HEMATITE

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(from Vesuvius)

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(tumbled)

Hematite is iron oxide, steel grey to iron black in colour. Sometimes it has deep red spots on the surface. It is found in the United States, Brazil and Canada.

Hardness: 5-6. Other characteristics.

An aid to sports people, it provides extra energy, courage and endurance. Also alleviates travel tiedness and stress, particularly for air journeys.

Healing: tiredness, travel stress, eyes, blood.


my pet hematite (kidney ore) weighing at least a stone, Muirkirk, Lanarkshire, Scotland

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Hematite, Malaga, Spain




From the Aberdeen Bestiary Project

Hematite gets its name from blood. Powdered and mixed with the white of egg, it is good for roughness of the eyelids. Ground and mixed with water, it helps anyone who spits blood. It restrains menstruation; it takes away the scar tissue that grows in wounds; and it restrains a flux of the stomach. Drunk in wine, it works against poison and against snakebite; taken with honey it is good for eye trouble; and it softens the stone in the bladder. It comes from Africa, Ethiopia and Arabia.