Healing Stones List And Their Properties.

In Nature there are many stones which can bring a change in our life. This is because stones contain some natural power in it and also healing properties which can make our life beautiful and calmness. This is also depends upon their luck that which stone can bring change in his/her own life. Now to explain about each stones here we have discussed stones and their properties in detail. Let’s Starts with alphabets ‘A’.

Apache Tears

Apache Tears (solid black but translucent when held to the light)is a gentler cousin to obsidian. This stone is the one for grief and loss. Apache tears bring up negativity so it can be worked through gently. It is an excellent protector and grounder, and keeps others from draining you emotionally. This stone promotes deep thought, contemplation and promotes forgiveness. Apache Tears remove self-limitations and increase spontaneity.

Physically, it helps with the absorption of Vitamin B, C, and D (anemia), while removing toxins from the body and calming muscle spasms and cramps. It can heal the stomach, digestive, and intestinal systems. Native American legend says that during a battle, the US Cavalry came upon a small band of Pinal Apache warriors on a mountain near Superior Arizona. The warriors found themselves faced with defeat and capture. Rather than face disgrace at the hands of their enemies, they chose death from their friend the mountain, and jumped from a great cliff. Great Spirit looked down on their grieving loved ones and turned their tears into stones so all who saw them would remember the lost warriors. It is said the owners of Apache tears will never cry again. {Apache tears should never be drilled, as it damages the soul of the stone.}

Blue Lace Agate

Blue Lace Agate is a wonderful healing stone. It’s soft energy is cooling and brings peace of mind while it goes to work finding your pain and soothing it. It allows free verbal expression of thoughts and feelings and counteracts stress. Being a supportive and nurturing stone, it neutralizes anger. It also helps with feelings of insecurity and the lack of self confidence coming from a fear of being judged by others. (Very effective in the parent/child relationship be you the child or adult) A super stress reliever, the peace of this stone will clear the throat, so feelings of anger are dissipated and truths can be said honestly and with out spite.
Physically, it is a wonderful throat healer, ie throat infection, inflammation and fever, also releases shoulder and neck tension/pain. It helps thyroid deficiencies, throat and lymph infections, lowers fever, soothes the nervous system, treats arthritic and bone deformity thus strengthening the skeletal system and healing fractures.

Moss Agate

Moss Agate (dark green w/clouds) is one of the stones of new beginnings. It improves self esteem and positive personality traits, promotes self expression and communication skills, reduces deep seated stress and fear, while encouraging trust & hope. It connects the spiritual to the physical. It is also a helpful if used to link to one’s spirit guides, nature spirits and Mother earth (ie. plants & animals). Sometimes called a prosperity stone. It is highly valued as a gardeners talisman because it increases your plants fertility and ensures a bountiful crop. Place the stone in water and leave it in the sun, then remove the stone and use the elixir created, to water your indoor/outdoor plants and watch them thrive.
Physically, it can speed recovery from illness or injury and can counteract long term effects from that illness. It is an anti-inflammatory, cleanses the circulatory and elimination systems, helps prevent hypoglycemia and dehydration, treats infections, colds and flu, lowers fever, reduces swollen lymph nodes and can treat fungal and skin infections. (Useful as an elixir to the skin.)

Amethyst

Amethyst (asst colors of purple from dark to light) is an extremely powerful and protective stone. A natural tranquilizer, Amethyst blocks geopathic stress and negative environmental energies. Wonderful to use for meditation as it enhances your mental and spiritual awareness, it has very strong healing and cleansing powers. In the past, it was worn to prevent drunkenness and does have a sobering effect on any overindulgence. It can calm or stimulate your mind depending on the need. It helps with decision making, using common sense and insight and helps put those decisions into practice.
Physically, it boosts the production of hormones, tunes the endocrine system and the metabolism, helping with weight control. It can strengthen and clean your elimination organs. It eases headaches and releases tension, reduces bruising and swelling. It can help with hearing disorders, diseases of the lungs and respiratory tract, helps skin conditions (acne), benefits the intestines regulating the flora, removing parasites and helping with the re-absorption of water (diarrhea/constipation). This stone is wonderful for insomnia or nights when sleep won’t come because your mind won’t quiet…just slip one beneath your pillow.

Ametrine

Ametrine (perfectly transparent with light purple and gold) is a powerful combination of two stones, Amethyst and Citrine. This crystal clears stress and tension from the head, calming the mind and granting focus, thus promoting healing. An extremely energetic and powerful stone, it stimulates creativity and supports taking control of one’s own life. It brings clarity, helps with thinking things through and exploring all possibilities, as well as promoting a feeling of well being that is not disturbed by outside influences.
Physically, it gets to the bottom of things, its powerful cleansing gets rid of negative energy. It’s a powerful blood cleanser and energizer, and will strengthen your immune system, nervous system. It helps chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, fatigue and lethargy, tension headaches and other stress related physical problems including stomach upset and ulcers, and eliminates toxins from the body.

