Healing Properties P-Z

Peridot
Releases old baggage, burdens, guilt or obsessions. It help you understand your destiny and your purpose. It alleviates jealousy, resentment and spite and reduces stress, it enhances confidence and assertion. It helps bring about necessary change and motivates growth. Peridot sharpens the mind and banishes lethargy and it can greatly improve difficult relationships. It has a general tonic effect, strengthens metabolism and benefits the skin. Birthstone for August.

Rhodochrosite
Represents selfless love and compassion. It imparts a dynamic and positive attitude. Excellent for the heart and relationships especially for people who feel unloved. Helps us find our soul mates, although beware this may not be what you are expecting as our soul mates are the people who help us learn our lessons in life for the higher good. It brings our painful and repressed feelings and allows them to be acknowledged with a positive attitude. This stone insists you face the truth about yourself and other people with loving awareness. It relieves asthma and respiratory problems.

Rhodonite
An emotional balancer that nurtures love and beneficial in cases of emotional self destruction or abuse. Allows forgiveness and assists in reconciliation after long term pain or abuse. A great “first aid” stone heals wounds and insect bites and treats Arthritis and inflammation of joints

Ruby in Fuschite
Ruby in Fuschite is useful for treating the spleen, adrenal glands and blood circulation. It can help to balance the red/white blood-cell count and may help to treat carpal tunnel syndrome. It can assist in aligning the spine and in increasing the flexibility of the muscles. Ruby in Fuchsite can foster romance, marriage, integrity, devotion and passion. It helps in all things related to Love. It also stimulates the mind and emotions. It can be a help when you need to "bounce back" after particularly tense or stressful physical or emotional situations.

Ruby
Excellent for energy, imparting vigour to life. It encourages a passion for life; it improves motivation and setting of realistic goals. A stone of abundance it aids retaining wealth and passion. It’s dynamic and charges up passion and fires the enthusiasm, it’s a sociable stone that attracts sexual activity. It detoxifies the body, blood and lymph and treats fevers and infectious disease. Birthstone for July.

Rose Quartz
Unconditional love and peace, a crystal for the heart it brings inner love and calm. Great for attracting love and relationships and is excellent for use in a trauma or crisis, it increases fertility and aids chest and lung problems.

Rock Crystal/Clear Quartz
The most powerful healer and energy amplifier on the planet it absorbs, stores, releases and regulates energy and is excellent for unblocking it. A master healer which can be used for any condition it stimulates the immune system and brings the body into balance.

Sardonyx
A stone of strength and protection brings lasting happiness and stability to marriage and partnerships, attracts friends and good fortune. Gives willpower and strengthens character, heals lungs and bones.

Sapphire
Known as the wisdom stone, it focuses and calms the mind and releases unwanted thoughts and mental tension, bringing peace of mind and serenity. It releases depression and stimulates concentration; it brings prosperity and attracts gifts of all kinds. Sapphire calms overactive body systems and regulates glands; it heals the eyes, removing impurities and stress. Birthstone for September.

Smoky Quartz
This stone is a great antidote to stress, it relieves fear, lifts depression and brings calm and tranquility. It is also an excellent stone for relieving pain and giving protection.

Sodalite
Unites logic and intuition, it drives for truth allowing you to stand up for your beliefs, eliminates mental confusion, encourages rational thought, calms panic attacks, cools fevers and lowers blood pressure.

Sugilite
A stone of love, represents spiritual love and wisdom. Teaches and reminds us who we are, why we are here and what else we need to understand. A good stone for group work it resolves difficulties and encourages loving communication. It helps to face up to difficult and unpleasant matters, alleviates sorrow, grief and fear. Excellent for cancer sufferers it releases turmoil and despair. Good for pain relief.

Sunstone
A joyful, light inspiring stone it heightens intuition. It will restore and help you nurture yourself; it allows the real self to shine through happily. Traditionally linked to luck and good fortune. Keep with you at all times if you have difficulty saying “no” as it facilitates self-empowerment, independence and vitality. It acts emotionally as an antidepressant and lifts dark moods great for “seasonal affective disorder” lightening the darkness in winter. Allows self healing, regulates and harmonizes all the organs, it treats sore throats and stomach ulcers.

Topaz
A mellow and empathetic stone that directs energy where it is needed most. It soothes, heals, recharges and remotivates and promotes truth and forgiveness. Topaz’s energy brings joy, generosity, abundance and good health, traditionally known as a stone of love and good fortune. It promotes openness and honesty and the urge to develop inner wisdom. Topaz aids digestion and combats anorexia, fortifies the nerves and stimulates the metabolism. Birthstone for November.

Tigers Eye
A protective stone, traditionally worn as a talisman against curses. It helps accomplish goals. It aids practical perception and collecting scattered information to make a coherent whole. It is also helpful for resolving dilemmas and internal conflicts. It heals issues of self-worth, self-criticism and block creativity. It aids in recognising ones talent and abilities. Tigers Eye treats the eyes, heals the

Turquoise
Calms nerves when talking in public, gives strength and aids creative expression. Stabilizes mood swings and brings calm and is excellent for exhaustion, depression and panic attacks. Heals eyes especially cataracts. Birthstone for December.
throat and reproductive organs.