THE POWER OF MINERALS. CURATIVE AND MEDICINAL PROPERTIES.

Libra

MARCASITE or PANDES (21st, 22nd and 23rd degrees of the sign of Libra)

Description: Stone well known by men. There are three types, depending on their colour: golden (gold colour), argentea (silver colour) and copper (copper colour).
Healing/medicinal properties:
► The milled golden marcasite heals the sores, heals the fistulas anywhere, and removes the film that forms in the eyes (could refer to a cataract). Hanging the stone on young children takes away their fears of their nature.
► The burnt argentea marcasite frizzes the hair, improves vision and applied to the skin, heals the morphea (thickening of the skin).
► The burnt and ground copper marcasite, introduced into the eyes, eliminates the leftover meat and improves vision.
★ The name Marcasite was given in Arabic to the PYRITE. Both minerals belong to the Class called Sulphides and have the same Chemical Formula (FeS₂), but Pyrite crystallizes in the cubic system and Marcasite in the rhombic system.
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Escorpión

CRYSTAL (ROCK CRYSTAL) or BOLLAR (5th degree of the sign of Scorpion)

Description: Very well known stone, found in many places. It was believed that it was formed when water froze. White stone, like clear water, hard and moderately difficult to break. It has two qualities opposite to the other stones: one, that when heated, receives any color put in it and another, that the older it is, the less it is worth. It melts with fire and can be shaped into any figure. Modelled in a round shape and exposed to the sun’s rays, it can burn whatever is in front of it with ease to burn.
Healing/medicinal properties: none indicated.
★ Rock Crystal is the name given to Hyaline Quartz, which is transparent.
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Sagittarius

SEDINECH or AMATITES (HEMATITE) (2nd degree of the sign of Sagittarius)

Description: Red in colour, it is easy to break. Very well-known stone.It is better the darker, the cleaner and if it does not crumble.
Healing / medicinal properties: It thins the fat of the sockets of the eyes. Mixed with women’s milk, it heals ophthalmia (eye inflammation) and eye sores. Its red filings are very good for healing scabies and itchy eyes.
Mixed with wine, it heals urine retention and makes women who are sick from frequent bleeding lose it. Those who spit blood also benefit, as they heal faster.
It combines retentive strength with sharpness, so it is very precious. To increase its effects, it must be drunk with wine, previously burnt and reduced to powder.
★ Hematite stone belongs to the Class called Oxides, it is an Iron Oxide, and its Chemical Formula is Fe₂O₃. Hematite is derived from a Greek word meaning “blood” and is also called Oligisto.
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AZARNECH or ZINDERCH or ORPIMENT (12th and 13th degree of the sign of Sagittarius)

Description: There are two varieties, one of red colour and the other one of yellow colour. It is found in many places.
Healing / medicinal properties: Burnt, reduced to dust and placed on the teeth and gums, great benefit is obtained. Placed on the hair, removes it, even, if it is kept for a long time, it burns the skin.
► The red stone is light to break. Milled and mixed with visquiamo juice and applied on the removed hair, they will never be born again. Mixed with resin, it heals alopecia. Mixed with pitch, it removes the white drops that come out on the nails. It is used as a medicine against diseases of the nose, mouth, sores, fistulas and haemorrhoids. It is good to put in the medicines made for those with chest complaints. If someone with an old cough is smoked with it, he gets great benefit, and eating a bit of it mixed with honey makes the voice much clearer.
► The yellow stone is the most noble. It is gold in colour and is made up of leaves. Mixed with lime, it’s deadly toxic. Ground and mixed with milk, it kills every fly that comes near. Mixed with oil or wax it is good for the one who is whipped or for scratching wounds, eliminating bad flesh. It heals the corrosive disease that forms in the mouth (fermes estiominus) and mixed with the fat of the pig, it cures the abscess.
★ Each of the varieties could correspond to the Realgar (red) and the Orpiment (yellow) respectively. Both belong to the Class Sulphides, they are Arsenic Sulphides, and their Chemical Formula is AsS (Realgar) and As₂S₃ (Orpiment).

