Description

Black Tourmaline with Red Iron Points from Brazil

Black Tourmaline is one of the most important and fundamental stones in Stone Medicine. An essential part of the stone toolkit. Releases toxins, stagnations and pathogens.

Stones vary slightly in color and shape.  Product may contain small cracks and irregularities, which are natural in Black Tourmaline.

Attributes of this stone are based on Daoist Stone Medicine and our own Vibrational Research.

Shape / Form: Function/ Other characteristics:
Natural forms
Polished stone
Pendants in natural form

Color / features:
Black
Opaque striated terminated crystals that often have shiny areas

Applications:
Used in stone layouts, placed on body, worn as jewelry, drink infused water, given as an
elixir

Function(s):
Master detox stone, promotes the ability to expels internal or external pathogenic
factors to the exterior; breaks up and draws out accumulation of stagnation; used as
energetic protection; more regulating than cleaning; lowers viral load

Five Elements Affinity:
Warming

Organ / Body Affinity:
Works with both the kidneys and the lungs to release to the exterior

Meridian Affinity:
KI/LU
Kidney-Bladder Divergent Meridian

Crystal Structure / Sacred Geometry
Trigonal
Often appears in a hexagonal crystal

Chemical Composition:
Sodium iron aluminum borosilicate hydroxide
Na(Fe,Mn)3Al6B3Si6O27(OH)3(OH,F)
Can contain traces of magnesium, potassium, or calcium

Level of Formation / Strata and Effect:
Igneous/Yuan

Cautions:
As an elixir, use only short term
Do not use with Triple Heater or Lung Divergent Meridians
Contraindicated for people who do not sweat easily, cannot lose weight, or have no
coating on the tongue (indicative of deficient fluids)
Very strong and can cause a healing crisis