I have studied with Sue and Simon Lilly’s Institute of Crystal and Gem Therapies (ICGT) and would like to acknowledge their excellent teaching and research in compiling this glossary.

A

Agate

Chakra: Match the colour to the chakra.
Qualities:

  • Strengthens the subtle anatomy
  • Helps to clarify and reveal underlying levels of information
  • Can be a useful meditation tool
  • Good for absent healing

Amber

Chakra: Solar plexus
Qualities:

  • Warms and enlivens
  • Helps with nervous disorders and detoxification

Amethyst

Chakra: Brow, crown
Qualities:

  • Calms and stabilises
  • Makes an effective meditation stone

Ametrine

Chakra: Solar plexus, brow, crown
Qualities:

  • Relieves headaches, tension and stress-related illnesses
  • Combines insight with clear thinking

Aquamarine

Chakra: Throat
Qualities:

  • Boosts the immune system
  • Encourages optimism and inspiration
  • Can help creative expression

Aventurine

Chakra: Heart
Qualities:

  • Promotes tranquillity and a positive outlook
  • Helps to stabilise the etheric, emotional and mental bodies.

Azurite

Chakra: Throat, brow
Qualities:

  • Retrieves memories or old stresses from the sub-conscious
  • Stimulates all communication skills, creativity and flow
  • Shifts towards integration and understanding

B

Beryl

Chakra: Match the colour to the chakra.
Qualities:

  • Quietens the mind and helps relaxation
  • Increases calm, creativity and self-worth

Black tourmaline (Schorl)

Chakra: Base
Qualities:

  • Effective grounding and protecting stone
  • Realigns the bones and can help pulled or strained muscles

Bloodstone

Chakra: Heart, base
Qualities:

  • Good physical energiser and motivator
  • Supports healing in the blood and circulation
  • Brings spiritual qualities into practical, everyday life

Blue lace agate

Chakra: Throat
Qualities:

  • Cools and calms
  • Soothes anywhere with a build-up or excess of energy

Blue quartz

Chakra: Throat, heart
Qualities: Detoxifies, cleanses and repairs, particularly the organs and functions of the upper body

Blue tourmaline (Indicolite)

Chakra: Throat, brow
Qualities:

  • Effective in the throat centre and its associated organs
  • When deep blue, increases the flow of information and intelligence

C

Calcite

Chakra: All
Qualities:

  • Clears and energises
  • Removes stagnant energy
  • Shifts levels of awareness – good for meditation

Carnelian

Chakra: Sacral
Qualities:

  • Gently warming
  • Excellent all-round healing stone
  • Regulates the energy of other cooler stones

Celestite

Chakra: Throat, crown

  • Cools and uplifts
  • Brings lightness and relaxation
  • Inspires, and encourages meditation and intuition

Charoite

Chakra: Heart, crown
Qualities:

  • Powerfully healing at physical and emotional levels
  • Cleanses the aura
  • Helps with dramatic transformation
  • Re-energizes the exhausted body
    Overcomes insomnia and deep fears
    Heals and integrates dualities

Chiastolite

Chakra: All
Qualities:

  • Protects, dispels negative thoughts and feelings
  • Clears feelings of guilt and stabilises the emotions
  • Balances the immune system and fortifies the nerves
  • Lessens fevers
  • Staunches blood flow
  • Stimulates lactation in nursing mothers

Chrysocolla

Chakra: Heart, throat
Qualities: Relaxes, physically and emotionally

Chrysoprase

Chakra: Heart, Sacral
Qualities:

  • Calms physically and emotionally
  • Useful for insomnia and sexual difficulties

Citrine

Chakra: Solar plexus (sacral, base, crown)
Qualities: Warms and stimulates to energise and balance

Copper

Chakra: Base, sacral, solar plexus, heart
Qualities:

  • Reduces inflammation, particularly helpful for rheumatism and arthritis
  • Strengthens and helps the flow of energy, especially in the nervous system