Angelite

Angelite is the stone of peace and transition, a stone of the angels some say. It is a stone of connection, whether it be with ourselves, others, or with the Angelic/Spirit Guide realm. It helps with overcoming fear and uncertainty. It will help you to discover the truth behind the words and actions of others. You can then see them with compassion, and without judgment. It teaches acceptance, grace and power. Living with angelite, you may find life is not so harsh. This is a wonderful stone for those embarking on their spiritual journey. For Reiki, it opens and reveals the needs in the body mind and soul.
Physically, it helps the throat, balances the thyroid & parathyroid, relieves inflammation, repairs tissue damage, and helps with blood deficiencies. It can be useful for weight control, and it particularly helpful to arms, legs, and lungs. A wonderful stone for headaches, heart palpitations, and infections ie flu & colds etc. Angelite can obviously do almost all things body, mind, and spirit.

Aquamarine

Aquamarine (a lovely soft aqua color) is a “Stone of Determination and Protection”.Aquamarine helps with releasing old patterns of behavior that no longer serve, and that actually inhibit your growth. It can bring peace and calm to the overactive mind. It allows you to look at challenging situations from all perspectives. It can help overcome the judgment of others and encourage tolerance. It’s very good for calming fear and worry, helping your mind understand the challenges and changes within your personal world.
Physically, it helps to heal ailments of the throat, including the thyroid and pituitary, and can help with diseases of the liver. It can help with allergies by calming your overactive immune system, as well as balancing and healing other autoimmune disorders.

Aventurine

Aventurine (I have the green with natural sparkles but it comes in many colors) defuses negative situations and turns them around. It is very useful in Feng Shui as it grids against geopathic stress in your home, office, or garden. It diffuses bad situations and turns them around, reinforcing your thought and leadership abilities, allowing you to see both sides of a situation and then help find the answers. It calms anger and irritation with others. It stimulates emotional recovery and enables living within ones own heart.
Physically, it relieves migraine headaches as an anti inflammatory and heals skin eruptions and allergy/sinus symptoms. It helps the nervous system, the thymus gland, balances blood pressure and lowers cholesterol, it soothes the eyes, and heals the adrenals, lungs, sinuses, heart, muscular and urogenital systems.

BloodStone

Bloodstone (dark green with red speckling) is an excellent grounding, protecting, and healing stone. It heightens your intuition and increases creativity while at night, it stimulates dreaming. If you place it by your bedside in a shallow dish filled with pure water, it will help with restful dream filled sleep. It calms the mind when needed, clears confusion, and helps with decision making. It can revitalize a tired mind and body if you work too hard, and can reduce irritability, aggressive behavior and impatience with others and yourself.
Physically; this stone stimulates the immune system to fight infection, helps with the flow of lymph and re-energizes the body and mind when exhausted. It purifies the blood, detoxifies the liver, intestines, kidneys, spleen, and bladder, improves blood circulation, and reduces infection. It has been helpful when used for leukemia, it works to clean the blood and blood organs by removing toxins. Ancient Egyptians used it to shrink tumors.

Carnelian

Carnelian ( translucent and in assorted shades of orange) grounds and anchors you to the present and reality. Carnelian has the ability to cleanse other stones! It restores vitality, motivation and stimulates creativity, gives courage, promotes positive life choices, dispels apathy, and motivates you to strive for success. It helps you to trust in yourself and your perceptions of life around you…helps you figure out what makes you tic. Carnelian is a powerful protector against envy, rage, jealousy, and resentment, yours or other peoples. It can calm anger and negative energy replacing it with a positive outlook.
Physically, it is full of life forces and can stimulate your metabolism, increases fertility if desired by influencing reproductive organs. It can overcome depression, especially for those in advanced years or the very young, it heals lower back problems, rheumatism, arthritis, neuralgia pain (fibromyalgia), accelerates healing of bone and ligaments, and slows bleeding. (NOTE: carnelian is getting more difficult in good pure form due to mining, beware of fakes and dyed agates)

Chalcopyrite

Chalcopyrite, also known as Peacock Ore, has an external metallic luster that shimmers like rainbows in the sun. It’s metallic base also makes it a heavy stone. It has the ability to remove negative energy. It enhances your “Ki”, life force energy, which stabilizes your physical body energy. It helps you release stressful pent up feelings after a hard day. It’s wonderful for quick lift if you’re full of low energy and cause a nice “pick me up”. This is how it got it’s nickname the “Tonic Stone”.
Physically, chalcopyrite is a powerful healer and is often used to heal feelings of confusion or disorientation, along with conditions affecting the lungs and throat.
I recommend you rinse it under running water before and after using it for any healing purposes. Then just pat it dry or air dry but never ever leave in in water.

