The idea that crystals could heal by resonance has been dismissed as unprovable since the Enlightenment. Yet lasers are routinely used in surgeries and ultrasound is used to diagnose disease conditions, monitor growth and development, and destroy gallstones, kidney stones and bone spurs.
History
Pliny the Elder wrote in 77 A. D. about the healing properties of crystals in "Natural History." Book 4 of Benedictine abbess--Hildegarde von Bingen's 12th century A.D. work "Physica," called "The Book of Crystals"--is considered an authoritative text among today's crystal healing practitioners, according to crystal healing book publisher Arwen Lentz and her staff. Principles and observations from both texts are the basis for the use of aventurine and other stones for healing. Historical uses of aventurine include stress reduction by calming emotions to create inner peace.
Identification
Aventurine is green, orange or blue quartz with mica or hematite inclusions, giving it a flecked appearance, according to geologist Hobart M. King, Ph. D., and the staff of Geology.com. It's sometimes confused with jade, amazonite or goldstone, a man-made stone with copper inclusions. The orange or brownish variety is called honey aventurine.
Geography
Madras, Mysore, Nadu, or Tamil regions of India are sources of green aventurine. Aventurine is also found in Russia in the Ural mountains, Brazil, Spain, Chile and the United States.
Function
Crystal healing practitioners use peach aventurine to treat problems with the lungs, heart, adrenal glands. They use green aventurine for blood and circulatory problems, to relieve headaches and relieve insomnia. Practitioners also use it to reduce fever, relieve stress, heal migraines and eye ailments, normalize high blood pressure and soothe urinary tract disorders.
Warning
There are no double-blind scientific studies of the healing powers of aventurine. One of the few studies of the healing properties of crystals, Forschungsgruppe Steinheilkunde Stuttgart, attempted to identify basic principles of the effects of healing crystals on the human body. Because the study relied on the test subjects' observations while carrying specific stones, and because they knew which stone they were carrying and were aware of the stone's believed effects, it's not considered valid by the standards of allopathic medicine.
