1. Clear Quartz

   – Functions: Protects the home, wards off evil, eliminates illness, used in Buddha worship and spiritual practice, brings blessings and good fortune.

   – It is said that meditating with Clear Quartz or wearing it frequently can enhance personal inspiration and make thoughts more agile. In spiritual practice, since white light enters through the “crown chakra”, it’s easier to receive messages from higher levels and more effectively communicate with higher spirits. It’s best to avoid placing Clear Quartz near the bed as it can be stimulating and may cause difficulty sleeping.

   – Clear Quartz has various forms. Laser wands, double-terminated crystals, and Herkimer diamonds are all forms of Clear Quartz but with stronger energy than the polished ones.

2. Rose Quartz

   – Known as the premier gemstone of love, Rose Quartz enhances the pink aura in one’s energy field, which is the color of love shown by Aphrodite, the goddess of love. It helps in attracting the opposite sex, improving relationships, bringing joy to your love life, and healing heartaches. It also enhances interpersonal relationships and popularity. Placing Rose Quartz in business locations or areas with high people traffic can establish good public relations and promote business opportunities. It also helps in soothing nerves and maintaining a calm state of mind. For therapeutic purposes, Rose Quartz supports the health of organs around the heart chakra, like the heart and lungs, and promotes the health of the circulatory and respiratory systems.

   – Tips:

     – Wearing on the left hand softens one’s temperament, while on the right hand, it enhances personal attractiveness.

     – Rose Quartz may fade to white under high temperatures, so avoid using sunlight for purification.

3. Citrine

   – Many Citrines on the market are made by heating Amethyst, resulting in a lighter color without vibrant beauty. While both are quartz, natural Citrine is considered more valuable. For light-colored Citrine, some jewelers enhance the color through irradiation, making the gemstone appear more vivid. These Citrines are more common and affordable, and their color remains stable at room temperature, making them widely accepted by the public.

   – High-quality Citrine is rare and highly valued. Its energy is strong, known as the “wealth stone,” enhancing the yellow light in one’s aura which affects material life and fortune. Placing Citrine in the wealth corner of a home or office can significantly boost financial luck.

   – Citrine vibrates at a frequency that enhances self-confidence and is good for the digestive system. It’s primarily associated with attracting wealth, especially for businessmen, shops, offices, or homes. Citrine symbolizes wisdom and joy, boosts confidence, reduces fear, and has a calming effect on those who are nervous. It’s beneficial for the pancreas, and endocrine system, and is indispensable for diabetes treatment. It also helps with swelling, and stomach cramps, and has been known to assist stock market enthusiasts, especially when worn as a bracelet.

4. Amethyst

   – Symbolizes romantic love. If a man gifts you an Amethyst, its implication is clear. Amethyst’s energy is high, corresponding to the “third eye chakra”. It helps in developing wisdom, enhancing thought processes, concentration, memory, and the vitality of brain cells. It’s essential for students and workers who need to think critically for extended periods. Amethyst also aids in social interactions but in a more introverted manner compared to Rose Quartz, helping in meeting benefactors, enhancing wit, intuition, and subconsciousness. In Western cultures, Amethyst represents deep love, chastity, honesty, and courage between couples. It’s also seen as a symbol of the mysterious sexual vitality by the God Bacchus, believed to transform sexual energy into spiritual energy. Amethyst pillows are popular for eliminating insomnia and improving sleep quality. However, if you already sleep well or have high energy, an Amethyst pillow might make you too excited and unable to sleep.

5. Smoky Quartz

   – Wearing Smoky Quartz jewelry is a good form of protection and warding off evil.

   – Wearing it on the left hand helps filter negative energy from the body.

   – It helps in clearing thoughts during busy work, seeing complex situations clearly, and responding efficiently and directly.

   – For women, Smoky Quartz can regulate gynecological diseases and enhance the energy of the root chakra, as well as physical strength, vitality, and sexual desire.

   – It strengthens one’s implementation power, balances emotions, provides a sense of security, promotes youthfulness, delays aging, enhances reproductive system function, promotes regeneration, speeds up wound healing, boosts immunity, activates cells, and rejuvenates. It also enhances analytical and grasping abilities, improves taste, and is particularly effective in absorbing negative energy and warding off evil.

