Probably, there are no women who are indifferent to jewelry, regardless of whether they are made of gold, platinum, other metals, from all kinds of stones - precious and semiprecious.
The roots of this hobby go back to ancient times, when jewelry was considered not only in terms of the attractiveness of their appearance, but also in terms of their inherent properties, healing and magical. Interest of this kind does not dry up to this day. One of the mysterious stones is chrysoprase. What are the properties of chrysoprase stone, to whom it is suitable for the sign - we’ll talk about this.
Description
Chrysoprase is a semi-precious stone related to minerals. It has a large number of shades of green. The main area of its application is the jewelry industry, where rings, earrings, pendants are made of it. Due to its beauty and unusual color gamut, it has gained great popularity. The properties of chrysoprase stone, which will be discussed below, are also of interest.
Jewelers can frame it in gold, silver, and can use it in its pure form. At its core, chrysoprase is a type of chalcedony belonging to translucent quartz. This stone finds application both in large-scale jewelry activity - in industry, and among artisans-craftsmen.
Short story
There is a lot to talk about the properties of chrysoprase stone, whose photo is striking in beauty. Its history begins in the depths of centuries, it was known to the ancient Egyptians, and the Romans, and representatives of Ancient Greece. Amulets and cameos discovered by archaeologists in the territory that previously belonged to the Hellenes are distinguished by their high art of execution. Often portraits, genre scenes and drawings with religious motives were applied to them.
Residents of the Ancient East believed that chrysoprase is able to treat nervous diseases by application to a sore spot. According to legend, this stone was not circumvented by famous historical figures, using it as an amulet. For example, the Macedonian king Alexander the Great, who lived in the IV century BC, carried a chrysoprase with him, considering it a stone that brings victory to the battlefield. Many warriors followed his example.
In the Middle Ages, noble people, merchants believed that due to its properties, chrysoprase stone helps in achieving success in trade and other monetary matters. Chrysoprase was used not only as jewelry, but also used in the design of palaces and houses of the rich. And also it is found in the decoration of religious utensils and church buildings.
Composition and coloring
In its composition, chrysoprase stone, a photo whose properties and significance will be discussed in detail below, is a compound of silicon with oxygen. As already mentioned, this stone is a variety of chalcedony, which has many shades of green. This color is explained by the presence of inclusions of nickel compounds in it, it is often heterogeneous.
When the color of the stone is close to emerald, it almost loses its transparency. Its sample can pass a light beam through itself if it reaches a five-centimeter thickness. Minerals with a less intense shade are transparent to light, having a thickness of two centimeters. There are very heterogeneous specimens that have spotted and other patterns.
Briefly, the mineral can be characterized as follows:
- Coloring - green with many blue shades.
- The transparency of the crystals is translucent.
- Shine - resembles the shine of glass, on the surface of a wax, oily.
- Hardness - fluctuates between an indicator of 6 - 7.5.
- Density - 2.6 grams per cubic centimeter.
Where to meet
In the natural environment, this variety of minerals is not so easy to meet, in our country it is mined only in the Orenburg region. Commercial mining is conducted in Kazakhstan, the United States, Poland and Brazil. But the main deliveries are from the Australian continent, where chrysoprase is of unusually high quality.
Usually "green chalcedony" is found in places with weathered bark, which includes nickel. Minerals located in mountain deposits are characterized by high density, these are the so-called nodules, layers, lenses. In Australia, chrysoprase is found in vein-shaped accumulations of iron oxide.
What does lithotherapy mean?
As for the use of the properties of chrysoprase stone for medicinal purposes, this is the prerogative of alternative medicine. There is such a field of knowledge as lithotherapy, or stone treatment. Today it is not part of the officially recognized sciences, but is used in traditional medicine as one of its methods. According to the adherents of this doctrine, chrysoprase helps:
- increase efficiency;
- speed up metabolism;
- stimulate the body’s nutrition at the cellular level;
- normalize the work of the endocrine glands;
- purify the blood;
- improve the condition of the skin;
- relieve nerve overload;
- get rid of stress;
- eliminate insomnia and nightmares.
Other healing properties
To other useful properties of this stone, folk healers include the ability to recover from a variety of ailments with its help:
- pain in the throat and ears;
- respiratory disorders, asthma;
- thyroid dysfunction;
- metabolic disorders;
- impaired vision and a number of eye diseases;
- infection of various kinds of infections;
- inflammatory processes;
- pain and degenerative processes in the joints;
- rheumatism;
- state of depression;
- chronic fatigue syndrome;
- malfunctions in the hormonal system.
How to apply
Healers believe that the properties of chrysoprase stone have a beneficial effect on the function of the visual organs: they remove the sensation of pain and pain in the eyes, give vision sharpness. To do this, you need to contemplate the stone, admire it. And also the mineral normalizes the activity of the brain, lowers blood pressure.
In yoga practice, there are recommendations regarding green stone. It is proposed to heat it, attach it to the chest and hold for 30 minutes. According to yoga, this process helps to harmonize the work of all systems and organs, including the heart. It is believed that if the wearing of chrysoprase is combined with the wearing of rose quartz, this will enhance the beneficial effect on the body.
