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Chromotherapy, also called color therapy, is the use of colors and light to treat a variety of illnesses.
Chromotherapy has been used for thousands of years. The Persian philosopher and scientist Avecinna wrote about the use of colors to diagnose and treat diseases in The Canon of Medicine, a five-book medical encyclopedia, in 1025. According to Avecinna, certain colors should be used to treat specific ailments: a person suffering from a nosebleed should avoid looking at or being in the proximity of the color red, as this stimulates blood flow. Avecinna advised using the color blue to cool the blood and yellow to treat muscular pain. Modern New Age healers use the concept of chakras in Ayurveda, a system of Hindu medicine, and associate each of the seven chakras to a color. Their belief is that if one of the seven chakras is depleted of energy, utilizing the appropriate color will re-balance the chakras and stimulate the body's healing process.
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Modern chromotherapy practitioners use a variety of tools to aid them in healing with colors. Some of these are:
• crystals
• candles
• precious gems
• color baths
• colored fabric
• colored water
• tinted sunglasses
• colored lights
More sophisticated tools, like specialty LED lamps for color therapy facial treatments, are sold by many companies specializing in accessories for alternative healing.
Practitioners also incorporate elements of color therapy into their daily lives, for example, by eating foods of a certain color and decorating their homes in colors that energize their chakras.
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Edith is a life coach and psychic from Cedar Grove, NJ. For more articles on alternative medicine, subscribe to this blog.
