Farben Anhang 4
[Samina T. Yousuf Azeemi/S. Mohsin Raza]
Chromotherapy is a method of treatment that uses the visible spectrum
(colors) of electromagnetic radiation to cure diseases. It is a centuries-old
concept used successfully over the years to cure various diseases.
We have undertaken a critical analysis of chromotherapy and documented
its scientific evolution to date. A few researchers have tried to discover the
underlying scientific principles, but without quantitative study. Sufficient
published material can be found about the subject that provides a complete
system of treatment focused on the treatment methodologies and healing
characteristics
of colors.
A number of studies have elaborated the relationship between the human
body and colors. We also show the possibility of carrying out diverse research
into chromotherapy that is pertinent to deciphering the quantum mechanical
dipole moment of water molecules. The quantum mechanical dipole moment as a
result of the absorption of different colors, we conjecture, produces charge
quantization phenomena. This review illustrates that the development of science
in the field of electromagnetic radiation/energy can be very helpful in
discovering new dimensions of this old theory.
Keywords: charge quantization, chromotherapy, electromagnetic waves
Hypothesis
Newtonian ideas helped us to understand solid matter and moving objects
found in the earth's gravitational field. Einstein, however, through his
renowned equation E = mc2, determined that
energy and matter are dual expressions of the same universal substance.
The vibratory rate of a substance determines its density or its form as
matter. A slowly vibrating substance is referred to as physical matter, whereas
the subatomic (which vibrates at or above
the speed of light) is subtle matter or pure light energy. Light is
electromagnetic radiation, which is the fluctuation of electric and magnetic
fields in nature. More simply, light is energy, and the phenomenon of color is
a product of the interaction of energy and matter. The wavelength, frequency
and quantity of energy of every colorful ray are fixed for each color; that is,
a specific wavelength, a certain frequency and a particular amount of energy in
that wave have been denominated as a distinct color. The human eye is sensitive
to electromagnetic radiation only at
wavelengths roughly between 380 and 780 nm.
This small segment is called the visible spectrum or visible light.
Visible light can be broken down into numerous electromagnetic frequencies, and
frequency relates to a color of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
indigo, violet and all the vibrations thereof.
Newtonian concepts, limited to the observable, have also been applied by
contemporary medicine, which is premised on the idea that the total picture
becomes predictable by understanding and regulating the various material parts.
That is, when a part of the body malfunctions, it is removed or replaced in a
similar way to how we handle machinery. Alternatively, it is treated with
chemical ingredients that often cause negative side effects. Simply stated,
contemporary medicine examines the symptoms and influences or suppresses them,
but it does not involve itself with a real source—diseased life energies.
Einstein's approach deals with the human body not as an assemblage of chemical
parts but as a total, complete system operating in harmony with the electromagnetic/energy
system of the universe. The key to understanding chromotherapy/vibrational
healing lies not in the Newtonian mechanistic approach but in rerouting energy
fields that form complex relationships
with other fields such as those surrounding the physical/cellular
substance and others relating to more non-physical energies.
Every creature is engulfed in light that affects its health conditions.
The human body, according to the doctrine of chromotherapy, is basically
composed of colors. The body comes into existence from colors, the body is
stimulated by colors and colors are responsible for the correct working of
various systems that function in the body. All organs and limbs of the body
have their own
distinct color. All organs, cells and atoms exist as energy, and each
form has its frequency or vibrational energy. Each of our organs and energy
centers vibrates and harmonizes with the frequencies
of these colors. When various parts of the body deviate from these
expected normal vibrations, one can assume that the body is either diseased or
at least not functioning properly. The vibratory rates inherent in the
vibrational technique (chromotherapy) are such that they balance the diseased
energy pattern found in the body. For in every organ there is an energetic
level at which the organ functions best. Any departure from that vibratory rate
results in pathology, whereas restoring the appropriate energy levels to the
physical organs results in a healed body.
Chromotherapy is a narrow band in the cosmic electromagnetic energy
spectrum, known to humankind as the visible color spectrum. It is composed of
reds, greens, blues and their combined derivatives, producing the perceivable
colors that fall between the ultraviolet and the infrared ranges of energy or
vibrations. These visual colors with their unique wavelength and oscillations,
when combined with a light source and selectively applied to impaired
organs or life systems, provide the necessary healing energy required by the
body. Light affects both the physical and
etheric bodies. Colors generate electrical impulses and magnetic
currents or fields of energy that are prime activators of the biochemical and
hormonal processes in the human body, the stimulants
or sedatives necessary to balance the entire system and its organs.
