faculties.

Amber Amber is petrified pine tree sap that is millions of years old. The most magnetic stone that we have. It will help ground the higher energies onto the earth plane to be utilized by the body for healing and balancing. It has the power to draw disease from the body. Lifts the spirit. Reduces fluid retention and help to detoxify the urinary system. It is a harmonizing stone, which can be of great help in the relief of stress and asthma. It is sometimes called the mindful stone because it is said to contain within it vibrations from the past and increase memory.

Amethyst Amethyst is one of the best stones to use for meditation. It is a stone of divine love. It guides the awareness away from self-centered thought patterns as it lures the mind towards a deeper understanding. Amethyst energy shows the mind how to be calm so that the door to the higher mind can be opened. Because of its calming mental effect, amethyst is a stone that can be used for over worked, over stressed, or overwhelmed mental states, and it gives protection to those who wear it. It is one of the best stones to use for tension or migraine headaches. It's good for people who tend to be easily angered or suffer from recurrent nightmares. It brings you a peaceful balance of mental and emotional energies. A good stone for insomnia and intuitive awareness. It will bring you mental peace and harmony.

Aventurine Represent a healing green. Grounds personal expression, enhancing flow of communication. The stone could help if you have skin problems or migraines. It will increase visionary powers and perception. It opens opportunity and increases motivation.

Bloodstone A very powerful cleanser for the physical body. It removes emotional blockages and limitations. An important healer, for it purifies the blood and strengthens the blood purifying organs: kidneys, liver and spleen. And it might help people that has had heart traumas due to stress or heart attack. Stimulates the flow of energy and the blood circulation. Carry one for strength and courage and to help guard against stress and disease.

Bluestone A good stone if you have problems with the thyroid. Balances body fluids and relaxes muscular tensions and spasms. It will give encouragement and support. Stimulates contentment with one's work. Also a good stone when you are feeling down. A wonderful calmer for your emotions and mind. Blue Lace will wash away your mental clutter and bring out your inner beauty.

Carnelian Increases energy levels, stimulates power and motivation. The gem of the earth, a symbol of the strength and beauty of our planet. Carnelian is the most powerful action stone for focusing and realization. It is said to help with blood disorders and the elimination of waste products and toxins from the body. It is a "thinking stone" and an excellent healer. It will give courage and motivation, and help to focus the mind on any project requiring concentration. Carnelian serves as a grounder of energies on the physical plane. It is good for people who are confused, unfocused, stressed or need to be grounded and balanced. It is often placed in medicine bags and amulets by those wishing to use its energy for protection.

Cat, Talcon and Tiger's Eye A good luck stone. Stimulates clear sight and insight. It reduces headaches and nervous spasms. The stone will bring about changes for the better. It helps with nervous or stress related illnesses, increases self-confidence and benefits the digestive system. It is also said to give those who wear it clearer perception and is particularly useful in business dealings. It will help you to see what you are getting into before you get into it. Good stones for clear thinking, accurate judgment, protection and good luck.

Citrine Quartz Develops self-discipline to live in higher awareness and increases productivity. Citrine energy is like the sun: warming, comforting, energizing and life giving. Citrine can be used to build the light force around and within the physical body so that the creative power can be directed and consciously used. It will create a protective aura, and this will make a person less susceptible to negative vibrations and influences. Citrine is also a good stone to have present in situations where you need to feel confident and secure. It is the best stone to use for business, education, relationship or family matters. It is good for people with poor digestion, kidney and bladder infections and constipation.

Coral An organic gem, a gift from the sea. It's feminine and has a lot of feminine hormones. Has the power to destroy bad energy vibrations. Used for balancing the body, relax the emotions and mind, and promote a strong and stable personality. It's said to help stop blood-flow, helping in cases of anemia, giving wisdom and preventing madness. Red color will help with skin problems and cleanse the system from impurities. Also known to help with the throat and voice problems. Promotes a sense of well-being.

