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The Foundation Five
Every gem can be classified under one of the five elements of Chinese Medicine: earth, metal, water, wood, and fire. Some gems fall into these categories more clearly and neatly than others. Each necklace in the GEMFormulas’ Foundation Five Collection has a particular affinity with one of the five elements. Note the yin-yang correlation of the necklace and its symbiotic gemstone.
Each necklace may be used by itself or in combination with the other Foundation Five necklaces. The Foundation Five work together to balance the five elements of Chinese Medicine as they manifest throughout the body, in all body functions.
Introducing the Foundation Five
The body runs by manifesting a complex inter-relationship of the five elements and their associated organs, tissues, energy meridians, and body processes. Imbalances in this relationship are the underlying cause of disharmony and disease in the body. The Foundation Five necklaces naturally balance the five element processes throughout the body.
Although the Foundation Five are excellent for self-therapy, they can take an energy-workers practice to a new level. While the necklaces are draped over your client’s body, they naturally balance your client’s five-element processes. You can then proceed with your chosen modality to treat deeper, more chronic imbalances.
Dark Green Aventurine – Tsavorite
Element: Wood
Association*: Active functions that are in a growing phase
Season: Spring
Organs/meridians: liver, gallbladder (The liver meridian runs up the body; the gallbladder meridian runs down.)
Color: Green
Attributes** of the wood element: New life and beginnings, manifesting creativity, growth, development, firmness and flexibility
Dark Green Aventurine assists cellular detoxification and has an affinity with the liver and gallbladder. It can focus the body’s energies on the cellular level of manifestation.
Tsavorite enhances and vitalizes cellular vortexes. A cell’s energy vortex represents the amount of life force that a cell is able to express.
Note: Tsavorite is often mistaken for high quality Emerald. Emerald energy tends to support upward movement in the body, Tsavorite energy tends to support downward flows (gallbladder meridian runs downward). Emerald neutralizes negative energy in the cells; Tsavorite vitalizes cellular vortexes.
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Rhodonite – Pink Tourmaline
Element: Fire
Association: functions that have reached a maximal state of activity and are about to begin a decline or resting period
Season: Summer
Organs/meridians: heart, pericardium, small intestine, triple warmer. (The heart and pericardium meridians run down the arm; the small intestine and triple warmer meridians run up it.)
Colors: Red, pink, red-orange
Attributes of the fire element: transformation, passion, purification, peaking (reaching most active point) also destruction
Rhodonite settles emotions, calms the heart, and builds an energetic foundation for emotional order, balance, and stability. It does this by encouraging all the body’s meridians and energy flows to settle down and work together.
Our Rhodonite-Pink Tourmaline necklace is graduated in color to work with a range of emotional frequencies. It raises the vibrations of your emotional experience. It also builds an emotional foundation at a higher vibratory level. If you need help controlling the heart and emotions in acute situations, try Mountain Pose, which consists of Black Rhodonite with Onyx.
Pink Tourmaline offers protective energy so that you can feel safer and more supported while your emotions find their new state of balance. Pink Tourmaline also vitalizes the pericardium, which protects the heart. In this necklace we use a variety of Pink Tourmaline called Rubellite. Rubellite is known for its dark pink color.
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Agate-Citrine
Element: Earth
Association: Balance and neutrality, and a buffer between body functions
Season: Autumn
Organs/meridians: spleen, stomach (The spleen meridian moves up the body, stomach meridian moves down the body)
Colors: Yellow, gold, ochre, browns, earthtones
Attributes of the earth element: abundance, nurturing, nourishing, stabilizing, accumulating
Agate fortifies the spleen meridian and brings nourishing earth energy up into the body, while Citrine helps move energy down your body (along the stomach meridian).
Agate introduces your body to the earthtones—rays of color imbued with sound—and provides your body with them. Earthtones represent the mixture of sound and light that has been fashioned to nourish the planet itself. They also have a particular affinity with physical tissue. When accepted by your body, earthtones open lines of communication among body parts. They offer this same benefit for Earth.
As a result of receiving earthtones, your body is prepared to more fully and completely receive the 7 life-giving color rays. You’ll also feel more grounded and grow more accepting of your physical incarnation.
Citrine calls the yellow ray to your body and prepares your body to receive a greater amount of it. It activates yellow ray already present in your body, and to some degree carries this ray. Citrine also vitalizes the stomach and digestive tract.
