Malachite - Color, Facts, Power, Mythology, History And Myths

The beneficial properties that Malachite holds are:

• Physical Healer

Malachite is an effective remedy for female-prone problems, like menstrual pain and cramping, labour pain, sexual diseases, traumatic past experiences, etc. It has been called as the Midwife Stone.

Malachite is believed to alleviate cold sweats, trembling, malaria, and Parkinson's disease, asthma, intestinal trouble and rheumatic pain. It is a diuretic stone, and hence can also prove to be helpful in treating kidney and gallstones. It has also been proved effective in fighting osteoarthritis, particularly in the spinal column, and strengthening memory, especially of those who have short-term memory loss.

Malachite stone is also considered as a treatment for lowering blood pressure, treating epilepsy, curing travel illness and dizziness, and healing fractures, swollen joints, frayed muscles, tumours, and broken bones. It improves the immunity level and stimulates the liver to go the toxicities.

• Emotional Healer

Being a stone of transformation, Malachite encourages risk-taking and accepting changes. It makes the wearer understand that what is blocking his spiritual growth, and how to tackle it. It stimulates in the wearer the expression of feeling, responsibilities, thoughts and actions by reducing shyness. It upholds compassion and friendship for other human beings.

Malachite helps to combat with depression and nervousness. It averts emotional blackmail and heals emotional abuse especially when it is suffered in childhood. Malachite is also held responsible for healthy relationships based on love. It circumvents from the wearer the feeling of being selfish and self-centred.

• Heals and balances Chakra

With its untainted energy of green color, Malachite is mainly dedicated to the Heart Chakra. The heart chakra is responsible for a human beings connection with the outside world, what he accepts and what he rejects. It gives the wearer the ability to stand on own in this world. When the Heart chakra gets polluted because of ant reason, one may feel dominance in the relationships, which results in taking out petite faults in the others.

Green crystal energy is used to unblock the obstructions and to rebalance and revive the heart chakra. It helps the wearer in understanding his own needs and sentiments evidently.

Malachite is cooperative in clearing and activating the other chakras as well. It turns on the psychic vision and visualization. When Malachite is placed on the solar plexus chakra, it eases the profound emotional healing, discharging negative incidents and previous pains. 

• Different shades provide different benefits

Malachite is full of its green and pure influencing rays and has also become famous by the name of “growth crystal’. Malachite has been considered as a powerful channel of the life force on the Earth. It is a nurturing stone, which is believed in helping relations and new businesses to flourish.

Being a Green talisman, Malachites are wonderful for keeping the project on schedule, venture of course, and the life on a right track. The Malachites which are light in color promotes spiritual growth, and the Malachites of darker hue enhance physical growth and stability.

The name Malachite has been derived from the Greek word “Malakee”, or “Malache”, indicative of the identicalness of Mallow leaves, or from the Greek word “Malakos”, meaning supple and soft. Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral where this opaque and green banded mineral crystallises and forms botryoidal, stringy, or stalagmite masses in the fractures and the spaces.

This amazing opaque green stone has the hardness in between 3.5-4 on the Moh’s scale. When these stones are cut and polished, they exhibit a silky lustre that has made this stone a popular pick in the world of ornaments and jewellery as well.