Semi-precious gems are said to have healing properties. Below is a list of the semi precious jewellery available from Silver Wire Designs with the properties they are said to have. Generally it is thought that the best way to choose a gem or crystal is to pick out the one that you are drawn to that is the first one that catches your eye or stands out.

Silver is thought to be a Yin metal that is feminine and gentle. Associated with the moon and thought to be excellent for emotional and mental cleansing it is often useful as an aid in public speaking and helps us to see ourselves as others see us. Calming and emotionally balancing Silver is the metal associated with communication and is said to replace negative with positive.

Agate good for grounding and balancing and encouraging forgiveness. Supposed to alleviate stress and make you aware of your natural talents. It is also thought to help with accuracy in your work.

Amazonite improves self worth and promotes confidence. It calms one’s emotions and moods and soothes nerves. Amazonite enhances creativity. Amazonite boosts the immune system by helping blood flow and circulation. On the mental level, it is very relaxing, balancing and calming the mind, helping to alleviate stress (and, therefore, its physical symptoms) brought about by conscious worry or concern.

Amber as a healing stone is thought to help with stomach, spleen, liver, gall-bladder and kidney complaints, and nervousness. It is supposed to give the wearer a positive disposition and help their creativity.

Amethyst boosts intellectual energy, inspiration and creativity. Reducing tension on any level, amethyst is excellent in the cure and prevention of headaches and migraine. Amethyst can help you to make a “shift” – if you feel “stuck” on any level – physical, emotional, mental, and intellectual – or your spiritual state of consciousness. It will help you to clarify the goals in your life Amethyst guards against excess. Considered the stone of meditation it has a beneficial protective energy and imparts a calming influence.

Apatite thought to be the stone of weight loss as supposed to aid in decreasing apetite by helping one to see the inner reasons for overeating. It is also thought to help balance the Chakras help in healing bones by aiding the absorption of calcium.

Aquamarine is a stone of courage dispelling fear and negativity, dissolving phobias, helping decision-making and reasoning. It is calming and relaxing, helping you to be more balanced and centred. This stone of courage can be wonderful for you if you are studying for exams as it helps to calm nerves and remove fear. Aquamarine has a very gentle energy, which helps to bring compassion, moderation, tolerance and responsibility into your life. It boosts intellect and learning. Physically, Aquamarine will help with fluid retention, swollen glands, sore throat, eye disorders (especially conjunctivitis), the stomach, joints and joint pain, kidney disorder, the lymphatic system and blood cleansing, fevers, jaundice and other liver disorders, balancing the thyroid gland and an overactive nervous system. It can be especially helpful in the treatment of neuralgia. Aquamarine makes life flow better and improves expression.

Aventurine is thought to attract wealth to your life, alleviate stress and balance your emotions in times of trauma.

Carnelian is said to protect the wearer from all negative emotions. A stone of ambition and drive, it is an excellent career stone and helpful in making choices and decisions. Self motivator carnelian is the most powerful action stone for focussing realization and self- actualization. Carnelian stimulates analytical capabilities and precision. Activates and energizes personal power. Revealing or discovering hidden talents by stimulating your curiosity and inquisitiveness. It helps one banish sorrow and protects against anger in self and others and dispels apathy.

Chalcedony is often thought to encourage kindness, and friendly behaviour and it helps absorb negativity. It is also supposed to be useful if you lack stamina.

Charoite a rare gemstone the stone of transformation bringing a new spiritual change to the wearer by balancing the crown chakra and allowing a new perception. Also healing to those who have given up drinking, for insomnia and for general healing also gives energy when exhausted.

Chrysocolla helps to accept situations bringing an inner calm and stability releasing feelings of guilt and giving strength and renewed confidence to the wearer.

Citrine a cleansing gem that attracts abundance and happiness. It helps in depression and also encourages a greater feeling of self worth so particularly useful during a relationship break up. Helps with constipation and balances hormones.

Emerald is known as the gem that promotes success in love. It is also said to encourage patience. Good for friendships and creates a balance in mind body and spirit. Also thought to help with people suffering from Claustrophobia and memory loss. a stone that encourages one to live life to the full.

Fluorite comes from the Latin word to flow and is said to increase your intuition and awareness, help you to concentrate and make decisions on a less emotional basis. Supposed to help alleviate depression, disruptive behaviour and help team work. Good for colds, headaches, and insomnia.

Garnet is said to strengthen purify and regenerates bodily systems, especially the bloodstream. Stimulates pituitary gland. Aligns subtle bodies. Love, compassion, enhanced imagination. It is believed that if a garnet is put under a pillow it will cure depression. Garnets can be used to make a person popular and have self-esteem when worn as jewellery. It helps protect one on trips. Garnets bring constancy to friendships. Garnets are also known for stimulating success in business. They repels negativity, gives courage and confidence as well as enhancing imagination.