Charoite

Charoite was named for the location where it was discovered in Russia in 1978 in the Murun mountains. This the only known location for this rare mineral so far. The name, Charoite, is derived from the Chary River which is near where it was found. The colors range from bright lavender, violet and lilac to dark purple with swirling patterns of black. The charoite stone is often confused with the fairly similar sugilite, although it is the charoite’s characteristic light colored inclusions that are the main difference between the two stones. It is known as a “stone of transformation”, as well as a stone of great power. It transforms negative emotions {such as anger and/or fear} into positive feelings. As a part of this transformational process it allows the deep release of those negative emotions, so we can change and move forward. Also known as a stone of inspiration, creativity, spiritual grown and new possibilities in even the oldest situations. This is a stone that allows one to see clearly, which brings with it enhanced self-esteem and helps release one from any sense of victimized behavior.
Physically, it is known to be helpful for the speeding up of healing of all kinds, headaches, liver problems, alcohol detoxification, cramps, heart problems, eye problems, nerves and more. People working with X-rays should wear it, or carry a pocket stone, to protect themselves from the radiation that may be present during their work hours.

Chrysocolla

Chrysocolla (electric turquoise blue w/cloudy opaque spots/tan) is one that will help you to accept situations that are constantly changing, invoking great inner strength. It is beneficial to relationships that have become rocky, stabilizing and healing the home/personal interaction, helps improve communication but also helps you to know when to keep silent. It encourages self-awareness, inner balance, and gives you confidence with sensitivity. It reduces mental tension, helps you keep a cool head, speak with truth, and alleviates guilt. It draws off any negative energy that is harming you, calms.
Physically, it treats arthritis, bone diseases, muscle spasms and cramps (restless leg syndrome), soothes the digestive tract, soothes and heals ulcers, helps with blood disorders and lung problems, detoxifies the liver, kidneys and intestines. It oxygenates the blood and the structure of the lungs giving greater breathing ability, it regulates insulin, regenerates the pancreas. With it’s cooling feel, it heals infection, lowers fever, lowers blood pressure, soothes burns, strengthens the thyroid. It is excellent in treating PMS and menstrual cramps.

Chrysoprase

Chrysoprase (is a light mint green color with some brown and orange striping) A stone of grace and compassion, it helps with deep meditation and relaxation. It can be a huge help during experiences of deep loss; helping the one grieving to understand the painful loss. It brings hope into dire situations, and is excellent for breaking negative cycles. Carrying a tumbled stone can help those needing to release fear and bitterness.
Physically, Chrysoprase is good for ailments involving the heart, lungs, and liver.

Chiastolite

Chiastolite is a variety of andalusite, also knows as the “Cross Stone” because of its cross pattern that occurs naturally. A stone of balance and harmony, it can help with mental / emotional balance, stability, enhancing problem solving, adapting to change, memory, and ability to see all sides of a problem, and can enhance spiritual awareness as well as practical creativity. By practical creativity, I mean being able to creatively think of new or different solutions to problems or issues.
Physically, it is very helpful with arthritis, fibromyalgia, rheumatism, blood disorders, veins, blood circulation, balance of blood pressure (high or low), and lactation in new mothers.

Citrine

Citrine (golden/white with sparkles) carries the power of the sun and energizes every level of life. It is a very powerful healer and re-generator. One of the few stones that never needs cleansing, it absorbs, transmutes, dissipates and grounds negative energy and is very protective for your environment. It is a stone of abundance and it teaches us how to attract success and prosperity. It has the power to impart joy on all who behold it and is useful for soothing despair and removes destructive tendencies, whilst raising self-esteem and self-confidence, helping you develop a positive attitude and look forward; to go with the flow instead of hanging on to the past. This stone encourages exploring every possible avenue until you find the best possible situation. It helps with concentration, revitalizes the mind and overcomes depression, fears and phobias. It helps you digest information, analyze situations and steering them in a positive direction. Wearing or carrying a citrine overcomes difficulty in verbalizing thoughts and feelings.
Physically, it reverses degenerative disease, it stimulates digestion, the spleen, and pancreas. It heals infections of the kidney and bladder, helps eye problems, increases blood circulation while detoxifying, activates the thymus and balances the thyroid. It has a warming effect and helps fortify your nerves. It is useful for constipation, and is helpful for menstrual symptoms, and menopause ie. hot flashes, hormone imbalance and fatigue.

Fluorite

Fluorite (transparent shades from clear rainbows, to purples, to blue/green) cleanses, purifies, dispels, and reorganizes anything within the body that is not in perfect order. It is effective against geopathic and computer stress, it can heighten your intuitive powers, making you more aware, and overcomes chaos within the physical, emotional or mental body. It dissolves fixed patterns of behavior and gently opens the door to the subconscious bringing suppressed feelings to the surface for resolution, it dissolves illusions and reveals truth, while imparting increased self confidence.
Physically, fluorite is a very powerful tool in dealing with teeth and bones disorders, protecting against viruses especially colds, flu, and sinusitis, it regenerates skin, mucus membranes, the respiratory system, it heals ulcers and wounds. For mobilizing stiff joints stroke it across the body toward the heart, and it will clear all body pain and nerve related pain like shingles and other similar afflictions. Keep one in your pocket, by the computer or bedside, or in bed, taped on worn close to your body, fluorite will soothe and heal.