STONES OF SALT (18th and 19th grade of the sign of Sagittarius)

Description: It is found in many places and there are several types, although it focuses on those of a stony nature: Salt that comes from India, which is brown with black drops, strong, very hard to break and very salty, and Gem Salt, which is also hard. It mentions another type, Kneading Salt, which is taken from the lagoons and formed by fire or the heat of the sun, which helps men more than all the others.
Healing/medicinal properties:
► Indian Salt helps against phlegm, due to its power to expel moisture from bodies. It is also good for apothemas coming from phlegm and, mixed with medicines applied to the eyes, it eliminates protuberances of the lacrimal caruncle. Mixed with oil and smeared on the body, it removes fatigue.
It has the power to cleanse the bodies and make the gold and silver much clearer, each in its own colour. It removes the dirt. When it is put into the flesh of any animal, it makes the humidity come out of it, making the body last a long time, without rotting, smelling bad or damaging it.

► Gem Salt takes care that bad flesh does not grow in sores, it is also good for the abscess that come from the phlegm or that suffer the hydropics. Drinking a little of it, it purges the phlegm. It is one of the medicines made for the disease related to a grape-shaped tumour in the uvula and also for the abscess that grows in the throat (it could be tonsillitis). It heals the insteps. Mixed with mastranto and applying the poultice in the wound of the scorpion, it is very good. Also in poultice, it is used in Egypt as the best medicine for the wound of the atimzach. It also makes you vomit.
★ These Salt Stones correspond to Halite, of the Halides Class, whose Chemical Formula is ClNa.

AXEP or ALUM (21st of the sign of Sagittarius)

Description: They illuminate and clarify everything that is cooked with them. They are used for dyeing and the dyed receives very beautiful and clear colours.There are several types, highlighting three (zacaztir, zatiriculi, uguria / ayamei) and have various colours (green, white gray, yellow). They all have an acidic taste and break easily.
Healing/medicinal properties: They are good for eliminating the excess film from the eyes and the leftover flesh from any place that is, they enter into the medicines that are made for the scabies, propitiated by the excessive humidity, and heals the sores that are made in the mouth. If it is burnt, it is mixed with something and smeared on the armpits, it removes the bad smell. It helps the gums and the cracks that are made by the scabies, called scrofula.
★ Alum belongs to the Sulphates Class and its Chemical Formula is KAl(SO₄)₂ • 12H₂O.

Capricornio

ZEBECH or JET (4th degree of the sign of Capricorn)

Description: It is very black, hard, light, easy to break and reflects like a mirror. It is found in many places. Its appearance resembles boards, some thicker and others thinner. It can be carved in any shape you want.
Healing/medicinal properties: Ground up and mixed with the medicines made to sharpen the eyesight, it helps a lot. Likewise, if the stone is made into a mirror, looking into it will greatly improve one’s eyesight, even if it was deteriorated due to old age or illness.
★ Jet is a variety of Carbon formed by plant debris.

CARNELIAN or ALAAQUIC (6th degree of the sign of Capricorn)

Description: Of red color throwing to yellow, is clear, bright and transparent. There is another species that resembles the water that goes out of the meat when throwing salt to it, which is less noble. It is located in many places. It is very beautiful.
Healing/medicinal properties: It is good to stagnate the blood, especially for women, when it comes out more than it should. In powder form and applied to the teeth, it cleans them and makes them clear, growing flesh on them and making the gums very red. These effects are greater in the variety whose color resembles the water that comes out of the flesh when salt is added.
In addition, Carnelian helps lawyers when they carry it with them to reason fearlessly and neatly. ★ Carnelian is a type of Chalcedony, which is a microcrystalline variety of Quartz.
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TALC or ALFATH or ARAT ARAROZA (10th degree of the sign of Capricorn)

