In PBC, AMA preferentially react with the E2 component of one of the multienzymes that is called the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC). Accordingly, the antigen is designated as PDC-E2. The practical importance of all of this is that the PDC-E2 antigen is now used, as discussed below, in a diagnostic test for PBC.
Moonstone is said in crystal healing to help calm responses and stress, and avoid overreaction. It brings hope, enhances feminine energies, sensitivity, intuition, and psychic abilities. It is also said to bring strong energies of abundance to one's life. Moonstone is a stone of protection, especially during childbirth, pregnancy, and travel at sea. It is a stone of calm and relief from emotional stress. It is also associated with love of all kinds. Physically moonstone is used in crystal healing to aid the pituitary gland and digestive system, obesity, water retention, hormonal problems, menstrual problems.
Some moonstones contain enough albite to have properties nearer those of albite than of orthoclase; on the whole, however, moonstone is regarded as a variety of orthoclase. Fine quality moonstone, with its floating, billowy, bluish light, is probably the most widely cherished among the feldspar gem materials.oonstone, the most valuable of the feldspar gems, has been used for jewelry purposes for many centuries. In many areas of the world it is still believed to bring good fortune to its wearer. In ancient times it was supposed to arouse tender passions in lovers and give them power to read the future.