Stone Medicine

• Azurite-malachite (copper): Copper conducts like nerves and affects liver blood; powder mixed with beeswax as a local paste for chronic spasm. (Yuen)
• Beryllium / beryl stones — for Ren and Du (genetic defects): Beryllium relates to the creation of Jing; toxic internally but used topically; for genetic defects work on Ren and Du with beryl stones. (Yuen)
• Bian stone (Bianshi): Much more diversified: contains components relating to bone (calcium carbonate) and to blood/blood vessels. (Yuen)
• Bloodstone (heliotrope): Associate/transformer stone for blood stasis; red-and-green jasper working wood/liver and pericardium. (Yuen)
• Calcite (male golden vs female white): Golden calcite (male) amplifies the solar plexus for vitality and intuition; white calcite (female) cleanses life force, chakras and aura and aids memory. (Johnson)
• Cinnabar (Zhu Sha) talismans: Powdered cinnabar mixed with water made red ink for talismans (fu) to seal the body's exit orifices. (Yuen) → Zhu Sha
• Concave vs convex geodes/mirrors: Concave (geodes) capture and hold — used to trap and seal spirits; convex oval stones/mirrors shield and bounce energy for protection; flat mirrors reflect. (Johnson)
• Copper (Tibetan magic mirror): Ancient magic mirrors are copper; choose one with 3-6-9-12 dot markings for the cycles of body, nature, time. (Johnson)
• Crystal ball scrying with herb smoke: Herbs burned on charcoal create fog around a crystal ball with candles; the herbs sedate the conscious mind to access the subconscious. (Johnson)
• Double-terminated quartz and gems in the stupa core: Double-terminated quartz moves energy both up and down (single points direct one way); it is packed with gems, herbs and sarira in a stupa's central pole. (Johnson)
• Double-terminated quartz image in the central channel: Visualize the fused three dantians as a double-terminated quartz from Huiyin to Baihui, linking Soul Star–Pole Star and Earth Star. (Johnson) → REN-1 Huiyin, DU-20 Baihui
• Five nectars and their stones/metals: White bodhicitta (semen) — space, white light, center, quartz crystal; feces — wind/air, green, north, turquoise; red bodhicitta (menstrual blood) — fire, red, west, copper; urine — water, blue, south, iron; marrow (brain) — earth, yellow, east, gold. (Johnson)
• Five- or nine-prong vajra and bell: Three-prong (wrathful) vajra for destroying rituals; five/nine-prong for healing after cutting with the phurba; bell (left, wisdom) and vajra (right, method). (Johnson)
• Gem elixir safety: Wash crystals before making gem elixirs; never use crystals still attached to base rock; put toxic minerals like malachite in a separate inner jar (indirect method). (Johnson)
• Gypsum / desert rose / alabaster: Gypsum stone (desert rose) placed where someone committed suicide; alabaster (a gypsum) urns in Egyptian and Chinese burial. (Yuen)
• Hemimorphite (zinc silicate): Popular Chinese alchemy zinc stone, usually bluish; a chain silicate. (Yuen)
• Hu Po (Amber) — mineral/resin: Also listed as a stone/mineral substance: settles the spirits and kills Gui (see Herb entry). (Lewis) → Hu Po
• Jade: Jade stones can be used with the anointing to encourage alignment, integration and return. (Lewis)
• Jade (Yu) in burial: Stone of completion/eternity: noble burials placed jade in the mouth, rectum, and on Baihui or Yintang under a cap — the three openings where the spirit escapes. (Yuen) → DU-20 Baihui, DU-1 Changqiang
• Jade stone / bezoar / holed river rock (weather magic): For rain rituals, place a jade rock, a bezoar or a holed river rock in a vessel of saffron water as sympathetic magic. (Johnson)
• Lemurian crystal: Harmonizer for very deep loss and sadness. (Yuen)