6. White Phantom Quartz

   – White Phantom Quartz, also known as White-phantom, with the chemical formula SiO2, is a type of Clear Quartz that contains natural white cloud-like inclusions or ice crack patterns, creating a unique and beautiful internal pattern. Some even form triangular patterns similar to Egyptian pyramids. The mystery of White Phantom Pyramid Quartz lies in its encapsulation of a cosmic mechanism’s power. Sensitive individuals can immediately feel a powerful cosmic magnetic field upon touching a pyramid. Ancient Egyptians utilized pyramids to transform material states and transcend life and death.

   – White Phantom Quartz represents the condensation of the universe’s white light, the mother of all lights. According to optics, the spinning of the seven colors of the spectrum creates white light. All forces evolve and spread from white light, the highest energy in the universe. It is said that by obtaining the power of white light, one can achieve any wish. White Phantom Quartz is known for its purification effects, purifying personal negative energy and even cleansing bad memories from the subconscious, allowing for gradual forgetting or letting go.

7.  Green Phantom Quartz

   – Also known as Green Phantom Crystal, it includes different colored volcanic mud and other minerals during its growth, creating natural phenomena like clouds, aquatic plants, whirlpools, and even pyramids inside the transparent Clear Quartz. Inclusions that are green are called Green Phantom Quartz. The term “phantom” comes from the Western theory that green reflects the economic principle, as dollar bills are green, symbolizing the entrepreneurial spirit and success of self-made individuals in society.

   – Spiritual Functions:

     – Green is the lucky color of the universe, and the human heart chakra is also green. Thus, green crystals represent “wealth crystals”, broadly encompassing all forms of fortune, including luck, opportunities, friends, and support from benefactors. Green is also known as “earned wealth”, indicating earnings from hard work, distinct from unexpected or accidental wealth.

     – Green or pink light is said to treat heartache, heart disease, high blood pressure, breathing difficulties, tension, insomnia, anger, delusion, and cancer, especially effective for cancer treatment. While white light can treat any disease, it nourishes cancer cells, but green light only nourishes healthy cells. Since green is at the center of the spectrum, it is the most balanced color. Holding a Green Phantom Quartz during meditation can relieve stress and relax the body.

     – The green light of Green Phantom Quartz corresponds to the heart chakra, helping to eliminate sadness, worries, and displeasure, and restoring a good mood.

     – Wearing Green Phantom Quartz or placing it on the forehead for 3-5 minutes of meditation can bring good luck and fulfill wishes throughout the day.

     – For those seeking wealth, wearing Green Phantom Quartz and meditating appropriately in the morning and evening can help achieve their desires.

8.  Black Tourmaline

   – Black Tourmaline, also known as Schorl, contains black needle-like or hair-like inclusions, mostly composed of black tourmaline. It has a cool, modern look.

   – Black Tourmaline is known for disaster relief, avoiding misfortune, and worry-free living. Generally, Black Tourmaline crystals are not perfect, with a cloudy crystal body affecting aesthetics. However, high-quality Black Tourmaline has clear separation between the hair and crystal, with no cloudiness or ice cracks. It makes a generous and appropriate gift, and wearing it enhances personal charm.

   – Natural crystals often contain inclusions and cotton, while synthetic crystals are crystal clear. Some synthetic crystals have bubbles or solid impurities. Recently, some synthetic crystals contain triangular tubular air holes with green or red powder inside. These tubes are characterized by parallel alignment in one direction, with triangular cross-sections, often empty in the middle, and the tube ends tapering. In contrast, natural Black Tourmaline contains minerals like tourmaline, rutile, and titanite, each with its crystal shape, such as the “bamboo joint” shape of rutile. These minerals are randomly arranged within the crystal, with varying thickness and length, often accompanied by natural inclusions and cotton typical of natural crystals.

9.  Red Tourmaline

   – Red Tourmaline, also known as Rubellite, has a net-like structure of rutile, resembling fine, soft hair entwining, hence the name Red Rabbit Hair Crystal or Needle Rutile. Red Tourmaline, also known as the “Venus Crystal”, is as beautiful as the hair of a red-haired beauty.

   – Physiological Effects: Regulates female hormones, corresponds to the root chakra, helps the reproductive system, treats gynecological diseases, relieves menstrual pain, balances qi and blood, and is effective for menopausal hormone imbalance in women. It also treats frigidity, infertility, menopausal weakness, low blood pressure, dull skin, and sensitivity. For men, the red and black light can also correspond to the root chakra, aiding the prostate, testes, and related reproductive systems, as well as the bladder and nervous system, reportedly enhancing vitality.