Ancient observation chromotherapy is
a centuries-old concept. The history of color medicine is as old as that of any
other medicine. Phototherapy (light therapy) was practiced in ancient Egypt,
Greece, China and India. The Egyptians utilized sunlight as well as color for
healing. Color has been investigated as medicine since 2000 BC. People of that
era were certainly unaware of the scientific facts of colors as medicine, but
they certainly had faith in healing with colors. They used primary colors (i.e.
red, blue and yellow) for healing as they were unaware of the mixing up
of two colors. The science seems to have been silent at those times.
According to ancient Egyptian mythology, the art of chromotherapy was discovered
by the god Thoth. In the hermetic traditions, the ancient Egyptians and Greeks
used colored minerals, stones, crystals, salves and dyes as remedies and
painted treatment sanctuaries in various shades of colors. The ancient
Ayurvedic physician Charaka, who lived in the 6th century BC,
recommended sunlight to treat a variety of diseases. In ancient Greece the
physical nature of color was dominant. Color was intrinsic to healing, which
involved restoring balance. Garments, oils, plasters, ointments and salves were
used to treat disease. The Greeks were unaware of biological changes in the
body as a result of color treatment; nevertheless, they had blind faith in the
healing properties of colors.
It is also interesting to know that they used both forms of treatment
with colors: direct exposure to sunlight and indirect healing. In the indirect
method, they used such materials as stones, dyes, ointments and plasters as the
medium. What was missing in their medicinal use of color was water as a medium
for the absorption of color, which later proved to be the best remedy for
removing toxins from the body. This concept is common among all researchers
working on hydrochromopathy.
Avicenna (AD 980): made clear the vital importance of color in both
diagnosis and treatment. According to Avicenna, ‘Color is an observable symptom
of disease.’ He also developed a chart that related color to temperature and
physical condition of the body. He used color treatment with the view that red
moved the blood, blue or white cooled it and yellow reduced muscular pain and
inflammation. Avicenna's work undoubtedly advanced the use of chromotherapy in
those times. He discussed the properties of colors for healing and was the
first to establish that the wrong color suggested for therapy would certainly
elicit no response in specific diseases. For 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. This seems to be the
practical understanding at the time,
but we do not find discrete values of frequencies or energies associated
with these colors.
19th Century Ideas and Practices
Pleasanton (1876) used only blue and stated that blue was the first
remedy in case of injuries, burns or aches. He reported his findings on the
effects of color in plants, animals and humans.
He claimed that ‘the quality yield and the size of grapes could
significantly increase if they were grown in a greenhouse made with alternating
blue and transparent panes of glass’. He also cured certain diseases and
increased fertility as well as the rate of physical maturation in animals by
exposing them to blue light. The same methodology employing the color blue was
adopted by Hassan (1999), who found it to be very useful as a first-line
treatment for injuries as well as for burns. Since, Pleasanton's work lacked
scientific proof and evidence, no established rules were presented before the
scientific societies, leading to a great gap between his work and the
development of color/vibrational healing on scientific grounds. If work could
be carried out even now on his great ideas, especially in agricultural
development and in animals, researchers could make new discoveries.
Edwin Babbitt presented a comprehensive theory of healing with color. He
identified the color red as a stimulant, notably of blood and to a lesser
extent the nerves; yellow and orange as nerve stimulants; blue and violet as
soothing to all systems and as having anti-inflammatory properties. He
prescribed red for paralysis, physical exhaustion and chronic rheumatism;
yellow as a laxative, emetic and purgative and for bronchial difficulties; blue
for inflammatory conditions, sciatica, meningitis, nervous instability,
headache, irritability and sunstroke. He also stated that ‘all vital organs
have direct connection with the skin through arteries, blood vessels and
capillaries, and colour rays can affect the entire blood stream through
circulation and elimination of toxins’. Babbitt also developed various devices,
including a special cabinet called a thermolume, in which colored glass and
natural light were used to produce colored light and a chrome disk—a
funnel-shaped device fitted with a special color filter—was used to focalize
light onto various parts of the body. He discussed in detail the effects of the
reflection, absorption, transmission and polarization of light. Different
patients were presented in his book who had been treated using color healing
devices created by him. Babbitt also established the relationship between color
and minerals, which he used as an addition to treatment with colored light, and
he developed elixirs by irradiating water with sunlight filtered through
colored lenses.
