Chromotherapy, sometimes called colour therapy is an alternative medicine method which involves a therapist trained in chromotherapy using colour and light to balance energy for physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental problems. Of course it should not be confused with Light Therapy, which has been proven to relieve things like major depressive disorder.
Chromotherapists believe there is a scientific basis for their practice, in that colours bring about emotional reactions in people. A standard method of diagnosis is the use of “Luscher’s colour test”, developed by Max Luscher (1923) in the early 1900s. When performing chromotherapy, colour and light is applied to specific areas and accupoints on the body. Because colours get associated with both positive and negative effects in color therapy, specific colors and accurate amounts of color are deemed to be critical in healing. Some of the tools used for applying colors are gemstones, candles, wands, prisms, coloured fabrics, bath treatments, and coloured glasses or lenses. Therapeutic color can be administered in a number of ways, but is often combined with hydrotherapy and aromatherapy to heighten the therapeutic effect.
History
Colour therapy is possibly rooted in Ayurveda, an ancient form of medicine practiced in India for thousands of years. Other historic roots are attributed to Chinese and ancient Egyptian culture. In traditional Chinese medicine, each organ is associated with a colour. Ancient Egyptians built solarium-type rooms, which could be fitted with coloured panes of glass. The sun would shine through the glass and flood the patient with colour. As late as the nineteenth century, European smallpox victims and their sickrooms were draped with red cloth to draw the disease away from the body.
Avicenna (980-1037) viewed color to be of vital importance in diagnosis and treatment, made significant contributions to chromotherapy in The Canon of Medicine. He wrote that “Color is an observable symptom of disease” and also developed a chart that related colour to the temperature and physical condition of the body. His view was that red moved the blood, blue or white cooled it, and yellow reduced muscular pain and inflammation. He further discussed the properties of colors for healing and was “the first to establish that the wrong color suggested for therapy would elicit no response in specific diseases.” As an example, “he observed that a person with a nosebleed should not gaze at things of a brilliant red color and should not be exposed to red light because this would stimulate the sanguineous humor, whereas blue would soothe it and reduce blood flow.
Meaning and use of colors
7 main chakras
Chakras and their corresponding positions in the human body
Health is contingent upon balancing not only our physical needs, but our emotional needs as well. In India, a group of healers versed in Ayurvedic medicine describe colors associated with the seven main chakras, which are, according to their system, spiritual centers in our bodies located along the spine.
There are seven of these chakras and each is associated with a particular organ or system in the body. Each chakra has a dominant color, but these colors may become imbalanced. If this happens it can cause disease and other physical ramifications. By introducing the appropriate color, these maladies can be fixed. Below is a description of each chakra, its corresponding color, and the medicinal uses of each.
• Red: First Chakra: Located at the base of the spine.Used to stimulate the body and mind and to increase circulation.
• Orange: Second Chakra: pelvis area. Used to heal the lungs and to increase energy levels.
• Yellow: Third Chakra: solar plexus. Used to stimulate the nerves and purify the body.
• Green: Fourth Chakra: heart
• Blue: Fifth Chakra: throat. Used to soothe illnesses and treat pain.
• Indigo: Sixth Chakra: lower part of the forehead. Used to alleviate skin problems.
• Violet: Seventh Chakra: top of the head
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