Jade strengthens heart, kidneys and the immune system and helps cleanse the blood. Increases longevity and fertility. Aids eye disorders and female problems. Powerful emotional balancer. Radiates divine unconditional love. Clarity, modesty, courage, justice, wisdom. Peaceful and nurturing. Dispels negativity. The stone of longevity, offers healing of the body and spirit, used to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Hematite helps to de-stress, calm and ground oneself and its magnetic qualities are also thought to help also with back pain. This gemstone is also helpful for those involved in public speaking to help them remain calm.

Jasper is a nurturing gem which helps to sustain one in their endeavours and helping organizational abilities to pursue objectives.

Labradorite forms a protective barrier to the wearer and helps to rid insecure thoughts particularly useful when going through a period of change as it helps to see problems more clearly. Thought to help with eye problems balancing hormones and stress.

Lapiz Lazuli strengthens skeletal system. Activates thyroid gland. Releases tension and anxiety. Energizes Throat Chakra. Augments strength, vitality, virility. Facilitates opening of Chakras mental clarity, illumination. Enhances psychic abilities and communication with Higher Self and Spirit Guides. Associated with the Third Eye and Throat Chakras. It enhances sixth sense abilities of gaining secret knowledge. Facilitates visualization of wearer and healing properties and improves communication. Brings harmony in friendships and helps the wearer feel able to state their opinions openly. It brings mental clarity and emotional healing.

Malachite aids functions of pancreas and spleen. Reduces stress and tension. Aids tissue regeneration. Strengthens heart, circulatory system, pineal and pituitary glands. Aids sleep. Vitalizing for body/mind. Excellent balancer on all levels. Associated with Heart and Solar plexus Chakras. Assists in healing of emotions, brings peaceful sleep, brings extra power when used for divination purposes especially those pertaining to receiving one's hearts desire. Helps reduce feelings of guilt and clear the past. It can help in gaining insight into the cause of specific conditions such as relationships, resentments and anxiety so that you can release them. Also said to help with vertigo and a protective stone for those flying. It is also a stone of abundance and the stone of fidelity in love and friendships. Excellent for meditation and good for helping to remember dreams.

Moonstone is said to be a feminine stone and in harmony with the waxing and waning of the moon, promotes intuition and can enhance psychic abilities, opens the mind to higher levels of spirituality, balances stress especially hormone related disorders, pmt,conception, regulating the menstrual cycle and childbirth. In old Eastern cultures, Moonstone was believed to attract new love to you.

Mother of Pearl helps to make clear and sensitive but focused decisions.

Onyx helps in times of difficulty to keep a centred approach to situations and to analyse old memories to move forward with a more confident strength without fear and with a new confidence.

Pearl reduces over-sensitivity, peaceful. Symbolize charity, honesty, wisdom and integrity, all the best within us. Can stimulate femininity and help with self acceptance. They lift your spirits and make you feel calm and beautiful. They remind us to walk with dignity. Pearls not only provide a mirror in which to see ourselves, but give us insight into how we appear to others.

Peridot balances glandular system. Aids tissue regeneration. Has beneficial influence on heart, pancreas, spleen, liver, adrenals. Purifies body. Enhances bloodstream. Overall balancer and tonic for body/mind. Aligns subtle bodies. Increases intuitive awareness. Reduces stress. Stimulates the mind. Accelerates personal growth, opens new doors of opportunity. Associated with the Solar Plexus and Heart Chakras it extends patience and also used to attract wealth, abundance, increase happiness and well being by releasing guilt and helping to leave the past behind. Helps overcome obsessive behaviour and jealously thus enhancing an inner confidence allowing the wearer to move forward take responsibility for their life and find their true path.

Rhondite or Rhodonite used to stabilize emotions, sort out scattered feelings and helps create a more balanced attitude. Balances the heart chakra and can calm inner turmoil, induces self love. As a healing stone,it is a speedy wound healer especially useful for those in shock and can aid arthritis, ulcers, and fertility problems.

Rose Quartz aids kidneys and circulatory system. Increases fertility. Eases sexual/emotional imbalances. Helps clear stored anger, resentment, guilt, fear, jealousy. Reduces stress and tension, cools hot temper. Enhances self-confidence and creativity. Aids development for forgiveness, compassion and love. Sometimes known as "The Love Stone". Associated with the Heart Chakra. Tranquilizes, calms Rose Quartz thought to be the bringer of love in its many forms- romantic and otherwise. Wear it to attract love, give it to someone as a symbol of your love or appreciation. This gem is thought to be the gentlest healer allowing the wearer to learn to love themselves and overcome emotional pain.

