GALENA

COLOR: Metalic gray-lilac
APPEARANCE: Small shiny mass or larger
granular and knobbly
RARITY: Available from specialist outlets
SOURCE: United States, Britain, Russia
ATTRIBUTES: Galena is a "stone of harmony," bringing balance on all levels and harmonizing the physical, etheric, and spiritual planes. It is a grounding stone, anchoring and centering. It aids holistic healing. it is excellent for doctors, homeopaths, and herbalists. it encourages further investigation and experimental trials. Galena opens the mind, expanding ideas and dissolving self-limiting assumptions from the past.

HEALING: Galena reduces inflammation and eruptions, stimulates circulation and benefits veins, and increases assimilation of selinium and zinc. It is beneficial for the hair.

POSITION: Place as appropriate. As Galena is lead-based, elixirs should be made by the indirect method only, and applied externally to unbroken skin.

From: The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall
Walking Stick Press

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