Description: It has the colour of shells and is found in many places. Arat Araroza means “bridal sweat”. It was believed that it was formed when the dew settled on the earth, arranging itself like films, one over the other. If it is hit with a hammer, it falls apart into sheets, which are used as lights for baths, as if it were glass. The thinner they are, the more they let the light through. If it is ground, it turns to dust.
Healing/medicinal properties: If a limb is smeared with talcum powder, it does not burn as quickly as a limb that has not been smeared. It retains the blood of those who spit because of illness or women, when they bleed more than they should.It helps to heal moisture-damaged flesh, whether it is in women’s breasts or in men’s virile members or behind the ears. It also cleans the sores that appear on top of the curved and non-moving fingers, and they heal.
★ Talc belongs to the Silicates Class, subclass Philosilicates, being its chemical formula (Si₄O₁₀) Mg₃ (OH)₂.

GYPSUM (19th degree sign of Capricorn)

Description: White, red or a mixture of both, soft and easy to break. It is located in many places. Ground and mixed with some thing, it hardens and it becomes stone. It is used as a material for building houses.
Healing/medicinal properties: Used in desiccant medicines.Used to stagnate the blood when a lot of it comes out. When burnt, it is much more effective at retaining moisture and is much more when kneaded with vinegar, stopping the sweat from the body that has been smeared with it. If you drink it before it’s burned, it’s deadly poison.
★ Gypsum belongs to the Sulphates Class and its Chemical Formula is CaSO₄ • 2H₂O.
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THE BOOK OF STONES: LAPIDARY OF KING ALFONSO “THE WISE” OF CASTILE

The properties of stones have been studied by men since ancient times. Their physical, chemical and magical qualities were carefully collected by the wise men in various manuscripts. The Lapidary of King Alfonso X “the Wise” is a compilation of treatises in which the properties of stones, precious and not so precious, are collected. Don Alfonso, the driving force behind the Toledo School of Translators, made its translation into Spanish possible from its original languages in the second half of the 13th century.

Only the first part of the eleven parts of the original Lapidary is preserved, which contains the work of the master and nature scholar Abolays and a treatise attributed to another scholar of the subject, Mohamad-Aben-Quich.

Abolays, who was the owner of a treatise on stones written by Chaldean wise men, studied and experienced what was explained there and translated it into the Arabic language. It is structured in three parts, which respectively describe the properties of 360 stones (30 for each of the 12 signs of the zodiac), the influence of the stars on them and the influence of the planets also on them.

Mohamad-Aben-Quich composed a manuscript also referring to the stones and their relationship with stars and planets, based on the knowledge of the wise men and their own experience, making an exhibition in alphabetical order.

We will focus on the following points in the curiosities of some of the stones mentioned in the Lapidary, mainly those of mineral origin. The Lapidary also refers to the properties of other stones of animal or vegetable origin, fossils or rocks. Some of the stones have not yet been identified.

THE POWER OF MINERALS. CURATIVE AND MEDICINAL PROPERTIES.

We will refer in particular to the healing and medicinal properties that were attributed to the stones that we have selected from all those mentioned in the Lapidary. However, it is not recommended to put into practice what is contained in the Lapidary that, from here, we transfer. It is possible to make interpretations of the text of the Lapidary with slight variations with respect to the one collected here.

We are going to begin by seeing what the Lapidary teaches us about some of the 30 stones that correspond to the 30 degrees of the sign of GEMINI and then we will comment on other stones of the rest of the zodiacal signs.

Gemini

GOLD (2nd degree of the sign of Gemini):

Description: Yellow, it is the most noble metal, it is very heavy and it is found in small pieces (nuggets) in the sands of seas and rivers. The more it is burnished, the more it clears up, so that one can look into it, as if it were a mirror.
Healing/medicinal properties: Its filings mixed with food and drink help the one who has heart tremor (palpitations) and weakness, as well as the one who has fears due to melancholy. Also, it heals or gets great benefit the one who has ringworm and the one who suffers from alopecia. Gold is also used in a burning state to seal wounds, as they do not blister and heal more quickly.
★ Gold belongs to the Class called Elements and its chemical symbol is Au (from Latin “Aurum”).

