The Quartz Family of Crystals Make Great Healing Crystals.
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The Quartz Family Crystals – Tops for Healing:
The best of the best of healing crystals, well that’s a hard question, but if I had to answer I would go with the Quartz Family of crystals. Quartz has a reputation for being the best all-around healing stone within the crystal healing fraternity. Furthermore, those who follow the ancient lore know that the best healing crystals are treated far too seriously to be fads or a passing fancy. So read on to learn even more about this top group of crystals for healing purposes. Now, this certainly doesn’t mean you can’t take care of yourself or others with any other colour or type of crystal you like – these are just the “inside industry” favourites, shall we say.
These are the main Quartz family members:
Amethyst
Amethyst crystals bring serenity, peace, courage, inner strength, and happiness. They can help fight addictions of all kinds, as well as ease the acute pain of grief. These crystals are excellent for meditation, dream work, past life work, channelling, and enhancing psychic abilities. Healers use Amethyst crystals to help with arthritis, pain relief (especially headaches), and insomnia, as well as deficiencies in the circulatory, endocrine, and immune systems. Some say (and avow) that Amethyst crystals are also helpful regarding legal problems or money issues. Amethyst crystals have an association with the brow and the crown chakras.
Ametrine
Ametrine balances and soothes emotions and relieves depression. Plus it calms the mind by clearing stress and tension. It overcomes prejudice by enhancing the acceptance and compatibility of others. It stimulates creativity and assists in taking control of your life. Strengthens concentration, clarity, and perception. Ametrine reinforces the immune system and assists the autonomic nervous system. It also heals physical, mental and emotional exhaustion. Alleviates allergies and digestive disorders. Ametrine can stimulate several chakras at once. Amethyst energies interact with the crown chakra, while, its Citrine energies activate the solar plexus chakra.
Blue Quartz
Blue Quartz has a gentle energy that inspires healing and encourages personal growth. It reminds us that our life journey is unique. Furthermore, it assists us in finding our soul purpose, and also enjoying the present moment and prioritising what matters most to us. It improves our communication skills. Blue Quartz treats the heart, lungs, spleen, and endocrine systems. Use to stabilize the metabolic process and to strengthen the immune system. Blue Quartz is a useful aid in learning how to control and be conscious of your breathing, for meditation and healing purposes. Blue Quartz has an association with the throat chakra.
Clear Quartz
Clear Quartz promotes harmony and balance, and can also accelerate energy and focus thought processes. It is a powerful crystal for purification and one of the few crystals used by healers to cleanse their other crystals. Historically, it has been used to counter black magic because of its strong quality of purity. It balances and revitalises physical, mental, emotional and spiritual planes. It cleanses and strengthens the organs and subtle bodies and also acts as a deep soul cleanser. Clear Quartz will activate the pineal and pituitary glands, which manage physical growth and these crystals will also aid healers in performing diagnostic healing. Clear Quartz has an association with the crown chakra, but it works well on all chakras and aligns the subtle bodies.
Citrine
Citrine promotes prosperity and success, especially in business. It increases willpower, a sense of goodwill, mental clarity, and confidence. It conveys joy, wonder, delight and enthusiasm, and increases self-esteem and self-confidence. Citrine crystals are also reputed to bring good luck. It is a favourite protective stone, enhancing the body’s healing energy. It stimulates digestion, the spleen and the pancreas. Energising and recharging, Citrine also reverses degenerative disease and balances chemicals within the body. Activates the thymus and balances the thyroid. Citrine has an association with the solar plexus chakra.
Rose Quartz
Rose Quartz stimulates unconditional love and infinite peace and is an important crystal for healing the heart. It restores trust and harmony in relationships. Further, it allows you to give and receive unconditional love and to see the beauty in all things. Rose Quartz supports self-forgiveness and acceptance, as well as initiating self-trust and self-worth. Activates the adrenal glands, heart, circulation, kidneys and spleen. It speeds recovery, aids chest and lung problems, reduces high blood pressure, heals the kidneys, and alleviates vertigo. Rose Quartz has an association with the heart chakra. It dispels negativity replacing it with loving vibes, and also protects against environmental pollution.
