Healing with Crystals: Dioptase

Dioptase is a very rare mineral that occurs in dry or desert like areas. It is bluish-green in color and somewhat translucent or transparent. Some specimens of Dioptase have been found to be very deeply colored thus giving them a cloudy look. It is a mineral that crystallizes with quartz and can be found in or on quartz crystals. Some of the finest specimens of Dioptase were found in a mine, which is now closed, in Tsumed, Namibia. These crystals can also be found in Zaire, Russia, and Chile and in Arizona in the United States.

Metaphysical Properties of Dioptase

-Dioptase is a very powerful stone that awakens the higher heart chakra.

-It helps open the heart to encourage love and compassion and to heal emotional pain.

-Meditating with Dioptase motivates ones ability to forgive in order to heal emotional wounds.

-Aids in releasing negative emotional patterns and has been useful in easing emotional pain associated with such things as trauma and divorce.

-Helps to dissolve feelings of grief and sorrow associated with such things as death and also promotes the healing of neglect and abuse.

-It helps awaken memories of past-lives and gives one the ability to identify current situations from a new perspective so that healing can take place.

-Facilitates spiritual attunement and assists in aligning the chakras.

-Produces peace of mind and calming energy.

-Helps to detoxify the mind and the need to control others.

-Useful in balancing the yin-yang energy.

-Promotes the ability to reach higher levels of consciousness.

-Activates the third eye to allow one to experience spiritual or psychic visions.

Healing Properties of Dioptase

-Used to help diagnose and treat cardiovascular disorders.

-Helpful in detoxifying the blood and treating blood disorders.

-Useful in treating disorders of the central nervous system.

-Strengthens the physical heart.

-Alleviates aches and pains and relieves migraine headaches.

-Beneficial in treating lung disorders and respiratory problems.

-Useful in fortifying the female reproductive system and easing the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS).

-Helps to strengthen the bones and teeth and tone the muscles.

-It is valuable in treating insufficiencies in nourishment.

-Used to treat stomach disorders, a nervous stomach and ulcers.

-Aids in restoring the ability to stimulate hormones that tend to slow down in the elderly.

-Effective in relieving post-surgical pain.

-Has shown improvement in symptoms in patients that have Meniere's Disease (a disease affecting ones equilibrium).

-It has been shown to increase T-Cell counts in patients with autoimmune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

The astrological signs for Dioptase are Sagittarius and Scorpio.

Dioptase vibrates to the number 8.