Support for Health and Longevity

Pictured here is an interesting mixture of green and white jadeite.

Nephrite, the most common jade, and Chinese jade are found in New Zealand, Europe, and the Americas. Jadeite is virtually identical and is found mainly in the Americas, but also in China, Japan, and Burma.

As a natural transmitter of life energies, we hear that jade helps keep pets healthy and encourages longevity. Both mineral forms of jade were used in the Neolithic period for tools and weapons as well as amulets. Jade is the sacred stone of the Maoris, who call it greenstone. In ancient China food bowls were made of jade to energize the contents with life force and was also used to assure immortality of the spirit.

Amber can be helpful to our animals in several ways. It is said to stimulate the body’s self-healing abilities, which is useful to help older animals trigger their own self-healing powers. It’s an excellent stone for relieving anxiety and depression, so important for treating an older animal as well. It is also a powerful stone of protection, acting against the absorption of negative energies. Powers attributed to amber by folklore include love, strength, luck, healing, and protection, calming for hyperactivity and stressed nerves, help finding humor and joy.

Legend says that amber was believed to provide magicians and sorcerers with special enhanced powers. Chinese amber was said to contain the souls of many tigers and the power of many suns. Another Oriental legend is that amber is the drops of petrified dragon’s blood. During the Classical era it was thought to be formed by the rays of the setting sun.