Ayurvedic and Mystic Birthstones

The Ayurvedic birthstone is from Indian medicine and beliefs dating back to ancient India. Ayurveda is a holistic science of wellness which evolved among the Brahmin sages of ancient India some 3000-5000 years ago.

The mystical birthstones are of Tibetan origin and date back over a thousand years.

For centuries, various stones have been believed to possess healing and therapeutic powers. The table below displays the commonly accepted medicinal and therapeutic traits corresponding to those stones listed in the Ayurvedic column, for the most part. For information on many other stones, begin your search with any of the source sites below.

 

Month Ayurvedic
(India)
Birthstone Mystic
(Tibet)
Birthstone Healing Power
Therapeutic Power
January Garnet Garnet Emerald Emerald Rhodolite: aid for capillaries, skin elasticity, protection from pre-cancerous conditions. Spessartine: aid against hemorrhages, hormone imbalances, inflammations, and sexual disease.
Spessartine aids against bad dreams, depression and anger, and helps self esteem.
February Amethyst Amethyst Bloodstone Bloodstone Amethyst: Aid against headaches, stomach problems, blood sugar imbalance, L brain imbalances, edginess, and helps facilitate healing.
Amethyst: Aids in inner peace, psychic insight, stimulates third eye, aids meditation, spiritual opening and upliftment, internal surrender, and helps effective communication. Cape Amethyst: Aid to inner alignment. This seems to balance the inner bodies (emotional, spiritual, etc.) as well as provide more energy. Also good for arthritis - wrap strands of cape amethyst around aching joint.
March Bloodstone Bloodstone Jade Jade Bloodstone: All purpose healer & cleanser. Aids circulation, aids against stomach & bowel pain, purifies bloodstream and bladder, strengthens blood purifying organs.
Jade: Kidney, heart, larynx, liver, parathyroid, spleen, thymus, thyroid & parasympathetic ganglia healer, strengthens body, aids longevity and relaxation. Soothes sore shoulder or back and reduce tension.
April Diamond Diamond Opal Opal Diamond: Aids against all brain diseases; cleanses pituitary & pineal glands, draws out toxicity, poison remedy.
Diamond: Aids to increase personal clarity.
May Agate Agate Sapphire Sapphire Agate: Good for transmutation, helps with the emotion of acceptance, gives a mellow, blended aspect, beneficial in stomach area. Fire Agate: Master healer with color therapy, burns energy. Moss Agate: Aids colon, circulatory, pancreas and pulses, blood sugar balance.
Fire Agate: Enhances all essences, grounds and balances, used as a sexual and heart chakra binder. Moss Agate: Aids emotional and mental priorities. Tree Agate: Introspection. Helps one view themselves with more clarity and see the world through a broader viewpoint. Moss Agate: Get in touch with nature. Plant knowledge.
June Pearl Pearl Moonstone Moonstone Pearl: Eliminates emotional imbalances, helps one master the heart chakra, aids stomach, spleen, intestinal tract and ulcer problems.
Fresh Water Pearl: Enable one to accept love. See the good parts of oneself so you can love yourself and others more. Mother of Pearl: Protection, know mother's love. This is a great protective stone.
July Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby: Strengthens neurological tissues around the heart, prevents miscarriages.
Ruby: Love, heart chakra, balances love and all spiritual endeavors, self-esteem. Open the heart, overcome fear.
August Sapphire Sapphire Diamond Diamond Sapphire: Aids against colic, rheumatism, mental illness, aids pituitary, metabolic rate of glandular functions, also for pain.
Sapphire: Aids spiritual enlightenment, inner peace, and mental clarity. Clear mental garbage. Anti-depressant, aids psychokinesis, telepathy, clairvoyance and astral projection, aids personal expression.
September Moonstone Moonstone Agate Agate Moonstone: Aligns vertebrae, used as a digestive aid.
Moonstone: Soothes and balances the emotions, helps eliminate fear of "feeling", encourages inner growth and strength, aids peace and harmony and psychic abilities. Grey Moonstone: Helps one accept other stone's powers by cleansing blocks. Orange Moonstone: Helps one accept other stone's help by comforting you. This is less powerful than white - but helpful when one really needs a certain stone. White Moonstone: Helps one accept other stone's help through highlighting the others effects. When worn by itself is balances yin/yang.
October Opal Opal Jasper Jasper Cherry Opal: Aids against red corpuscle and blood disorders, depression, apathy, lethargy, aids intuition and joy. Dark Opal: Aids reproductive organs, spleen and pancreas, filters red corpuscles and aids white corpuscles, bone marrow, depression especially of sexual origin, balances, amplifies creative and intuitive thought, grounds radical emotional body. Jelly Opal: Aid for spleen and abdominal diseases, cellular reproductive problems, helps absorb nutrients, minimizes wide mood swings, mystical thought amplifier. Light Opal: Balances L and R brain hemispheres for neuro disorders, stimulates white corpuscles, helps bring the emotions to mystical experiences, aids abdomen, pituitary and thymus problems.
Opal: See possibilities, discover a broader view when feeling blocked in a situation. Black Opal: See self as Soul. Helps one see the possibilities of how one can be all they can be. This stone seems to strengthen bones too.
November Yellow Topaz Yellow Topaz Pearl Pearl Topaz: Aid agianst gout, blood disorders, hemorrhages, increases poor appetite, aids general tissue regeneration, VD, tuberculosis, reverses aging.
Topaz: Balances emotions, calms passions, aids spiritual rejuvenation, endocrine system stimulation, releases tension, aids feelings of joy. Citrine: Upliftment. Help align the spine. This stone also helps one process energy work.
December Ruby Ruby Onyx Black Onyx Onyx: Aids against stress and neurological disorders, also used as a heart, kidney, nerve, capillary, hair, eye and nail strengthener.
Onyx: Aids objective thinking, spiritual inspiration, control of emotions and passions, helps eliminate negative thinking and apathy. Black Onyx: Helps one to change bad habits. Mexican Onyx: Helps one sleep better


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