Garnet

Garnet (brilliant burgundy wine color) is a super energizer re-generator. Garnet cleanses and revitalizes as it it balances your energy bringing peace or passion depending on the need. A stone of commitment, it is very useful for relationships. In a crisis, a garnet will help you center and focus so you are able to see the way through it, while it strengthens your survival instincts giving you hope and courage where there was despair. It can supercharge other stones and crystals magnifying their energy.
Physically, Garnet is strongly attached to the pituitary gland. It stimulates your metabolism allowing you to feel more balanced, treats the spine and other cellular disorders, purifying and energizing the blood, heart, and lungs.

Hematite

Hematite (metallic silver gray) is very effective at grounding, while harmonizing body, mind and spirit. It dissolves negativity and protects any from entering your aura. A good stone for the timid man or woman, it boosts self-esteem, enhances willpower and imparts confidence helping you come to terms with mistakes and to accept them as learning experiences rather than disasters. It stimulates concentration, focus and memory.
Physically it has a strong connection to the blood supply, it helps with Reynards disease, anemia, bruises, contusions, burns and blistering…placed on an injury, it will slow bleeding and minimize the bruising, for burns it cools the heat easing the pain, placed at the top of your spine, hematite helps with spinal manipulation by a chiropractor, physical therapist, or Reiki practitioner.

Howlite

Howlite (white w/gray-tan marbling) is such a calming stone, placed under the pillow it helps with getting to sleep, especially when your mind won’t quiet down. This stone teaches patience and eliminates rage or uncontrolled anger. (super for temper tantrums) A stone in your pocket helps you to mind what you say and how you say it and to whom, and not be hurtful and critical with your words.
Physically howlite is wonderful for balancing calcium levels in teeth, bones and soft tissues. (ie. bone deterioration, teeth problems, healing fractures) This is another stone that is becoming more difficult to get in genuine. As mining restrictions occur more suppliers are using dyed stones, the ones I provide are genuine.

Iolite

Iolite, also known as water sapphire, is usually a blue to violet colored gemstone. It’s a great stone for meditation, intuition and even astral travel. It enhances your inner knowing and was a stone worn by Shamans in the past to insure accuracy of visions. It helps us to eliminate debt by accepting responsibility which leads to successful management of money. It also can help to eliminate discord in relationships. Wear or carry Iolite to help in any stressful situation.
Physically, it can help us defy physical disorders and deal best we can with them. It can be used to protect and improve conditions of the liver. It can also be used to rid the body of toxins.
Iolite harmonizes well with lapis, amethyst, azurite, scolecite and hematite if a healing bundle is what you seek.

Nephrite Jade

Nephrite Jade (asst dark green) is a protective stone, while it keeps you from harm and helps to attract good luck and friendship. It promotes self sufficiency, releases negative thoughts and soothes the mind. Also called the dream stone if placed on the forehead, it will bring pleasant and insightful dreams and helps you release feelings of irritability. It encourages you to become who you want to be as it helps you recognize yourself as a being on a journey through life and helps you find the knowledge you seek to succeed and survive.
Physically, it treats the kidney and supra-adrenal glands, it removes toxins and helps rebuild cellular and skeletal systems, heals stitches, improves fertility and aids in childbirth, and works on the hips and spleen.

Red Jasper

Red Jasper (brick red, can include brecciated jasper which has hematite within it) is gently energizing while it grounds and helps with unjust situations. It supports in times of stress and brings problems to light before they get too big to handle. It makes a great worry stone calming emotions when stroked and held. Placed under a pillow it helps with good dreams and dream recall, it can cleanse and stabilize your auras and chakras.
Physically, it is a stone of good health, and strengthens and detoxifies the blood system and liver.

Kyanite

Kyanite is a lovely crystal blue here. Kyanite  will not hold onto negative energy, so it never needs clearing or cleansing. It balances and can remove blockages, moving good energy gently through the physical body.  It has a calming effect on your  whole being and will bring you peace and tranquility.  It clears away anger, frustration, confusion, stress and helps to provide calm, reasonable, and logical thought.  If you need a boost, Kyanite can provide stimulating energy.  It can help if you want to connect to your spirit guides.  It  helps with dream recall and can also promote healing dreams.  Physically, it treats the urinary system, adrenal glands and parathyroid glands.  It heals trouble in and with the throat, brain and muscular system,  infections and lowers blood pressure and is a natural pain reliever.  I have an assortment of blue blades about an inch or so in measure.

Kyanite is a stone of calm and centering, sometimes used to encourage vivid dreams, dream recall, and restful sleep, as it protects you as you sleep. It encourages loyalty, honesty and tranquility, and diminishes anger and confusion. Kyanite will not retain negative energy and never needs energetic cleansing. It can align and balance all chakras, if desired. It can also remove energy blockages when you feel stuck.
Physically, it treats the urinary system, adrenal glands and parathyroid glands. It heals trouble in and with the throat, brain and muscular system, infections and lowers blood pressure and is a natural pain reliever.

Blue kyanite is associated with the throat chakra and is a helper with meditation. Green Kyanite is good for balancing the heart chakra and maintaining heart balance. It is also used to reduce anger with calm.