Diamond The King of Gems. One of the most powerful stones. It can help you achieve material wealth and prestige. Reflects light and thought and will absorb all energies, both positive and negative. It focuses on the brain, takes away blocking and strengthens the brain function. Diamonds are crystalline forms of carbon and are the hardest stones known. It suppose to be the most powerful when combined with other gemstones. It is said to signify purity and innocence. Has always been associated with strength and good luck. Gives calm sleep and takes away nightmares. A stone for peace.

Emerald A precious gem that promotes creativity and perception. It also acts as a natural tranquilizer when you are worried or your mind is troubled. It has the power to strengthen your perception and insight while stimulating self-truth and love from others. Emeralds symbolize serenity, success in love, wealth, happiness and peace of mind. Improves the memory, helps insomnia, strengthens the immune system, helps with eye sight, restore youth, aids neurological diseases, heals ear problems, eases child birth. Should not be mixed with other gemstones except Diamond.

Fluorite Is a multi-dimensional stone. A genius stone that represents the highest state of mental achievement. It will bring peace and calm to a troubled mind. Itıs a repairer and builder and can be used to treat certain mental illness. A symbol of the growth of humanity. A strengthener of bone tissue. Beneficial for people who live life at a fast pace, who physically and mentally exert large amounts of energy, and want to keep the mind clear and calm.

Freshwater Pearl Relaxes the mind, increases patience. It will protect you from fire, give you a long healthy life and strength. It will stimulate your femininity and help your self-acceptance. Give a pearl to a child to help him or her grow in beauty, especially a little girl. Pearls are extremely sensitive, so don't expose your pearls to soap or detergent, it will damage their luster. They promote antibodies and fight infection, and give you emotional balance and stability. It can help lung infections and colds.

Garnet It's a good luck and balancing stone. It balances thyroid disorders, stimulates blood flow, grounds physical assertiveness, and charges creative energy. A good stone if you have lotıs of stress or emotional problems. It will give you powerful protective energies and help you reduce body toxins. Alleviates bad dreams and cures mental depression. Stimulate your desires, balance your energy and uplift your attitude. It's lucky for love, success and achieving goals. As an energy stone, a garnet can encourage success in business and in business relationships.

Hematite They say that hematite can pull disease out of the body. It's a very good stone for people with problems like blood disease, burns and other cuts and different kinds of headaches. It is a stone that will ground you and help your self-acceptance. If it gets a scratch, slide your finger over it, and it will heal it self.

Iolite It gives inner strength power and self-confidence. It's said that it will help to bring out the truth.

Jade A dream and good luck stone. Promotes practical healing, long life and peaceful death. It helps to inspire the mind to make quick and precise decisions. Promotes healing of vital organs, comforts stomach disorders, eases eyestrain and aids liver, heart and kidney function. Wear jade to get things to work for you practically. It will stimulate your wisdom and help achieve desired goals.

Jasper Gives emotional security and provides extra patience. It comes in green, pink, gray and red colors. A stability and security stone. You might use jasper to reduce your insecurities, fears and guilt. It might also protect you from becoming over-emotionally involved with people or things that are not good for you. It increases physical endurance, ensures alertness and encourages emotional stability.

Jet It is a black fossil plant, not a stone. It is used for migraines, toothaches, stomach and skin disorders. Prevents deep depression and helps with anxiety. It is very spiritual and blocks negative energy.

Labradorite It's good to use for traveling overseas and during holidays, to give good business and pleasure.

Gemstones L - Z

Lapiz Lazuli Mental healer and soul purifier. Improves intelligence, stimulates wisdom and truthfulness and increases new ideas. Helps in problem solving. Useful for people with insomnia, skin problems, blood disorders, poor eyesight and fever. It helps to strengthen the body and promotes self-assurance. It is a very good healing stone and is often used in cases of depression. Wear lapiz jewelry to enhance your judgement and wisdom.

Malachite A healing stone. Its green stripes having the ability to soothe and bring restful sleep, as well as it helping with circulation problems and to balancing the emotions. Containing copper, this stone is also useful in treating cases of rheumatism. It is also good to help with colds, vertigo, and bleedings. Stimulates mind power, clear thinking and protects against accidents. You can use the malachite to promote your inner peace and hope. A good luck stone that will give you protection and success.

