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Stone Medicine: A Chinese Medical Guide to Healing with Gems and Minerals
A comprehensive manual for using crystals, gems, and stones to address physical, emotional, and spiritual health conditions
• Includes an extensive Materia Medica detailing the healing and spiritual properties of 200 crystals and stones based on Classical Chinese Medicine
• Explores the role played by the color of each stone, its Yin and Yang qualities, crystalline structure, chemical composition, and topical and internal applications
• Explains how to make stone and crystal elixirs, wear stones as healing jewelry, use them in massage and energy work, and cleanse and recharge them
• Based on the oral teachings of Dr. Jeffrey C. Yuen, a Taoist priest from the ancient lineage of the Jade Purity School (88th generation) masters
In addition to herbalism and acupuncture, Chinese Medicine has a rich tradition of using stones as medicine, passed from generation to generation for thousands of years. In this comprehensive guide and extensive Materia Medica, Leslie J. Franks presents the Stone Medicine teachings of Dr. Jeffrey C. Yuen, an 88th generation Taoist priest from the ancient lineage of the Jade Purity School, which dates to the Han dynasty, 206 BCE.
Detailing the therapeutic properties of 200 gems, stones, minerals, and crystals, Franks begins with an extensive look at 15 different forms of quartz, followed by chapters on transformative stones, protective stones, nourishing stones, source energy stones, and alchemical stones. She explains the physical, emotional, and spiritual conditions each stone can treat and how their color, form, hardness, and energetic qualities affect us according to Chinese Medicine. She discusses how to make stone and crystal elixirs for internal and topical use, how to charge quartz with the healing properties of other stones, how to cleanse and recharge a stone after use, and how to combine stones to create healing formulas for individual conditions. She explains different techniques of wearing stones as healing jewelry and how to use them in massage and energy work. She examines the chemistry and sacred geometry of crystal structure, revealing how the minerals contained in the stones affect our physiology by supporting our Jing (Essence); by nourishing Qi (energy), blood, and fluids; and by clearing Wind, Cold, Damp, and Heat conditions that can lead to disease.
Including a thorough primer on Traditional Chinese Medicine and backed by modern scientific research, this book explains how stones access our deepest layers, vibrating ever so slowly, to initiate deep lasting change.
• Includes an extensive Materia Medica detailing the healing and spiritual properties of 200 crystals and stones based on Classical Chinese Medicine
• Explores the role played by the color of each stone, its Yin and Yang qualities, crystalline structure, chemical composition, and topical and internal applications
• Explains how to make stone and crystal elixirs, wear stones as healing jewelry, use them in massage and energy work, and cleanse and recharge them
• Based on the oral teachings of Dr. Jeffrey C. Yuen, a Taoist priest from the ancient lineage of the Jade Purity School (88th generation) masters
In addition to herbalism and acupuncture, Chinese Medicine has a rich tradition of using stones as medicine, passed from generation to generation for thousands of years. In this comprehensive guide and extensive Materia Medica, Leslie J. Franks presents the Stone Medicine teachings of Dr. Jeffrey C. Yuen, an 88th generation Taoist priest from the ancient lineage of the Jade Purity School, which dates to the Han dynasty, 206 BCE.
Detailing the therapeutic properties of 200 gems, stones, minerals, and crystals, Franks begins with an extensive look at 15 different forms of quartz, followed by chapters on transformative stones, protective stones, nourishing stones, source energy stones, and alchemical stones. She explains the physical, emotional, and spiritual conditions each stone can treat and how their color, form, hardness, and energetic qualities affect us according to Chinese Medicine. She discusses how to make stone and crystal elixirs for internal and topical use, how to charge quartz with the healing properties of other stones, how to cleanse and recharge a stone after use, and how to combine stones to create healing formulas for individual conditions. She explains different techniques of wearing stones as healing jewelry and how to use them in massage and energy work. She examines the chemistry and sacred geometry of crystal structure, revealing how the minerals contained in the stones affect our physiology by supporting our Jing (Essence); by nourishing Qi (energy), blood, and fluids; and by clearing Wind, Cold, Damp, and Heat conditions that can lead to disease.
Including a thorough primer on Traditional Chinese Medicine and backed by modern scientific research, this book explains how stones access our deepest layers, vibrating ever so slowly, to initiate deep lasting change.
544 pages, Hardcover
First published February 13, 2016
About the author
Leslie J. Franks
1 book6 followersLeslie J. Franks, LMT, began practicing Asian bodywork in 1990. She met Jeffrey Yuen and became inspired by his teaching in 1995. She practices bodywork and essential oil and dietary therapy at an acupuncture clinic in Connecticut, where she is also the herbal pharmacist.
She comes from a lineage of rockhounds beginning with her great-grandfather. Her interest in using stones for healing purposes was sparked many years ago.
Leslie is a long-time practitioner of various martial arts and qigong practices, presently practicing and teaching the Chen family style of taiji under the direct guidance of Master Wang Haijun, 12th generation Chen taiji.
She is certified as a bodyworker with the AOBTA and the NCBTMB.
She comes from a lineage of rockhounds beginning with her great-grandfather. Her interest in using stones for healing purposes was sparked many years ago.
Leslie is a long-time practitioner of various martial arts and qigong practices, presently practicing and teaching the Chen family style of taiji under the direct guidance of Master Wang Haijun, 12th generation Chen taiji.
She is certified as a bodyworker with the AOBTA and the NCBTMB.
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April 14, 2016
Its great starter but serious amount information
April 26, 2016
I found this book to be the most amazing work on this subject that I have ever found! As a student of Chinese Medicine and a lover of rocks, gems and crystals, this is a definitive work that I will be encouraging others in my field to read all the time! I cannot begin to express into words how grateful I am that the author has placed emphasis on which stones will work best with each element. That alone is priceless!
February 13, 2021
There simply could not be a more thorough book on stones and their uses in medicine! This book is so thorough and so well-written. It's really been an incredible asset for my Chinese Medicine practice. In fact, one copy has not been enough!
June 17, 2026
This book is primarily a reference. There are about 140pages in the front and another 40 or so pages in the back that serve as foundational information into the classical chinese medicine understanding of stones. Stones stand with herbs and other modalities for healing. Hence understanding stones as an herbalist understands herbs is requisite for using stones effectively and safely.
This is not the colloquial application of colors to chakras and hence to stones. This in understanding the mineral components for crystal structure and mineral component, as well as applying the Mols scale and earth genesis of the stone to the 5 Element theory, which is the core of classical and traditional chinese medicine.
A layperson will find this book useable and beneficial. A practitioner applying 5-Element theory will find this book to be indispensable.
This is not the colloquial application of colors to chakras and hence to stones. This in understanding the mineral components for crystal structure and mineral component, as well as applying the Mols scale and earth genesis of the stone to the 5 Element theory, which is the core of classical and traditional chinese medicine.
A layperson will find this book useable and beneficial. A practitioner applying 5-Element theory will find this book to be indispensable.
March 1, 2017
meandering, subjective, with no clear system. Not useful as reference either.
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