He claimed that this ‘potentized water’ retained the energy of the vital
element within the particular color filter used and had remarkable healing
power.
Babbitt used direct and indirect methods of color treatment. He seemed
to be well aware of the techniques and methodologies used in chromotherapy.
His invention of different devices such as a special cabinet that used
natural light to produce colored light by splitting it into seven colors, used
for the focalization of light onto some particular area, worked quite
effectively for healing wounds and stopping bleeding, headaches, etc. The
actual energy to which he referred in potentized water was not calculated by
any means. He did not explain the energy change in water, its quantum states
and how different kinds of vibrations affect water in different manners. He did
not explain about the potency of potentized water, but incredible for that time
was is his correlation of magnetism with chromotherapy. His work on color healing,
for the first time in history, proved to be comprehensive in taking both a
physiological and a psychological approach. Any chromotherapist even nowadays
can benefit from his work as he discussed appropriate colors for diseases in
detail that in a way does not contradict to the facts newly established under
the influence of science.
Ghadiali (1927. 20th Century Scientific Emergence):
scientific principles that explain why and how different color rays have
various therapeutic effects on the body. His Spectro-Chrome Encyclopaedia, is
considered to be the first published book to explain the complete doctrine of
chromotherapy. The rules explained in this book could be proved using any kind
of modern techniques. Most chromopaths have used his technique (1,10). He
discovered that there is a unique color or energy vibration that either sedates
or stimulates the stream of energy through a specific organ, causing a natural
biochemical reaction. By knowing the action of different colors upon the
different organs and systems of the body, one can apply the appropriate color
that will balance the action of any organ or system that has become abnormal in
its functioning or condition. When this balance is disturbed, mental and
physical problems occur. The aim of the science of color healing is to cure
disease by restoring normal balance of color energies of the body. Ghadiali
established that particular areas of the body respond to particular colors;
these areas are similar to what the ancients called ‘chakras’. According to
Klotsche, ‘the chakras are areas of highly concentrated energy that are
connected to various locations mainly along the spinal cord. These energy
fields are related to the major organs in the body’. The concept of chakras is
essentially an east Indian concept, which Ghadiali presented as the source of
energies.
The work of Ghadiali actually demystified the theory of chromotherapy.
Ghadiali's research stated: ‘The colour bands of spectrograms are produced when
a chemical element undergoes a process of combustion or vaporization that
accelerates the motion of its atoms. The specific band of colours and dark
lines emitted when a certain element is heated, are known as Fraunhauafer
lines.’ This procedure is commonly used to identify the chemical composition of
a substance (with a photospectrometer).
Contrary to accepted scientific theory, which assumes that each element
is a unit, Ghadiali concluded that ‘the chemical elements are colour
compounds’. His results can be proved by any of the sophisticated equipment of
modern science. ‘A specific disease thus constitutes a specific imbalance of
colour waves and by implication, chemical imbalance.’ Ghadiali found that by
treating the body with a particular color vibration, one could effectively
reintroduce the appropriate biochemical elements into the body; he referred to
this as color chemistry, certainly a new field of study.
His results as published in the first decade of the twentieth century
were advocated by Klotsche in Colour Medicine: color medicine not only can heal
the diseased frequency of the body but also
can introduce actual chemical elements/vibration into the body in a
non-toxic form.
During the 19th century the emphasis in science was
exclusively on matter rather than on energy. As medicine came under the
umbrella of science, it focused too much on the material physical body,
ignoring the mind. With the advances in physical medicine and treatments such
as surgery and antiseptic, interest in healing with colors declined.
Takkata discovered in 1954 that ‘Colour Ray Frequency changes in
atmosphere arising from the sunspots really affect the flocculation index of
human blood albumin resulting in changes of menstrual cycles’. Takkata came up
with experimental results on direct exposure to sunlight. He did not mention
anything about material aids for providing a color deficient to the human body.