10.  Gold Rutilated Quartz

    – Also known as Venus’s hairstone, it represents the origin of quartz crystals containing different types of mineral inclusions. Gold Rutilated Quartz often appears in gold, red, or silver-white colors. Gold-colored ones are called “Titanium Rutilated Quartz” because of their different color correspondences to different chakras and spiritual effects. All Rutilated Quartz can effectively strengthen the overall energy field, build courage and confidence, and can be used as amulets or lucky charms, protecting against negative energy and spiritual disturbances. The energy of Rutilated Quartz is stronger than that of clear quartz without inclusions.

    – Characteristics of Titanium Quartz: Contains needle-like or plate-like mineral inclusions of titanium, which after oxidation appear as shiny gold. Some beads may also contain a small amount of brown-black mineral inclusions. It is currently the most precious crystal with a strong magnetic field, popular for its appearance and rarity, making it the most expensive crystal on the market.

    – Characteristics of Gold Rutilated Quartz: Contains hair-like or thread-like gold inclusions (rutile), usually round and fine.

    – Differences between Titanium Quartz and Gold Rutilated Quartz: Gold Rutilated Quartz has finer and denser inclusions, while Titanium Quartz’s inclusions are coarser, needle-like or plate-like, usually appearing darker yellow or more golden, whereas Gold Rutilated Quartz is lighter in color.

    – Appreciation Points:

      – Usually observed under spotlight or sunlight. The quality mainly depends on the following aspects:

      – The denser and more orderly the inclusions inside the crystal, the more valuable, as disordered inclusions are less desirable.

      – Clear crystal bodies (white) are preferred over Smoky Quartz bodies (brown), and are also rarer.

      – The clearer and more lustrous the crystal interior, the better. Many crystals have natural cloudiness or cotton, which can make them appear less clear.

      – The surface should be free from man-made damages or natural defects for higher quality.

      – Titanium Quartz may have natural brown-black mineral inclusions; some people may prefer those without, although it doesn’t impact the quality.

      – Titanium Quartz is the rarest and most expensive natural crystal currently, with strong energy, hence its higher price compared to Gold Rutilated Quartz.

    – Spiritual effects of Titanium Quartz and Gold Rutilated Quartz are similar:

      – Attracts both regular and unexpected wealth with strong energy. Can be used as an amulet or lucky charm, especially beneficial for those working at night or in environments with heavy negative or sick energy, such as medical facilities or special business places, offering protection from evil spirits and turning misfortune into fortune. It also helps those who are indecisive, hesitant, lacking in opinion or courage by strengthening their decision-making and courage, particularly for leaders or senior executives, enhancing leadership and decision-making abilities, leading teams to new achievements in career. It’s beneficial for those too easily swayed by others, helping to firm their stance and avoid deception.

11.  Green Rutilated Quartz

    – Contains needle-like mineral inclusions within the natural crystal, appearing as if the crystal encases hair strands. Green Rutilated Quartz’s inclusions consist of tourmaline (schorl) or rutile. It is considered the most effective crystal for attracting genuine wealth. Placing Green Rutilated Quartz in a seven-star array or as a crystal ball in the wealth corner of a home, office, or business space can increase wealth attraction. Additionally, office workers wearing Green Rutilated Quartz can see an increase in wealth and even promotions. For entrepreneurs, frequent travelers for business, or those hoping for a promotion, Green Rutilated Quartz is very helpful. Importantly, because Green Rutilated Quartz contains rutile, it has a strong effect on male vitality, enhancing sexual function through the dual energy of rutile and natural quartz. It’s recommended to place a Green Rutilated Quartz pendant near the lower abdomen or the Mingmen acupoint (just above the navel at the back) but also embodies people’s beautiful wishes and symbolism for Green Rutilated Quartz.

12.  Silver Rutilated Quartz

    – Also known as White Rutilated Quartz, contains silver-white rutile inclusions. It is not widely produced, and the inclusions are usually fine and dense. Corresponds to the crown chakra and can develop brain function.

    – Silver Rutilated Quartz (White Rutilated Quartz) provides the power of purification and introspection. Silver and white represent the absolute colors of light, hence it’s significantly functional for peace, health, completeness, enlightenment, disaster relief, and averting misfortune.

    – Its energy field is stronger and more concentrated than non-inclusion quartz. Generally, denser hair inclusions indicate a stronger energy field.

    – It offers protection against evil spirits, secures homes, and attracts wealth. Silver Rutilated Quartz is best worn on the left hand, as the human energy field flows from left (in) to right (out). Being a transmissive crystal, it’s ideal for the left hand; wearing it is similar to Gold Rutilated Quartz.