Ruby is a gem that energizes and induces an optimism for life. It is thought to be a protective gem and also thought to help people concentrate. Ruby can take negative emotions and change them into positive. Thought to be useful when exhausted it also helps one become motivated.

Snowflake Obsidian is thought to be a calming gem and helpful in bringing unhealthy behavioural patterns to light aiding in the release of negative thinking patterns so helping to prevent feelings of isolation. Also thought to benefit circulation.

Sodalite creates harmony. It absorbs and neutralizes disharmony and unburdens your thoughts. It neutralizes negative thoughts and emotions directed at you by others. It helps to unite common sense with intuition, often used to aid meditation and also can be used to clear electromagnetic pollution. This stone can bring emotional balance, lowers blood pressure and can help balance metabolism. Thought to stimulate the third eye helping to open a spiritual understanding of who you are and a path to find your inner truth. Useful also for people who experience panic attacks, phobias and irrational fears in bringing a sense of calmness and self confidence to allow new ways of thinking.

Tanzanite thought to help in the absorption of Zinc and ease blood pressure as well as generally encouraging more positive thoughts and behaviours. It is also thought to help one connect with their spirit guides.

Tiger's Eye enhances psychic abilities and encourages use it's use in a responsible manner. Worn as a protective gem it also helps to ground thoughts and so help in decision making and overcoming conflict. Helps also to lift depression and encourage a more positive mental attitude. Used to encorage a more positive self image and thought to help with the healing of broken bones.

Topaz known as the stone of strength and the Sanskrit word meaning 'fire' they are used for clarity of mind and focussing thoughts they are also thought to reduce mood swings and lessen worries and help reduce insomnia. A joyful gem Topaz brings abundance and good health, success in your endeavours and good fortune. It also brings a clarity to your thoughts and helps to solve problems. It allows you to recognize what you have achieved through your life experiences. Also aids digestive problems, eating disorders and nervous conditions.

Tourmaline aids Balance of endocrine system. Aids sleep. Strengthens, vitalizes, body/mind. Activates and enhances crystalline properties of body/mind. Aligns subtle bodies. Dispels fear and negative conditions. Strong protective influence. Enhances sensitivity and understanding. A powerful healer Tourmaline is highly electromagnetic Protective, guards against bad vibes. Integrates and harmonizes left and right brain activity which enhances the person's psychic and mediumship abilities. Aids in balancing the whole person and the psyche.

Turqouise a protective stone which can dispel negative energy, balances the throat chakra and can help you find your voice if something needs to be said also used as an aid in problem solving. As a healing stone it alleviates tiredness, depression and panic attacks. Turquoise is said to help you find your true path in life and especially useful in creative endeavours as it helps to link your intuition with self expression.

Unakite is a gem to calm and balance it enhances spirituality and helps to overcome past issues. Thought also to help with fertility problems.

Vesuvianite is the crystal of loyalty and co- operation. It is thought to calm all negativity including external anger and internal depression to give more self confidence and positivity.Helps to clear negative thoughts.

Birthstones by month horoscope jewellery : January - Garnet, February - Amethyst, March - Aquamarine, April - Crystal, May - Amber, Rose Quartz, June - Pearl, Moonstone, July - Ruby, August - Peridot, September - Amazonite, Agate, October - Aventurine, Fluorite, Tourmaline, November -Yellow Topaz, Citrine December - Turquoise, Blue Topaz,Vesuvianite

Chakras - Crown - Amethyst, Third Eye - Fluorite,Throat - Lapiz Lazuli, Turquoise, Blue Topaz,Sodalite, Aquamarine, Heart- Rose Quartz, Peridot,Tourmaline, Green Jade, Vesuvianite Solar Plexus- Malachite, Aventurine, Sacral Citrine,Carnelian, Moonstone, Amber Root- Agate,Tiger's Eye, Obsidian.

Wedding Anniversary Gemstones. 1st Pearl or Peridot, 2nd Garnet or Rose Quartz,, 3rd Jade,4th Topaz,5th Turquoise,6th Amethyst,7th Onyx, 8th Tourmaline or Aventurine,9th Lapiz or Tigers Eye,10th Onyx, 11th Turquoise,12th Jade, 13th, Citrine, Malachite or Moonstone,14th Agate, 15th Rhodonite,16th Peridot, 17th Citrine or Amethyst, 18th Opal, 19th Aquamarine, 20th Emerald, 25th Silver, 30th Pearl, 40th Ruby

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