Still browsing...Moving on to "gem therapy".
Question on how the widget actually works: Going by their illustrations, it's apparently is supposed to shine a light
through a gemstone onto the afflicted body part?
What does the listing of wavelengths ("color/frequency") on the "Gems Used" page have to do with how the widget works? Are they saying that shining a light through their installed ruby causes red light of wavelength 625 nm to appear? Ask to MP to check this.
If this is in fact how the widget is supposed to work, ask the MP to see that there is in fact a certified gemstone of each kind installed somehow in each lighting device. They ought to be
as follows: Ruby, carnelian, citrine, emerald, topaz, diamond, sapphire. He'll need a jeweler or gemstone expert for this.
Also, the MP ought to find out whether the gems in question are real or synthetic. I would think that only real gemstones could be expected to work "right", given the overall mystic tone of the theory.
Other questions.
Apparently the machine is set up so that the light is supposed to be shining
through the gemstone onto the afflicted body part? However, carnelian is not transparent the way rubies and sapphires are--it is a kind of quartz that is, at best, translucent, but is usually opaque. Therefore, it probably cannot generate the orange light-beam it's supposed to (disclaimer: IANA mineralogist or a jeweller). If LiliasCurtin has a purported carnelian shining orange light onto a body part, then their machine probably can't be working the way it looks like (as far as I can tell) it's supposed to.
Mineralogically speaking, ruby and sapphire are identical, being corundum or aluminum oxide, differing only in their color, as any rockhound can tell you. So why should ruby be "Hot, heating, drying, energising, expanding" and sapphire be "Cool, tranquilising, soothing, analgesic, sedative "? Just because of the color? Would all red gemstones be "heating"? Why not use garnets or spinel? Similarly, why not use amethyst for violet's "tranquilising" effect? Why use the violet sapphire?
Why use blue topaz for "blue" and not sapphire? Why use citrine for yellow? Why not use topaz for yellow, sapphire for blue, and amethyst for violet?
I suspect there's a price issue here: a very small poor-quality ruby and emerald are relatively inexpensive; diamonds aren't nearly as expensive as people think they are; violet sapphires are pretty cheap (and BTW,
this website points out that violet sapphires are "routinely" heat-treated to enhance their color--wouldn't that count as "artificial"?); carnelian is dirt-cheap, relatively speaking, being only a semi-precious stone; citrines and blue topaz are also quite cheap, being standard ingredients in those "Grandma's Little Birthstones" jewelry. I'm betting that if the MP does get a jeweler to look at these stones, they'll turn out to be real, but the ruby and emerald will be of poor, non-jewelry quality.
And most people don't think of "amethyst" as a "gem" stone, so there's obviously a PR issue here. Customers would rather be treated by an exciting-sounding "violet
sapphire" than by plain old amethysts. Selling the sizzle, not the steak...So if you have to use "violet sapphire" for purple, then you can't use sapphire for blue, so you have to find something else to use for blue, hence blue topaz. And you have to use diamonds
somewhere, because what use is a gemstone lineup without "diamonds", so you stick it under "indigo", since there are no gemstones that are "dark blue".
Question: How do they make a diamond produce an indigo light? Diamonds are clear. Naturally occurring blue diamonds are very rare, and quite expensive. So if they have a blue diamond, then they have a heat-treated or irradiated diamond. And if they need to have authentic gemstones for best effects, as I surmise, wouldn't heat-treating a gemstone to make it produce a blue light make it count as "artificial"?
Blue topaz is also rarely found in nature, and is generally produced by heat-treating yellow topaz. So wouldn't it count as "artificial", too? However, maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree here and LiliasCurtin doesn't care whether the gems are real or synthetic.
Note: Citrine is also quartz, and is also considered only a semi-precious stone. So two of their "gems" are actually mere rockhound-fodder quartz, and if they had included amethyst, that would be "quartz", too. Just mentioning it.
