Healing Properties of Stones and Metals
Alternative Healing Therapies

Stones

Agate
Amethyst
Aquamarine
Amazonite
Aventurine
Bloodstone
Carnelian
Emerald
Garnet
Moonstone
Onyx
Peridot
Quartz
RoseQuartz
Smokey Quartz
Ruby
Sapphire
Tiger Eye
Tourmaline
Tourquoise

Metals
Silver
Gold
Copper

Tips & Techniques

The information presented here is a basic overview of gemstone therapy and crystal healing and is not meant to replace any medical treatment. Use this information for educational purposes only. Contact a professional healer if you are interested in exploring these alternative healing methods.

Gemstone and crystal healing are alternative healing techniques for strengthening the body and resolving issues and patterns using various forms of naturaly occuring gemstones and crystals. Chakra Therapy is an advanced healing technique best done with the assistance of an alternative medicine practitioner.

The easiest way to practice gemstone therapy is to wear round beads around the neck or wrist. Use high quality gemstones and string or knot them on silk whenever possible. To determine which stones to use, visit Beadworks and see what stones attract you.

AGATE - Quartz Family
Chakras - Sacral and Solar Plexus
Zodiac Stone - Gemini

Agate is a soothing and calming stone that brings emotional, physical and intellectual balance. It soothes and calms, heals inner anger and creates a sense of security and safety. Agate is also thought to enhance creativity and is often worn by students and artists.

Emotional: Agate is a powerful healer, Agate assists in overcoming negativity and bitternes to heal inner anger

AMETHYST - Quartz Family
Chakras - Third Eye and Crown
Zodiac Stone - Pisces

Amethyst is an extremely powerful and protective stone. It is a natural tranquilizer blocking stress, anger, rage, fear and anxiety. It can help ease the pain of grief and strengthen the will power to control passions and break undesirable habits.

Emotional: Amethyst brings calm, inner peace, courage and balance. It facilitates decision-making and supports common sense and spiritual insight.

AQUAMARINE - Beryl Family
Birthstone – March
Chakra – Throat

Aquamarine is a stone of courage. It can invoke tolerance of others and give support to those overwhelmed by responsibility. It clarifies perception, sharpens the intellect and clears confusion.

Emotional: Reduces fear and stimulates self-expression. Helps one to communicate compassionately and to feel safe while moving through the changes of life.

AMAZONITE - Feldspar Family
Chakras - Heart and Throat
Zodiac Stone - Virgo

Amazonite is a soothing stone. It calms the brain and nervous system and aids in maintaining optimum health. Amazonite helps you to see both sides of a problem or different points of view.

Emotional: It soothes emotional trauma, alleviates worry and dispels fear. Amazonite assists in manifesting universal love.

AVENTURINE - Quartz Family
Chakra - Heart
Zodiac Stone - Cancer

Aventurine is a stone of prosperity. It reinforces leadership qualities, promotes compassion and encourages perseverance.

Emotional: Supplements the ability to honor one’s decisions and to trust the decisions of self to be those for the highest and best interest of the physical self. Relieves anxiety and fear.

BLOODSTONE - Quartz Family
Chakra - Base
Zodiac Stone - Aries

Bloodstone is a powerful healing stone. It heightens intuition, increases creativity and stimulates dreaming. Bloodstone grounds and protects while calming the mind, dispelling confusion and enhancing decision-making.

Emotional: Heightens consciousness and assists in emotional purification. Reduces irritability, aggressiveness and impatience

CARNELIAN - Quartz Family
Chakras - Base and Sacral
Zodiac Stone - Virgo

Carnelian is a very highly evolved mineral healer, often referred to as the Master Communicator. It is thought to open the heart, bring joy and to fortify and strengthen the body.

Emotional: Facilitates concentration and opens the heart. It is a warming and joyous gem. Carnelian helps ease sorrow and protect from anger, envy jealousy and fear.

EMERALD - Beryl Family
Birthstone - May
Chakra - Heart

Emerald is known as the “stone of successful love”. It brings loyalty, enhances unconditional love and promotes friendship. Emerald is useful during transitional time. It offers bliss and loyalty to its owner and is especially helpful as a tool when facing choices.

Emotional: Emerald is calming, balancing, and nourishing. It helps ease emotional upsets.

GARNET - Garnet Family
Birthstone - January
Chakras - Base and Heart
Zodiac Stone - Aquarius

Garnet is associated with vitality, courage, passion, love, sensuality and self-confidence. It alleviates depression and improves imagination. Garnet helps resolve abandonment issues and is a stone for making commitments last.

Emotional: Helps to integrate experiences and assist one in self- discovery. Helps one recognize insight and apply them in life.

MOONSTONE - Feldspar Family
Birthstone - June
Chakras - Third Eye and Solar Plexus

Moonstone stimulates knowing, appreciation, nurturing, mothering, selflessness, sensitivity and humanitarian love. It is useful for problem- solving and decision-making and it assists during times of change.

Emotional: Integrates the emotions so that one may experience true compassion and sensitivity. Alleviates emotional tension.

