Bloodstone (also called Heliotrope) is dark green with flecks of red, sometimes referred to as blood. It is an intense healing stone!

This cabochon measures: 40x30mm and weighs 14 grams. Highly polished dome and flat back.

Metaphysical Properties Attributed to Blood Stone:

*It is an intense healing stone
*Known as a "stone of courage"
*It can be used to awaken and to introduce uniformity within the vibrations of energy in the base, navel, sacral, and heart chakras.
*Provides one with the centering and grounding energy of the heart, and is conducive to balancing the total body.
*Grants one the mastery of renewal - renewal of the physical, mental and emotional.
*Provides for the revitalization of love, relationships, and friendships
*There is an inherent strength to the energy of the stone, allowing for transmittal of practical and dispassionate guidance.
*Helps one demonstrate unselfishness and idealism, to improve ones talents and abilities, to enhance creative efforts, and to support the decision-making processes.
*It is extremely usefule in the expression of knowledge and in the disclosure of the "truth to freedom"
*It is a calming stone, and can help remove the distracting influences that can allow you to walk unseeing into situations that might be dangerous.
*It is a stone of perception.
*Helps one toward the direct union with the Divine through contemplation, meditation, and love.
*Has been used in the treatment of the spleen, and to purify the blood, kidneys, bladder, intestines, and liver. Can neutralize the toxins within the body and can provide for elimination of same.
*Bloodstone is a versatile stone, and is well suited to people born at any time of the year.
*Also a very good gem for those in business - self employed