JADE HEALING STONES

Properties: The ancient Chinese culture has revered Jade for centuries. Jade is considered the health, wealth and longevity stone. Used also for courage, wisdom, justice, mercy, emotional balance, stamina, love, fidelity, humility, generosity, peace, harmony. Jade is known as androgynous, therefore it is considered having a gentle, steady pulse of healing energy.

Jade is found in different colours and can be used on the appropriate Chakra based on its colour. Properties common to all colours of Jade include its ability to mellow one's existence. Helps one rid themselves of negative thoughts and energy. Very beneficial to the heart in both physical and spiritual senses. It is a very protective stone and will keep its wearer out of harm's way. Jade bounds us to our earth energies and physical instincts. Jade is a humbling stone.

Mixed Jade

Folk Remedies: Jade works with the lungs, heart, thymus, immune, kidney and blood detoxification, nervous system. While all Jade has some healing influence, each colour relates more specifically to certain ailments or organs. Strengthens the body's filtration and cleansing systems and assists in the removal of toxins.

Butter Jade

Butter Jade

Butter Jade

Feng Shui: Jade is used in positive directions for longevity and a good life. Used in the Centre area for harmony and balance, in the Northeast area for wisdom and in the Southwest area for love and partnership. (Be sure to use two stones together in this area, never one or three).

Ice Jade

Soap Jade

Shadow Jade

History: There are two varieties of Jade, Jadeite and Nephrite. Nephrite is quite similar to Jadeite in its healing abilities, but its colours are creamier and less translucent than Jadeite; Nephrite is the more commonly found variety. Jade may come in a variety of colours, green, blue, black, violet, white, yellow and a reddish and brownish variety. Each with its own slightly different use.

Nephrite Jade

Green: Health, wealth, longevity stone. Ancient Chinese used also for courage, wisdom, justice, mercy, emotional balance, stamina, love, fidelity, humility, generosity, peace, harmony. Lungs, heart, thymus, immune, kidney and blood detoxification, nervous system. Androgynous. A gentle, steady energy. Properties include its ability to mellow one's existence. Helps one rid themselves of negative thoughts and energy. Strengthens the body's filtration and cleansing systems and assists in the removal of toxins. Very beneficial to the heart in both physical and spiritual senses. It is a very protective stone and will keep its wearer out of harm's way.

Blue Jade

Blue Jade: A peaceful and passive energy source. Helps people who meditate to relax and gain an inner serenity. A quiet teacher of patience and slow, steady progress. It is a wonderful stone to give to people who feel restricted or overcome by situations beyond their control.

Brown Jade: A stone that connects us tot he earth. A good stone to use to help settle matters of the home or to adjust to a new environment.

Green Jade: Most common. Very calming to the nervous system. The color green is representative of life or growth. Helps one channel passions in a constructive way, making expressions of love easier.

Purple Jade

Lavender Jade

Lavender Jade: In touch with the emotions. Beneficial to people who have been hurt by love or need to discover the gentleness within themselves. Can help one learn restraint and subtlety in matters of emotional importance.

Dark Red Jade

Red Jade

Red Jade: A passionate and active stone. Caution is advised here: it can have such a stimulating influence that the wearer becomes agitated and feels the need to express anger. It can help you extract those feelings and come to terms with them. Use Red Jade to blow off steam, to release tension.

White Jade

White or Cream Jade: Helps one direct their energy to its most advantageous outlet. Helps filter out distraction and allows you to envision the best result of a given situation. Also suggested for the eyes.

Yellow Jade

Yellow and Orange Jade: Both are similar enough to be considered together. Both impart the gift of joy and happiness. They teach the interconnectedness of all beings. Help organs that process food and waste in our bodies.

Black Jade

BLACK JADE: Enhances expressiveness, intelligence and perception. Thought to be a magic stone by the Mayan and Aztec cultures. Used in the treatment of disorders of the reproductive organs.

New Jade

NEW JADE: Enhances expressiveness, intelligence and perception. Thought to be a magic stone by the Mayan and Aztec cultures. Used in the treatment of disorders of the reproductive organs.

African Jade

African Jade is thought to be a very lucky stone. It not only attracts good luck but also financial wealth. It is said to be good for pregnancy, childbirth, kidney infections, fertility, hip pain, colic and regulates the heart. African Jade is thought to calm anxiety and can be used to heal dysfunctional relationships as well as opening up and balancing the heart chakra. African Jade promotes success from within the home.

Buddstone is a mottled green South African Jade, (Empowerment, Energy Movement, Healing), related to Verdite. Buddstone aids all forms of energy movement in the body--whether it is Kundalini, psychic or nutritional. General empowerment stone-Buddstone empowers many types of individuals and activities, from childhood to old age. Especially soothing to those with Alzheimer's or senility.

Nephrite Jade


Serpentine or New Jade

Properties: This stone is an excellent stone for meditation. It can be used to clear clouded areas of all the Chakra and especially to assist in opening the Heart Chakra. It is also believed to help activate the kundalini, or 'serpent fire' energies. By placing this stone on the Crown Chakra, it initiates the movement of kundalini energy up the spine. Relaxes one's overall nature. Clears the chakras and is excellent for enhancing meditation.

Folk Remedies: Serpentine emits a profound healing vibration and facilitates the energetic activation of cellular regeneration. Renders assistance to disorders in all areas of the body, the emotional system, and mental structure. Works on the heart and lungs by helping to withdraw toxins and activates the absorption of nutrients and oxygen. It is used in the treatment of diabetes and hypoglycemia, eliminates parasites and used to increase the absorption of magnesium and calcium.

Feng Shui: Used in the North area for personal journeys and in the Centre area to increase spirituality and find balance.

History: This stone is light to dark green to whitish green in colour and displays what appears to look of skin from a snake, due to its inclusions and variations in colour. Worn as an amulet to protect those from snakebite during ancient times, this stone is especially used as a decorative object and is used a sculptor stone in Zimbabwe.

Serpentine is most commonly green, though sometimes brown, black, or white. Antigorite refers to the darker green version. Very often referred to as New Jade, Serpentine is NOT a true Jade, but a less expensive, less known stone of green colour. It sometimes displays a fibrous or greasy appearance. Sometimes called Ophiolite or Williamsite.

Mystical Properties: Considered an important gemstone to the Assyrians. As early as 4000 B.C., used in Seals and Cylinders, Serpentine was known as Za-tu-mush-gir. The 30th Chapter of the Egyptian Book of the Dead is said to be carved from a tablet of Serpentine. The Aztecs prized all green stones and Serpentine was known to be valued in their time. Rasputin was said to favor Serpentine and requested an entire dinner set be created for him by the Czar and Czarina as a favor for saving the life of their son.

Sometimes considered the 2nd stone on the Breastplate of Aaron during the Exodus. Each of the 12 stones on the breastplate represented one of the 12 Tribes, in this case, Pitdah/Simeon and a banner flag flew in the tribe's camp of this color (light green).

Italian peasants believed that carrying Serpentine pebbles protected them from the venom of poisonous creatures. These pebbles must be in their natural state and untouched by iron, or they would lose their protective nature.

Legends also suggest that Serpentine worn around a nursing mother's neck, improves milk production.

Considered a gemstone of the 4th and 7th Chakras, wearing Serpentine Jewelry is thought to clear cloudy Chakras. See also stichtite or Atlantisite or jade or Infinite

For Kundalini activation, love and forgiveness, compassion, spiritual protection, emotional and physical resilience.