To alleviate the symptoms of colds, you need to lower the stone into the water. To obtain a greater effect, the vessel with chrysoprase should be exposed to the sun for five hours. But healers warn that you only need to use a stone from time to time, otherwise it can be harmful.
Magical properties
Consider the properties and significance of chrysoprase stone in the magic of the Middle Ages. In many European countries during the Middle Ages, stone was perceived as a symbol of success in life.
The magical properties of chrysoprase stone were also characterized as:
- Promoting friendships.
- Delivering well-being in cash transactions.
- Getting rid of the devilish obsessions.
- Giving faith and optimism in difficult life situations.
- Arousal of tender feelings.
Chrysoprase and Oriental Magic
Mages of the East believed that when a green mineral gets to a lying, evil person, it gradually darkens. Thus, others discover the negative emanating from the villain, and are warned of the danger that threatens them. If a person is honest and decent, then the stone will help him:
- Cheer up.
- It will give peace and prudence.
- Provides stamina.
- Arms with courage.
To whom properties of a chrysoprase stone are suitable
It is believed that chrysoprase is suitable for certain types of people and representatives of different professions. Consider them.
- Chrysoprase is close to people whose professions are associated with invention, as well as to those who strive forward, to new beginnings.
- It will help business people involved in large-scale financial activities. They are advised to go into serious negotiations, wearing a chrysoprase product with a silver frame.
- Insecure people are also affected by the beneficial effects of this mineral.
- It will suit a person who has a troubled character, balancing him and strengthening his spirit.
- And also this kind of chalcedony will warn too risky people from rash acts.
- Wearing a chrysoprase is also shown to someone who wants to get an “energy boost”.
- Names, the carriers of which are especially favored by chrysoprase, are: women - Marina, Alexandra, men - Boris and Alexander.
Thus, buying a ring or bracelet, it is worth considering who suits the properties of chrysoprase stone by profession and character, and who does not.
Chrysoprase as a decoration
But not only for such magical properties as protection against negative energy and other dangers, chrysoprase was loved by people. It has long been appreciated for its unusual beauty, using both jewelry and household decoration. As already mentioned above, this emerald handsome man was honored in Ancient Rome and in Ancient Greece.
Starting from the 18th century, they began to combine it with precious stones, for example, with diamonds, placing them at the edges, and chrysoprase in the center. Such jewelry was valued very dearly and was available only to the rich.
To this day, this semi-precious stone has not lost its popularity. It is an integral part of a wide variety of products, such as: rings, earrings, pendants, as well as brooches, beads, bracelets. It is also used in the manufacture of cufflinks and buttons.
Colors inherent in chrysoprase
This translucent stone is not just a variety of green chalcedony, but its most valuable variety. And the value lies in its transparency, diversity and extraordinary green shades. Very often there is a color characteristic of an unripe apple.
It is of varying intensity and has bluish shades of emerald and green colors. As a rule, shades of chrysoprase are clean and bright, light or dark. But their main difference is blue.
Three types of green stone
If you look through an electron microscope, you can see that nickel and quartz, contained in it in the form of various compounds, give such a color to the chrysoprase. According to the color tone, chrysoprase can be divided into 3 types:
- The most transparent and most valuable is emerald.
- With less transparency, sometimes with opaque inclusions, the color of a green apple.
- Heterogeneous or stained - designed for crafts, valued much lower.
If the stone has a dense color and it is visible, then after cutting it can be confused with emerald. Sometimes chrysoprase with a truly unique pattern is found. Most likely, the name of this stone, in Greek meaning “golden bow”, is precisely connected with such specimens.
How to recognize a fake
Often you can find an imitation of this valuable mineral. As a rule, unscrupulous sellers significantly lower prices. It is this fact that should make us wary. So, for example, beads from chrysoprase should cost at least 3 thousand rubles. Another signal about a fake may be the size of a bead in excess of 2 cm 3 . After all, a real mineral in nature is found in the form of crystals no larger than this size. Therefore, cheap massive beads are a fake.
When examining a product in a magnifying glass, you can find bubbles inside, as well as small pieces and “feathers” that differ in color and density. This heterogeneity of the material indicates its naturalness. With a naked eye, synthetic crystals cannot always be distinguished from natural ones. In this case, you need to focus on the fact that artificial products have unnatural brightness.
To whom the properties of a chrysoprase stone are suitable for the zodiac
According to astrologers, wearing chrysoprase products affects people born under one or another zodiac constellation in different ways. This effect can be divided into three types:
- Beneficent.
- Less effective.
- Unwanted.
Green mineral has a beneficial effect on:
- Pisces.
- Aquarius.
- Capricorn.
Less useful chrysoprase:
- Taurus.
- To the twin.
- Cancer.
- Virgo.
- Sagittarius.
Signs that the "golden bow" can harm are:
- Aries.
- A lion.
- Libra.
- Scorpio.
Thus, according to astrologers, when purchasing jewelry, it is necessary to take into account the relationship: the properties of chrysoprase stone are a sign of the zodiac.