Coral

Chakra: Heart
Qualities:

  • Balances the emotions
  • Helps the heart, blood and circulatory systemsE

Emerald

Chakra: Heart
Qualities:

  • Brings harmony
  • Encourages peaceful growth and abundance
  • Strengthens the heart chakra

F

Fluorite

Chakra: Brow
Qualities:

  • Supports healthy bone tissue and physical structure of the organs
  • Balances co-ordination
  • Useful for improving learning skills, dexterity and balance

G

Garnet

Chakra: Mostly base
Qualities:

  • Focuses energy towards practical support
  • Red garnet is a strong energising stone that accelerates and amplifies the effects of other stones used with it

Gold

Chakra: Heart
Qualities:

  • Balances the functions of the brain and nervous system
  • Strengthens the immune system and major glands
  • Reduces stress by stabilising electrical functioning at a cellular level

Green tourmaline (Verdelite)

Chakra: Heart
Qualities:

  • Balances the heart
  • Can strengthen the immune system
  • Realigns pulled and strained bone muscle and tissue.
  • Strengthens the auric field’s connection to the energies of the planet
  • Increases confidence, security and a sense of belonging

H

Hematite

Chakra: Sacral, solar plexus
Qualities:

  • Very effective grounding stone
  • Supports the circulatory system and the blood
  • Regulates temperature
  • Energises the physical

J

Jade

Chakra: Heart
Qualities:

  • Useful stone for the heart chakra
  • Helps to stabilise and integrate the personality

Jasper

Chakra: Base, sacral, solar plexus, heart
Qualities:

  • Earthy, grounding stone
  • Energises the chakras when matched to the relevant colour

K

Kunzite

Chakra: Heart, throat
Qualities:

  • Cleanses and protects the heart
  • Helps to remove negativity and create a meditative space
    Helps with the cardiovascular system and thyroid problems
    Enhances life energy and self-esteem

Kyanite

Chakra: Throat
Qualities: Brings calm, tranquillity and balance to all chakras and subtle bodies.

L

Labradorite

Chakra: All
Qualities:

  • Facilitates access to ideas and intuitive knowledge
  • Helps recognition of new life opportunities and solutions
  • Protects the aura

Lapis lazuli

Chakra: Throat, brow
Qualities:

  • Cleanses and draws tension and anxiety from deep within the energy bodies
  • Activates all aspects of expression

Lepidolite

Chakra: Throat, heart, brow, crown
Qualities:

  • Reduces stress and depression
  • Overcomes insomnia
  • Releases addictive psychological and behavioural patterns
  • Relieves allergies and strengthens the immune system
  • Helps with sciatica, neuralgia and joint problems

M

Magnetite (and lodestone)

Chakra: All
Qualities: Releases stress by temporarily aligning the actions of all chakras and subtle bodies.

Malachite

Chakra: Heart
Qualities:

  • Draws out emotional imbalances
  • Protects against environmental pollution

Moldavite

Chakra: Heart, throat, brow, crown
Qualities:

  • Encourages the development of subtle senses and intuition
  • Amplifies the effects of other stones
  • May require a grounding stone to counteract its expansive energy

Mookaite

Chakra: Base, heart, brow
Qualities:

  • Balances inner and outer experiences
  • Encourages a desire for new experiences and deep calm to face them
  • Promotes flexibility and versatility
  • Fortifies the immune system
  • Heals wounds and purifies the blood

Moonstone

Chakra: Sacral, solar plexus
Qualities:

  • Stabilises the emotions and releases tension
  • Can help digestive problems and menstrual cramps
  • Enhances intuition, creativity and empathy

Moss agate

Chakra: Heart
Qualities:

  • Helps to establish personal space
  • Acts on the lymphatic system to alleviate congested areas
  • Increases optimism and encourages a desire to explore and experience more of life

O

Obsidian

Chakra: Base, sacral, crown
Qualities:

  • Effective grounding stone
  • Can reveal deeply buried imbalances
  • Helps to balance the digestive system and assimilate unacceptable truths

Opal

Chakra: Mainly sacral, solar plexus and crown
Qualities:

  • Gently stabilises the emotions and feelings of self-worth
  • Allows awareness of higher dimensions of reality

Optical calcite

Chakra: Brow
Qualities:

  • Heals the eyes
  • Amplifies images and enables the understanding of “double meanings”
  • Reduces migraine tension
  • Cleanses the subtle bodies

P

Pearl

Chakra: Sacral, solar plexus
Qualities:

  • Balances the emotions
  • Increases tolerance and flexibility
  • Influences the balance of physical energy, assimilation of nutrients and self-assurance

Peridot

Chakra: Heart, solar plexus
Qualities:

  • Cleanses effectively
  • Increases clarity of mind and optimism
  • Helps with visualisation skills

Q

Quartz

Chakra: All
Qualities:

  • Amplifies and strengthens the auric field
  • Brings calm and clarity
  • Facilitates the energy in other stones

R

Red tourmaline (Rubellite)

Chakra: Sacral, heart
Qualities:

  • Stimulates or calms, depending on the colour
  • Balances the over-aggressive or excessively passive personality

Rhodocrosite

Chakra: Base, sacral, solar plexus, heart
Qualities:

  • Stimulates and enhances self-worth and confidence
  • Releases tension from emotional, mental and astral bodies

Rhodonite

Chakra: Heart
Qualities:

  • Useful for people using mantras – increases the effectiveness of meditation
  • Helps negative states, such as anxiety

Rose quartz

Chakra: Heart, throat
Qualities:

  • Powerful healing stone
  • Calms and heals in aggressive situations
  • Eases personal issues that are causing emotional and mental tensions

Ruby

Chakra: Heart
Qualities:

  • Balances the heart
  • Enhances physical function and the circulatory system
  • Increases confidence, security, self-esteem and a positive state of mind

Ruby in zoisite

Chakra: Heart, crown
Qualities:

  • Facilitates access to soul memory and spiritual learning
  • Promotes individuality while retaining the connection to humanity
  • Amplifies the body’s energy field

Rutile/rutilated quartz

Chakra: All
Qualities:

  • Shifts and integrates energy
  • Useful for repairing torn and broken tissues

S

Sapphire

Chakra: Solar plexus, heart, throat, crown
Qualities:

  • Stimulates the higher mind and communication on subtle and spiritual levels
  • Calms and regulates
  • Helps to balance the glandular system and ease tension

Selenite

Chakra: Sacral, throat, crown
Qualities:

  • Shifts blocked and stagnant energy effectively
  • Removes negativity from the aura
  • Brings clarity to the mind and expands consciousness

Smoky quartz

Chakra: Base, sacral, solar plexus
Qualities:

  • Effective but gentle grounding stone
  • Quietens and calms
  • Dissolves negative states of mind
  • Gives physical and emotional protection

Sodalite

Chakra: Throat, brow
Qualities:

  • Clarifies perceptions and helps communication
  • Cools and stabilises emotions
  • Enhances the immune system

Sugilite

Chakra: Crown
Qualities:

  • Heals the activities of the brain and nervous systems
  • Relieves tension between spiritual and physical realities

T

Tiger’s eye

Chakra: Base, sacral, solar plexus
Qualities:

  • Helps to integrate the functions of the lower chakras
  • Instils confidence and practicality
  • Grounds gently

Topaz

Chakra: Solar plexus
Qualities: Relaxes tension and helps to stabilise the emotions

Tourmaline

Chakra: All
Qualities: All tourmalines are very powerful healing stones which harmonise the subtle systems.

Turquoise

Chakra: Throat, all
Qualities:

  • Balances and heals in all situations
  • Strengthens the physical organs and the auric field
  • Helps to repel environmental negativity
  • Naturally connected to the spirit world