Book summary “The Healing Power of Gemstones”: summary

Introduction

You often seek physical vitality, emotional stability, and deeper alignment with natural forces when life feels unbalanced. You might wonder how ancient traditions view the hidden influence of planetary rays on human health. Harish Johari bridges Ayurveda, Tantra, and gemstone therapy to explain how crystals act as filters for cosmic energy.

Gemstones act as radioactive and electromagnetic filters that transform planetary rays to heal the physical body and balance the mind.

The book explores how specific crystals correspond to celestial bodies and human subtle anatomy. You will discover methods for selecting, purifying, and preparing these stones for medicinal use.

You may ask several questions as you read:

• How do gemstones interact with your electromagnetic field?
• Which stone matches your astrological chart?
• What preparation turns a crystal into an Ayurvedic medicine?

1. Introduction to Gem Therapy and Astrology

Gems are crystalline forms of concentrated minerals created by intense heat and tectonic pressure inside the earth. They act as radioactive agents that absorb and transmit specific frequencies of light and ions.

Gemstones are crystalline forms of concentrated minerals that absorb light and emit specific frequencies influencing the human electromagnetic field, while astrological selection requires natal chart analysis rather than general moon signs.

Eighteen elements compose gems, out of which nine are main components of major gems. Seventy-five percent of the Earth's surface contains oxygen and silicon, while eight percent of Earth's crust is made of aluminum. They interact with the human organism by influencing the electromagnetic field and creating ionic balance in lymphatic fluids and blood plasma.

Mythological Origins and Mohs Scale

According to the Garuda Purana, precious and semiprecious gemstones originated from the sacrificed body of the benevolent demon king Bali. When the gods and demigods sacrificed the generous demon Bali, his bodily parts were converted into various gemstones that were later distributed among the nine planets. This explains the correspondence between specific gems, body parts, and healing properties.

Bali's bones became diamonds, his teeth turned into pearls, his blood formed rubies, and his bile created emeralds. Eighty-four types of gems originated from Bali's body, twenty-one types are of special importance, and nine gems are particularly well known and precious.

Gems must be stored according to their relative hardness on the Mohs scale to prevent harder stones from scratching and ruining softer ones. The Mohs scale ranks minerals from 1 to 10 based on scratch resistance.

You must follow these rules when handling and preparing stones:

• Keep only stones of the same relative hardness together.
• Ensure gems are bought on their assigned day and given to the jeweler on the same day.
• Wash the finished ring in milk and Ganga-water before wearing it on the assigned day.

Astrological Selection Rules

Selecting a gemstone requires careful analysis of the natal chart rather than relying solely on the general moon sign or ascendant. Astrologers and gem therapists use gems to compensate for weak or debilitated planets, provide missing chemicals, or enhance favorable planets. However, wearing gems for ill-aspected or sixth, eighth, and twelfth house lords can amplify negative energy, making donation a better alternative for malefic planets.

Major planetary periods and subperiods dictate the timing when specific gemstone remedies are most effective for an individual. The major period or mahadasha of a person is determined by the constellation and step of the Moon at birth. Each planet rules a specific number of years in a fixed cyclical order, during which wearing the gemstone of the ruling mahadasha lord can bring benefits if the planet is well placed. The fixed durations include 6 years for Sun mahadasha, 10 years for Moon mahadasha, 7 years for Mars mahadasha, 18 years for Rahu mahadasha, 16 years for Jupiter mahadasha, 19 years for Saturn mahadasha, 17 years for Mercury mahadasha, 7 years for Ketu mahadasha, and 20 years for Venus mahadasha.

Gemstones must be set in specific associated metals at or above minimum weights and worn on appropriate fingers and hands to achieve therapeutic balance. Each planet and gem is linked to a specific metal and a minimum weight requirement, such as 3 rati for ruby and 2 rati for pearl, coral, emerald, yellow sapphire, diamond, blue sapphire, hessonite, and cat's-eye.