Rutilated Quartz
Rutilated Quartz illuminates the soul and furthers spiritual growth. Promotes forgiveness at all levels. It cleanses and energises the aura, also drawing off negative energy and disease. Rutilated Quartz protects you from negativity. Furthermore, it helps to reach the root of problems as well as facilitate transitions and changes of direction. Rutilated Quartz acts as an antidepressant, relieves fears, phobias, and anxiety, and soothes dark moods. It aids exhaustion and lack of energy, treats the respiratory tract and bronchitis, and stimulates and balances the thyroid. It also stimulates cell regeneration and repairs torn tissue. Rutilated Quartz enhances all the chakras, also linking the root chakra to the crown chakra.
Smokey Quartz
Smokey Quartz is an exceptional grounding stone that connects with the root chakra. It gently neutralises negative vibrations and detoxifies on all levels, as well as protecting against radiation and electromagnetic smog. It relieves stress and anxiety and provides emotional calmness. Smokey Quartz banishes fear and lifts depression and negativity. It promotes positive thoughts and actions and also aids concentration. Relieves headaches. Smokey Quartz eases cramps, strengthens the back and fortifies the nerves. Furthermore, it is especially effective for treating the abdomen, hips and legs. It also benefits the nervous system, reproductive system, heart, and muscles. It regulates liquids within the body and aids with the assimilation of minerals.
Strawberry Quartz
Strawberry Quartz stimulates the heart chakra and fills you with feelings of love. It encourages self-love, and understanding, and fosters a loving environment. Furthermore, it boosts self-esteem, and self-reliance, and helps in appreciating others. It can facilitate a change of heart or a significant shift in behaviour. Additionally, Strawberry Quartz aids in spiritual growth and has a high vibrational energy that helps rejuvenate vitality, regulate blood circulation, and promote overall health. It energizes the physical body and brings liveliness to everyday life. This crystal also attracts abundance and aids in manifesting desires, wealth, and prosperity.
Tourmaline Quartz
Tourmaline Quartz has a powerful shielding energy. Depending on the desired intent of the user, it can amplify and return negative energy. Or it can convert that negative energy into positive energy for the use of the user. Its grounding energy deflects detrimental environmental influences and strengthens your energy field. It is an effective problem solver. It releases tensions at any level and is also useful in actualising the strength needed to relieve negative or hostile relationships and situations. Tourmaline Quartz balances yin/yang energies. It harmonises your meridians, subtle bodies, and chakras. Tourmaline Quartz detoxifies your entire body and is used to treat disorders of the digestive tract. Resonates with the third eye chakra.
These Crystals are Also Members of the Quartz Family.
Agate
Agate is a member of the Chalcedony family. It has grounding properties, is soothing and calming, and also creates a sense of security and safety. It is useful for balancing and harmonising your body, mind and spirit. Agate cleanses and sustains the aura, also eliminating and transforming negativity. It helps cultivate positive feelings of peace, appreciation, and calmness. Agate enhances mental function, improves concentration, perception and analytical abilities. It soothes and calms, also healing inner anger or tension. Agate is a cooling stone and helps ensure overall good health and a long and prosperous life. Agate heals the eyes, stomach and uterus, cleanses the pancreas and the lymphatic system, strengthens blood vessels and treats skin disorders. Effects all chakras.
Aventurine
Aventurine is a stone of prosperity and abundance as well as the luckiest of all crystals. It bolsters leadership qualities and decisiveness and also encourages perseverance. It calms anger and irritation, promotes compassion and empathy, stimulates perception and enhances creativity. Also aids in seeing alternatives and possibilities. It protects against environmental pollution. Aventurine promotes feelings of well-being. It balances male/female energy. It is a dynamic protector of the heart chakra. Aventurine strengthens the thymus gland and nervous system. It stimulates the metabolism, has anti-inflammatory properties, eases skin eruptions, allergies, migraines, and soothes the eyes. It also remedies the lungs, sinuses, and muscular and urogenital systems.
