In older documents, traveling healers (quack doctors, charlatans) demanded payment for stones, usually taken from streams, which were supposed to cure all kinds of diseases within a certain period of time, at the end of which the healer was long gone. Despite official warnings against such healing fraud, the healing stone business flourished among the general population. – Until today, healing stone therapy has not only remained hidden: it has remained in the medical grey area. On the Internet, corresponding stones are offered, especially mountain [rock] crystal: the material of quartz [SiO2], in crystallization translucent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with grey, or the like) for certain ailments. – See cure money, liquidation.
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