Gypsum is an aqueous calcium sulphate. The mineral has a white, pinkish, yellowish-cream color.
Place of Birth. The deposit of this mineral is quite extensive: in the Vologda, Vladimir and Arkhangelsk regions, in Bashkiria (Permian age), in the Western Urals. In the North Caucasus, in Dagestan, Irkutsk region, Central Asia (Jurassic age), in Canada, France, USA, Germany and Italy.
Applications. Used gypsum in raw form, and in the burned form. If the gypsum is heated from 120 to 140 degrees, the gypsum will turn into a hemihydrate - alabaster or semi-rendered gypsum. And if the gypsum is exposed to higher temperatures, the result is a burnt gypsum - it is also called building gypsum.
Building gypsum is used in architecture, for stucco work, in medicine, for plastering, in the paper and cement industries.
Raw gypsum is used for sculpting statues, for making portland cement, as fertilizer. Gypsum-selenite is used for crafts, especially gypsum from the Kungur region, which is in the Urals.
Therapeutic and magical properties of gypsum
Medical properties. In medicine, gypsum is used to grow limbs, to heal dislocations, sprains and other injuries, to treat osteomyelitis (the affected organ is fixed), to cure tuberculosis of the spine (a gypsum bed is made). In addition to excessive sweating will help get rid of gypsum powder, an excellent toning mask will be gruel from gypsum powder, vegetable oil and water.
Magical properties. It has long been known that gypsum is used for splicing fractures, and also to make a sculpture of famous masters. But not only for this purpose gypsum is used. It turns out that this mineral is also considered a means of human pride. The mineral will strictly follow a person who is prone to arrogance and has an increased sense of self-worth, while creating situations on the energy level when he falls into a hopeless position, for example, with a fracture of the limb. But this does not mean that the plaster helps to get injuries, we often get them because of our own carelessness and self-reliance, of course accidents are an exception.
The mineral shows the unattractiveness of human behavior in the most unconventional way, namely, it helps with injuries, and does not require a reward of gratitude or gratitude.
The properties of gypsum are passive. He does not attract success, love, material prosperity, luck, will not strive to subordinate the will of man to himself, suggesting how to act properly. People who are born under the sign of Capricorn are advised to wear products from this mineral.
Talismans and amulets. Spitfires and aggressive people should use gypsum as a talisman. Such people are the Lions, Sagittarius, Aries. Gypsum will make such people more calm, balanced and reasonable. A mineral will help a person cope with an increased sense of self-worth, pride, arrogance. Gypsum will show to its owner, what danger and absurdity conceals in itself an overestimated self-esteem.