The Benefits of Color Therapy

Although some forms of alternative healing may be throught of as quackery, I believe we have to keep an open mind because there is still alot about our world we don't understand. Color therapy is not new. In fact, both the ancient Egyptians and Greeks used color to treat people. The ancient Egyptians built temples in which sunlight would sign through different colored gemstomes to treat patients. Like the ancient Egyptians, the Greeks also used color to treat patients. In Greek temples, sunlight was broken into different colors to treat patients.

In more recent times, Edwin Babbit wrote a book called Principles of LIght and Color in 1878. Although it enraged physicians at the time, once again, color therapy is becoming more popular. In fact, modern research has found that color can positively affect the state of our mind and health.

Color therapy can be utilized in several ways. You can sit under a colored light or direct a colored light at a specific part of your body. You can wear colored eyeglasses. Whichever method you implement, it is believed color therapy frees blocked energy or restores the frequency vibration of energy in diseased or damaged tissues and organs. As the light enters our eyes, it can trigger hormones which influence our biochemical system. By restoring the proper vibration and frequency in the body, it can restore health. Consequently, color therapy does not cure or heal the body, rather it helps the body heal itself.

The following colors may provide these potential benefits:

Red

• May reduce chronic pain by lowering the frequency of wavelengths and causing them to be less excited.
• Reduces inflammation and swelling.
• Stimulates the automatic system, circulatory system, and liver
• Helps with female disorders
• Increases the strength of the heart
• Helps build the blood and draws poisons to the head to be eliminated

Orange

• Reduces menstrual cramps and relieves other types of cramping
• Increases oxygen by stimulating the lungs, respiratory system, and thyroid gland. May help with respiratory disorders
• Increases milk production in lactating females by stimulating the mammary glands
• Relieves hiccups and reduces flatulence
• Depresses the parathyroid gland
• Relieves hiccups and flatulence
• Treats skin conditions like boils, carbuncles, and abscesses

Yellow

• Helps with night blindness by filtering out blue light
• Increases appetite and digestion
• Stengthens the heart and nervous system
• Heals paralysis from strokes
• Heals sluggish organs
• Destroys body worms
• Improves rheumatoid arthritis and neuritis

Green

• Helps with overall healing
• Stimulates digestion and the brain
• Heals infections, sores, bruises, and cuts
• Breaks up mucous and phelgm
• When combined with turquoise, it's useful in the treatment of burns

Aqua

• Rebuilds skin when damaged
• Relieves skin irritation, inflammation, and itching
• Relieves pain from burns
• Reduces scarring
• Removes muscle toxins from fatigue and relieves aches and pains
• Improves vision and macular degeneration
• Relieves headaches
• Reduces fever
• Mild sedative
• May help with dyslexia

Blue

• Weight loss
• Acts as a bacteriocide
• Useful in the treatment of acne and other skin disorders
• Relieves skin irritation, itching, and inflammation
• Helps with sleep disorders
• Relief from burns and fevers
• Relaxes and calms muscles
• Rebuilds skin when damaged
• Shrinks tumors
• Rids of goiters and warts
• May help with dyslexia

Indigo

• Use for ear, nasal, sinus, eye, and throat problems
• Acts as an analgesic
• Reduces swelling and associated pain
• Strong sedative
• Alternative antibiotic
• Stops bleeding
• Acts as an astringent

Violet

• Immune system enhancer
• If used on throat, stimulates thyroid
• Relaxes and calms the nerves
• Stimulates hormonal activity
• Cardiac depressant
• Appetite depressant
• Relieves dysentary and diarrhea
• Promotes restful sleep
• Stimulates the spleen and builds white blood cells

Magneta

• Stimulates and build the heart
• Corrects blood pressure
• Normalizes veins, arteries, adrenal glands, and kidneys
• Strengthens reproductive organs

Pink

• Appetite suppressant
• Decreases stress and promotes relaxation
• Calms aggression

 As more research is done on color therapy and our understanding increases, the use of color therapy will probably increase. In fact, science already understand there is a connection between the amount of light we recieve and seasonal affective disorder or SADt is be. It is also being explored in other treatments like psoriasis and hyperbiliruminemia in newborns.