Ott described Takkata's experiment in Part III of his series Colour and
Light: Their Effect on Plants, Animals and People, published in 1987, and
described how color rays from sunspots would alter
a person's flocculation index. He further explained that there are
different methods of applying colored light.
It can be received through the skin or the eyes, which, in turn, has
been found to stimulate the internal glands. Ott's work seems to be a
continuation of Takkata's efforts; both have worked on the effects of light on
blood, but Ott also described the different methods of chromotherapy. It is not
clear in his work what parameters he has adopted to verify the effect of
sunlight on skin. The same effect was also described in Babbitt's work, which
is more informative and explanatory. It is very interesting that no chromopath
has contradicted another's specific color treatment suggested for
a specific disease.
Ott also emphasized the biological functioning of the human body when
chromotherapy is applied. He noted that different lights affect different
enzymatic reactions for healing purposes. This was the first time that the
effect of chromotherapy was tested at the DNA level.
Klotsche as Ghadiadi correlated colors with chakras:
Red Root chakra
Orange Sacral
chakra
Green Heart chakra
Blue Throat chakra
Indigo Brow chakra
Violet Crown chakra
White Perfect color blend
Each chakra energizes and sustains certain organs. The balance of the
seven chakras activates healing by transmitting energy to the electromagnetic
field around the body. 'The body has seven major energy centres known as
chakras, each centres is responsive to a different colour. Chakra located at
the sites of the major endocrine glands, corresponds to particular states of
consciousness, personality types and endocrine secretions.
Approaches to Chromotherapy
For new researchers, Klotsche discussed some useful points about
chromotherapy as he practiced it, and he found it to be a complete therapeutic
system for 123 major illnesses. He used single colors and also combinations of
two or more colors for therapy and different techniques, namely, direct
exposure and hydrochromopathy. He correlated the concepts of color healing with
Einstein's mass–energy relationship, which seems quite accurate in terms of the
concept of an energy field around the human body. His work seems to be an
extension of Ghadiali's concept, but it proved to be more accurate. He
emphasized the pros of chromotherapy - that it is safe, simple, economical and
highly effective - but still his work lacks scientific proof on
hydrochromopathy, which according to him was the best means of toxin elimination.
We find no scientific calculations in his study; no spectroscopy has been
conducted in this context.
Mester: conducted experiments to determine the function of light in animal
and human cells. The work of Mester resembles that of Azeemi and gives a clear
picture of the effects of colors on the human body, whether applied directly to
the skin or absorbed in such materials as water, oil and milk and then given to
the patient. This could affect patients with hereditary diseases such as
hypertension, thalassemia and diabetes. This work needs more research and a
series of experiments should be carried out with certain biophysical
applications. Azeemi discussed in detail the causes of diseases and suggested
appropriate colors, which are very easy to understand and to use. He discussed
in detail different methods of chromotherapy but emphasized hydrochromopathy.
The complete methodology of chromotherapy as described by him is extremely
useful and effective; undoubtedly, a new area of research has evolved with the
publication of his book.
Hassan: also adopted the methodology presented by Azeemi. His work is
remarkable in the sense that he compiled all the concepts of chromopathy established
so far. Chromotherapists of the past emphasized one thing and left others
unattended. Some have emphasized direct exposure of the affected and diseased
area to light. Some have talked about the materials, and others have emphasized
only watching color. It is evident that all these methods focused only on the
material aspect of chromotherapy, but Hassan produced a detailed study covering
different aspects of chromotherapy, including the material aspect of healing as
well as the electromagnetic transfer of color characteristics. Hassan measured
the production of a 32 su (sparkle units) charge in chromotized water due to
the absorption of rays, but any theoretical explanation is missing. This was
the first time in the history of chromotherapy that this kind of work had been
done, but surprisingly Hassan did not proceed further to the spectroscopy of
charged water. He also related seven musical tones to seven vibrational states
and seven vitamins. He compared chromotherapy with all other therapeutic systems
developed so far, with an in-depth explanation of the complete doctrine of
chromotherapy (vibrational healing). He states: ‘Every therapeutic system has
its own doctrine or to say own point of view about the reasons and causes of
diseases.’ According to the theory of chromalux,
An electric charge is produced due to the influence of the vibrations of
cosmic and colourful rays upon the brain cells. This electric charge takes the
form of a current emitted where various cells collide with another. This collision
results in formation of incalculable colourful vibrations, which can be termed
as thought.