You must apply these selection and placement rules:

• Consult a natal chart before selecting a gem to wear or donate.
• Do not wear gems of planets ruling the sixth, eighth, or twelfth houses; donate them instead on their respective days.
• Never set incompatible combinations such as ruby and diamond, ruby and blue sapphire, or pearl and blue sapphire together.
• Determine the birth nakshatra and its active charan to find the ruling mahadasha planet.
• Track the sequence of mahadashas starting from Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Ketu, to Venus.
• Set ruby in gold, pearl in silver or gold, coral in copper or silver, emerald in gold, yellow sapphire in gold, diamond in gold or silver, blue sapphire in gold, iron, or silver, hessonite in silver, and cat's-eye in silver or gold.
• Wear solar gems on the left hand and lunar gems on the right hand when seeking life balance.
• Wear solar gems on the right hand if the goal is to enhance solar energy.

2. Solar and Lunar Gemstones

Ruby and Solar Gemstones

The Sun represents vitality, immunity, and the body's constitution. Its related gemstone is ruby, which you use to counteract a debilitated or afflicted Sun.

Ruby is a corundum family gemstone. It has a specific gravity of 3.9-4.1 and a hardness of 9 on a scale of 1-10. The refractive index of ruby is 1.76 to 1.77. It derives its red color from iron and chromium. Wearing a flawless ruby helps you attract solar energy, though certain ascendants like Virgo, Capricorn, and Pisces should use substitutes.

The Sun and Moon govern physical vitality and emotional well-being through ruby and pearl, requiring specific purification methods and preparation into Ayurvedic oxides or pastes.

Real rubies possess specific optical, thermal, and structural characteristics that distinguish them from synthetic or imitation stones. A real ruby feels cool longer on the eyelids due to its compact molecular structure. It shows non-uniform natural color, exhibits zigzag and non-shiny internal cracks, and continues shining after X-ray exposure. Imitation rubies are produced via hydrogen-oxygen flame at 2100 degrees centigrade. The minimum weight for a ruby is 3 rattikas or 1.77 metric carats. One rattika equals 0.59 carat or 1/8 gram.

Sri Raj Roop Tank, a renowned gemologist of Jaipur, owns a conch pearl with three stripes.

You can prepare rubies into an oxide or paste for Ayurvedic medical use to treat various ailments like impotence, high blood pressure, and diabetes. The text distinguishes between bhasma, which loses some vital life force or veerya during intense firing, and pishthi, which preserves the essential chemical nature and vital life force of the gem. You can prepare them using precise methods:

• Break the gemstone into very fine pieces with a cast iron or metal mortar and pestle.
• Boil fine pieces of ruby in lemon juice in a daula yantra for twenty-four hours.
• Grind the gemstone pieces in a stone mortar with the required liquid.
• Grind the purified ruby in a simak stone mortar with sulphur, mansel, and hartal in jackfruit juice for twelve hours.
• Seal the resulting tablet in two earthen pots and fire in 2 kg of cowdung cakes.
• Make a kiln underground and line the walls with raw clay bricks.
• Then fill the kiln with cow dung cakes and place the sarva yantra in the center.
• Cover the kiln with cow dung cakes and fire.

Pearl and Lunar Gemstones

The Moon rules over the water element, mind, and emotional well-being. Its related gemstone is the pearl, which you mount in silver. Pearls form inside pearl oysters through successive layers of nacre coating foreign material. Tantric traditions associate the finest pearls with Svati Nakshatra rainfall across various natural sources. During cultured pearl surgical processes, 45 percent of mollusks die. The minimum weight for a pearl is 2 rattikas.

Shri Dhanroop Mal, a renowned jeweler of Ajmer, holds all rare varieties of pearls in his collection as claimed by Shri Raj Roop Tank.