Labrodorite

Labrodorite (olive green with rainbows in it like an oil slick) is a highly protective stone. It can deflect unwanted energies and form a barrier to negative energy. This one stimulates intuition and psychic gifts, bringing messages from the unconscious mind to the surface and helping to clarify their understanding. It strengthens faith in yourself, banishes fears and insecurities. This is an excellent dispeller of illusion and helps you see the truth behind thoughts and actions, while calming the overactive mind. It allows for new positive thoughts and ideas, showing their true meanings, and if you’re going through some change, it gives you strength and perseverance.
Physically, it helps with eye troubles and the brain. It is a great stress reducer, can treat colds, gout, rheumatism, relieves menstrual tension and lowers blood pressure.

Lapis Lazuli

Lapis Lazuli (PREMIUM GRADE medium deep blue w/smoke & gold sparkling pyrite in the best) possesses enormous serenity, quickly releasing stress and bringing deep peace. Lapis opens the third eye and balances the throat chakra, and enhances dream work. A protective stone, it can help you contact your spirit guardians, block negative energy and return it to its source. A stone that harmonizes the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels within you, it encourages taking charge of one’s life revealing inner truths, encouraging self-awareness, and allowing for self-expression without holding back or compromising. This stone enhances the qualities of honesty and compassion. It is a powerful thought amplifier and helps bring objectivity and clarity to that thought. It helps you express your opinions and harmonizes conflict, and teaches the value of active listening.
Physically, Lapis Lazuli is one of the finest pain relievers, especially with migraine headaches, pressed to the area of pain it will absorb it and ease the inflammation and ease the headache and eye pain. (be sure to cleanse and recharge after using it each time). It helps with depression, the respiratory and nervous system, the throat, larynx, and thyroid, cleanses the organs, bone marrow, purifies the blood, and boosts the immune system. It can help with insomnia (put it in your hand or under your pillow), balances dizziness/vertigo and lowers blood pressure.

Lepidolite

Lepidolite (sparkly lavender) insists on being used for the greatest good as it dispels negative feelings. This stone is extremely useful in the reduction of stress and depression, it halts obsessive thoughts and relieves despondency, and helps you sleep. Lepidolite contains lithium and is most helpful with mood swings and bipolar disorders. It’s wonderful for overcoming emotional or mental dependency. Addictions and complaints of all kinds are helped by this stone of transition as it induces change, and the breaking of old patterns that can be self destructive with its power of objectivity and concentration.
Physically, it can locate the site of disease or illness and will vibrate gently. It relieves allergies, strengthens the immune system, relieves exhaustion, it numbs sciatica, and back pain, overcomes joint problems, detoxifies the skin, and can help with menopause. (Also effective with epilepsy and alzheimers.)

Malachite

Malachite (dark green striped/swirled) is a powerful stone and should be handled with care and caution. It is toxic (copper) in rough form and should be used only in polished form and never used orally. Malachite does not like to be wet so do not cleanse it with water but use indirect sunlight or moonlight, if you wish sage/cedar smudge it, and it should be cleansed after each use. Malachite is one of the most important healing stones of the future. It amplifies positive and negative energy, is a mighty protector and will absorb any negative energy you feel coming after you. Life is lived more fully when shared with this stone, as it encourages risk taking and trying change. It draws forth deep feelings and breaks unwanted ties and worn out patterns, teaching you to be responsible for your own actions, thoughts and feelings. It helps those who deal with shyness, uncertainty, and supports them. It enhances your ability to get to the core of a problem and work through it to a solution.
Physically, malachite can do almost anything it is so versatile! It is especially helpful with cramps (including menstrual), helps the childbirth process, it has been called the midwife stone, lowers blood pressure, treats asthma, arthritis, epilepsy, fractures, swollen joints, warts, tumors and cysts, motion sickness, dizziness, the pancreas, spleen and parathyroid. Great for enhancing the immune system and stimulating the liver to eliminate toxins and can treat diabetes when worn around the waist.

Mookaite

Mookaite is a jasper and like all jaspers is a nurturing stone that supports us during stressful times. It brings peace and a feeling of being settled when you hold it. It helps with decision making, especially when it’s during a hard time. It helps you to think outside the box and find a solution calmly. It provides a protective shielding against negative energy, eliminating unwanted outside influences and distractions.
Physically, it stabilizes your general health head to toe inside and out and helps strengthen your immune system. One of my often used stones.

Moonstone

As the name suggests, it is closely associated with the moon and intuition. Like the moon, the stone is reflective and reminds us that as the moon waxes and wanes, so is everything is part of a cycle of life and change. It’s most powerful effect is that of calming the emotions, promoting intuition, empathy, vivid dreaming, and can enhance psychic abilities. It helps balance the male and female energies that are inside all of us, soothes emotional insecurity and stress.
Physically it provides deep healing to the disorders so often caused in the upper digestive tract that can be caused by a lot of stress. Often called the woman’s stone, it is excellent for PMS, conception issues, pregnancy, childbirth, and breast feeding. It can be used to prevent sleep walking and help with sleep disorders like insomnia, night terrors or bad dreams. Moonstone helps eliminate toxins and fluid retention and heals degenerative conditions of the skin, hair, eyes, the liver and pancreas.

