With its harmonizing and balancing effects, it helps the body to relax. It enhances the body's natural defenses against illness and promotes longevity. It has also been found to improve glandular functions. It is even used to treat alcoholism, arthritis, skin ulcers, burns, various types of punctures and for nerve-end operations. Not just a decoration, gold can be eaten, injected or absorbed through the skin.
Gold has a long history of medicinal uses.
It is thought that gold's first medicinal use was in Egypt during the Middle Ages, where alchemists developed an elixir made of liquid gold. It reputedly had the ability to restore youth and perfect health. Alchemy soon spread to the Middle East, Asia and finally Europe - and with it, the use of gold in health care. In medieval Europe, alchemists mixed powdered gold into drinks to 'comfort sore limbs', one of the earliest references to arthritis. Word of gold's power to relieve the pain of arthritis passed down through the centuries and today, its effectiveness has been confirmed by modern medical research in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.