Genuine pearls differ from cultured and imitation pearls in bore uniformity, concentric structure, and resistance to saltpeter and cow urine treatments. You can refine defective or lusterless pearls using traditional methods to restore their shine:

• Wash pearls in a solution of soapnut powder.
• Make a hole in a radish root, put the pearl inside with powdered raw sugar, leave it, and wash.
• Heat rice with water, strain the water, and wash the pearl in it.
• Feed a dirty and lusterless pearl to a pigeon and retrieve it from its excreta after twenty hours.
• Treat the pearl with cow's urine and saltpeter for twenty-four hours.

Pearl pishthi and bhasma are utilized in Ayurveda for cooling the body, neutralizing bilious temperament, treating mental shocks, and strengthening nerves. You prepare pearl pishthi by grinding purified pearls in rose water for 21 hours or 168 hours using a slow rhythmic motion. This produces a fine powder safe for eye application and internal consumption. The process requires boiling pearls in jasmine leaf concentrated solution or cow's milk in a daula yantra. You grind 150 grams of pearls using 3 liters of rose water consumed for grinding. You test the resulting powder between the fingers to ensure it is as smooth as talcum powder. The dosage is 1/2 to 1 rattika twice a day.

3. Mars Mercury and Jupiter Gemstones

Red coral, emerald, and yellow sapphire correspond to Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter, serving to enhance courage, intellect, and wisdom while avoiding specific structural flaws.

Mars and Coral Properties

Mars is a bile-dominated, masculine planet ruling blood, courage, and leadership. Its gemstone, red coral or moonga, is a calcareous skeleton-like deposit produced by the polyp Isis nobiles in depths ranging from 20 to 1,000 feet. The best-colored corals are found between 100 and 160 feet, with their red color caused by iron oxide. You should select a coral of at least 6 carats for therapeutic use.

Shastras prohibit corals with holes, perforations, dents, cracks, or spots because they cause specific ailments such as migraines, marital strife, or fatal accidents. You can authenticate real coral using simple empirical tests:

• Place real coral in a glass of cow's milk to observe if the milk takes on a pink or red tinge.
• Drop a coral in blood to check if blood thickens around it.
• Examine synthetic coral under a magnifying glass to check for internal granules.
• Rub imitation coral against a piece of turmeric root to see if it turns red.

Mercury and Emerald Properties

Mercury is a neutral, cold, and moist planet ruling education, writers, the nervous system, and speech. Its gemstone, the emerald or panna, is an aluminum and beryllium silicate with a specific gravity of 2.65 to 2.75. Its distinctive green color comes from chromic oxide, and it features a hardness scale rating of 7.50 to 8 alongside a refractive index of 1.56 to 1.59. It is exceptionally difficult to find a flawless emerald.

Flaws such as dryness, black spots, smoky substances, or feather-like interior lines bring specific curses and dangers to your life and family. You can verify a genuine emerald by applying specific optical checks:

• Place a real emerald in a glass pot with water to see if it radiates green light.
• Place a real emerald on the eyes to check if it gives a cool feeling compared to imitations.
• Rub an imitation emerald against turmeric root to test if it turns the turmeric red.
• Place a drop of water on the gemstone to check if it retains its shape without spreading.

Jupiter and Yellow Sapphire Properties

Jupiter rules philosophy, wealth, progeny, the liver, and fat. Its gemstone, the yellow sapphire or pukhraj, is a corundum twin of ruby and blue sapphire whose color is caused by iron and titanium. Lemon-yellow is the most prized shade, and you should wear a stone of at least 3 rattikas. Flaws like dullness, internal cracks, or white spots shorten life or bring disease and sorrow.

To harness Jupiter's energy, set the gemstone in gold on a Thursday during an ascending moon cycle. Perform the necessary consecration steps before wearing the ring:

• Immerse the yellow sapphire ring in cow's milk for a few minutes before wearing it for the first time.
• Wash the ring in rainwater, spring water, or water kept overnight in a copper pot.
• Place the ring on a yellow cloth on which a Jupiter yantra is drawn with roli.
• Recite the mantra AUM BRIM BRAHASPATAYE NAMAH AUM 108 or 19,000 times while meditating on the gemstone.