Rainbow Moonstone

Rainbow Moonstone (lovely white with rainbows within) is another stone of new beginnings.
As the name suggests, it is closely associated with the moon and intuition. Like the moon, the stone is reflective and reminds us that as the moon waxes and wanes, so is everything is part of a cycle of life and change. It’s most powerful effect is that of calming the emotions, promoting intuition, empathy, vivid dreaming, and can enhance psychic abilities. It helps balance the male and female energies that are inside all of us, soothes emotional insecurity and stress.
Physically it provides deep healing to the disorders so often caused in the upper digestive tract that can be caused by a lot of stress. Often called the woman’s stone, it is excellent for PMS, conception issues, pregnancy, childbirth, and breast feeding. Moonstone can be used to prevent sleep walking and help with sleep disorders like insomnia, night terrors or bad dreams. Moonstone helps eliminate toxins and fluid retention and heals degenerative conditions of the skin, hair, eyes, the liver and pancreas.

Onyx

Onyx (deep black, sometimes w/creamy bands) is a stone that imparts strength and support during trying or confusing times of mental or physical stress while it boosts your energy giving you vigor and stamina. By helping you learn, it gives you self confidence and helps you feel at ease in your surroundings. It holds the memories of things that have happened to the wearer, in that it helps you deal with the good and the bad. It is a very effective stone at healing old grief and sorrow, a mental tonic to alleviate overwhelming fears and worries.
Physically, it is extremely helpful for teeth, bones, bone marrow and blood disorders and also helps the feet with pain and swelling.

Prehnite

Prehnite (soft glowing green) is the crystal that can heal the healer and anyone in touch with it. It can help with meditation and getting in touch with your inner self, enabling you to always feel prepared, no matter what. It calms the environment and brings with it a feeling of peace and protection. It helps one make a home into a healing safe sanctuary. It can help with bad dreams, nightmares, insomnia, fears or phobias and will heal them.
Physically, it will go to the root of illness or injury and help heal the kidneys, bladder, thymus gland, shoulders, chest, and lungs, treats gout, blood disorders, repairs connective tissue damage and can stabilize a malignancy.

Prehnite with w/ dark green to black epidote, is THE crystal that can heal the healer and anyone in touch with it. It can help with meditation and getting in touch with your inner self, enabling you to always feel prepared, no matter what. It calms the environment and brings with it a feeling of peace and protection. It helps one make a home into a healing safe sanctuary. It can help with bad dreams, nightmares, insomnia, fears or phobias and will heal them.
Physically, it will go to the root of illness or injury and help heal the kidneys, bladder, thymus gland, shoulders, chest, and lungs, treats gout, blood disorders, repairs connective tissue damage and can stabilize a malignancy. Epidote, can be found in quartz, prehnite, tourmaline and many others. When holding or meditating with it, you will be able to use your intention to amplify any aspect of yourself that you may feel needs enhancement, whilst releasing negativity. It helps reorganize your energies so that you think with more clarity and approach life with greater positivity. You will find your health, focus, perception, and even physical strength optimized to its fullest potential. For those working in stressful environments such as city offices where there is a lot of electromagnetic pollution, the stone is perfect for attuning with nature, keeping you grounded.

Rutilated Quartz

Rutilated Quartz is a golden/amber quartz filled with needle-like bits of golden Rutile, a material made of titanium dioxide. It can clear energy blockages from all of the chakras. It puts off an exceptionally high level of energy, and brings physical and mental balance and stability. It enhances self-reliance and helps with decision-making. Use it to get to the “root” of a problem. When you dedicate your crystal to help you, imagine yourself within the crystal as the golden thread. This crystal will intensify your needs, and continue to send help out into the universe for you. It can also be used for helping to clarify the positive or negative vibes or motives of a person, place, or thing. An inspiring stone, helping calm and center your life and environment, it is often used during meditation for connecting to higher realms and spirit guides, because of the golden inclusions of Rutile in the Quartz.
Physically, it is used to speed healing of injuries and slow down aging. Wonderful for those dark days where you feel deep despair or hopelessness, held or worn it can take on the hardships and fill you with hope and light.

Rhodochrosite

Rhodochrosite (berry colored w/ creamy swirls and bands) represents selfless love and compassion and is an excellent stone for the heart and relationships as it teaches the heart and mind to absorb and understand feelings without shutting down. It gently brings repressed feelings to the surface, allows them to be acknowledged then dissipated with a safe emotional release and helps one face the truth without excuses as it improves self esteem and soothes stress. It encourages spontaneous expression of feelings as it lifts a depressed mood and brings lightness to life.
Physically, it acts a filter to keep out irritants, relieves asthma and respiratory problems, improves the circulatory system, kidneys, normalizes blood pressure and stabilizes the heartbeat, as it dilates the blood vessels. By placing it on the site of pain it eases body pain and cramping, with some it can also restore poor eyesight.