The cervical vertebrae is the main passage for the current that starts
from the brain; if this bone fractures, the flow of current suffers a set back
resulting in damage of the brain tissues.
He elaborated the technique of choosing the right color for specific
diseases and explained the theory of the basic colors used for therapy and the
combinations of different shades.
Hassan's work stresses that a patient's history should be keenly
observed before suggesting any color.
Color Psychology and Medicine For research techniques and impressive
quantitative data, the world of color psychology and medicine is indebted to
the recent efforts of Gerard (1970). He painstakingly reviewed the whole area
of light, color and their psychophysiological influences. Probably for the
first time, he tested the reactions of the entire organism, using advanced and
modern techniques with colored light beamed onto the skin of the subject.
Profiting from the experience of other scientists and the use of an
electroencephalogram, he evolved new approaches and discovered a number of
significant facts.
Physiologically, affective responses of subjects revealed that warm
colors were useful in arousing those troubled with reactive depression or
neurasthenia. They increased muscle tone or blood pressure in hypertensive
individuals. Cool colors elicited the reverse affective responses in all of the
same tests. Anxious subjects were actually calmed by these cooler colors, from
the viewpoint of clinical psychology. This is an important finding in Gerard's
work, as it reveals that cool colors can be effective as a tranquilizer in
cases of tension and anxiety. Physiologically, all colors produced clinically
tangible results. Exposure to warm colors increased respiratory movements,
frequency of eye blinks, cortical activation and palmar conductance (arousal of
the autonomic nervous system). Warm colors consistently showed a more
pronounced pattern of stimulation. Cool colors showed opposite effects by
acting as a relaxant and tranquilizer for anxious individuals, lowering blood
pressure, providing relief from tension, alleviating of muscle spasms and
reducing eye blink frequency. They also proved to be an aid for insomnia. Just
as warm colors showed a consistently pronounced pattern of stimulation, cool
colors showed a consistent pattern of relaxation. To summarize Gerard's
research and testing, his scientific data showed that all colors affect all human
both psychologically and physiologically in a specific manner.
Metaphysical View
Hassan related the human body to the electromagnetic energy glow
surrounding every creature. In his view, this body or energy glow is
responsible for keeping our body healthy. The same fact is described by Azeemi
in his book Color Therapy thus: ‘It is a wrong concept that our physical body
is itself everything, but instead the electromagnetic glow (aura) around the
body gives us the energy and transfers health or diseases to the physical
body’.
These concepts received support from Russian scientists who worked in
collaboration with an Indian researcher, Shah, using Kirlian technology. They
took pictures of the electromagnetic energy glow around the human body and
discovered that actual disease appears first in the aura and is then
transferred to our physical body and can be detected 6–8 months prior to
appearance in our physical body. Thus, they have established the fact that
chromotherapy can be a preventive treatment. In support of this theory, Thelma
Moss: ‘All seemingly solid objects in our world including our bodies are made
up of the electromagnetic energy, the more dense the energy the more solid the
object is.’ This fact also demonstrates an idea of Einstein's quoted by Shah in
his article ‘Divine healing’, that if we are the objects with mass “m” and we
expose ourselves to a very powerful and high intensity electromagnetic field,
and then we will gradually be transformed from matter into energy. In the form
of energy, if we obtain a superior level of consciousness then we will be able
to direct the flow of energy and we will not be restricted by the limited
dimensions of space-time. Therefore in this condition we can surpass the
boundary of time to return back into the past or to travel in the future. In
addition to the fact that we are an energy source that possesses conscious
wisdom, we have the capability to transform ourselves back to the physical
form.
After Einstein's statement, a new door could be opened to justify the
electromagnetic body around the physical body, as posited by Klotsche in Colour
Medicine and that only Einstein could demonstrate to the materialistic or
mechanized Newton-bound world of the West through his mathematical energy
formula E = mc2. According to Einstein energy and matter are interchangeable
and interconvertible.