4. Venus Saturn Rahu and Their Gemstones

Diamond, blue sapphire, and hessonite channel the energies of Venus, Saturn, and Rahu, requiring strict testing, ritual consecration, and Ayurvedic refinement for safe medicinal use.

Venus and Diamond

Venus governs love, luxuries, beauty, and the reproductive system. Its gemstone is the diamond, which is pure carbon with the most compact arrangement of atoms in nature. Shukra rules wealth, romance, comfort, and reproductive organs as a benefic, feminine, watery, and rajasik planet. The period of greatest influence of Venus on an individual occurs between ages 25 to 27.

Hindu scriptures divide diamonds into eight types:

• Hanspati
• Kamlapati
• Vasanti
• Vajraneel
• Vanaspati
• Shyamvajra
• Telia
• Sanloyi

You can identify a real diamond using specific physical tests:

• Place the gem in warm milk to check if it cools the milk.
• Place the gem in liquid butter or ghee at room temperature to check if it solidifies it.
• Place the gem on the eyelids to test if it remains cool and unaffected by body temperature.
• Test if the gem can be scratched; a real diamond cannot be scratched by any stone except another diamond.

A diamond ring requires a minimum weight of .59 metric carat, which equals 1 rattika. You must never use raw diamond orally as a paste.

Prepare the medicinal oxide through traditional methods:

• Seal powdered diamond in the root of a kateli cactus by making a hole and tying it with a thread.
• Boil kulthi beans in water, drain the water, and use it to boil the sealed kateli root in a daula yantra for seventy-two hours.
• Alternatively, heat diamond pieces red-hot and dip them in liquid mercury one hundred times.
• Grind the purified diamond with herbal juices like jackfruit, rose water, or aloe vera, make a tablet, and fire it in a sarva samput and gajput multiple times until soft red ashes form.

The medicinal dosage of diamond oxide ranges from 1/64 to 1/32 rattika.

Saturn and Blue Sapphire

Saturn is a malefic, elderly planet governing longevity, the skeleton, and the nervous system. Its gemstone is the blue sapphire, known as neel mani. Shanaishchara is cold, dry, and tamasik, bringing miseries when ill-posited but bestowing integrity, wisdom, and leadership when well-placed. Saturn takes 2.5 years, or 30 months, to pass through each zodiac constellation.

Saturn gives its best or worst results between 36 to 42 years of age. Blue sapphire belongs to the corundum family and is the hardest gemstone after diamond. You should choose auspicious weights of 2.59 or 4.13 metric carats, which correspond to 5 or 7 rattikas.

To prepare blue sapphire for medicine, you use specific purification steps:

• Boil neel grass in water, reduce it to one-quarter, and boil the blue sapphire suspended in it inside a daula yantra for three days.
• Powder the purified sapphire with sulphur, hartal, and mansel, grind with ripe jackfruit juice for twelve hours, make a tablet, and fire it in a gajput eight times.
• Alternatively, grind finely sieved sapphire powder in rose water or bed-musk water in a simak mortar for fifteen days until smooth enough for the eyes.

Ayurveda uses blue sapphire oxide and paste to treat chronic fever, asthma, nervous disorders, and psychological imbalances. The dosage for blue sapphire oxide or pishthi is 1 to 1/2 rattika.

Rahu and Hessonite

Rahu is a shadow planet and the north lunar node that causes eclipses and creates insatiable worldly desires. Its gemstone is hessonite, also called gomed. Legend describes Rahu as the severed head of a danava that swallowed the nectar of immortality. Rahu and Ketu remain placed 180 degrees apart in the planetary orbit.

Rahu delivers its main effects between 42 to 48 years of age. Hessonite is a silicate of zirconium reflecting the color of cow's urine. A flawless specimen neutralizes Rahu's evil effects and promotes spiritual growth. A hessonite gemstone requires a minimum weight of 4 rattikas.

