Minerals and gems have been given many attributes and have been used for many different purposes throughout the ages. Different traditions ascribe different traits to them - this is a general list of gemstones, their history and composition, and their metaphysical properties.

 

	Adventurine (Aventurine) - A good luck stone, especially in financial matters. Stimulates creativity, intelligence and perception. A great healing stone, it gives a sense of mental and emotional well-being.
	Agate - general protection and healing, increases courage, self-confidence, and energy and promotes longevity. Also good for gardening. General: Good for transmutation; helps with the emotion of acceptance; gives a mellow, blended aspect; beneficial in stomach area. Botswana Agate: Use with high-pressure oxygen therapy; smoke inhalation. Fire Agate: Master healer with color therapy; enhances all essences; grounds and balances; sexual & heart chakra binder; burns energy. Moss Agate: Emotional priorities; mental priorities; colon, circulatory, pancreas & pulses; blood sugar balance; agriculture.
	Alexandrite - renewal and regeneration, openness to higher self. Brings love, joy, and luck.Low self-esteem & difficulty centering imply need; central nervous system disorders; spleen & pancreas.
	Amazonite - helps clarify and improve thinking.
	Amber - healing, protection from negativity, attractiveness and energy. Memory loss; eccentric behavior; anxiety; inability to make decisions; thyroid, inner ear & neuro-tissue strengthener; activates altruistic nature; realization of the spiritual intellect.
	Amethyst - increases vivid dreams, relieves depression, promotes calm, serenity, and spirituality. Helps with addiction and stress. Headaches; blood sugar imbalance; Left brain imbalances; edginess; facilitates healing; inner peace; psychic insight; stimulates third eye; aid for meditation, spiritual opening & internal surrender.
	Ammolite - unknown
	Apatite - helps stuttering and hypertension. Rids one of guilt and grief.
	Aquamarine - improves sight, sharpens the mind, calms and clarifies emotions. Fluid retention; coughs; fear; thymus gland; calms nerves; problems with eyes, ears, jaw, neck, stomach, teeth; mental clarity; meditation.
	Aragonite - grounding and centering, facing truth and reality.
	Azurite - increases psychic ability and aids in meditation. Relieves arthritis and joint pain.
	Bloodstone - healing, especially related to the blood. Circulation; all purpose healer & cleanser; stomach & bowel pain; purifies bloodstream; bladder; strengthens blood purifying organs.Increases courage and charitability.
	Carnelian - combats fear of public speaking and impotence. Grounding; stimulates curiosity & initiative; focuses attention to the present moment; use with citrine on lower 3 chakras; digestion. General healing stone.
	Chrysocolla - soothes nervous tension.
	Chrysoprase - soothes heartache and helps depression, promotes emotional balance, wisdom, and peace.
	Citrine - helps digestion and aids in mental and intellectual functions. Increases self-esteem and energy. Balances and dissipates negative energy. Heart, kidney, liver & muscle healer; appendicitis;gangrene; red & white corpuscles; digestive tract; cleanses vibrations in the atmosphere; creativity; helps personal clarity; will bring out problems in the solar plexus & the heart; eliminates self-destructive tendencies.
	Coral - helps in childbirth and adoption. Wards off bad thoughts from others and promotes general well-being.
	Diamond - manifests abundance. Used in conjunction, it strengthens the properties of other stones. All brain diseases; pituitary & pineal glands; draws out toxicity, poison remedy.
	Emerald - a mind stone. Enhances memory, promotes clear and quick thinking, and right action stemming from right thought. Radiation toxicity; all mental illness; circulatory & neurological disorders; transmits balance, healing & patience; increases psychic & clairvoyant abilities; meditation; keener insight into dreams.
	Flourite (multicolor) - enhances spiritual energy work, focuses

	Garnet - balances your natural energy. A highly protective stone. Increases confidence and security. Rhodolite: Capillaries; skin elasticity; protection from pre- cancerous conditions. Spessartine: Bad dreams; depression; anger; self esteem; hemorrhages; hormone imbalances; inflammations; sexual disease.
	Goldstone - uplifting, reduces tension and stomach problems.
	Hematite - great stone for grounding. Calms and soothes, reducing stress and blood pressure.
	Howlite - Howlite - reduces stress and anxiety. Quietly soothes and calms to bring gentleness and patience.
	Jade - Jade - wisdom, mercy, humility, generosity, peace, and harmony. Protective and lucky when worn as jewelry. Place a bit under your pillow at night for restorative dreams. Kidney, heart, larynx, liver, parathyroid, spleen, thymus, thyroid & parasympathetic ganglia healer; strengthens body; longevity.
	Jasper - calms a troubled mind. Helps with digestive problems and other ills.
	Red Jasper - helps with conflict and aggression. Promotes grace and perserverence. Leopard Skin Jasper - aids in finding and achieving life's goals. Picture Jasper - stabilizing, balancing stone. Aids in visualization and meditation.
	Labradorite - strengthens the will and inner strength and convictions. Aids in combatting addictions.
	Lapis Lazuli - emotional healing and stability. High intensity stone which cleanses the spirit to bring out inner truth and peace.Neuralgia; melancholy; fevers; inflammations; penetrates subconscious blockages; throat chakra; sore throat; energy focuser for teachers, lecturers & speakers, mental & spiritual cleanser; used on 3rd eye for meditation; eliminates old & negative emotions; use with other healing stones; thought form amplification; helps in creating mantras.

