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.
Sometimes the moon passes behind clouds, its disappearance and reappearance creating a subtle light shows. Negative emotions, too, may be fleeting, if we can only wait them out and allow them to be. The changeable beauty of the moon is found in the stone named for it, moonstone. In India, moonstone is called chandrakant, meaning beloved by the moon. (from the Sanskrit chandra, moon and kanta, beloved) Moonstone, in Hindu mythology, is believed to have formed from moonlight. Moonstone, like the moon, comes in a variety of hues. It can be milky, rainbow, blue, gray, or tan. Blue, rainbow, and very clear moonstones radiate a magical play of light when they're moved around. Gemologists call this adularescence (adularia is another name for moonstone).