Carnelian
Carnelian has a stabilising energy, that restores vitality and motivation and it also inspires creativity and a love of life. It promotes courage, and positive life choices, also dispels indifference, and motivates for success. It improves analytic abilities, sharpens concentration, clarifies perception, and dispels mental lethargy. Protects against envy, rage, and resentment. Calms anger, and expels emotional negativity. Carnelian boosts fertility and stimulates sexuality. Carnelian treats lower back problems, arthritis, rheumatism, neuralgia, and depression. It regulates the kidneys. Accelerates healing in bones and ligaments. Improves vitamin and mineral absorption. Also ensures an adequate blood supply to organs and tissues. Interacts with the base and Sacral Chakras.
Cat’s Eye
Cat’s Eye, or Chrysoberyl is a variety of Quartz. It provides grounding and protective energy and also dispels unwanted energy from the aura. It stimulates intuition and also enhances awareness. Cat’s Eye amplifies good luck and fortune. It also transmutes negative thoughts into positive energy. Plus it brings optimism, confidence, generosity, happiness, and serenity. It enhances creativity and kindness. Cat’s Eye treats eye disorders and also improves night vision. It relieves headaches, and facial and sciatic pain. Cat’s Eye assists the nervous system and associated pains. It is useful for treating the kidneys, pancreas, liver, spleen, lymph nodes, and issues associated with leukaemia. Resonates with the third eye chakra.
Chalcedony
Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline variety of Quartz. It has nurturing properties that promote brotherhood and goodwill. It brings body, mind, emotions and spirit into harmony. Chalcedony instils feelings of benevolence and generosity. It quells hostility and transforms melancholy into joy. Eases self-doubt. Creates openness and enthusiasm. Absorbs and dissipates negative thoughts, and emotions as well as bad dreams. Chalcedony improves mineral assimilation and minimises mineral buildup in veins. Lessens the effects of dementia and senility. It increases physical energy. Treats eyes, gallbladder, bones, spleen, blood and circulatory system. Interacts with the Sacral, and Solar Plexus Chakras.
Chrysoprase
Chrysoprase promotes the love of truth, hope, and encourages fidelity. It stimulates creativity and draws out your talents. It heals your inner child, along with relationships. Furthermore, it transmutes negativity, and helps overcome compulsiveness and angry thoughts and behaviour. Chrysoprase brings a sense of security and trust and also provides for non-judgmental attitudes and stimulates acceptance of self and others. It activates and energises the heart and sacral chakras, and balances yin/yang energy. Chrysoprase is a strong detoxifying stone. It balances hormones, treats the lungs and thymus, and soothes the digestive system. Aids mental and physical illness and exhaustion. Treats skin diseases and disorders of the heart.
Flint
Flint has strong grounding and protective properties, also aiding in spiritual development. It has connection with the Earth and Fire elements. It provides shielding from EMF and negative and low-vibration energies, and offers security in life. Flint is a powerful ally and helps release unwanted habits, also addresses irritations, and resolves complicated issues. It has a calming energy that also enhances inner peace. It assists with manifesting positive changes in your life. Flint moves physical energy throughout the entire chakra system. It is a powerful healing tool for etheric or psychic surgery. Helps digestion and circulatory systems, kidney stones, liver disorders, lung disorders. It eases jaw pain and assists back pain as well as aiding the reproductive system.
Jasper
Jasper is a variety of Chalcedony, which is a microcrystalline type of Quartz. Known as the “supreme nurturer”, it supports you through times of stress and also brings tranquillity and wholeness. It provides protection, absorbs negative energy, and balances yin/yang energy. Jasper clears environmental and electromagnetic pollution, including radiation. It encourages honesty and self-evaluation and also provides courage to assertively tackle problems. Helps with quick thinking and nurtures organisational abilities. Jasper also stimulates the imagination and transforms ideas into action. Extends sexual pleasure. It provides support during prolonged illness and re-energises the body. Interacts with all the chakras depending upon variety and colour.
