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Does anyone know anything about gemstones?A few of my friends are 'into' them as an alternative therapy, but they don't really know a lot about it. I'm quite interested to try them and see if I can get some positivity from them.
I just wondered if anyone else used them as an althernative therapy?
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Hecateh
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I've never researched this fully though I do occasionally buy small stones from a local shop. It may be that different stones are for different things but if one calls me when I am looking at them, I trust my body to know best what it needs - I've no personal evidence of it working but why shouldn't it.
This is the best simple explanation I can find.
| Quote: | It's believed that the gemstones vibrations affect your aura, helping your body to achieve not only balance and awareness but also improve your emotional, spiritual and physical levels. Strung on silk, and having rounded edges, the gemstones function at their optimum. Care must be taken to see that no metal is surrounding your gemstone as it can reduce the effect of the stone, even eliminating it's beneficial affect.
"Synthetic gems" (man-made under laboratory- controlled conditions) are useless for gem therapy, so it's very important that the individual looking for a "healing gemstone" either be an expert gemologist, or know the person that you are buying from, including their qualifications to examine gems for treatment to ensure that you receive a natural 'gem'.
Some stones may help alleviate a physical ailment, but more commonly, stones are helpful in dealing with emotional issues.
Chakras and their base colours:
The seven chakras that are located throughout your body, associate themselves with a certain colour or human trait. When they fail and come out of 'alignment', several physical or mental illness can occur that would pertain to whichever 'chakra' no longer is in sync with the others. Using gemstones which correspond to that chakra, the alignment can be corrected. A healthy chakra is able to attract or release energy as needed.
Root Chakra: Red with the base (root) it is located at the base of the spine. It can also be black or brown
Navel Chakra: Orange with the sacral, it is located in the area bounded by the spleen and sexual center
Solar Plexus Chakra: Yellow in colour, located just below the navel.
Heart Chakra: Green or pink in colour, located in the center of the chest.
Throat Chakra: Light blue in colour, located in the center of the throat.
Third Eye Chakra: Indigo colour, located between the two brows on the forehead
Crown Chakra: Violet or white in colour, located on the top of the head.
Gemstones and their properties:
Agate:
Blue Lace Agate: Awakens consciousness and stretches your imagination.
Moss Agate: Is in touch with nature and unconditional love and helps in healing the inner child.
Tree Agate: Good for introspection as it broadens your viewpoint.
Amazonite: Improves self worth. Also helps soothe the nervous system and absorb negativity as it draws toxic fumes from the tissues and blood.
Amber: Lifts heaviness and helps in harmonising the Ying and Yang.
Amethyst:
Amethyst: Helps in spiritual upliftment. Carrier of violet ray it helps calm the mind and enhances psychic abilities.
Cape Amethyst: Improves inner alignment both emotional as well as spiritual.
Angelite: Aids the development and accuracy of telepathic communication and forms a protective barrier around the location in which it's placed.
Apache tears: Helps in grounding as it aids the release of lower emotions.
Apatite: Enhances communication skills.
Apophyllite: Stimulates the Third Eye.
Aquamarine: Inculcates love and mercy as it stirs the unconscious and reminds you of the spirit. It also allows the person to ecognise truth and be open to changes.
Aventurine:
Blue Aventurine: Aids circulation.
Green Aventurine: Helps in physical healing.
Azurite: Increases understanding, communication and intuition.
Bloodstone: Reduces stress and promotes psychic healing. It also removes toxins from the blood.
Bornite (Peacock Ore): Can activate the chakras individually and in unison. It inspires and lifts your spirit. Also helps treat imbalances in cellular metabolism
Calcite:
Calcite: Helps the digestive and eliminative organs function smoothly thus helping in detoxifying the body. Balances calcium levels and emotions.
Gold Calcite: Energises the crown chakra.
Carnelian: Balances creativity and mental processes. Carrier of the orange ray it helps to relax and recall past life.
Celestite: Alleviates despair and worry.
Chalcopyrite: Strengthens perception, removes energy blockages, encouraging the movement of Chi.
Chrysoprase: Spiritual protection.
Citrine: Supports the body, helpful in problem solving as it is the carrier of the yellow ray.
Coral: Enhances emotional foundation.
Diamond: Enhances personal clarity. Strengthens the kidneys and reproductive organs.
Emerald: Carrier of the Green ray it helps in maintaing the physical and emotional harmony.
Fluorite:
Green: Helps maintain hormone balance.
Garnet: Brings out the strength of the whole person and is helpful in stimulation.
Hematite: For grounding and stabilising.