13.  Copper Rutilated Quartz

    – An excellent crystal for warding off evil spirits, absorbing illness, acting as an effective amulet, absorbing all negative energy, especially for those who often work at night or enter heavily negative or sick environments, such as medical facilities or special business locations, offering protection against evil and turning misfortune into fortune. It also increases leadership charisma, strengthens unity among subordinates, and aids in business growth.

    – Women with weak constitutions and imbalanced qi and blood are advised to wear more red rutilated quartz to supplement energy for the lower three chakras (root, sacral, and solar plexus).

    – Women lacking warmth, generosity, initiative, or experiencing sexual frigidity can benefit from wearing red rutilated quartz to enhance vitality, charm, and sociability.

    – Corresponds to the root chakra, aiding in regulating female hormones and supporting the reproductive system, treating gynecological conditions, relieving menstrual pain, balancing qi and blood, and being effective for menopausal hormone imbalance. It also treats low blood pressure, dull skin, and sensitivity.

    – For men, the red copper light also corresponds to the root chakra, aiding the prostate, testes, and related reproductive systems, as well as the bladder and nervous system, enhancing male vitality.

14.  Obsidian

– Due to Obsidian’s pure energy, it is more of an absorptive energy crystal. It is generally recommended to wear Obsidian on the right hand, as almost all crystals are worn on the left hand, except for Obsidian. According to ancient Chinese qi practices, the principle is that energy enters through the left and exits through the right. Wearing Obsidian on the right hand helps absorb one’s negative energy, including impurities, illness, and even bad luck, and is more effective in warding off evil.

– Obsidian Seven-Star Array:

  – Obsidian’s energy is intense and strong, making it the best for warding off evil. Wearing Obsidian is the best form of protection and warding off evil.

  – Corresponds to the root chakra, effectively removing negative body energy and enhancing new energy. It helps relieve fatigue, stress, headaches, absorbs and removes bodily illness and turbidity, and quickly restores physical strength, improving weak constitution and enhancing vitality and endurance, protecting health. For those with bad luck, often due to excessive negative energy, Obsidian can absorb and transform it, improving fortune and enhancing defense against spiritual disturbances.

  – Enhances vitality, recovers spirit and physical strength, balances overworked office workers and creative professionals. Strengthens kidneys, absorbs illness, improves sleep, and helps with alcohol, smoking, and drug addiction. Makes one stable, relieves stress, calms the mind, eliminates emotional distress, and strengthens action. Enhances leadership charm, unity, and business support, known as the “leader stone”.

  – Obsidian can also be used for meditation or placed at home. Those who can may place a large Obsidian stone or a Seven-Star Array at the entrance to protect the home.

15.  Red Jasper

– “Red Jasper” mainly promotes heart chakra development, alleviates depression, aids in secret practices, keeps wearers cheerful, awakens love needs, makes people passionate and willing to give, increasing chances of attracting love. It’s suitable for those in relationships. It can also treat the pain, loss, and depression caused by breakups, stabilizing and softening emotions.

16.  Tiger’s Eye

– Also known as Tiger Eye Stone, is a gemstone with a cat’s eye effect, mostly in yellow-brown, with silky luster stripes. It’s a variety of quartz that can be replaced by crocidolite fibers with silicon. The incomplete silicification process produces a blue variant called “Hawk’s Eye”. Tiger’s Eye empowers like a king, facilitating agreements and success, offering protection against evil, attracting and gathering wealth. It inspires courage, confidence, perseverance, and adherence to principles. It also enhances physical vitality, suitable for the weak or recovering. Tiger’s Eye is the lucky stone for Capricorn and Sagittarius, preventing depression and psychosomatic illnesses, boosting confidence and inner strength, and encouraging creative pursuits, calmness, and balance.

17.  Turquoise

– Turquoise has been used by ancient civilizations for jewelry and ornaments, such as by the Native Americans and ancient Persians. Among various ethnic groups in China, the Tibetan people have the most extensive use of turquoise. Almost every Tibetan owns some form of turquoise jewelry. Turquoise has a long history in Tibet, with the highest quality coming from Persia, and other sources including the American Southwest. Tibetans highly value turquoise that is sky blue without cracks.

– Turquoise holds significant importance in Tibetan culture, used in the first Tibetan king’s crown, as offerings, and as gifts among high-ranking lamas and to neighboring countries. In the 20th century, gold and turquoise were still primary materials for jewelry among the Lhasa nobility.

