Strawberry Quartz Faceted Banded 3mm Round - 15-16 inch Stone Type_DZI Madre de Cacao is a

Madre de Cacao is a very hard tropical wood with a visible grain

Due to its color and clarity

The original stones were often used as protective amulets and are usually scarred or pitted in places where they were ground off for use in traditional medicines

and the wood used to make them is only available after natural disasters fell young trees

Strawberry Quartz Faceted Banded 3mm Round - 15-16 inch Stone Type_DZI Madre de Cacao is aStrawberry Quartz is a translucent, milky to pink silicon dioxide mineral. Its needle to like inclusions of hematite are iridescent red. Quartz has been highly valued by virtually every civilization throughout history, often used in healing and meditation and as religious objects in funerary rites and to dispel evil.