ONYX - Quartz Family
Chakra - Base and Heart
Zodiac Stone - Leo

Onyx gives strength. It promotes stamina, imparts self-confidence and helps to banish grief. It enhances self-control and stimulates the power of wise decision-making. It encourages happiness and good fortune.

Emotional: Banishes grief and allows separation with grace and ease. Helps with recognition of personal strengths and how to best utilize them.

PERIDOT - Peridot Family
Birthstone - August
Chakras - Solar Plexus and Heart
Zodiac Stone - Libra

Peridot is a joy stone. It helps in understanding the changes in life and inspires healing, renewal and growth. It can help heal hurt feelings and mend damaged relationships.

Emotional: Treats emotional states such as anger or jealousy. Eases nervousness and balances and aligns the energy to heal the ego.

QUARTZ - Quartz Family

Quartz is the symbol of elemental wholeness, containing the four elements of creation. It is the best all purpose stone! It assists by amplifying focus and directing, transmitting and storing energy. The Quartz Crystal is a powerful healing tool that strengthens, cleanses and protects.

Clear Quartz (Rock Crystal)
Crown Chakra

Clear Quartz is known as the "master healer". It amplifies energy and thought. Clear Quartz enhances concentration and improves memory.

Emotional: Promotes good overall physical and mental health. It is good for the mind, body and spirit.

Rose Quartz
Heart Chakra

Rose quartz is a very loving stone, and enhances all forms of love: self-love, mother love, caring, kindness, and platonic and romantic love. It stimulates the imagination and the intellect and it opens the heart to inner peace. Rose quartz is recommended for those who are experiencing a lot of grief.

Emotional: Brings calmness and clarity to the emotional state and assists one in trusting one’s own truth and decisions. Lifts depression, creates confidence and peace.

Smokey Quartz
Base and Solar Plexus Chakra

Smokey quartz fosters serenity, calmness and positive thoughts. It is an excellent grounding stone. It calms fears, lifts depression, improves creativity and enhances joy. It is also associated with stability, practicality and intuition.

Emotional: Creates a sense of connection to the earth, the ability to draw support, focus and intention from the solid foundation of inner truth.

RUBY - Corundum Family
Birthstone - July
Chakras - Base and Heart
Zodiac Stone - Capricorn

Ruby encourages a passion and zest for life. It improves motivation, the setting of realistic goals and instills confidence. Ruby encourages joy, spontaneity, laughter and courage. Calms hyperactivity.

Emotional: Creates balance in spiritual endeavors, brings about a state of stability and confidence and improves ones ability to deflect negativity.

SAPPHIRE - Corundum Family
Birthstone - September
Chakras - Throat and Third Eye
Zodiac Stone - Taurus

Known as the "wisdom stone". It releases mental tension, depression, unwanted thoughts and spiritual confusion. Sapphire restores balance, serenity and peace of mind by aligning the physical, mental and spiritual planes. It stimulates concentration, brings lightness, joy and peace of mind. Sapphire is also known as a "stone of prosperity.

Emotional: Improves communication, promotes clarity and inspiration. Alleviates depression by helping the body correctly regulate the chemicals that affect moods.

TIGER EYE - Quartz Family
Chakras - Sacral and Solar Plexus
Zodiac Stone - Gemini

Tiger Eye is used for courage, confidence and protection. It is especially good for clear thinking and helps to see a problem objectively when confused or emotionally affected. Tiger Eye aids assists in forming clear and defined ideals around responsibility to relationships. It is sometimes referred to as the stone of commitment.

Emotional: Tiger’s Eye signifies the need to complete unfinished communications. It helps bring closure or an update in status to relationships and projects.

TOURMALINE - Tourmaline Family
Birthstone - October
Chakras - Crown, Throat and Third Eye

Tourmaline balances, protects and calms. It attracts inspiration, goodwill and friendship. Tourmaline promotes clear verbal expression.

Emotional: Dissolving mental friction and emotional constriction.

TOURQUOISE - Turquoise Family
Birthstone - December
Chakras - Heart, Throat and Third Eye
Zodiac Stone - Aquarius

Turquoise is a very sacred stone, a stone of peace, serenity and tranquility. It increases wisdom, balance, honest communication, strength, friendship and love. It is an excellent stone for spiritual attunement because it aligns all the chakras. Turquoise is use to speed the healing processes, therefore it is considered a Master Healing stone.

Emotional: Turquoise assists with looking at the past with an unbiased eye and allows for lessons to be learned and decisions to be honored. It heals the spirit and brings a calm state of mind to the user.

Healing Properties of Metals

SILVER

Allows receptivity to the good in life. Silver is reflective and moon oriented in it’s energy.

Emotional: Assists in showing a more reserved cultured response to surroundings. It enhances an ability to articulate information with a smoothness that is readily acceptable in all situations.

GOLD

Balances energy fields. Sometimes called master healer.

Emotional: Attracts honor, wealth and happiness. Enhances mental clarity and clears negativity.

COPPER

Stimulates the flow of energy helping the wearer overcome lethargy. They also attribute powers of communication, channeling.

Emotional: Cleanses, purifies, increases self-esteem and frees from mental burden.

Sources:

http://www.annemeplon.com/meaning.htm
http://www.charmsoflight.com
http://www.gems4friends.com/therapy.html