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Mother of Pearl – Blue Chalcedony
Element: Metal
Association: functions that are in a declining state
Season: Late Autumn
Organs/meridians: lungs, large intestine (The lung meridian moves down the arm; the large intestine meridian moves up the arm)
Colors: White, lavender
Attributes of the metal element: Separation, elimination, alignment, refining, letting go
Mother of Pearl-Blue Chalcedony helps your body let go of stress. By reminding the cells of their divine ocean origin, Mother of Pearl energy helps the cells relax and let go of what separates them from this relaxing ocean. The color white is vitalizing for the lungs and respiratory system.
Blue Chalcedony relaxes the tissues so that accumulated thoughts can be released. (Compare this action to that of Sodalite, which absorbs thought energies stored in the body and aura.)
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Ruby-Onyx
Element: Water
Association: functions that have reached a maximal state of rest and are about to change the direction of their activity
Season: Winter
Organs/meridians: kidney, urinary bladder (The kidney meridian moves up the body, the bladder meridian moves down.)
Colors: Black, dark blue, purple
Attributes of the water element: rest, restoration, storage, endings, subconscious, intuition, deep reflection, integration
Onyx has an affinity with the root chakra and grounds your body by relaxing this chakra so that it isn’t always forced forward. A relaxed root chakra can flex downward to not only help the body release toxins, but also receive Earth energies and enter a deep relaxation. It also grounds by narrowing the range of scattered frequencies throughout the body, thereby urging these frequencies to become more true to themselves.
Ruby vitalizes the heart by strengthening the torus-shaped energy flow that encompasses and sustains the heart. A fire-element gemstone, its presence in this necklace ignites heart energy, which governs all other organs in the body. It helps draw up through the body the Earth energies that Onyx invites into the body, thereby enhancing the effects of Onyx many fold.
This necklace also strengthens your personal vortex, which helps you connect with the Earth’s life-sustaining vortex.
Shop Here for Ruby - Onyx
Click here to listen to the teleseminar on the Foundation Five Necklaces, or read the transcript.
*Associations derived from the book “The Web That Has No Weaver – Understanding Chinese Medicine” by Ted J. Kaptchuk, O.M.D., McGraw-Hill, New York, 2000, pp. 437-8.
**Attributes derived from the book “Wood Becomes Water – Chinese Medicine in Everyday Life” by Gail Reichstein. Kodansha America, Inc. New York, 1998.
Each necklace may be used by itself or in combination with the other Foundation Five necklaces. The Foundation Five work together to balance the five elements of Chinese Medicine as they manifest throughout the body, in all body functions.
Introducing the Foundation Five
Wood Element: Dark Green Aventurine-Tsavorite
Fire Element: Pink Rhodonite-Pink Tourmaline
Earth Element: Agate-Citrine
Metal Element: Mother of Pearl-Blue Chalcedony
Water Element: Ruby-Onyx
The body runs by manifesting a complex inter-relationship of the five elements and their associated organs, tissues, energy meridians, and body processes. Imbalances in this relationship are the underlying cause of disharmony and disease in the body. The Foundation Five necklaces naturally balance the five element processes throughout the body.
Although the Foundation Five are excellent for self-therapy, they can take an energy-workers practice to a new level. While the necklaces are draped over your client’s body, they naturally balance your client’s five-element processes. You can then proceed with your chosen modality to treat deeper, more chronic imbalances.
Dark Green Aventurine – Tsavorite
Element: Wood
Association*: Active functions that are in a growing phase
Season: Spring
Organs/meridians: liver, gallbladder (The liver meridian runs up the body; the gallbladder meridian runs down.)
Color: Green
Attributes** of the wood element: New life and beginnings, manifesting creativity, growth, development, firmness and flexibility
Dark Green Aventurine assists cellular detoxification and has an affinity with the liver and gallbladder. It can focus the body’s energies on the cellular level of manifestation.
Tsavorite enhances and vitalizes cellular vortexes. A cell’s energy vortex represents the amount of life force that a cell is able to express.
Note: Tsavorite is often mistaken for high quality Emerald. Emerald energy tends to support upward movement in the body, Tsavorite energy tends to support downward flows (gallbladder meridian runs downward). Emerald neutralizes negative energy in the cells; Tsavorite vitalizes cellular vortexes.
Shop Here for Dark Green Aventurine - Tsavorite
Rhodonite – Pink Tourmaline
Element: Fire
Association: functions that have reached a maximal state of activity and are about to begin a decline or resting period
Season: Summer
Organs/meridians: heart, pericardium, small intestine, triple warmer. (The heart and pericardium meridians run down the arm; the small intestine and triple warmer meridians run up it.)
