# Can rocks/stones heal? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 9, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-rocks-stones-heal/187315 "2003-07-09T20:27:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-rocks-stones-heal/187315/41 "2013-07-06T03:37:47Z")
> [@greywolf333](#): > > Different people have different religions, and people have their viewpoints about each. Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish and Wiccan. Crystals are definitely Wiccan, and therefore will not be for everybody. So they only work if you believe in them? And if you don’t believe in them, they don’t work? So it’s the _belief_ that makes them work? I believe I’ll have a beer. Look! There it is! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-rocks-stones-heal/187315/42 "2013-07-06T03:47:06Z")
> [@greywolf333](#): > > bloodstone is a filter that removes negativity from me Reducing the pore size in one’s gullibility filter ensures that less bullshit enters the brain, leading to positive critical thinking ability. ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-rocks-stones-heal/187315/43 "2013-07-06T03:52:22Z")
I don’t know about healing but lot of women use them as a primitive method of birth control. Just slip one into your lover’s shoe and it’ll make him limp. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-rocks-stones-heal/187315/44 "2013-07-06T05:05:33Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > **greywolf333 Johnson** is right. I’d also like to add that it’s as fine a bit of genuine new age blather and doublespeak as I’ve ever had the pleasure to hear. Good one. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-rocks-stones-heal/187315/45 "2013-07-06T10:36:33Z")
> [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > I don’t know about healing but lot of women use them as a primitive method of birth control. > > Just slip one into your lover’s shoe and it’ll make him limp. Or hold one between your knees. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-rocks-stones-heal/187315/46 "2013-07-06T11:56:22Z")
> [@purrtygirl](#): > > How many of you believe that stones and rocks have energy in them that can change your life? 😕 > > I have researched this topic and cannot get a straight or credible answer from anywhere that this is actually possible. That’s because it’s not possible. It’s woo-woo. It’s not real. It doesn’t exist. Well, salt is a type of stone and your body needs it (although too much is not good either) so I suppose if you had a salt deficiency it could “heal” you if properly applied, but all that bit about crystals and stones and healing energy is just… not real. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-rocks-stones-heal/187315.md?page=2)