It stimulates metabolism, raises energy levels, and even revitalizes tissues too. As Amber is potent in its energy of renewal it can revitalize your internal systems and even clean your blood and detox you too. Amber is an exceptional tool for soaking up heavy moods and bad vibes. It cleans your emotional house by sweeping out negative energy and replacing it with positivity, a sense of empowerment, and a balanced and flexible attitude too.
Empowerment is essential to our daily wellbeing as this relates to everything from our sense of self-worth in the world and how we engage with the energy of others around us. Amber helps us to bring out that inner strength that ensures we set beautiful boundaries in respectful ways.
As Amber has a potent protective quality too it also keeps us safe from situations and individuals that could cause us harm along with quieting the voice of our inner critic too.
Amber welcomes patience and inner wisdom. It is here to keep you balanced, nourished, and warm no matter what. Glowing with a golden quality, Amber is a dab hand at helping cleanse and clear the sacral chakra. This delightful gem is all about balance and stability and building the wisdom within your spiritual house. When blocked, we may feel empty inside - we might have a low or unbalanced libido. We can fall into overwhelming easily and turn quickly to fear and insecurity.
When fine-tuned and flowing, our sacral chakra is a sublime source of movement, energy, creativity, and sensuality. The Amber stone is named as the astrological birthstone for those born under the banner of Leo. It helps Leos stay balanced and better equipped to manage their emotions so that they can make quick decisions without getting bogged down by the details.
Amber can also be a good match for those born under the sign of Aquarius. This is because it brings stability and earthly energy making it a much needed amulet for the water bearers. It nurtures creativity and joy - matching the optimistic drive of the Aquarian. As Aquarians are calm and sensitive, Amber can help to balance this and make sure that effective boundaries are in place.
One of the best ways to welcome the warmth of Amber into your world is to wear it close to the skin. It is sometimes tinted red, orange, or brown, and may be clouded by minuscule air bubbles. Trees exude resin for many reasons, among them to combat disease, seal wounds, and prevent attack by insects. The material is initially sticky, but on exposure to light and air, most resins tend to harden into solid masses that are resistant to normal decay processes.
Pieces of amber often survive, buried in soils or sediments, for millions of years, yielding invaluable scientific information about the history of life on Earth. Natural resins such as amber generally consist of mixtures of organic compounds, including alcohols, ketones, carboxylic acids, and most notably, unsaturated hydrocarbons known as terpenes and related terpenoid compounds. The majority of resins consist mainly of compounds based on diterpenes, C 20 H The most common type of amber contains members of a diterpenoid family known as labdanoids.
These components readily polymerize to form macromolecular compounds. The polymerizable components in ambers tend to be fairly consistent across many species and throughout geologic time. The nonpolymerizable components in amber often are characteristic of the vegetation that existed at a particular place and time.
The fossilized resin is found throughout the world, although much of the amber used for jewelry derives from deposits in Europe's Baltic region and from the Dominican Republic. Most ambers are 20 million to million years old. However, recognizable ambers have been discovered that originated around million years ago. Because amber is an organic material, its age can be determined by carbon radioisotope dating, but only if the sample is less than about 40, years old.
The age of much older ambers can be inferred from the age of the surrounding sediments. Radioisotopes with half-lives much longer than that of 14 C are used to date the sediments. Amber has a fascinating history of "medicinal" applications.
The Greek physician Hippocrates, who lived around — B. Because amber is easy to cut, it also has been used to make candlestick holders, chess pieces, and other items, particularly ornaments. Petersburg, Russia. The contents of the original room were lost in World War II. Succinate dust was also used in religious rites of the Balts.
Northern Gold, as a precious gift, was sacrificed to gods by the ancient nations. The confessors of various religions and cults produced sacred attributes of amber: protective amulets dating back to the Stone Age and rosaries that were worn not only by Christian prayers, but also by Buddhists and Muslims.
In the Middle Ages and especially in the Baroque era, characterised by lavish and luxurious style, amber has become a luxury decoration for its golden glitter in Europe.
It was usd to decorate churches, produce mosaics, icons, crosses, ritual chalices made of amber. Amber in medicine. People value amber not only for its beauty, but also for its healing properties. It was used in medicine by the Balts, the ancient Romans, and even the ancient Chinese.
Skeptics may say that the belief in healing power of amber is only a superstition, but it has been found that succinate contains an enormous amount of amber acid, which is a unique biostimulator, and is therefore considered to be one of the most important ingredients giving amber its valuable healing properties. As a result, the Northern Gold today is chemically-processed, and purified amber acid extracted is used in the manufacture of modern medicinal preparations.
Amber is also an integral part of some luxurious skin care products. In ancient times, succinate was so much highly valued that it was the only one to be referred to as amber. Ancient Greeks were also fascinated by the Northern Gold for its electrical conductivity, and for that reason it was also called electrum.
It is important to say that amber is much studied but still not fully understood. The problems begin with the names by which the material is known: amber, Baltic amber, fossil resin, succinite, and resinite.
Although all these terms have been used to describe the material discussed in this catalogue, they have confused as much as they have clarified. It is generally accepted that amber is derived from resin-bearing trees that once clustered in dense, now extinct forests.
Langenheim recently summarized in her compendium on plant resins:. It is clear that the amber is not derived from the modern species of Pinus, but there are mixed signals from suggestions of either an araucarian Agathis -like or a pinaceous Pseudolarix -like resin producing tree. Geologically, amber has been documented throughout the world figure 8 , with most deposits found in Tertiary-period sediments dating to the Eocene, a few to the Oligocene and Miocene, and fewer still to later in the Tertiary.
Amber is formed from resin exuded from tree bark figure 9 , although it is also produced in the heartwood. Resin protects trees by blocking gaps in the bark. Once resin covers a gash or break caused by chewing insects, it hardens and forms a seal.
On some trees, exuded resin flowed over previous flows, creating layers. The sticky substance collected detritus and soil and sometimes entrapped flying and crawling creatures figure Eventually, after the trees fell, the resin-coated logs were carried by rivers and tides to deltas in coastal regions, where they were buried over time in sedimentary deposits. Most amber did not originate in the place where it was found; often, it was deposited and found at a distance from where the resin-producing trees grew.
Most known accumulations of amber are redepositions, the result of geological activity. Under the right conditions, the hardened resin continued to polymerize and lose volatiles, eventually forming amber, an inert solid that, when completely polymerized, has no volatiles.
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