Healing Power of Gemstones
 

The Pearl
Pearl is the gemstone of the planet Moon and helps to overcome problems related to this planet.

 

The formation of a pearl inside a pearl oyster is thought to occur because of the presence of foreign material inside the body of the oyster. To save itself from the undesired material the mollusk coats the object with layer after layer of nacre. It takes many years for a mollusk to produce a pearl of substantial size. The process through which the pearls are formed inside the body of the mollusk is very delicate, and a little disturbance at any stage of development of a pearl can influence its shape and luster. The finest pearl is that which has no foreign matter in its core.

 

There is a common belief among tantriks that when Svati Nakshatra rain comes to earth it produces pearl in pearl oysters. The mollusk is then said to open its mouth to receive the first raindrops. When these same raindrops fall into the mouth of a cobra, it produces venom. The same raindrops also produce camphor in the banana plant, go-lochan (go-rochan or calcium) when they fall in the horn of a cow, and bansh-lochan and bansh-mukta (or bamboo pearl) when they fall inside a bamboo shoot. Bansh-lochan is known as Calcium bamboana and is very much used in Ayurvedic medicines.

 

The pearls thus produced by the raindrops of Svati Nakshatra are the finest and have no foreign matter in them.

 
Pearls are said to be obtained from eight sources:

1. Sky pearl
2. Cobra pearl
3. Bamboo pearl
4. Hog pearl
5. Elephantine pearl
6. Conch pearl
7. Fish pearl
8. Oyster pearl

Some aspects of the Rituals for Wearing a Pearl:
The pearl should be given to the jeweler on the same day and the ring or a pendant should be constructed in ashta dhatu. The setting should be open-backed so that the pearl touches the skin. The best time to wear a pearl ring is evening, or when the Moon is rising

 

Some aspects of the Medicinal Utility of Pearls
Mukta Bhasm or Pearl Oxide provides strength and longevity.Together with Mukta Pishthi (pearl paste or powder), it is used for eye troubles, general debility, tuberculosis, chest troubles, weakness of heart, cough, low-grade fever, hiccups, illusions of ghosts or evil spirits, nosebleed, weakness of mind and urinary troubles, among others.

 

The coral
Coral is the gemstone of the planet Mars and helps to overcome problems related to this planet

 

Red coral is useful as jewelry and for pleasing the planet Mars, but the use of white corals is more popular in Bengal, where people also use it for Mars energy.

 

Some aspects of the Rituals for Wearing a Coral
The coral's weight should be no less than 4 rattikas.

 

Some aspects of the The Medicinal Utility of Coral
Coral Oxide is used ror different diseases with different mediums, follows:
1. For dry cough: Use it with powdered raw sugar.
2. Cough with mucus: a) If the mucus needs to be expelled from the system, coral oxide should be taken with powdered brown sugar; b) If the mucus needs to be dried, it should be taken with honey.
3. Low fever: It should be taken with sitopiladi choorna with honey.
4. Breathlessness with low fever: Take it with honey.
5. New fever: With honey.
6. Bone fracture: With honey.
7. Eye troubles (burning, irritation): Use it with ghee, rock sugar candy, and milk.
8. Headache: Use it with milk cooked with almond paste.
9. Mental weakness: Use it with milk cooked with almond paste.
10. General tonic: Use it with honey.
11. Diseases of liver: With honey.
12. Hyperacidity: With cold milk.

 

The other form of medical preparation is pishthi (paste), which is more powerful and better in quality than oxide.

Dosage: 1 to 2 rattikas twice a day :
1. To prevent miscarriage: Apply the paste (not powder - if only the powder is available make a paste by adding rose water or kewra water - a few drops to two doses) to the navel of a pregnant woman.
2. First stage of tuberculosis: Use it with honey.
Coral powder is very good for nursing mothers who become weak during the nursing period

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