Howlite: Aids in calcium absorption and distribution.
Iolite: Helps to open the Third Eye and see truth in both sides of an issue more clearly. Often used in meditation.
Jade: Helpful in relaxation, wisdom and instills courage.
Jasper:
Leopardskin Japer: Bring what you need and balances body's energies and brings them into harmony.
Poppy Jasper: Helps in attaining positive outlook. Also helps give you the ability to get things done.
Red Jasper: Protective stone, which stablises your aura.
Kunzite: Lends emotional support.
Lapis:
Lapis: Understand the mind.
Lapis Lazuli: Balances mind and brings wisdom and awareness, is considered the stone for the teachers.
Lapis Nevada: Opens and strengthens the emotional body.
Malachite: Brings harmony into your life, relaxes and brings peaceful sleep.
Moldavite: Only extraterrestrial origin stone, making it the rarest of the rare gems. Protective and grounding, Black Onyx is the preferred stone in this.
Moonstone:
Moonstone: Helps fortell the future. Balances emotions and promotes happiness as it is said to be connected to the "Goddess" and "Mother" energies.
Grey Moonstone: Helps accept other stones powers.
Orange Moonstone: Helps accept other stones by comforting you.
White Moonstone: Highlighting the effects of other stones. Also helps in balancing the yin and yang.
Obsidian:
Black Obsidian: Grounding stone.
Mahogany Obsidian: Aids in decision making.
Snowflake Obsidian: Grounding and protection.Resonates disharmonies in the body and draws them away. Also helps to oxygenate the cells.
Onyx:
Onyx: Aids in alignment and identifying one's life's purpose. Also enables the Third Eye.
Black Onyx: Grounding stone.
Mexican Onyx: Aids in sleeping.
Opal:
Opal: Helps seek alternate possibilities.
Black Opal: Helps strengthen bones.
Opalite: Helps people with chronic health problems.
Pearl:
Fresh Water Pearl: Enables one to accept love. Associated with purity, honesty, friendship, patience, understanding and peace.
Mother of Pearl: Has the qualities of a "mother's" love.
Peridot: Brings energy in from the arua to the physical body. Helps to strengthen, detoxify and heal physical glands/organs.
Pyrite: Improves circulation.
Quartz:
Quartz" All level grounding and balance. Works with all colour rays and assists in focus, clarity and awareness.
Clear Quartz: General physical system protector and fortifier. Provides mental clarity.
Frosted Quartz: Helps in enhancing the balance.
Lavender Quartz (Cape Amethyst): Helps to align the spine and auric field.
Rose Quartz: For emotional balance. Puts attention on higher states of consciousness with fewer emotional disruptions.
Smokey Quartz: Clears negative emotions a stabiliser.
Tigereye Quartz: Helps in grounding and balances the physical body.
Rhodonite: Emotional support and helps resolves unfinished experiences.
Rhodocrosite: Change/pattern breaker.
Rhyolite: Earthstone, works to balance and align all the chakras.
Riverstone: Promotes rapid change.
Ruby: Enhances love, happiness and health as it is a carrier of the red ray.
Blue Sapphire: Helps achieve mental clarity as it is the carrier of the blue ray.
Serpentine: Helps open the crown chakra, detoxifies internal organs and balances glucose levels.
Sodalite:
Sodalite: Alleviates insomnia, protects from external negative energy.
Transparent Sodalite: Carrier of the indigo ray it helps enhance perception, intent and focus.
Sunstone: Enhances contemplations.
Sugilite: Absorbs garbage from your aura.
Topaz: For inspiration and empathy.
Torquoise: Protection, healing, goodluck and longevity. Also helps in healing female reproductive system disorders.
Tourmaline:
Black Tourmaline: Aura cleanser and a protective stone on all levels.
Green Tourmaline: Promotes male balance and physical healing.
Pink Tourmaline (Rubellite): Promotes female balance and physical healing.
Watermelon Tourmaline: Corrects imbalances, eases guilt.
Unikite: Balances physical and emotional needs. Focuses on organs, muscle and soft tissues.
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Thanks Helen 
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i've got a few gem stones and occasionally i'll sit and rub them and they help calm me down... have got a couple by my monitor at work, some on kitchen window cill and 2 next to my bed to help with sleeping and a small bag with some inside my handbag...
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Which ones have you got Tina?
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| katey wrote: | | Which ones have you got Tina? |
sorry Katey, only just read this, I'll have a look and let you know, i'm not very good at recognising them, but Hec';s list will help.. will do it over weekend, i do know i;ve got rose quartz and clear quartz, the rose quartz is lovely, and thats one of the ones i've got at work as well, i;ve got a snowflake obsidian, (this is just of top of my head) will let you know the rest..