Moonstone A soft, watery-like, beautiful stone with a rolling pearly sheen, that can help you find love, consider it a lucky love stone, for it just might act that way when you are looking for love, a wonderfully sensitive stone. Moonstone can help clear the mind, allowing it's wearer to reach wise decisions and keep mind and heart in touch with one another, stimulates all the senses, promotes unselfishness, it's called the humanitarian stone, promotes long life and happiness and attracts friendship. A moonstone will always protect your sensitive nature, it balances, soothes and heals, said to help reduce fevers, regulates the pituitary gland function, a feminine stone used to help with menstruation and child-bearing, sometimes it's called "Mother Earthıs Stone." These stones are a gift, allowing one to experience calmness and peace of mind.

Mother of Pearl It will give you power and protection. And if you place it on a new born baby it will protect him or her from harm in this new existence. Mother of Pearl will bring you money and a happy, successful future.

Onyx Grounds spirit forces in the body and stimulates self-control and protection. Gain the ability to work lovingly on the physical plane. Good stone for people with problems with the stomach or adrenal glands.

Opal The Opal is truly the "Queen of Gems" the eve of the Gods. A stone of hopes, positive actions and achievements. It has always been one of the most popular and esteemed gems, known to absorb, carry and pass enormous amounts of energy. A mysterious gem, as each one appears different in its delicate beauty. Promotes psychic stability and the capacity to share. A stone of love and romance and a stone to grant wishes and personal happiness.

Peridot Aids adrenal function. Uplifts and strengthens the body. Its green color will initiate healing within the physical body. It will help, soothe nervous emotional tension. It also assists in balancing the endocrine system, especially the adrenal glands, which controls the health of the physical body. It can help if you have lack of muscle control and diseases of the liver. Peridot is capable of affecting certain negative emotional states such as anger or jealousy. It can heal hurt feelings, bruised egos and even repair damaged relationships. Wearing the vibrant Peridot is mentally stimulating and physically uplifting. It will aid physical development and well being. A good stone for people with insomnia, constipation, stomach ulcer and/or liver problems.

Petrified Wood This is tree branches that through time has turned to stone, which means it has gone through a lengthy process of freezing, thawing and drying throughout thousands of years. It can ground and secure you, and aid in preventing work stress. And you can also use them to restore your physical energy. And can help hip and back problems.

Rock Crystal Probably the most powerful stone known to mankind. Crystal releases the owner's higher consciousness and can accelerate spiritual growth, development, and healing. It is said to promote a deep sleep. Battles negativity, promotes good habits and increases feeling of self-worth. Your crystals can offer you an indoor sun for warmth, strength and vitality.

Rhodonite Symbolizes the heart, and acts as a natural tranquilizer. Rhodonites outstanding energy property is an aid to restoration of physical energy that has been drained due to emotional trauma/drama or shock. A rescue stone. It promotes self-esteem, feelings of self-worth and good self-confidence. Very good to use for a moral boost. It may reverse mineral depletion by providing additional strength because of its lead and mineral content as well as its pink color.

Rose Quartz A good healing stone. It deals with the heart, love and emotional problems. Rose quartz teaches that the source of love comes from within the self and from that source of infinite love, any wound no matter how deep or painful, can be healed. It will give you inner peace, and can be useful in reducing cases of high blood-pressure, kidney problems and is a stimulant to the circulation. It can be used to treat headaches and migraines which may be stress-related. It teaches one the power of forgiveness and reprograms the heart to love itself. Some believe that it will prevent wrinkles and encourage a clear and beautiful complexion. The stone to wear if youıre trying to lose weight and/or increase your self-esteem and self-acceptance.

Ruby Considered one of the most precious and perfect gemstones. A Ruby symbolizes the sun, freedom and power. Let your Ruby energize your spirit and aid your self-image of one who loves oneself. Especially valued in India, where it is found in River beds. It is a sacred gem to the Buddhist, and are called tears of Buddha. Increases energy levels and it will stimulate love if worn close to the heart. It protects sensitive natures, health and wealth, controls passions. Stimulates blood circulation, gives calm sleep and takes away nightmares. Will help you if you are suffering from sadness. It's also said to be able to ward off evil spirits, protect against poisons and act as an antidote to a snakebite. To own a Ruby assured its wearer of contentment, physical prosperity and peace.

