The Essential Crystal Handbook: All the Crystals You Will Ever Need for Health, Healing & Happiness

by Sue; Lilly Lilly, Sue Lilly

Crystals are things of light, beauty, and power—and this superb user’s and collector’s guide covers more than 100 varieties, all with sparkling color photographs (including enlarged details) and a concise profile of their visual characteristics, healing properties, and practical applications. There’s also invaluable information on identification and care of each type of crystal, along with notes on similar-looking stones and keywords that indicate its main function at a glance. Find out about such key topics as Ayurveda, Feng Shui, amulets, birthstones, wands and pendulums, and using the crystal to connect with auras and chakras.
 

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Health, Spirituality, Geology, Metaphysics, New Age

288 pages, Paperback

First published February 16, 2006

Reviews

[Onion Budgie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremely informative, with excellent colour photographs, a glossary, and mineralogical data. There are helpful sections on the emotional and physical healing functions of each stone, as well as meditations that the reader can try, and information about the chakras. All of this, crammed into a handy pocket-sized book.

[Lydia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading about the facts of each magnificent individual crystal , that all seemed beautiful in there own way . so beautiful i had to go out and buy a few mentioned in the book for my collection.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a nice little book if you're looking for a crystal but only know the colour of it (its indexed by colour instead of alphabetically). It's not extremely in depth, but a good starter for research.

[The Bookworms Nook · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great little Crystal book with lots of information. Teaches about the chakras and how to cleanse, charge and look after your crystals. Also which crystals are relevant to each birth date. Some Crystal layouts and lots of other information. There it's also an appendix of different crystals with photos and information about each one.

[cia sunshine ☭ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this book as a part of this challenge my local library gave me. The challenge was to read a non-fiction book, so I chose this book. Decent information. I really liked the pictures.

[Hayley (hayleys.little.library) · Rating 5 out of 5]

This little beauty has been on my shelves for 10+ years, and I bought it many years ago at my local market. If you’re a crystal lover, this is the only book you’ll ever need 👏🏻 It is really easy to understand and features sooo many crystals and their properties. I highly recommend this one if you’re wanting an in depth overview about crystals.

[Saleris · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice little book. I have a great many geology and gemstone books, but none of them gives alternates for stones like this one does.

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

The bashing of modern science upfront didn't do anything for me. But the catalog of over 100 crystals and gemstones was very thorough.