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When I wasn't getting pregnant (pre Eadie) my sister said it was because we have tie bars to our internal walls through our roof (long story)! Our bed was directly underneath the tie bar and it was directly over my tummy. She tied a rose quartz above the bed to the tie bar and then I got pregnant! 
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| angelfruit wrote: | | When I wasn't getting pregnant (pre Eadie) my sister said it was because we have tie bars to our internal walls through our roof (long story)! Our bed was directly underneath the tie bar and it was directly over my tummy. She tied a rose quartz above the bed to the tie bar and then I got pregnant! |
Oh yes???
And what else did you do???? :oops: 
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| Hecateh wrote: | | angelfruit wrote: | | When I wasn't getting pregnant (pre Eadie) my sister said it was because we have tie bars to our internal walls through our roof (long story)! Our bed was directly underneath the tie bar and it was directly over my tummy. She tied a rose quartz above the bed to the tie bar and then I got pregnant! |
Oh yes???
And what else did you do???? :oops: |
 Kind of in this order I think Hec -  :196 :qx1 :q3:
But hey - it worked! Can't imagine what else you could be thinking of!! My Mum and Dad told me that my brother came from underneath the gooseberry bush (and I believed them until I was 12!)
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I use crystals and they work for me.
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I remember getting Rose Quartz which is supposed to be good for depression. Didn't really work but then I forgot about them & left them on the kitchen window sill!! Must see if I can find them.
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Sorry all, I think it is likely that it is placebo that makes them work, unless double-blind empirical evidence suggests otherwise.
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Spooky or what? Opened cupboard the other day looking for something else & found small bag of rose quartz crystals. Not convinced they work but have put one by my bedside. As for scientifically proofing something I'm not convinced - & I'm a Scientist by trade!!! I've used homeopathy for years & it HAS worked for many medical conditions but it still has to be proven scientifically!! Although at first I was the biggest sceptic but results proved otherwise & I managed to over come a health problem where modern medicine failed. Acupucnture is also another area where medical science hasn't proven anything scientically, but look at the Chinese they've certainly managed fine without western medicine. IMO all medicine should work together holistically.
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Hecateh
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Agreed Elaine
Double blind testing proves that something works for more people than it doesn't work for No problem agreeing with that and I definitely see the need and use for modern medecinse and technology to support it BUT
These proven things still don't work for everyone. For some people something else works - just because it can't be proven it doens't mean it doesn't work and most medical researchers will admit there are things that happen that they don't understand "YET".
I am convinced our bodies know more than we are conscious of and whatever helps tap into that knowledge is a good thing.
Scientists 'know' that our state of mind affecs our healing and reactions etc. Whatever it takes to get those bits of us working in harmony I will support , scientific proof or not.
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My daughter really believed in these for a while and I think that is the key, you have to believe they will work. She was having great difficulty sleeping and I found 3 stones in a bag which said sleep stones on the front. From the first night she put them under her pillow she had a great nights sleep. She used them for around 6 months then I suppose you could say she was into a good routine but when she has broken sleep she does come looking for them. They are black and sort of dark grey in colour. She also has one which is a blueish green colour which she takes everywhere when she is travelling, not sure what it is called but it is supposedly to prevent travel sickness and as long as she has it with her she does not be sick while travelling.
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I've bought them before and I like to give them to people, but to be honest I don't know much about them. I'm interested in gemstone essences too - that is, water that has been charged with the crystals.
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I believe crystals work for us. They're part of the earth and so are we. You do need to know how to select and cleanse them for them to work effectively. My friend who is a qualified crystal healing practitioner (as well as reiki & reflexology practitioner) has taught me an awful lot about crystals and they work for me. I know when I've picked the right ones as they (now don't get any funny ideas ) 'buzz' in my hand. I use them during meditation as well as chakra clearing.
By the way, reflexology is an excellent treatment. It can leave you feeling woozy and it definitely detoxes your system. After treatment from my friend I spent a couple of days running to and from the loo (not too much info, I know!!!).
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Crystal healing has been around for centuries....
I have an interest in crystal therapy and know that for some people a great deal of comfort and support can be gleaned from specific stones..
I usually have :
Amethyst...for healing
A Rose quartz....for comfort
A Tiger's Eye ...for confidence
Apache Tear...for grief
Lapis Lazuli...for vertigo
I have a small collection of crystals but they all are special, and they do 'talk ' to you....my favourite book is The Illustrated Guide to Crystals by Judy Hall.
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