In crystal therapy, despite the name, not only crystals are used . Sometimes we see in the hands of therapists or market stalls also simple rocks (often tumbled), various fossils such as amber or fossil wood or other particular materials.

Among the latter is the pearl, a spherical aragonite tumbled naturally from some molluscs.

Biologically speaking, this is the product of a defensive mechanism typical of some molluscs, especially of the oyster, which covers concentric and successive layers of mother-of-pearl, or lamellar aragonite and biopolymers, a foreign body, so as to isolate it and render it harmless.

This natural defensive mechanism becomes a real art in our eyes, since the resulting object is extremely beautiful and very appealing to human eyes, since very ancient times.

Used above all in jewelery, the pearl has a metaphysical role also in the world of crystal therapy.

Various types of pearls

Pearls differ in shape, size, color and surface quality .

The most perfect have a spherical shape, some have a regular ovoid shape, while others are decidedly irregular.

The color is very variable : it ranges from pearl white to orange, from baby pink, to black, blue, green, gold and mother-of-pearl iridescence.

Furthermore, there are natural pearls and cultured pearls, the first are 100% mother-of-pearl, while in cultivated ones we find a large artificial nucleus that is inserted as a foreign body into the mollusk.

The pearl in ancient and modern mysticism

The relationship between the pearl and man is of ancient date. We find it already mentioned as a gem and remedy in the ancient Ayurvedic texts, in the Old Testament and in some apocryphal gospels . Famous is the Hymn of the Pearl in the Gnostic Gospel called Acts of Thomas .

In the most modern crystal therapy the ancient mystical qualities of the pearl are well summarized.

It is thought to be able to bring deep calm and rebalance after energy imbalances, after all the pearl is an extreme form of order around a center of pure chaos.

It is considered the ideal stone to develop knowledge through experience ; the pearl in fact helps to review our acts and to discern the good and the improvable.

It therefore helps to learn from one's mistakes in full calm and lucidity, understanding what to let go and what to retain to build a new energy structure.

Not infrequently the pearl is also linked to female charity and generosity .

Links between the pearl and the body

On a physical level, the pearl is often connected with the digestive tract, thus helping to digest and maintain the most used muscle groups.

In many cultures it has been and still is used to improve female fertility and to wish a pain-free birth .

Also the menstrual cycle seems can become more painless thanks to the therapeutic use of the pearl.

The pearl in relationships

It is considered a stone capable of consolidating love relationships, thus acting as an official seal even in the event of an engagement.

The pearl is not a mystery, it has an appearance similar to that of the moon, and seems capable of stimulating the hormones naturally stimulated by moonlight, and therefore in relation to its cycles.

This also means energy alignment between the individual aura and the energies of the moon, or reduction of torque frictions .

After all, the pearl is nothing more than the art of the mollusk to create something magnificent starting from an irritating element .