A little history
An Egyptian papyrus dating from 1600 B.C. refe-rs to the healing properties of certain minerals and provides research trails concerning their therapeutic use. At the time, patients were made to wear around their necks pearls made from lapis lazuli, malachite and red jasper as disease was supposed to go through these minerals and disa-ppear thereafter. Thus a favorite medical practice at the time consisted in crushing gems into dust before mixing them into a liquid and drinking the beverage thereby obtained. Was this drink the harbinger of mineral water ?
Pope Clement VII, in the late 16th century, is said to have drunk a gem-based drink worth 40,000 ducats - that's more than two million US dollars!
For millennia, in India, Ayurvedic medicine was made from the dust of crystals or the ashes of minerals mixed with natural flower extracts.
NASA recently created crystal cards made of quartz pyramids vibrating at 7,8 hertz (corresponding to the Earth's vibration) in order to help astronauts not lose balance far from our planet's surface.
To show how stones have always had a therapeutic use, regardless of time or place, in mankind's history, we will also mention examples taken from the ancient Greek civilization, Siberian shamans and Princeton University :
Theophrastus (372 - 286 BC), author of Lapidibus, even considered that, from a sexual point of view, stones can be distinguished from others by their color intensity.
Many of his ideas were used again by Pliny the Elder (23 - 79 AD), author of Naturalis historia, an encyclopedic work wherein the Greek philosopher is quoted.
Marbode, the bishop of Rennes, wrote medical lapidary (called De Gemmis) in the 11th century.
In 1980, Marcel Vogel, a renowned authority on crystals, did laboratory work on liquid crystals that led them to further his research in the field of crystallotherapy. He found that by projecting a given thought on a liquid crystal, the latter took the « form » of that thought. For example, when he thought of a tree, the crystal took such a form.
Scientific studies now being done by the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) in the USA (Note : Princeton University department in charge of a research program on paranormal phenomena) seem to corroborate Vogel's conclusions, namely the human psyche can interact with different objects and inanimate systems.
How does it work ?
Crystals possess strange but practical properties. For example, quartz crystal is at the heart of quartz watches and microprocessors.
Some crystals, specially those of the quartz family, transform a mechanical strain into electric energy such as in the pick-up head of a record-player. Conversely, they also convert electric energy into precise mechanical vibrations, like in earphones and ultra-sonic transmitters. This is called the piezoelectric effect, a term derived from the Greek word piezo which means « to press » - discovered in 1880 by Pierre and Jacques Curie, two French scientists.
Crystals are forms that vibrate and can start resonating harmoniously with other forms. For this to happen,both must present the same oscillatory frequency and an energetic harmonic. (Note : harmonic sounds have multiple frequencies of the basic sound added on top of it to give the tone). Imagine what happens when a diapason tuned to « A » vibrates near a piano or guitar : only the strings which produce the same tone pick up the vibrations and resonate. Likewise, crystals vibrate in relation with the human biomagnetic field.
One cannot see electricity nor easily understand how it is generated, but we can see its effect on working electric appliances (one can also directly feel their effect when one gets an electric shock). Similarly, many thousands of people have noticed for millenniums the beneficial effects of stones.
For some years, the effect of stones on human biomagnetic fields has also been noted thanks to Kirlian photography. Countless tests have shown a difference between before and after a therapy session with stones.
Gemotherapy in the nuclear age
NASA isn't the only one using leading-edge technology to derive benefits from the mineral kingdom; many amazing and sophisticated technologies are constantly born.
ELECTRONIC GEMOTHERAPY is a therapy associated with leading- edge technology and traditional Eastern Ayurvedic medicine by combining gems, colored light and electro-nic amplification. Pathological states where it is prescribed are : asthma, bronchitis, sciatica, psoriasis, eczema, depression, allergies and asthenia.
The treatment consists in making crystals chosen for their adequate properties and ener-getic output vibrate with the help of an appropriate electronic device. The vibratory frequency is set according to the pathology to be treated. Then this radiant mineral energy is focused on any bodily zone that needs to be treated by special colored lamps called mineral transducers. The person being treated sits or lies down without having to get undressed. Each treatment lasts for 10 to 20 minutes for each symptom. One session will often suffice to give the patient the extra energy required for the self-healing process to begin.
Electronic gemotherapy uses high-tech instruments such as polychromatic crystal lamps, electro-crystallography and multicontrast interface-aided photography (MIP) which are all based on the inconceivable powers of crystals.
References in this booklet
The many tables of this booklet are based on research and experiments by all the above-mentioned researchers and many others during the last millenniums. Our sources are countless : from Ayurveda to New Age, from Hildegarde de Bingen to Amerindian healers, Wicca, shamanism, alchemy, European esotericism and granny wisdom.
We hope this mine of information will inspire you to experiment on your own and draw your own conclusions.