You can purify flawed hessonite stones unsuitable for jewelry to prepare medicinal pastes or oxides:

• Purify hessonite fragments by boiling them in jasmine juice in a daula yantra for three days.
• Heat the fragments on a piece of mica until red-hot and drop them into amla fruit juice twenty-one times.
• Mix purified hessonite with mansel, hartal, and sulphur, powder with jackfruit juice for twelve hours, form a tablet, and fire it in a sarva samput and gajput eight times.
• Alternatively, powder purified hessonite in a distillate arq of sandalwood, kewra, and rose flowers for fifteen days to create a pishthi.

These preparations treat gastritis, respiratory issues, and skin disorders. The medicinal dosage of hessonite pishthi or oxide is 1/2 to 1 rattika.

5. Ketu and Semiprecious Gemstones

Ketu is a headless, shadowy half-planet that brings spiritual liberation, psychic abilities, and healing powers, but when ill-posited, it causes accidents, skin diseases, and psychological distress. It is placed 180 degrees away from Rahu as the rest of its body and is considered a moksha-karak, granting asceticism and nonattachment. When afflicted, it causes imprisonment, awful destructions, and joint pain, typically manifesting its best and worst results between the ages of 48 and 54.

Ketu's cat's-eye and various semiprecious stones like amber, agate, and lapis lazuli provide electrochemical balance and therapeutic benefits when properly prepared and worn.

Ketu and Cat Eye Gemstone

Cat's-eye comes from the chrysoberyl mineral and features a silky streak of light, categorized into distinct high-quality varieties depending on its color and hue. A high-quality cat's-eye possesses smoothness, brilliance, and straight chatoyance, whereas stones with interior flaws or specific spots bring misfortune, disease, or injury. Authentic gemstones glow in the dark and make a hole in a bone when placed on it for twenty-four hours.

Wearing a cat's-eye ring requires precise timing during specific lunar conditions, cleansing rituals, and the recitation of a mantra to honor Ketu.

• Buy the gemstone on a Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday during an ascending moon cycle when the Moon is in Aries, Sagittarius, or Pisces, or in Ashvini, Magha, or Mul nakshatras.
• Have the jeweler set the stone in a mixture of five metals (iron, silver, copper, gold, and zinc) or in iron with an open back to touch the skin.
• Ensure the weight is not less than 5 rattikas, avoiding weights of 2, 4, or 11 rattikas.
• Wash the ring first with cow's milk and then with Ganga-water, spring water, rainwater, or water kept in a copper pot overnight.
• Place the washed ring on a smoky-grey or smoky-green cloth featuring a drawn yantra of Ketu, alongside an engraved yantra washed in the same manner.
• Honor the yantra and gemstone with tilak, a ghee lamp, flowers, and incense.
• Recite the mantra of Ketu (AUM KAIM KETAVE NAMAH AUM) 108 times or 17,000 times, then meditate on the engraved yantra.
• Wear the ring on the little finger of the left hand two hours after sunset or in the evening.

Semiprecious Stones and Their Uses

Amber is a fossil resin with magnetic properties that help balance the body's electromagnetic field and promote self-control and health. Saints in India wear one big amber bead around their necks to avoid being unbalanced. Agate is a chalcedony variety used for heart troubles, anxiety, and eye remedies after purification.

• Heat the agate to red-hot and drop it into rose water or cow's milk, repeating the process twenty-one times.
• Grind the purified agate powder in rose water for seven days to make agate pishthi.
• Take a dosage of 1 to 3 rattikas twice a day with honey.

Lapis lazuli is a deep blue mineral used as a substitute for blue sapphire and processed into medicines for urinary and digestive ailments.

• Boil lapis lazuli with a mixture of cow's urine, lemon juice, jawakhar, and papadkhar in a daula yantra for six hours for purification.
• Grind purified pieces with sulphur and lemon juice for twelve hours, make a tablet, and fire it in a gajput or potter's kiln seven times to make the oxide.
• Grind purified pieces with fresh apple juice for fourteen days, stir and dry to make lapis lazuli pishthi.

6. Remedy Preparation and Chromotherapy

Gem therapy integrates Ayurvedic humor balancing, gem water and alcohol preparation, chromotherapy, and talismanic rituals to influence the endocrine system and human health.

