The following is a list of exceptional stones,  
those most used in healing and inner peace

Agate - Strength, courage, longevity, love, healing and protection

Amazonite - Success

Amber - Luck, healing, strength, beauty and love

Amethyst - Dreams, happiness, healing, psychic ppowers, peace, love, courage

Aquamarine - psychic ability, peace, courage, purification

Adventurine - mental power, eyesight, peace, healing, luck

Azurite - psychic ability, dreams, divination and healing

Beryl - Healing, psychic insight, healing, love, energy

Bloodstone - victory, courage, wealth, strength, power, growing things

Carnelian - protection, peace, eloquence, healing, courage, sexual energy

Cat's Eye - Wealth, beauty, healing, protection

Crysoprase - happiness, luck, success, friendship, healing, protection

Citrine - psychic ability, protection from bad dreams

Coral - peace, healing, wisdom, protection

Crystal Quartz - healing, balance of energies, power, psychic awaeness, protection

Diamond - peace, spirituality, courage, healing, reconciliation, strength

Emerald - love, eyesight, mental prowess, protection

Fossils - elemental power, past-life regression, longevity

Garnet - health, beauty an protection

Hematite - healing, divination, grounding

Jade - Wealth, love, healing, wisdom, longevity, prospertiy

Jasper - beauty,  healing and protection

Jet - luck, health and divination

Lapis Lazuli - joy, love, healing, courage, fidelity, psychic awareness and protection

Malachite - peace, power, love, success

Marble - success

Mica - divination and protection

Moonstone - divination, sleep, love, gardening, psychic awareness

Mother of Pearl - wealth and protection

Obsidian - peace, protection and grounding

Olivine - love, luck and protection

Onyx - aggressive, protection

Opal - beauty, luck, power and protection

Pearl - love, luck and protection

Peridot - wealth, sleepleep, protection, healing

Petrified wood - healing, longevity, protection and past-life regression

Rhodocrosite - peace and love

Rose Quartz - My stone - Love, emotional strength, stimulation

Ruby - Power, wealth, joy and protection

Sapphire - Love, meditation, peace, healing, wealth

Selenite - energy and reconciliation

Sodalite - peace, meditation, healing, wisdom

Spinel - wealth and energy

Staurolite - healing, elemental power

Sugilite - spirituality, wisdom and healing

Sunatone - energy, health and sexual prowess

Tiger's Eye - courage, luck, energy, divination and protection

Topaz - wealth,healing, good luck

Tourmaline - love, peace, friendship, health, courage

Turquoise - courage,luck, love, friendship, healing

The Purification Process

One must purify a stone to release all negative vibrations, before use. The exceptions to this following method are malachite, calcite, flourite and selenite

Bury your stone in natural salt (not iodized) for approximately 24 hours, then remove from salt and rinse with cold water. Place the stone in your hand (left for women, right for men). Charge the stone with your physical and spiritual energy through meditation. Visualize your needs (not wants) and have faith that the stone's powers will help accomplish your goal.  Do not allow anyone other than close loved ones to touch the stone.  Repeat the proces at least weekly, to assure the purity of your stone.

Many thanks to the wonderful young man at Rosa's Gem Designs for providing me with the healing crystal information for this page.  I had purchased several gems in Greenwich Village, some were rose quartz - the stone that speaks to me loudly and clearly, and was provided with his knowledge about crystals, gems and their healing properties, as well as the purification process. 

His source is Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal Gems

Please stop by and visit Rosa's in the market near the
Washington Square Arch, or visit their shop in the Green 
Acres Mall in Long Island, N.Y.... truly a healing experience!