Cancer

ADEHENICH (1st -5th degree of the sign of Cancer):

Description: It is found in Copper mines and has 5 varieties: green (the colour of the stone called Prasma), peacock feather colour, green (similar to Verdigris used by painters), painted and three colours. It is made up of crusts, some layers on top of others, the product of the petrification of mist on the Copper inside the mine. The layers are of one, two or several colours, depending on the nature of the place and the cleanliness of the air inside the mine, depending on whether it is cloudy or lighter.
Healing/medicinal properties: If when it is polished, the poisoned dust is given to drink, it heals; and if it is the healthy one who drinks it, it does him great harm, because it is in itself a mortal poison; therefore, so great an effort is made to expel the other poison from the body, that it loses its virtue and, therefore, does not harm, but benefits. The poison in the stone is received during the process of formation in the Copper mine.

► The first type, in green, is soft and light to break, darkening with dark time and lightening with light time. Every figure that is made of it falls apart; in some places it is worked on the lathe and made into boxes and other things. It is distinguished from the stone called Prasma (also green) because it is soft and always found in large pieces, while the Prasma is hard and is found in large and small pieces.
The one who has it in his mouth and swallows saliva is bad for him, especially for the respiratory ducts. If it is mixed with vinegar and spread with the mixture what is affected by the disease called rose (in Castile), the patient heals.

★ This stone seems to match the Malachite.

► The Malachite whose colour is similar to that of peacock feathers is soft in nature, like the rest of the Malachites. It clears up in the clear morning air.
If it is put on the scorpion wound, it helps. If 5 or 7 flies with their heads cut off are crushed with this stone and it is placed on a wasp’s wound, it heals and the pain disappears. If when the stone breaks, the Copper found inside is ground and given to drink to the one who has drunk poison from some animal, it heals.
★ The colour of peacock feathers is green and blue. Therefore it can be understood that it is a stone composed of Malachite and Azurite, which are minerals that have a similar chemical structure.

► The variety whose green colour resembles the Verdigris that painters use, if it is ground with linseed oil it is finer and lighter than the Verdigris.
Physicists put it in poultices because it has the property of cutting away the pains of hot abscesses and the redness in them, especially the abscess they call alhambra. If it is ground and tempered with water and applied to ringworm, it heals in one or two applications.
► The painted variety (of many colours) is a very strong poison, so if two or more drachmas are given to drink from it, it breaks the guts and stomach of the drinker, killing him later. The only antidote is the stone called Bezaar, which acts against deadly poisons. Whoever brings this stone with him, helps him against the sadness that comes from melancholy humor.
► The three-coloured variety (always green and white) is the most valuable of all the others. If it is covered with wine for two days and two nights, it melts and blends with it. If afterwards it is mixed with henna and the hair is washed with it, it is dyed with black dye that does not go away unless new hair is born. It dyes equally any member of the man on whom it is placed.

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SILVER or ARGENT or FEDA (12th degree of the sign of Cancer)

Description: White, it is a well known noble metal, found in many places and used for many things. The more it is polished, the more it shines, but it does not allow you to see through it. As a metal, it allows forging and smelting, it is lighter than Gold and less than Iron or Copper. It is not as soft to work with as Gold but more so than Iron or Copper. Salt lightens Silver.
Healing/medicinal properties: Its filings mixed with the medicines used against phlegm called vitreum, help. The same is true for all phlegm-related diseases.
★ Silver belongs to the Class called Elements and its chemical symbol is Ag (from latin “Argentum”).

