Gem Medicine: Honey and the History of Healing Gemstones
August 21, 2018 | Author: Sharon Elaine Thompson
"One of the fascinating things about gemstones, especially those that have been known for millennia, is that they have collected any number of myths about their mystical and medicinal properties. But could gemstones really heal?
Many myths about gemstone medicine developed in the Middle Ages, which, for the bulk of the population, would mean a world of gray—especially in northern Europe and Great Britain. Gray-brown clothes, rarely washed, edged with mud and dust. Gray-brown houses of mud and straw and mildewed thatch. A gray-brown world of poverty, pain, ignorance, illness, and superstition.
Imagine your world is mostly stone gray and mud brown and suddenly, you see a ruby like this 2.72 Burmese. It might well lift your spirits and give you some momentary relief from pain or illness. Might you then believe it could heal you? Photo Mia Dixon, courtesy Pala International.
Now add the blazing color of an emerald, ruby, sapphire, opal—the color and value of which people in this world can barely conceive. The stones would not even have had to be of high quality as long as the color was rich. Tell someone that these gems—ground and drunk in wine, held in the mouth, worn around the neck—would heal disease.
Is there any possibility that your cure might work?
If the gems helped ... "
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