– In many Asian societies, blue is considered auspicious, attributing special powers to blue or blue gemstones. Some Tibetan groups believe wearing a turquoise ring ensures safe travel. Dreaming of turquoise signifies good fortune and a new beginning. Wearing turquoise that turns green indicates liver disease, but some believe it shows the stone’s ability to absorb the virus causing jaundice.

– Many Tibetans wear necklaces with turquoise considered as soul stones. An ancient legend describes the relationship between turquoise and the soul: by divine decree, Tibetans are forbidden from throwing any turquoise into rivers, as doing so might cause their soul to leave their body, leading to death.

– Turquoise is commonly used in beads, varying in size from 8 to 60mm, either polished or uncut. In Buddhist malas with 108 beads, turquoise can be a primary bead or spacer. Many Tibetan communities use turquoise in daily hair decorations. Nomadic women style their hair in 108 sections adorned with turquoise and coral. For married women in southern Tibet, wearing turquoise in their hair is essential, expressing wishes for their husband’s longevity. Not wearing any turquoise is considered disrespectful to the husband.

18.  Grossular

– High-quality grossular garnets exhibit a “fluorescence” similar to glassy jade, which is stunningly beautiful. Grossular colors range from deep green, green-gray, to yellow-green, occasionally gray, but predominantly green hues. The green variation typically includes yellow or gray tones, while the yellow variation tends to be bright yet not vivid, with a grayish tint. The best grossular garnets are usually aggregates, deep green in color. However, due to the cleavage development in single crystals, faceted single crystals are rare. Most grossular garnets found in the market are colorless varieties from Hebei, China, and are mostly aggregates.

 Garnet

– The Geological Museum of China houses an orange-red manganese aluminum garnet crystal weighing 1397 carats from Xinjiang. The National Museum of Natural History in the United States showcases one of the world’s finest cinnamon stones (iron calcium aluminum garnet), a delicately carved Christ head weighing 61.5 carats, considered priceless.

– Garnet’s effects include improving blood-related issues, promoting circulation, enhancing vitality, and achieving beauty and skin care benefits, making it a favorite among women.

– It helps improve reproductive system functions and enhances the body’s regeneration capabilities, speeding up wound healing.

– For those who frequently work late, overtime, or are exhausted from day and night work, garnet can significantly restore physical energy.

19.  Green Garnet

– Also known as green demantoid, its scientific name is grossular garnet. Its effects include:

  – Enhancing personal vitality, charm, and sociability, and improving gynecological conditions.

  – Assisting the body’s regeneration capabilities, accelerating wound healing.

  – Eliminating melancholy, worries, and promoting a pleasant mood.

  – The green energy symbolizes luck, and wearing it can improve personal fortune.

20.  Red Garnet

– Corresponds to the root chakra, suitable for women with weak constitutions, imbalanced qi and blood, replenishing energy for the lower three chakras.

– Enhances personal vitality, charm, and sociability, improving gynecological conditions.

– Wearing red garnet supports the body’s regeneration capabilities, accelerating wound healing.

21.  Conch Shell

– During the Qing dynasty, officials of the sixth rank wore headwear made of white liuli (glass) and conch. Placing a conch shell on a Buddhist altar or at home as a treasure can adjust and supplement the magnetic field lost in the house, eliminating all negative energies and evil spirits, changing feng shui effects, naturally creating a harmonious aura, ensuring household well-being and smooth affairs. Conch shell is one of the ancient seven treasures, alongside gold, silver, liuli, agate, coral, amber, and pearl.

22.  Tourmaline

– Tourmaline is a group name for gemstones, but according to the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), it can be divided into fourteen types: red tourmaline, green tourmaline, blue tourmaline, black tourmaline, purple tourmaline, colorless tourmaline, bi-color tourmaline, watermelon tourmaline, cat’s eye tourmaline, sodium magnesium tourmaline, alexandrite color-change tourmaline, calcium lithium tourmaline, chromium tourmaline, and Paraiba tourmaline.

– Tourmaline’s vibrant colors can easily bring joy and a sense of freedom, open-mindedness, and broadened perspectives.

– It stimulates creativity, brings endless inspiration and thoughts, and promotes calmness, clarity, and concentration, enabling effective actions. It also attracts love and friendship.

– Tourmaline emits a harmonious energy field, attracting people to its wearer, melting barriers between individuals. It has a significant impact on metabolism and endocrine system activities, balancing internal energy fields, facilitating the combination and integration of opposing elements, and resolving interpersonal conflicts and contradictions.