LEAD or PLUMB or ARRAGAZ (13th degree of the sign of Cancer)

Description: It’s a known metal, found in many places.
Healing/Medicinal Properties: Burnt and applied to the eyes, it wipes away moisture and heals sores, both in animals and men. Sores heal faster.
★ Lead belongs to the Class called Elements and its chemical symbol is Pb (from latin “Plumbum”).

Leo

SULPHUR mixed colors (30th degree of the sign of Leo)

Description: stone lighter than other types of Sulphur, with a mixture of colours.
Healing/Medicinal Properties: Crushed and mixed with oil it heals scabies, itchiness, nasal mucosa catarrh and cough. It helps in the treatment of pulmonary phthisis.
★ Sulphur belongs to the Class called Elements and its chemical symbol is S (from latin “Sulphur”).
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Virgo

LEAD (18th degree of the sign of Virgo)

Description: dark stone, brown colored that throws to green and dripping with yellow and black drops. It is difficult to break. They are big pieces, of which they become glasses and bowls in which the scents of what is poured in them are preserved and strengthened. However, it is harmful to eat in them, as they make you sick with melancholy.
Healing/medicinal properties: It undoes the thick dandruff and heals the split ends, washing the head with water mixed with mother’s milk in which the Lead stone has been previously introduced.

MARBLE or FARAZTAZ (20th degree of the sign of Virgo)

Description: the best is white, with green, yellow and red streaks.
Healing / medicinal properties: Burnt and mixed with Ammonia Salt and then ground, applied to yellow or black teeth and turns them white and tightens the gums. By applying the powder of the ground and burned stone to the fire burns, it improves them. If these powders are given to the person who wants to vomit, it dissuades him, pressing the mouth of the stomach. The ground stone mixed with oil and wax helps the pain of the foundation (anus).
★ Marble is a metamorphic rock that is derived from Limestone and is composed mainly of Calcite.
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PRESENTATION OF “AQUAMARINE” IN MINERALITUM.COM, ONLINE MINERAL SHOP.

“AQUAMARINE” is inspired by nature and the universe of minerals. It is an original musical theme, played on the piano, which has been composed exclusively for MINERALITUM.COM and for all its followers.

We love “AQUAMARINE” because when we listen to it, it connects us with the natural world, reminds us of the flow of the waters or the awakening of a sunrise. From beginning to end it transmits good feelings, such as serenity, harmony, joy… It manages to evade us and make us spend pleasant moments.

Something similar happens when we contemplate mineral pieces. We perceive its harmony, which is provided by its ordered crystalline structure, and its beauty, which is reflected in its inimitable color, its luster, its vivacity… Its perfection radiates good vibrations and brings us happy moments.We encourage you to listen to “AQUAMARINE” and let your imagination fly, let’s see what it suggests to you. We hope you like this special tune. Enjoy!

PIECES SHOWN IN THE VIDEO “AQUAMARINE”.

The pieces that appear in the music video can be found in our online shop www.mineralitum.com. Spectacular fluorites of various colours, powerful quartzes, dazzling amethysts, vibrant malachite, hypnotic garnets, delicate calcites, bright carnelians…

The list of minerals in order of appearance on the video is:

1. Green blue Fluorite. China. 90x70x45 (mm).
2. Green blue Fluorite. China. 70x60x36 (mm).
3. Violet Amethyst (variety of Quartz). Brazil. 75x60x30 (mm).
4. Fluorite octahedrons (purple, green, pink). China. 5 pieces of different sizes.
5. Purple Fluorite. China. 110x115x40 (mm).
6. Yellow Quartz. China. 175x100x117 (mm).
7. White Quartz. China. 130x120x80 (mm).
8. Orange Topaz. Brazil. 95x70x60 (mm).
9. Orange Carnelian heart (Chalcedony type). Madagascar. 78x63x35 (mm).
10. Green blue Fluorite. China. 110x85x45 (mm).
11. Iceland Spar (variety of Calcite). EE.UU. 74x54x47 (mm).
12. Green Fluorite. Madagascar. 85x60x45 (mm).
13. Green Malachite. Democratic Republic of Congo. 75x35x25 (mm).
14. Green Fluorite. Madagascar. 137x95x45 (mm).
15. Green Fluorite. China. 75x59x80 (mm).
16. Yellow Calcite. China. 105x60x75 (mm).
17. Reddish yellow Calcite. China. 64x68x50 (mm).
18. Green Quartz. China. 70x55x130 (mm).
19. Garnet. China. 80x60x55 (mm).
20. Transparent Quartz (Rock crystal). Brazil. 90x60x80 (mm).

