Gems or precious stones ,used as ornaments are considered to have healing powers,

GEMS&Remedies: Healing Powers of Gems Gems or precious stones ,used as ornaments are considered to have healing powers, apart from the mental satisfaction of users. Astrology speaks of their abilities to rectify evil effects of planet positions in birth chart and transit charts. There are about 90 types of stones known as Gems. About two dozen of them are atrologically important,depending on colors and their weights. Important among them known in Indian astrology are nav-ratnas. They are alloted among 9 planets. The Gems connected with the Planet that owns ascending sign(lagna) or Sun-Sign are always good to wear at any time. The Gem selection can be based on the ruling Dasa-Lord, the transiting planets,the planets at weak positions in birth chart, and Lords of houses representing considered matter .

NO. relatedPlanet numeral GEM Name Hindi-Name Color,wavelength Wt in Rattis MetalPart Finger Substitute 1 Ruby Manik 70000,hot Sun 1-4 3,5 Gold Ring Garnet StarRuby 2 Emerald Panna,Marathak 75000,cold Mercury 5 3,5,7,10 Gold Little,Mid 3 Diamond Heera,vajra 60000,hot Venus 6 1-4 Plati.Gold Any WhiteZircon,WhiteCoral 4 RedCoral Moonga,pavizham 65000,hot Mars 9 7,9,11 Gold/Iron Ring Garnet,cornolian 5 YellowSapphire Pukhraj,pushyarag 50000,cold Jupiter 3 7,13 Gold/Tin iRing,inde Topaz 6 BlueSapphire Neelam 79000,v.cold Saturn 8 3-4 Lead/Silve Middle,Little LapisLazuli 7 Pearl Moti 70000,cold Moon 2,7 2,4,6,9 Silver Ring,Little MoonStone 8 HessoniteGarnet Gomedh 70000,cold Rahu 9 6,11,13 Iron Middle,Little 9 CatsEye Vaiduriya,Lahsuniya 70000,veryhot Ketu,Sun 7 3,5,7 Steel/Gold Little,Ring TigersEye

Yellow Sapphire Topaz	Red Coral Garnet cornolian	Diamond WhiteZircon WhiteCoral	Emerald
Blue Sapphire LapisLasuli	Rahu Hessonite Garnet	Ketu Cat'sEye Tiger'sEye	Pearl Moonstone
Saturn			Ruby starRuby Garnet
Jupiter	Mars	Venus	Mercury

9-Gem Design

Emerald (Marathak)	Diamond (Vajra)	Pearl (moti,Muthu)
Yellow Sapphire (pushyarag)	Ruby (Manik)	RedCoral (Pavizha, Moonga)
Cat'sEye (Vaidurya)	Blue Sapphire (Indra- neelam)	Hessonite (Gomedh)