Rutiled Quartz It's said that whoever wears them will stay ageless. It will strengthen the immune system and stimulate the brain. Itıs a good stone for guiding its wearer in a positive direction. It's an energy stone and is beneficial to people suffering from asthma or bronchitis. An excellent stone for someone that feels lonely or depressed. It's threads can lead you to love, help you realize goals, and guide you in a positive direction.

Sapphire The Gem of Destiny. It will bring out the best within you and help make your dreams come true. Sapphires has always been associated with luck in romance. It's said to bring peace and happiness. Relieves mental depression and stimulates motivation and goal orientation. It represent faith and hope. This stone will help you with the heart and stomach and also with stimulating the pituitary glands and psychic centers. Strengthens the eyes, helps take down fever, and can help with nose bleedings. Good to wear for mental health.

Silver Silver has been known as the moon metal and is a stabilizer and securer of the action of the gemstones energy, like a mother to the stone, it does not expand the energy of the stone, but rather acts as an existing support to the stones properties. Silver will reflect an individualıs self-esteem and therefore can encourage the personality of the gemstone itself. It balances the central nerve network and promotes self-improvement.

Smoky Quartz It's nature's safe energy plant. Use it to give you the strength of the earth. It is one of the most powerful stones used in crystal healing. Smoky Quartz helps one come to terms with their body, their heart, their life and their world. This acceptance will allow one to feel more love for him/herself and others. Smoky Quartz draws the love force of the heart chakra into the root chakra to be grounded. It gives you the power to manifest your dreams and visions of earth, and it teaches you how to let go of what is no longer needed for growth. All your egocentric nature will be erased and replaced with positive attitudes and habit patterns. It's good for people who are depressed, fatigued, or who have high ideals and aspirations but are unable to live up to their own standards. An excellent stone for people who suffer depression.

Topaz It is found in pink yellow, green, blue or white colors. A stone with great healing power. It controls anger, balances disease of emotional origin, calms stress and restores physical energies, fights kidney and bladder disorders and prevents colds and tuberculosis because of its ability to strengthen the breathing mechanics of the body. Gives creative power. Good stone for people with insomnia. It will bring light and warmth into your life and protect against external stresses.

Tourmaline A mixed precious stone that can be brown, orange, green, blue black, dark green, yellow and many other colors. A healing stone that blocks off negative energy. It helps with nervous troubles, stress-related problems and gives confidence and protection. It is believed to give added perception to its wearer. Helps you with success and accomplishment and sharpens mental accuracy and mental awareness. Prevents lymphatic diseases and battles anemia.

Tourmalined Quartz The combination of clear white and radiant black creates a perfect polarity of energies. It can be used to eliminate almost any degree of physical negative energy. It is a manifestation of light and dark forces uniting together to serve a common goal. Sharpens mental accuracy.

Turquoise Relaxes the body and mind, calms and balances emotional expression and tension, promotes clarity in communication. Protects its wearer from bodily harm. Releases anxiety. Anyone who is drawn to turquoise will be a lucky person. Peace, contentment and lasting happiness are assured. This is a very positive stone. It's a good stone for people with respiratory disorders, circulatory problems, and/or rheumatism. Promotes inner joy and peace. When given by a loving hand it brings happiness and good fortune.



Caring for your Gemstones

Should you decide to carry your gemstone or crystal around with you, make sure you touch it regularly to reinforce the special bond. Think of it as a friend and companion and it will serve you well. Make sure that you let it see and feel sunlight. It is important to cleanse and charge your stones about once a week to gain the full power of the stones, and the easiest way of doing this is to hold them under clear, running water (preferably mineral or sea water), and focus your thoughts on clearing the stone of its impurities. To charge the stones leave them in the moonlight or sunlight for a day.


Text from: Dorothee L. Mella (Stone Power)
Katrina Raphaell (Crystal Enlightenment)
Kristyna Arcarti(Gems & Crystals for Beginners)
Inga-May Lundkvist(Stenarnas Hemligheter)

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