Alternative Medicine - Healing Stone Uses

Amber - turns energy from negative to positive; protects

Amethyst - helps to treat addictions such as alcoholism; opens up the crown chakra; dreaming, peacefulness, happiness, psychic energy, courage and strength

Apache's Tear - protects, good luck

Aventurine - financial prosperity, good luck, increased mental and visual skills, peace; healing properties; opens up the heart chakra

Azurite - increased psychic energy, dreaming, seeing into the future, mental concentration, to effect changes, healing

Bloodstone - strength and courage, financial prosperity, confidence and victory over difficulties (including legal or business situations), helps to stop bleeding, opens up the first 4 chakras

Carnelian - sexual prowess, verbal abilities, courage, peace, reduces fear, rage, apathy and jealousy

Chrysocolla - love, good communication, life force and vitality, peace and wisdom

Citrine - increased psychic aptitude, sexual prowess, prevents nightmares, increases creativity, protects

Clear Quartz - increases both positive and negative energy

Coral - protects against evil, helps work out conflicts

Diamond - strength, sexual prowess, courage, helps with healing and protection, spiritual and mental energy

Dolomite - helps recovery from sorrow

Emerald - wealth, increased mental and psychic aptitude, dreaming, visual skills, peace, love, good balance, helps with meditation, heart chakra

Fluorite - helps with balance and stability in relationships

Garnet - physical strength and energy, purification, protection and healing, increased compassion, good for the crown and root chakras

Geode - childbirth and fertility, good for meditation, spiritual freedom, increased psychic aptitude, dreaming, astral projection

Hematite - help to calm and ground, foretelling the future, increased intuition, strength, healing, helps with sleep problems

Herkimer Diamond - increases psychic aptitude and foretelling the future

Jade - long life, peace and love, courage, protects and heals, wealth and wisdom, increased fertility

Jasper - good for health and beauty, increased energy, healing and protection

Jet - helps to dispel hexes and curses, dispels fear, protects

Lapis Lazuli - joy, love, health and beauty, financial prosperity, long life, healing, protection, general happiness, increased psychic aptitude, courage

Lepidolite - increased spirituality, good for psychic aptitude, peace, good luck, strength, helps balance emotions, helps prevent nightmares

Lodestone - works with crystals to purify them and help align their energy, keeps the chakras in balance, gets energy obstacles out of the way

Malachite - protection, increased energy, increased power, luck and success in business, peace and love, helps with visions, luck in gardening

Marble - helps with meditation and remembering dreams, protection

Meteorite - helps communicate with celestial and spiritual entities

Moonstone - foretelling the future, love, helps to ground, protection, luck with gardening, better sleep, peace, harmony and balance, youthful vitality, good luck and protection in travel, increased aptitude for magick

Obsidian - protection, spiritual grounding, foretelling the future, keeping away negativity

Onyx - balancing the emotions, sexual and mental self-control, protection against magick, binding together, physical and mental strength

Opal - increased psychic and visual aptitude, balancing the emotions, good luck, financial success, health and beauty, power

Pearl - serenity and peace, helps one to find the truth

Peridot - better sleep, overall increase in health, financial prosperity, protection, intuition, helps balance the emotions

Rose Quartz - overall happiness, good luck in love, peace, healing emotional damage and helping recover emotionally

Ruby - courage and strength, increased power, financial success, integrity, overall happiness, helps keep away nightmares

Sapphire - love, creative inspiration and ideas, increased psychic aptitude, good for meditation, power, peace, helps with healing, financial prosperity, protection against evil

Smokey Quartz - working with energy (helps to direct or absorb), reduces negative energy, good for altered states of consciousness, healing

Sodalite - increased wisdom, helps to ground, reduces stress, increases calm, good for meditation and healing

Sunstone - increased energy, good for overall health, increased sexual prowess and passion, protection

Tiger's Eye - good luck, helps one use common sense and good judgment, foretelling the future, banishing lies, honesty, courage, protection, increased energy, financial prosperity, helps recover from depression, increases energy

Tourmaline - relationships (love and friendship), success in business, financial prosperity, better sleep, increased energy, increases courage, protection, creative inspiration, peace, helps to open your 3rd eye (the 6th chakra)

Turquoise - financial prosperity, good friendships, good luck, protection, courage, good communication, overall happiness, helps to balance the emotions, emotional healing, helps with astral projection, works to make all the chakras stronger

Zircon - health and beauty, protection from theft and other small crimes, healing, peace, good luck in love, keeps you mentally alert, helps to keep emotions in balance