Carnelian is a stone of vitality, optimism, and creativity. It gives courage, promotes positive life choices, dispels apathy, and motivates success in business and other matters. This stone helps you trust yourself and your perceptions. It is associated with boldness and courage and using this crystal can help strengthen weaknesses (physical and emotional). It stimulates analytical capabilities and enables precision. It also protects against envy, fear, bad temper, rage, and helps banish sorrow.

Carnelian activates the base chakra*, influences the female reproductive organs, and increases fertility. This stone overcomes frigidity and impotence, heals lower back problems, rheumatism, arthritis, neuralgia, and depression, especially in those of advanced years. It regulates bodily fluids and the kidneys, accelerates healing in bones and ligaments, and stanches blood. Carnelian improves the absorption of vitamins and minerals and ensures a good supply of blood to organs and tissues.