As the purple variety of quartz, amethyst shares all that stone's properties. Amethyst clears the aura of dysfunctional energy. In Love Is In the Earth, Melody mentions, Vera Cruz amethyst provides access to an immediate beta brain state, stimulates the throat chakra, and provides for a calming effect while stimulating the heart chakra. The Greeks believed amethyst protected one from drunkenness.

Amethyst's color comes from an interplay between traces of aluminum and iron. Very deep orange citrine is generally actually mined as amethyst and then heat treated reducing the Fe³⁺ to Fe²⁺ producing the orange-yellow tint.