Rhodonite

Rhodonite (mottled dark salmon pink w/black) is an emotional balancer helping you see both sides of any issue, while stimulating clear thought and understanding. A useful first aid stone (I often refer to it as a boo boo stone with children), it heals emotional shock and panic while lending supportive energy to the soul in times of need. This stone can be particularly effective in dealing with cases of those who are self destructive {ie. cutters, those with pre-suicidal thoughts, alcoholics and drug abusers}. Rhodonite clears away emotional wounds and scars from the past or present and helps to heal those painful emotions, a helpful stone to turn back insults and help with any desire to retaliate or seek revenge because it promotes calm in dangerous or upsetting times and eliminates confusion.
Physically, rhodonite is an excellent wound healer and can relieve the pain and irritation of bug bites. It reduces scarring, affects good bone growth, improves hearing, can help with tinnitus (ringing in the ears) by fine tuning the auditory vibrations, treats emphysema, joint inflammation, arthritis, autoimmune disease, stomach ulcers, and multiple sclerosis.

Rose Quartz

Rose Quartz (rose petal pink) is the stone of infinite peace. It purifies and opens the heart at all levels and brings with it deep inner healing and self esteem. In existing relationships, it will restore trust and harmony as it draws off negative energy while it strengthens empathy and sensitivity. An excellent stone for mid-life crisis, keeping it close can help with positive affirmations. Emotionally it is the finest healer and releases pent up feelings and emotional pain.
Physically, rose quartz strengthens the physical heart and circulatory system, cleanses impurities from your body, if placed on the thymus it helps chest and lung problems, heals the kidneys, adrenals and helps with vertigo/dizziness from travel sickness. It can increase fertility when wanted. This stone in an elixir can soothe a burn and its blistering. This stone is also very helpful with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and senile dementia.

Ruby Zoisite

Ruby Zoisite (OTHERWISE CALLED ANYOLITE) IS A STUNNING GREEN W/ CREME & RED RUBY WITHIN It will increase your energy and help overcome lethargy, whilst it amplifies the biomagnetic field around the body and to energize your life force. It encourages you to be an individual, and to live life as you wish, but without distancing you from humanity. It stimulates creativity and helps you to focus on your goals and objectives.

Physically, it enhances fertility if needed and helps with diseases of the reproductive system particularly the testicles and ovaries. It improves circulation, and helps with heart disease and problems. It can help with recovery in conditions associated with diminished physical vitality. ie. Multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, seasonal affective disorder “SAD”, vitamin deficiencies and immune difficulties as well.

Selenite

Selenite (crystalline white) is the light bringer, due to its linear crystal structure it behaves like a natural fiber optic. If any light is shone through the material it is transmitted down the full length of the crystal. Never get it wet, it’ll melt. To cleanse it, smudge it with sage or cedar smoke. It is considered as the sword of awareness cutting through assumptions and promoting connections between the conscious self and the inner mystic self. It directs energy into the body and energy system to remove blockages which can result in disease or illness. Powerful enough to clear negative energies out of all other stones and crystals, it is unique in that it is the only mineral capable of programming Quartz Crystals. Place any crystal or pocket stone you have been working with on , around, or under your Selenite, and it will clean out any unwanted energies present and recharge all of your crystals and stones. You can increase another other crystal or stone’s energy by placing your Selenite on that stone. Selenite can be more useful and manageable than a Quartz Crystal. Quartz has that uncompromising habit of amplifying everything, positive or negative. An excellent tool for visualization, meditation and working with the subconscious.
Physically, this amazing crystal goes to the source of physical disorders and provides insights into probable causes. Its unique ability to connect and balance the spiritual and physical bodies enables it to do similar work between two persons. ie REIKI
Selenite is not like any other healing stone in that it focuses its particular energy on your problem, and it works to discover locations of static within you. It is a supreme healer with no limitations as to what it can help with in your entire body, mind, and spirit.

Snowflake Obsidian

Snowflake Obsidian (black w/gray snowflakes) calms and soothes, putting you in the right frame of mind to be receptive before bringing to your attention ingrained patterns of behavior then teaches you to value any mistakes as well as successes. It balances the mind, body and spirit. Snowflake can help you understand and release wrong thinking and behavior patterns in life promoting an inner finding of self. With this stone, feelings of isolation and loneliness stop and it will help you, by empowering you with deep thought and acceptance of happiness with in yourself, not others. Obsidians work extremely fast and with great power. They encourage you to grow, lending support while we do so, bringing negative energy to the surface and cleansing it. A strong protective stone, obsidian shields you. At your bedside or under a pillow it can reduce mental stress and tension while calming the mind and body for sleep. Snowflake obsidian is a gentler form of black obsidian and very effective for gentle healing, so you must remember to cleanse the stone after each time slept with it.
Physically it improves circulation, treats veins, and is good for the skeletal system, helps digestion, detoxifies the body, dissolves blockages and body tension, as well as the mental tension. It reduces the pain of arthritis, joints, cramps and heals injuries, eases pain, slows bleeding and warms the extremities (accidents w/ injury that cause shock), and can shrink an enlarged prostate.