• Mineral & shell substances to extinguish wind: For acute nervous-system flare-ups, wind-extinguishing substances are often minerals: coral, oyster shell (Mu Li), dragon bone (Long Gu). (Yuen) → Long Gu, Mu Li
• Mineral group in Feng Yin Tang: Long Gu, Mu Li, Han Shui Shi, Hua Shi, Shi Gao and Zi Shi Ying (amethyst/fluorite) give pressure, structure and cooling to settle wind. (Gioioso) → Fen Ying Tang, Zi Shi Ying
• Minerals that calm the shen (suppressive approach): Mu Li, Long Gu, pearl (Zhen Zhu) and hematite (Dai Zhe Shi) anchor and pacify wind; long-term mineral use damages liver qi and kidney yang. (Yuen)
• Pyrite (iron sulfide) on BL-1/BL-2: An iron stone like pyrite can be taped on BL-2 (in place of BL-1, which is hard to tape) or pressed non-insertively to treat the divergent confluence. (Yuen) → UB-1 Jingming, UB-2 Zanzhu
• Quartz (Shi Ying) — harmonizer/envoy: In Shen Nong's Ben Cao quartz was a harmonizer that allows other stones to be more prevalent — an envoy or emissary. (Yuen)
• Quartz crystal orientation: Crystals multiply energy; a quartz pendant point-down pulls energy down, reversed pulls it up, double-terminated balances, so don't wear them casually. (Johnson) → PC-8 Laogong
• Rhodonite / rhodochrosite (manganese): Manganese relaxes nerves and clears heat stirring wind; powder with beeswax as a local paste, or roll rhodonite spheres in the hand for MS and neuropathy. (Yuen)
• Rock reading and bone/stone casting: Client picks a rock and reads four imprints on top (future) and four underneath (past); bones and stones are tossed and read by how they scatter. (Beery)
• Sapphire / ruby (aluminum oxide) — red or pink sapphire: Aluminum stones address wind; for wind bi with blood he chooses red/pink sapphire as the principal stone. (Yuen)
• Smithsonite (zinc carbonate, 'Lu'): Many colors (often yellow). Processed into an elixir with saline to match tears and used as eye drops to prevent sensory/vision decline (e.g., floaters). (Yuen) → UB-1 Jingming
• Stone mala beads (amber, amethyst, carnelian…): Choose different stone or colored malas day to day, since each color affects certain organs and states; don't share personal malas, which hold your energy. (Johnson)
• Stones & minerals on acupoints (law of signatures): Stones' density resonates with Jing and anchors us; place on or massage over acupoints, or powder and blend with essential oils for anointing during transition. (Lewis)
• Stones at end of life — anchoring & imperishability: Stones' density resonates with Jing: bring into the core before release; rest on acupoints or powder into a balm with essential oils to anoint. (Lewis)
• Stones work on the yuan/jing/brain level: Stones stabilize and act at the yuan, jing and brain level. (Yuen)
• Sugilite: Named as another key stone for neurology. (Yuen)
• Sulfur (Liu Huang): Tonifies and warms yang; sulfur conjugates fat into water solubility (phase II detox), MSM for prostatitis and joints; found in eggs and mung beans. (Yuen) → Liu Huang
• Tourmaline (aluminum stone): Aluminum stones are powerful for nerves/wind; tourmaline too hard to powder — use as a wand/massage tool over spasming areas. (Yuen)
• Zhong Ru Shi (stalactite): Used for a restless fetus in the seventh month. (Lewis) → Zhong Ru Shi
• Zi Shi Ying (purple outstanding stone) — opens the Chong; Yuen: amethyst, not fluorite: Zi Shi Ying is the key alchemical substance for the Chong; Yuen says it is amethyst (purple quartz), not fluorite as modern materia medica states. (Yuen) → Zi Shi Ying
• Zinc stones (Qian / Bai Qian) — methylation: Stones high in zinc support methylation (epigenetic switching); Chinese alchemy used several zinc stones. (Yuen) → Bai Qian
• Zinc stones for genetic issues: Zinc influences methylation (from a Western mineral view) — stones used to influence genetic issues. (Yuen)