Ayurvedic Humors and Remedy Methods

Ayurvedic and Unani healing systems diagnose and treat physical imbalances using three humors governed by the five basic elements of the universe.

Gem water is prepared by soaking purified gemstones in a metal pot overnight to ionize the water and transfer healing electrochemical frequencies to the patient.

• Purify gems by washing them in cold, unboiled cow's milk and then in rainwater, spring water, or Ganga-water.
• Place the purified gems in a copper or silver pot overnight.
• Divide the resulting gem water into three parts and administer to the patient in the morning, at noon, and in the evening.

Gem alcohol is an alternative storable remedy created by soaking purified gemstones in high-proof spirit under daylight inside a glass container.

• Use 90 to 100 percent rectified spirit in a glass jar or bottle.
• Purify the gem, allow it to dry, and place it into the glass jar containing the alcohol.
• Keep the jar in a well-lit room away from direct sunlight for twelve hours.
• Remove the gem, clean it in fresh water, and store the resulting medicinal alcohol in a cardboard box in a cool, dry place.

Chromotherapy and Talismans

Chromotherapy utilizes specific light and color frequencies because colors act as chemical equivalents that directly influence the endocrine system and human body chemistry.

Talismans concentrate planetary energies when gemstones are set into specific metals inscribed with yantras, consecrated through ritual worship, and worn to touch the skin.

• Select and purchase the gemstone under a favorable nakshatra corresponding to its ruling planet.
• Engrave the planetary yantra or mantra onto the designated metal plate or set the gem over an inscribed metal yantra.
• Worship the yantra for the prescribed number of days using appropriate recitations.
• Perform required donations of grains, metals, and money to a priest, and feed a teacher while offering colored garments.
• Wear the completed talisman for the first time on the specific auspicious day and time.

Jawahar Mohra is a complex traditional Ayurvedic powder mixture made from gems, precious metals, and herbs, administered as pills to strengthen the heart and electrochemical system.

• Clean and powder the specified gems, minerals, and metals using rose water to form a wet paste.
• Shape the paste into small balls the size of a black peppercorn before it dries into powder.
• Administer as a general tonic with boiled milk mixed with saffron and sweetened with dates for at least two weeks.
• For heart ailments, powder the pill and administer with powdered saffron and honey for at least forty days.

10 Key Ideas

1. Gemstones are crystalline forms of concentrated minerals that absorb light and emit specific frequencies influencing the human electromagnetic field, while astrological selection requires natal chart analysis rather than general moon signs.
2. Selecting a gemstone requires careful natal chart analysis to compensate for weak planets or avoid ill-aspected planetary lords whose malefic energies require donation instead.
3. The Sun and Moon govern physical vitality and emotional well-being through ruby and pearl, requiring specific purification methods and preparation into Ayurvedic oxides or pastes.
4. Red coral, emerald, and yellow sapphire correspond to Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter, serving to enhance courage, intellect, and wisdom while avoiding specific structural flaws.
5. Diamond, blue sapphire, and hessonite channel the energies of Venus, Saturn, and Rahu, requiring strict testing, ritual consecration, and Ayurvedic refinement for safe medicinal use.
6. Ketu's cat's-eye and various semiprecious stones like amber, agate, and lapis lazuli provide electrochemical balance and therapeutic benefits when properly prepared and worn.
7. Gem therapy integrates Ayurvedic humor balancing, gem water and alcohol preparation, chromotherapy, and talismanic rituals to influence the endocrine system and human health.
8. Real rubies are distinguished from imitations by their compact molecular structure, natural color variations, internal cracks, and coolness on the eyelids.
9. Ayurvedic medicine utilizes planetary gemstones prepared as pishthi or bhasma powders to treat chronic diseases, mental shocks, and nervous disorders.
10. Talismans and yantras concentrate planetary energies when gemstones are set into specific associated metals, consecrated through ritual worship, and worn to touch the skin.