Sodalite

Sodalite (asst blues w/cream and blush) is a stone that unites logic with intuition, and can help with meditation. It helps with your drive for truth, while maintaining the ability to be true to yourself. It clears electromagnetic pollution and can be placed between computers and you. A particularly effective stone for group work; it brings harmony and solidarity of purpose, nurturing trust and co-operation to the group, while encouraging your own independence. A stone for the mind, it clears confusion, encourages rational thought and action, while helping you verbalize those thoughts and feelings as it calms you. It balances emotion, wonderful in a crisis or panic attack, it clears and releases oversensitive feelings, fears, phobias, guilt and the feeling of being controlled by others enhancing your independence, self worth, and self trust.
Physically, it balances the metabolism, overcomes calcium deficiencies, cleanses the lymphatic system and other organs, boosting the immune system, treats the throat, vocal cords, larynx, and is helpful with hoarseness and digestive disorders, it can cool a fever, lower blood pressure, and stimulate the absorption of fluids in the body.

Sunstone

Sunstone (popsicle orange w/sparkling golden and cream) is a joyful stone, inspiring that joy in life and good feeling we all want. It can heighten intuition, restore life’s sweetness and help you nurture yourself. It clears all the chakras and fills you with light and energy, to allow your real self to shine through. It has a powerful connection to the sun and, with its regenerative power, helps with meditation and every day life. Those days when negative energy is bringing you down, like a hitchhiker of bad vibes draining your energy, hold tight to a sunstone to cleanse and fill yourself with light and balance again. If you’re a person who has hard time saying no and makes constant sacrifices, hold your sunstone and it will fill you with power, self esteem, independence and vitality. It can be a very effective anti-depressant, lifting dark moods, and is especially helpful with seasonal affective disorders. Even the most grouchy and negative person cannot resist these, it switches them from negative to positive as they hold it or wear it.
Physically, it stimulates your self-healing powers, it regulates your nervous system, organs, treats chronic sore throats, relieves stomach ulcer pain, cartilage problems (carpal tunnel, arthritis) and eases aches and pains.

Tiger Eye

Tiger Eye (banded golden brown) is a protective stone that was traditionally carried as a talisman to protect against ill will or bad luck, and is a stone of integrity and truth to help you accomplish goals by recognizing your inner resources and promoting clarity of intent. It helps you to see your personal needs and those of other people while it differentiates between wishful thinking and daydreaming about what you want and what you really need. It can help heal your self esteem, recognizes your talents and makes them happen through change. It energizes the body and emotions helping to lift a sad or bad mood.
Physically, tiger eye treats the eyes and aids with night vision, heals the throat, female organs and helps with cramps, it is also helpful with broken bones and the pain of arthritis or growing bone pain.

Tiger Iron

Tiger Iron (golden brown with rusty red, gray and gold, it never fails to tingle when worn) is a combination of golden tiger eye, hematite, & jasper. These 3 stones combined, make for a VERY powerful stone. It feeds vitality and helps you pass through changes in life (menopause, new moves, jobs, relationships) guiding you thru those changes to a place of comfort and peace and is especially helpful for those who are so exhausted at any level, be it injury, severe illness, emotional trauma, family stress, or your job. It helps motivate change for the better allowing you space to contemplate or meditate, then giving you the energy to move forward.
Physically, tiger iron heals the blood, balancing your red and white cells, while it cleanses any toxins, heals the hips, legs and feet giving your muscles more strength. It helps with B12 absorption and should always be touching your skin, it soothes emotional, physical, or mental pain and is one of my favorites!

Tourmaline

Tourmaline cleanses, purifies and transforms dense energy into a lighter vibrational protective shield. It has a strong affinity for nature, buried in the soil it will encourage growth and health in your crops. For you, it helps with understanding yourself and others. It increases self esteem, confidence, banishing fear and insecurity. A powerful mental healer, tourmaline, in any form or color, balances the left/right parts of the brain helping negative thoughts change to more positive ones as it balances and aligns the chakras.
Physically, it energizes when needed, giving you a feeling of vitality, releasing stress and tension, it defends against debilitating disease and strengthens the immune system, provides pain relief from arthritis and realigns the spinal column. Place 4 tourmalines at each corner of your bed beneath the mattress to help with pain so you are able to sleep deeply and get the rest your body and mind needs.

Tourmanilated Quartz

Tourmanilated Quartz (clear & cloudy w/ tourmaline threads)  is a wonderful grounding stone.  It strengthens and protects the body’s energy aura from bad influences releasing you from ingrained behavior patterns and releasing tension at all levels.  Great for the bi-polar, ADHD, ADD personalities as it helps balances energy and thought to a better focus, goal and helps as a problem solver.  Tourmalinated quartz harmonizes everything body, mind, spirit.

Unakite

Unakite (mossy green w/salmon pink) is a stone of vision, balancing emotions with your spirit as it opens the third eye and enhances visualization. A grounding stone, unakite will bring a calm gentle energy, and cleanse your home or office of electromagnetic smog. It can reach back in time to correct and heal past experiences that could limit your spiritual and emotional growth now.
Physically, Unakite is supportive for those in convalescence, recovering from a major illness or surgery. It helps the reproductive system, helping with pregnancy or the loss of one, it stimulates weight gain when needed and helps with the regrowth of skin (burns, scrapes, cuts).