Lapis Lazuli: Stone of Universal Truth
A powerful crystal for activating the higher mind & enhancing intellectual ability. Stimulates the desire for knowledge, truth & understanding, aids the process of learning,  excellent for enhancing memory.  It reveals inner truth, and promotes self-awareness & the acceptance of that knowledge. It provides for the relief of things that may have been suppressed and allows for them to surface, helping to diminish dis-ease or repressed anger, and allows for self-expression without holding back or compromising.  It’s a stone of friendship & brings harmony to relationships. Brings calm & loving communication to a home with temperamental teenagers or children with Asperger's, autism, ADD, ADHD. Beneficial to the throat, larynx, and vocal chords, and helps regulate the endocrine and thyroid glands. It overcomes hearing loss and other problems with ear and nasal passages. Use for circulation, improving cardiac rhythm, reducing vertigo, blood pressure, insomnia, oozing or septic sties, eye infections with eye bath. Lapis heated in sunlight, reduces bruising and is good for skin problems and insect bites.  Lapis is beneficial for women suffering from menstrual irregularities, relieves cramps, stiffness and lumbago.  Lapis relieves general pain and inflammations, and is especially effective against migraine headaches. It aids the nervous system and brain disorders.