AQUAMARINE.

Aquamarine stone is a variety of Beryl (Be₃Al₂(SiO₃)₆), which belongs to the Cyclosilicates. Its tone is bluish, similar to that of seawater. It is highly valued in jewelry.

Beryl crystallizes in the hexagonal system and its crystals are hexagonal prisms. The faces of the prisms are often striated in longitudinal direction. It is very hard (7,5 – 8 Mohs) and light (2,65 – 2,90 g/cm³), translucent or transparent, with a vitreous luster and it has an imperfect cleavage, in basal direction.

As a curiosity, Aquamarine is related to calm.

WHAT IS A MINERAL?

Minerals are natural chemical combinations, which can be very complex, although sometimes, more rarely, they are made up of simple elements such as carbon, gold, silver, or alloys that were formed in the course of geological processes. Most minerals are of non-organic composition, although exceptionally there are combinations of organic origin. More than 4.000 mineral species can be found in nature. The most abundant are silicates.

HOW WERE THE MINERALS FORMED?

The minerals that were formed and that continue to be formed on the surface and in the interior of the Earth, do so from magmatic processes in the interior of the Earth. In the course of the magmatic process, minerals are formed from incandescent melting silicates (the magma). When this magma reaches the upper layers, it cools and solidifies. During this process the minerals are formed, solid bodies that are the result of these chemical reactions and that present crystalline structures with an ordered atomic composition, also producing rocks with differentiated chemical compositions.

WHAT IS A GEM?

A gem, also popularly known as a precious stone, can be a type of mineral, a rock, or a petrified material, which after being properly cut and polished is plausible to be used in jewelry. There are different types of gems, standing out, among others: turquoise, tiger eye, chrysocolla, hematite, tourmaline, carnelian, rose quartz, malachite, sugilite, pyrite, amethyst, ruby , obsidian, jasper, lapis lazuli, agate, jade, feldspar, topaz, opal, diamond, emerald, sapphire, aquamarine.

WHERE ARE THE MINERALS EXTRACTED FROM?

The minerals are extracted from the mines. There are two types of mining: surface mining and underground mining. In surface mining, minerals are mined when they are found over a wide area, but not too deep in the ground. However, some minerals are found far below the surface of the earth, and underground mining is used to extract them.

ESOTERIC PROPERTIES OF MINERALS

There are theories that claim that crystals can have healing properties in people on a physical and psychic level. One of these currents defends that the crystals could influence the energy points (chakras) located in different parts of the body, so that when placed on them, they would vibrate energetically and could achieve their balance. This interconnection would produce physical and spiritual benefits in people. But not only its application in specific points of the body could bring these benefits. Since ancient times, there have been beliefs related to the power of minerals and their use in ornaments or talismans to prevent illness and negative energies and attract prosperity. This is the case of the ancient Egyptians, who used lapis lazuli in jewels, ornaments and amulets to keep away bad energies, to enhance clairvoyance, the connection with the beyond. It has also been used as a drink, mixing its powder with oil, wine or other liquids, to heal ailments.

Although there are no scientific studies that prove these beliefs, what we understand that cannot be denied is that the mere fact of contemplating the spectacular chromatic and formal beauty of the pieces that we have selected from Mineralitum for our shop online produces a positive effect on the spirit. Perhaps it is time to acquire one, the one that attracts us the most.

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