	Malachite - strong stone which helps release negative emotions and protect from psychic attack.
	Moonstone - helpful in psychic work. Opens the spirit to the feminine aspect. Draws love and helps in interpersonal relationships. Soothes & balances the emotions; helps eliminate fear of "feeling"; encourages inner growth & strength; aids peace & harmony & psychic abilities; aligns vertebrae; digestive aid.
	Morganite - love, empathy, patience and compassion. Heals the emotional self.
	Onyx - good protective stone. Also releases old relationships and keeps away general negativity. Objective thinking; spiritual inspiration; control of emotions & passions, help eliminate negative thinking, apathy, stress & neurological disorders; also used as a heart, kidney, nerve, capillary, hair, eye and nail strengthener.
	Opal - Awakens and helps understanding of psychic intuition and mysticism. Encourages living authentically in feeling and action, with faithfullness and loyalty. Helpful for eyesight and during childbirth.Cherry: Red corpuscle & blood disorders; depression; apathy; lethargy; intuition & joy. Dark: Reproductive organs; spleen & pancreas; filters red corpuscles & aids white corpuscles; bone marrow; depression, esp. of sexual origin; balances; amplifies creative & intuitive thought; grounds radical emotional body. Jelly: Spleen & abdominal diseases; cellular reproductive problems; helps absorb nutrients; minimizes wide mood swings; mystical thought amplifier. Light: Balances L & R brain hemispheres for neuro disorders; stimulates white corpuscles; helps bring the emotions to mystical experiences; aids abdomen, pituitary & thymus problems.
	Peridot - balances your emotional mind and calms emotional storms. Aids digestion and insomnia and increases psychic powers. Protects against nervousness; helps alleviate spiritual fear; aids in healing hurt feelings & bruised egos; incurs strength & physical vitality; aligns subtle bodies; amplifies other vibrational energies & positive emotional outlook; helps liver & adrenal function.
	Quartz - the greatest of all healing stones. Acts as an amplifier for psychic energy and aids meditation and visualization.Transmitter & amplifier of healing energy & clarity; balancer, channeler of universal energy & unconditional love; all purpose healer; programmable. Rose Quartz: Lymphatic cancer & circulatory problems; helps the psychologically inflexible. Heart chakra opener; love & self-acceptance healer for emotional wounds; dissipates anger & tension. Smoky Quartz: Stimulates Kundalini energy; cleanses & protects the astral field; draws out distortion on all levels; good for hyperactivity & excess energy; grounding.
	Rose Quartz - great for attracting love. Promotes self-loving and heals emotional wounds as well as promoting peace, forgiveness, and nurturing. Smoky Quartz - a grounding stone which helps reduce depression and negative emotions.
	Rhodochrosite - love drawing stone. Helps release past psychological issues. Helps eyesight.
	Rhodonite - self-affirmation and self-love. Fosters ability to remain calm in arguments and resolve disagreements in a loving way.
	Ruby - stimulates nurturing emotions and economic stability. Excellent for shielding from psychic attacks and gathering and amplifying energy. Helpful for blood-related health issues, such as anemia, menstrual issues, and poor circulation. Heart chakra; balances love & all spiritual endeavors; self-esteem; strengthens neurological tissues around the heart; prevents miscarriages.
	Sapphire - promotes light, pure emotions - purity of mind, serenity, joy, and peace. Opens the mind to beauty and love. Clears the mind of unwanted thoughts. Spiritual enlightenment; inner peace; colic; rheumatism; mental illness; pituitary; metabolic rate of glandular functions; anti- depressant; aids psychokinesis, telepathy, clairvoyance & astral projection; personal expression; also for pain.
	Sardonyx - encourages self-control and courage in public speaking. Relieves anxiety and grief. Protection, luck, and peace.   Sodalite - dispells guilt and fear and draws wisdom.
	Snowflake Obsidian - protects against nightmares and emotional draining.
	Tanzanite - increases psychic abilities and enhances spiritual connectedness.
	Tiger's Eye - clear thinking, helps in manifesting will, courage, and confidence.
	Topaz - soothes physical pain, promotes peace and calms emotions, as well as promoting forgiveness. Promotes individuality, self-confidence, and creativity. Counteracts negative emotions. Balances emotions; calms passions; gout; blood disorders; hemorrhages; increases poor appetite; general tissue regeneration; VD; tuberculosis; reverses aging; spiritual rejuvenation; endocrine system stimulation; releases tension; feelings of joy.
	Tourmaline (multicolor) - calm, protection, focus, and balance. Promotes self-assurance and goodwill. Dispels fear & negativity & grief; calms nerves; concentration & eloquence improve; genetic disorders, cancer & hormones regulated; raises vibrations; charisma; universal law; tranquil sleep. Black Tourmaline: Arthritis; dyslexia; syphilis; heart diseases; anxiety; disorientation; raises altruism; deflects negativity; neutralizes distorted energies, i.e. resentment & insecurity. Rubellite: Creativity; fertility; blanches passive or aggressive nature. Green: Creativity; opens heart chakra; immune system; psychological problems with the father; blood pressure; asthma; balancer; eliminates conflict within. Blue indicolite: Lungs, larynx; thyroid; parasympathetic nerves. Watermelon: Heart chakra healer; imparts sense of humor to those who need it; balancer; eliminates guilt; nervous system; integration, security & self-containment.
	Black - strong protection from negative energies. Reduces fears, obsessions, neurosis, and panic with a calm rootedness. Pink - promotes compassion, love and healing of emotional pain. Green - cleanses and detoxifies the spirit, brings prosperity. Blue - helpful with verbal, speech, and throat problems. Mental peace and patience. Watermelon - heals old emotional pains and brings emotional understanding.
	Turquoise - healing stone. Attracts friendships, luck, and happiness. Releases shame and guilt.Master healer; protects against environmental pollutants; strengthens anatomy & guards against all disease; improved absorption of nutrients; tissue regeneration; subtle body alignment & strengthening; eye disorders.
	Unakite - promotes balance and emotional stability. Transforms negative emotions into positive ones. A