Lithotherapy is the fancy word for an ancient healing tool: rocks
and much like Flower Medicine, Rock Medicine is also an energetic therapy --
gemstones can be thought of as flowers' big brothers for processing emotions ...
they are the 'big guns' --
Not many realize that original purpose of jewelry was to heal
by means of the various electrical wavelengths in minerals (gemstones) -
This Yale paper discusses this gemstone electrical conductivity -
it is this energy which affects/influences/reacts to the energy of your body -
that same energy was recently harnessed to power a unicycle,
according to this article by Britain's conservative Daily Mail
for more information on lithotherapy, click here -
when page opens, right click and choose 'translate' -
link is to a french wiki- page on Lithotherapy ...
i offer wiki not as a definitive source but as an acceptable overall view,
and this French page is very thorough ...
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references for Lithotherapy sections are, but not limited to, as follows:
--books
Love is in the Earth 1991 Melody
The Book of Stones, 2007 Robert Simmons & Naisha Ahsian
Crystal Medicine, 2000 Marguerite Elsbeth
The Magic in Stones, 1989 Pattalee Glass-Koentop
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem and Metal Magic, 1987 Scott Cunningham
Crystals and Crystal Growing, 1960 Alan Holden and Phylis Singer
Search and Research: The Story of the Chemical Elements, 1965 Steward S. Flaschen
--website references include:
holisticonline
shimmerlings
done by dooney