Properties of semi-precious gemstones: Amber
Clear yellow or orange ancient petrified resin (possibly pine tree).
Opens solar plexus chakra.
Electromagnetic. Good for mental clarity, mood balance, confidence. Stomach anxiety, spine, Central Nervous System, brain, memory loss, cell regeneration. Excellent detoxification and protection from radiation, especially x-rays, sun, computers, airport, planes and others' energies. Sacred use (incense/worn) by Asian and American Indians and worldwide.
Amethyst
Translucent, purple/lavender Quartz.
Opens brow and crown chakras.
Psychicness, imagery, mind quieting. Wear when sleeping or when awake to reduce anger, impatience, and nightmares. Headaches, eyes, scalp/hair, pituitary, pineal, blood sugar balance. Especially aids sobriety; alcohol/food/sex/other addictions. Famous ancient detoxicifier (especially helpful with poisons and alcohol.) Keep in pet's water to reduce fleas.
Amazonite Amazonite is minty green to aqua stone associated with the throat chakra. It is a communication enhancing stone. It can relieve stress and calm the nervous system. It is also a good stone for enhancing creativity. Amazonite lessens self-defeating behaviors and self-defeating talk. Aventurine
Slightly translucent banded green quartz.
Opens heart chakra.
Heals emotional pain/fear/imbalance by dissolving blocks in the heart chakra. Historically also draws out heat of fevers, inflammation, nerves. System stress. In your bath water, a soft, soothing stone for general healing. Universal love, truth, prosperity. Much like Moss Agate
Flourite
All rainbow colors. Important balancer, healer. Opens heart (especially green), throat, brow and crown chakras for clarity, overview, seeing additional truths/realities. Spleen bones, teeth, lungs, detoxification, anxiety, insomnia.
Clear and Purple: Objectivity; clears the way for new things, upliftment, aura cleanse, 3rd eye, eyesight, sinuses; repels colds. Enhances other gems.
Green: Stills mind and heart, harmonizes and recharges all chakras.
Blue: Throat, nose, ears, soothing; Karmic impasses resolved, atonement relieved.
Yellow: Focus, cooperation, group alignment.
Yttrium: Lavender, well-being, serenity, peace, connection with universe/God/eternal life force.
Garnet
Red: Root and sacral chakras. Warms, energizes emotionally and physically (arthritis, frostbite, paralysis), grounds. Used by ancient cultures. Good for exhaustion, low blood pressure, detoxing and strengthening blood, muscles, kidneys, gallstones. Stimulates life force and sexuality, hormone balance, antibodies, fertility, persistence, stamina, passion, confidence (and stubbornness). Yang (avoid if excess anger, impatience, high blood pressure, heat, inflammation, etc.)
Jade
Solid to translucent green. Health, wealth, longevity. Ancient Chinese used also for courage, wisdom, justice, mercy, emotional balance, stamina, love, fidelity, humility, generosity, peace, harmony. Lungs, heart, thymus, immune, kidney and blood detoxification, nervous system. Androgynous
Lapis Lazuli
Solid, medium to dark blue. In meditation, opens brow chakra: higher guidance, intuition, connection to higher self, overview, decisions for good of all. Organizes, quiets mind. Opens throat chakra. Promotes self-expression, writing, creativity and dream insight. Helps soothe anxiety, restlessness, insomnia, autism, shyness, nervous system, speech, hearing, pituitary, DNA, lymph, inflammation, pain (especially head). Good for protection
Moonstone (Feldspar)
Translucent white with pink and yellow flecks and a soft sheen. Soothes stress, anxiety, women's hormones/menstrual imbalance, lymph. Enhances intuitive sensitivity via feelings while making personal feelings less overwhelming. Greater flexibility and flow with life. Connects sacral and brow chakras and pineal gland for emotional balance, gracefulness. Helps all be more comfortable with our gentler feminine/yin receiving side. Especially good for water signs. Available in 4mm only.
Moss Agate Moss Agate is a transparent to translucent agate containing inclusions of minerals resembling moss or foliage. Moss Agate leads one toward the characteristics of agreeability, persuasiveness, strength in all endeavors, and efficacy in all pursuits. It helps to improve ego and self-esteem, providing for emotional balancing and strengthening of the positive personality traits. Allows one to see the beauty within all that ones eyes touch. Is said to help one in the acquisition of riches and to bring one the powers of speed. It can be used in the treatment of dehydration and disorders of the eyes, to ameliorate fungal infections, to stimulate digestion and the elimination of toxins from the body, and to relieve the symptoms of colds, internal infections, and flu. Rose Quartz: Translucent to clear Pink. Love, beauty, peacefulness, forgiveness, self-love, emotional balance. Soft. Gently soothes and warms heart chakra. Emotional healing of loss, stress, hurt, fear, low confidence, resentment, anger. Slowly eases childhood traumas/neglect, low self-esteem. Cleanse and recharge often. Aligns mental, emotional, and astral bodies. Sodalite
General communication and writing stone. Logic, ideas, truth. Balances body energy levels via thyroid, pituitary, lymph, and other glands. Helps throat chakra, insomnia, neck, mouth, hearing, blood sugar, etc. Cooling and drawing for infections, burns, sinus inflammations, high blood pressure, etc. Still evolving.
Tiger Eye
Chalcedony quartz. Yellow-gold. Promotes confidence, willpower, clear thinking(and thus speaking), and personal power in life. Good for solar plexus chakra. Amplifies thinking, manifestation of thoughts, and strength of will. Helps separate thoughts from feelings. Aids digestion, stomach, anxiety, ulcers, and bones
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