Healing Stones for the Vital Organs

83 Crystals with Traditional Chinese Medicine

Michael Gienger, Wolfgang Maier

• Publisher: Healing Arts Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781594772757
• eBook ISBN: 9781620554920
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Alternative & Complementary Medicine

Combines healing crystal therapy with the "organ clock" circadian rhythm of each organ system, based on traditional Chinese medicine • Examines 12 organ systems and the gemstones best suited for addressing their health • Provides the key to understanding the organ clock's function and its ability to enhance both diagnosis and treatment One of the chief tools in the traditional Chinese doctor's toolbox is an understanding of the circadian rhythms that govern all the organ systems of the body. In addition to facilitating early and accurate diagnosis, this "organ clock" lets the practitioner apply therapies to the organ's meridians when they are at their peak functioning point, thereby eliciting the greatest benefit. In this book authors Michael Gienger and Wolfgang Maier have created a simple, yet highly effective self-care treatment system for addressing common health ailments using gemstones and the organ clock. They detail the healing benefits of 83 crystals, indicating the physical as well as emotional, psychic, and spiritual aspects they support in each of 12 major organ systems. For example, the stomach not only receives nourishment for the body, it also fosters the ability to engage in new things in life. Agate and calcite assist this function by giving confidence for new experiences, while aiding in digestion (and processing hard to digest thoughts). Treatments for the stomach should be done between 7: 00 and 9: 00 a.m., the time we typically take in new nourishment after a night of sleep, to receive maximum results. With each body system in turn, the authors explain how to select the stones best suited to address your current health concerns, the times of day they should be used, and how long treatment should last in order to restore optimum health and prevent the onset of future illness.

Function Areas: Physical and Psychic Aspects of Healing

FROM THE CHINESE PERSPECTIVE, the day begins with the time of the lungs. In Zen Buddhist monasteries monks often rise at 4:00 a.m.—at the high point of the lungs’ time—in order to begin the day with breathing practice or meditation. In this way, they use the full strength of their lung energy to meet the day and the world.

Lung meridian

Breathing—connection to the world

BREATHING AND RECEIVING

The lungs take in the chi—the life energy that surrounds us and connects us with the world—and lead it into the body. This takes place through breathing, which is the most important function of the lungs.

	Amethyst releases feelings of closeness in the chest. Breathing thus becomes freer and deeper. Amethyst also promotes the exchange of gases in the lungs.
	Apophyllite releases inner pressure and anxiety, helps with shortness of breath, and facilitates the intake of life energy. It’s an effective healing stone for asthma.
	Aquamarine energizes breathing and intensifies the intake of life energy. Helpful for allergies affecting the air passages and restricting breathing.
	Blue chalcedony helps for respiratory illnesses and impurities in the air passages (smoking, pollution). Improves breathing function through self-cleansing of the airways.
	Fluorite helps to resolve patterns of thought and behavior when they restrict personal freedom and block the natural life flow. Thus chronic tensions are released (and also chronic dry cough) and breathing becomes freer.
	Moss agate helps with debilitating psychic pressure and bodily illness (infections, allergies) that lead to constriction of the air passages.
	Rock crystal (quartz) opens the nose and upper air passages, makes breathing freer, and strengthens the flow of life energy.
	Rutilated quartz helps with anxiety and apathy, thus releasing tension in the chest. Imparts a feeling of breadth and greatness, deepening the breathing and increasing the volume of air inhaled. Helpful for bronchitis and lung blockages.

RHYTHMS OF THE BODY

Breathing, beginning with a baby’s first cry and ending only with death, is—together with the heartbeat—the most dependable and most important rhythmical function of the body. The energy of the lungs is central to all the rhythms that determine life. This is true for everything from regular, strong breathing, to the pulse, to the rhythms of sleeping and waking. An irregular life rhythm (for example, a constantly changing work schedule) weakens the lungs.

	Amethyst calms the breathing, which also allows it to become deeper. Amethyst helps to achieve a regular flow in life, including time for composing oneself and for inner rest. Improves sleep and feeling of being awake and conscious during the day.
	Apophyllite encourages openness to changing perceptions and needs when these have been suppressed by too much regulation. Supports confidence in the flow of nature.
	Aquamarine helps to regulate confusion and chaos, thus bringing rhythm back into life. Also helps with respiratory illness and allergies, which tend to stir up chaos in the body.
	Blue chalcedony and moss agate facilitate harmony between internal rhythms and the rhythms of nature. A...

Table of contents

• Cover Image
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Ancient Tools for Timely Healing
• Function Areas: Physical and Psychic Aspects of Healing
• Footnotes
• Recommended Reading
• About the Authors
• About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
• Illustration Credits
• Books of Relared Interest
• Copyright & Permissions
• Index