Klotsche explains this phenomenon thus: We know that the vibratory rate
of a substance determines its density or its forms as matter. When we recognize
the vibratory patterns in the universe, i.e. the energy ranges or fields found
on the cosmic electromagnetic scale, we will then be able to open the doors to
the tremendous healing powers found in the subtle energy octaves of the cosmos.
The visible light spectrum with its beneficial frequencies for the human body
provides the preventing tool for healing. Colour Medicine is truly, the
medicine of the future.
Chromotherapy provides colors to the electromagnetic body or the aura
(energy field) around the body, which in turn transfers energy to the physical
body. This makes chromotherapy the most effective among various therapies.
When we speak of color, we mean energy waves. Every color, each with its
own frequency, is a form of energy. Ghadiali agreed that beaming a color or
colors onto the skin acts as a form of feeding color to the body. Patterson of
Stellar Research Corporation explains that ‘light is the closest thing to pure
energy that we can identify. Colour as pure vibrational energy is the rational
therapy for maintaining health and overcoming disease’. When applied to the
human body, light will provide all deficient energies since every color is
associated with a quantity of energy. A concept from physics confirms the idea
of chromotherapists that ‘colors provide energies’. There have appeared no
contradictions among any of the theories about chromotherapy presented, but
still there are some areas of study which were not focused on in the past,
including the study of the electromagnetic radiation glow around the human body
and its quantization.
Colors have a profound effect on us at all levels—physical, mental and
emotional. If our energy levels are blocked or depleted, then our body cannot
function properly, and this in turn can lead to a variety of problems at different
levels.
This concept is also supported by Klotsche, who stated: These
interrelating systems of subtle forces recharge or rechannel energy into
diseased areas where it is blocked or deficient, for disease is nothing more
than a restriction of energy flow. As we know energy or vibrational flow along
the path of least resistance and through the extra energy associate with the
use of vibrational healing, the appropriate energies seek out the needed areas,
freeing blocked energy where it is most required. The interaction between the
dense physical energy of the body and the subtle energy, which controls many of
the body functions or activities, is the key to understanding relationship
between energy and matter.
This energy body can also be proved through photography, as described by
Perry in scientific documentation of chromotherapy: in 1939, Kirlian discovered
that if an object on a photographic plate is subjected to a high voltage
electric field, an image is created on the plate. The image looks like a
colored halo or a coronal discharge. This image is said to be the physical
manifestation of the electromagnetic radiation around the body (aura), which
allegedly surrounds every living thing.
Qalander explained unrevealed facts about the human body and its energy
glow in his work. This idea has also been used by Shah and Russian medical
staff for treating patients. This discovery led to a new area of research;
unfortunately, scientists even today have not yet explored the relationship
between the basic science of electromagnetic energy around the body (aura) and
chromotherapy. Orthodox medicine and science give their own explanations of how
light works. These explanations are based on strictly physical functions and
ignore the bioelectric energy field, which has been demonstrated or
photographed with Kirlian devices. That electromagnetic energy can be moved
through our auras into the physical body by light frequencies, using color
medicine, can also be explained thus: ‘All living things are moist; the moisture
is transferred from the subject to the emulsion to the electric charge pattern
on the films, causing a Kirlian image to appear’. This undoubtedly helps us
understand how disease is cured according to the doctrine of chromopathy, but
the area that should be emphasized is the quantum state of electromagnetic
radiance around every living body.
Variation in Influences of Light During the 1950s, studies suggested
that neonatal jaundice, a potentially fatal condition found in two-thirds of
premature babies, could be successfully treated by exposure to sunlight. This
was confirmed in the 1960s, and white light replaced high-risk blood
transfusions in the treatment of this condition. Blue light was later found to
be more effective and less hazardous than full-spectrum light (the most common
form of treatment for neonatal jaundice). Comparison of blue light with
turquoise for treatment of neonatal jaundice was carried out by Ebbesen. Bright
white full-spectrum light is also now being used in the treatment of cancers,
SAD (seasonal affective disorder, so-called winter depression), anorexia,
bulimia nervosa, insomnia, jetlag, shift working, alcohol and drug dependency,
and to reduce overall levels of medication. Schauss worked on the tranquilizing
effect of colors and found that color reduces aggressive behavior and violence.
