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Bloodstone

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A named green jasper spotted with red, called heliotrope in older pharmacy, later a folk blood-staunch stone. Not generic jasper as a dump, and not a chakra set.

Also known as Heliotrope

  • Bloodstone is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats heliotropium (bloodstone) among spotted green stones used in remedies and related preparations. A Roman-era pharmacological use of the heliotrope stone, not jasper alone and not blood as a fluid.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

  • Bloodstone is historically related to Workshop.

    In Wood's The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Bloodstone is placed among workshop tools and parts.

    from Rev. James Wood (ed.) · The Nuttall Encyclopædia, 1907 (Gutenberg #12342)

    historically related to · sourced · documented

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