Colors: Red, pink, red-orange
Attributes of the fire element: transformation, passion, purification, peaking (reaching most active point) also destruction
Rhodonite settles emotions, calms the heart, and builds an energetic foundation for emotional order, balance, and stability. It does this by encouraging all the body’s meridians and energy flows to settle down and work together.
Our Rhodonite-Pink Tourmaline necklace is graduated in color to work with a range of emotional frequencies. It raises the vibrations of your emotional experience. It also builds an emotional foundation at a higher vibratory level. If you need help controlling the heart and emotions in acute situations, try Mountain Pose, which consists of Black Rhodonite with Onyx.
Pink Tourmaline offers protective energy so that you can feel safer and more supported while your emotions find their new state of balance. Pink Tourmaline also vitalizes the pericardium, which protects the heart. In this necklace we use a variety of Pink Tourmaline called Rubellite. Rubellite is known for its dark pink color.
Shop Here for Rhodonite - Pink Tourmaline
Agate-Citrine
Element: Earth
Association: Balance and neutrality, and a buffer between body functions
Season: Autumn
Organs/meridians: spleen, stomach (The spleen meridian moves up the body, stomach meridian moves down the body)
Colors: Yellow, gold, ochre, browns, earthtones
Attributes of the earth element: abundance, nurturing, nourishing, stabilizing, accumulating
Agate fortifies the spleen meridian and brings nourishing earth energy up into the body, while Citrine helps move energy down your body (along the stomach meridian).
Agate introduces your body to the earthtones—rays of color imbued with sound—and provides your body with them. Earthtones represent the mixture of sound and light that has been fashioned to nourish the planet itself. They also have a particular affinity with physical tissue. When accepted by your body, earthtones open lines of communication among body parts. They offer this same benefit for Earth.
As a result of receiving earthtones, your body is prepared to more fully and completely receive the 7 life-giving color rays. You’ll also feel more grounded and grow more accepting of your physical incarnation.
Citrine calls the yellow ray to your body and prepares your body to receive a greater amount of it. It activates yellow ray already present in your body, and to some degree carries this ray. Citrine also vitalizes the stomach and digestive tract.
Shop Here for Agate - Citrine
Mother of Pearl – Blue Chalcedony
Element: Metal
Association: functions that are in a declining state
Season: Late Autumn
Organs/meridians: lungs, large intestine (The lung meridian moves down the arm; the large intestine meridian moves up the arm)
Colors: White, lavender
Attributes of the metal element: Separation, elimination, alignment, refining, letting go
Mother of Pearl-Blue Chalcedony helps your body let go of stress. By reminding the cells of their divine ocean origin, Mother of Pearl energy helps the cells relax and let go of what separates them from this relaxing ocean. The color white is vitalizing for the lungs and respiratory system.
Blue Chalcedony relaxes the tissues so that accumulated thoughts can be released. (Compare this action to that of Sodalite, which absorbs thought energies stored in the body and aura.)
Shop Here for Mother of Pearl - Blue Chalcedony
Ruby-Onyx
Element: Water
Association: functions that have reached a maximal state of rest and are about to change the direction of their activity
Season: Winter
Organs/meridians: kidney, urinary bladder (The kidney meridian moves up the body, the bladder meridian moves down.)
Colors: Black, dark blue, purple
Attributes of the water element: rest, restoration, storage, endings, subconscious, intuition, deep reflection, integration
Onyx has an affinity with the root chakra and grounds your body by relaxing this chakra so that it isn’t always forced forward. A relaxed root chakra can flex downward to not only help the body release toxins, but also receive Earth energies and enter a deep relaxation. It also grounds by narrowing the range of scattered frequencies throughout the body, thereby urging these frequencies to become more true to themselves.
Ruby vitalizes the heart by strengthening the torus-shaped energy flow that encompasses and sustains the heart. A fire-element gemstone, its presence in this necklace ignites heart energy, which governs all other organs in the body. It helps draw up through the body the Earth energies that Onyx invites into the body, thereby enhancing the effects of Onyx many fold.
This necklace also strengthens your personal vortex, which helps you connect with the Earth’s life-sustaining vortex.
Shop Here for Ruby - Onyx
Click here to listen to the teleseminar on the Foundation Five Necklaces, or read the transcript.
*Associations derived from the book “The Web That Has No Weaver – Understanding Chinese Medicine” by Ted J. Kaptchuk, O.M.D., McGraw-Hill, New York, 2000, pp. 437-8.
**Attributes derived from the book “Wood Becomes Water – Chinese Medicine in Everyday Life” by Gail Reichstein. Kodansha America, Inc. New York, 1998.