The blue light found to be successful in the treatment of neonatal
jaundice has also been shown to be effective in the treatment of rheumatoid
arthritis, as emphasized by Pleasanton in his work. In studies by McDonald,
most of those exposed to blue light for variable periods of up to 15 min
experienced a significant degree of pain relief.
It was concluded that the pain reduction was directly related both to
the blue light and to the length of exposure to it. Blue light is also used in
healing injured tissue and preventing scar tissue, as well as for burns and
lung conditions. In 1990, scientists reported to the annual conference of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science on the successful use of
blue light in the treatment of a wide variety of psychological problems,
including addictions, eating disorders and depression. At the other end of the
color spectrum, red light has been shown to be effective in the treatment of
cancer and constipation and in healing wounds. As a result, color is becoming
widely accepted as a therapeutic tool with various medical applications.
A new technique that has been developed over the past two decades as a
result of pioneering research is photodynamic therapy (PDT). This is based on
the discovery that certain intravenously injected photosensitive chemicals not
only accumulate in cancer cells but also selectively identify these cells under
ultraviolet light. These photosensitive chemicals then exclusively destroy the
cancer cells when activated by red light, whose longer wavelength allows it to
penetrate tissue more deeply than other colors. PDT can be used for both
diagnosis and treatment. Thomas Dougherty, who developed PDT, reports that in a
worldwide experiment more than 3000 people with a wide variety of malignant
tumors have been successfully treated using this technique. Chromotherapy is
now used to improve the performance of athletes; whereas red light appears to
help athletes who need short, quick bursts of energy, blue light assists in
performances requiring a steadier energy output.
By comparison, pink light has a tranquilizing and calming effect within
minutes of exposure. It suppresses hostile, aggressive and anxious behavior.
Pink holding cells are now widely used to reduce violent and aggressive
behavior among prisoners, and some sources have reported a reduction of muscle
strength in inmates within 2.7 s.
It appears that when in pink surroundings people can never become
aggressive despite their desire, because the color saps their energy. In
contrast, yellow should be avoided in such contexts because it is highly
stimulating. Gimbel suggested a possible relationship between violent street
crime and sodium yellow street lighting.
Color, Brain and the Effects of Light Research in Russia during the
1960s showed that one in six experimental subjects could recognize color with
their fingertips after only 20–30 min training, and blind people developed this
sensitivity even more quickly. Understanding of these effects has come about
only as a result of research into the hormones melatonin and serotonin, both of
which are produced by the pineal gland in the brain. Melatonin is known to be
the crucial chemical pathway by which animals respond to light and synchronize
their bodily functioning with diurnal and seasonal variations. Serotonin is a
very important neurotransmitter in the brain, whose action has been linked with
mental disturbances such as schizophrenia and hallucinogenic states. Serotonin,
a stimulant, is produced during daylight whereas the output of melatonin –
which is linked with sleep – increases when it is dark and has a generally
depressive effect. This is reversed when it is light and the production of
melatonin drops. Its main site of action appears to be the hypothalamus, the
part of the brain involved in mediating the effects of various hormones and in
regulating emotions. However, changes in the output of melatonin in response to
light influence every cell of the body, notably the reproductive processes,
which are sensitive to such variations. High levels of melatonin have been
found in women with ovulation problems and anorexia nervosa (a characteristic
feature of which is amenorrhea, or absence of periods), in men with low sperm
count and in people suffering from SAD, which usually occurs during winter.
Research also confirmed that certain parts of the brain are not only light
sensitive but actually respond differently to different wavelengths; it is now
believed that different wavelengths (colors) of radiation interact differently
with the endocrine system to stimulate or reduce hormone production.
This work has given a new dimension to chromotherapy: the use of colors
in psychological disorders. SAD has become a very common problem nowadays, in
England in particular, where the sun does not shine for up to 1 or 2 weeks, so
that no light enters into the body. As a consequence, psychological diseases
manifest, mainly in the form of depressions, which, according to chromopathy studies,
are curable without any use of tranquilizers.
A detailed study of chromotherapy, with patients exposed to sunlight
through color filters, was produced by Jacob. He adopted modern theories to
prove the relationship between melatonin, light and color. Takkata was the
first researcher to attempt to find a relationship between blood and sunlight.