Onyx
Onyx is a powerful protection stone, symbolising strength, perseverance, and an ability to overcome challenges. It absorbs negative energy and provides emotional and physical strength. It grounds and stabilises, and enables rational decisions. Beneficial for enhancing intuition and fostering spiritual growth. Additionally, Onyx enhances communication, and promotes clarity and self-expression. It encourages happiness and good fortune. Onyx stimulates the root chakra, also promoting a sense of security, protection, and stability. Onyx also strengthens the immune system and improves overall well-being. It treats disorders of the bones, and blood. Enhances kidney and liver function. It is beneficial for teeth and feet. It is also helps to alleviate pain.
Prasiolite or Green Quartz
Prasiolite or Green Quartz engenders self-sufficiency, self-love and confidence, which ignites love and helps to bring spiritual ideals into everyday life. It also has transformative energies that help transmute negative energy to positive. It inspires creativity, attracts success, prosperity and abundance, and helps with focus and determination. Prasiolite is associated with tranquillity and inner strength. It also eliminates negativity and manifests a more positive and joyful character. Prasiolite has powerful curative properties for physical ailments. It treats ulcers, supports the endocrine system, and neutralises stomach acid and aids in the absorption of nutrients. Prasiolite opens and stabilises the heart chakra.
Tiger Eye
Tiger Eye is another cryptocrystalline variety of Quartz with strong protective qualities, plus it may also bring you good luck. It can focus the mind, promote mental clarity, resolve problems objectively and clear negative emotions. Very useful for healing psychosomatic illnesses, dispelling fear and anxiety. Useful for recognising your own needs in relation to the needs of others. Balances yin/yang and energises the emotional body. Tiger Eye stabilises mood swings, inspires purpose, willpower, courage, also self-confidence, and releases tension. Tiger Eye treats eyes, throat, reproductive organs, releases toxins, alleviates pain and is helpful with broken bones and strengthening the alignment of the spinal column. Activates the sacral and solar plexus chakras.
General Information about The Quartz Family
The Quartz Family Crystals are renowned for their healing properties and exceptional energy output. They work alongside any other crystals and also boost their healing energies and capacities.
It’s worth noting that Quartz is the second most plentiful crystal/mineral found in Earth’s crust. However, the vast majority of it is not gem-quality. Its name originated in Eastern European countries from the word ‘quarz’ meaning ‘hard’. Indeed, Quartz is measured as a 7 out of 10 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. Very few gemstones rate higher than a 7 on the scale. Most Quartz family members present with a trigonal crystal system, however hexagonal systems have also been observed. Raw crystals tend to have six sides and terminate in a pyramid-like point.
Broadly speaking, the Quartz family occurs in two classifications: Macrocrystalline Quartz and Cryptocrystalline Quartz.
Macrocrystalline Quartz: is most often simply referred to as Quartz. It incorporates the more transparent to translucent crystals such as Amethyst, Citrine, Rose Quartz and Smokey Quartz.
Cryptocrystalline Quartz: also known as Microcrystalline Quartz, or simply as Chalcedony. It takes in the translucent to opaque crystals such as Chalcedony itself, Agate, Carnelian, Jasper, and Onyx. They form with such incredibly tiny crystals that more often than not they can’t even be seen under significant magnification. These crystals can be further divided into fibrous and grainy varieties. All Quartz has the chemical formula, SiO2, which is silicon dioxide.
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Disclaimer: The outlined metaphysical and healing properties in this website are for inspiration and reference. We gather this information and alleged properties from writings, books, folklore and various other sources. They are also dependent upon the attitude and beliefs of the individual. Furthermore they do not replace diagnosis or treatment by a qualified therapist or physician.