Malachite is a powerful stone, especially for women. Empowers friendships, the empathic and insight that goes on in others. Malachite unlocks inhibitions and shame, so it can pull out suppressed feelings, experiences and emotions. This enables coping with traumas and breaking through limiting patterns of behaviour and thinking. The stone enhances intuition, being able to visualise and think in the abstract, and it speeds up thought processing. The stone will absorb negative energy, and protects from radiation. Purifies and balances the chakras. Physically, malachite has a positive effect on menstrual disorders and female sex organs, and will ease childbirth. It helps with sexual problems, mainly when this is psychological. Malachite detoxifies, lowers blood pressure, relieves cramps, and works positively on asthma, arthritis, liver, epilepsy, bone fractures, car sickness, dizziness, and dyslexia. In very exceptional cases, malachite may cause light heart palpitations; if so, remove the stone immediately, and replace by rose quartz or rhodonite. Because malachite will absorb a lot of negative energies, the stone needs to be cleansed regularly. Do not wash with water or salt, because these may affect the stone. Bright sunlight might cause the stone to lose its colour. Malachite can be worn directly on the skin, the spot where it is needed. It can be placed on the solar plexus, in order to absorb negative emotions (purify immediately after!).