Jacob's work concerns hormonal changes as a result of exposure to sunlight. Of
course, sunlight is a perfect blend of seven colors; different colors are
responsible for the release of different kinds of hormones, which keeps us
healthy. Jacob stated in his work that Light is responsible for turning on the
brain and the body. Light enters the body through the eyes and skin. When even
a single photon of light enters the eye, it lights up the entire brain. This
light triggers the hypothalamus, which regulates all life-sustaining bodily
functions, the autonomic nervous system, endocrine system, and the pituitary
(the body's master gland). The hypothalamus is also responsible for our body's
biological clock. It also sends a message, by way of light, to the pineal
organ, which is responsible for releasing one of our most important hormones,
melatonin. The release of melatonin is directly related to light, darkness,
colors, and the Earth's electromagnetic field. This necessary hormone affects
every cell in the body. It turns on each cell's internal activities, allowing
them to harmonize with each other and nature. The pineal gland is believed to
be responsible for our feeling of oneness with the universe and sets the stage
for the relationship between our inner being and the environment. If that
relationship is harmonious, we are healthy, happy, and feel a sense of
well-being. An imbalance in this relationship makes itself known in the form of
disorders or disease in our physical, mental or emotional states. The Pineal is
our “light meter”, and receives information from the heavens above, to give us
that sense of oneness with the universe, and from the Earth's electromagnetic
field below to keep us grounded. A perfect balance is necessary to maintain our
health and to keep us in harmony with the environment.
Many aspects of humankind's explorations are ignored, neglected or
discarded. Color medicine is one of these neglected items. The common feature
of every remedial and curative system of treatment, whether it is Ayurveda,
allopathy, accupuncture, Unani, homeopathy, biochemic, magnetotherapy,
physiotherapy, radiotherapy, aromatherapy, reflexology or chromotherapy, is to
somehow apply vibrations of one kind or another in such a manner that the body
can be put back on the health track. Most systems induce vibrations indirectly,
but there are a few in which the vibrations are used directly upon the body,
and chromotherapy is one of them.
Babbitt, Ghadiali and Azeemi revolutionized to the development of
chromotherapy. Their ideas were carried out by other researchers. No
controversies were found among the theories presented, in research work
conducted in any area of the world.
We conjecture that color is a quantum state of matter. There are other
quantum states such as charm, beauty, flavor, tenderness, etc. These quantum
states are linked with each other via ‘glucons’ and form intermediatory energy
fields known as ‘quarks’. Quarks, if condensed, produce bosons, a fifth state
of matter. The medium used in chromotherapy has never been explored in depth;
for example, water, the main medium used in chromotherapy, has never been
studied quantitatively in any of the research conducted in the context of
chromotherapy. The literature exhibits a severe lack of scientific work
pertaining to quantum physical states and optical mathematics. Similarly no
proofs available on the basis of scientific calculations of chromotized water.
We found no study of quantum states and the electromagnetic glow around the
human body. Conductivity measurements of the chromotized water used in
hydrochromopathy have not been emphasized by any researcher.
Mass–energy-related measurements could be helpful in potentizing or
chromotizing the liquid medium used for treatment. Relationships ought to be
established between charged water, its energy states and its effect on the
human body. The quantum mechanical dipole moment as a result of absorption of
different colors, we conjecture, produces charge quantization phenomena.
Chromotherapy as a system of treatment can benefit people because of its
harmony with nature. Everything that exists in this world is a combination of
different colors.
In every creation of God, one color or another is dominant; as stated by
Azeemi:
By using clay, a clay pot is repaired and piece of cloth mends a doll
made of cloth, the plastic is used to repair the articles of plastic, then why
light and colours cannot be used for the human health care which is the origin
of man's creation. The holy scriptures say that existence of man is based upon
various types of lights and colours. Then why a human being cannot be treated
with colours.
Walker once said:
You realize you are part of the hologram of life, surrounded by an aura
or energy field that radiates distinct colour and vibrations. The aura
fingertips your soul and reflects your goodness, wellness, mental stability,
maturity, emotional/inner turmoil or peaceful fulfilment. More of each of these
qualities, peace, wellness, stability, maturity and fulfilment may become your
ever present precious possession by the application of colour's power in our
daily living.