Possible Health Benefits of Color Therapy
Color and Alternative Medicine
As part of alternative medicine, color therapy uses light to treat some conditions. Each color has different associations, attributes and possible benefits. See TherapyColor.com for more information on this subject. Color therapy is thought to work like this:
Each color vibrates at a specific frequency. It is thought that our glands and organs also vibrate at specific frequencies. Color frequencies are matched to the glands and organs with the same frequencies. When sickness occurs, our glands and organs may become out of balance and not function at their proper frequency causing them to not work properly. The thought is that if the proper frequency can be restored, glands and organs will then function properly again.
How could color therapy glasses affect your mood? Try yellow for intellectual clarity. Are negative thoughts a problem, perhaps red would help. Blue may be calming. Green could be a color for achieving an overall feeling of wellbeing. For more information, please click on color therapy. Or click here to read about color therapy associations. Even the established medical community uses color for healing. For example, for decades, babies with jaundice have been treated with blue light. Read more here about the possible medical benefits of color therapy.
|Can RED help you sleep?
It has been shown in a small clinical study that wearing red or magenta glasses after the sun goes down increases the secretion of melatonin by 70%.
If you watch TV or a movie after 9:00, try wearing magenta glasses which will block out the green light.
Conventional Medicine Uses Color
Most people would agree that light affects us. Even conventional medicine uses light to treat certain diseases. Here are some examples:
- Premature babies with hyperbilirubinemia, or jaundice, a liver condition, have been treated for decades by putting them under blue light.
- It has been recognized for a long time that exposure to full spectrum light helps with SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Color Therapy and Holistic Health
For those interested in holistic health, color therapy glasses are a convenient and effective way to apply color therapy. Color entering through your eyes is thought to be directed to the hypothalamus gland, then to the pineal gland, followed by the pituitary gland which regulates hormone production. Cellular and hormonal changes could result as the brain processes this information. The frequency of the color may be transmitted to the corresponding area of the body, the area which recognizes it. Since the frequency of the color does not change, the vibration can "tune" the body. That area of the body could be restored to health by restoring it to the proper vibration. If the color is used regularly, it may learn to function properly on its own.
Besides wearing color therapy glasses, you can wear specific color of clothes, talk a colored bath, use color therapy oils, use a colored lamp or paint your walls certain colors.
Help for Dyslexia with Colors
There are indications that using a color filter or looking through colored glasses, particularly blue and aqua (turquoise), may help dyslexics to read.
Following is information on how each color is used in color therapy, however more research is needed. If you choose to use color therapy to compliment medical treatment, please advise you doctor you are doing so. Also note that different states have different regulations regarding alternative medical practitioners. Please choose one that is licensed by a national organization which requires members to abide by the organization's standards.
| RED has the longest length in the visible spectrum and the lowest rate of vibration. Possible benefits:
Chronic pain - May lower the frequency of wave lengths causing them to be less excited and thereby reduce pain
Stimulate the automatic nervous and circulatory systems
Stimulate the liver
Autism in children
Act as a pustulant, drawing poisons to a head to be eliminated
Help with female disorders
Reduce inflammation and swelling
Increase heart strength and stimulate circulation
Support the building of the blood
Increase blood flow to the brain
Relief or help with Turrets Syndrome
ORANGE possible benefits:
Stimulate the lungs and thyroid gland to increase oxygen to the body
Depress the parathyroid gland
For lactating mothers, stimulate the mammary glands resulting in increased milk production for women who breastfeed their babies
Reduce menstrual cramps
Relieve cramping, cramps and convulsions in all parts of the body
Relieve hiccups (hiccoughs)
Relieve digestive gas, flatulence
Treat skin conditions such as boils, carbuncles and abscesses
Build lungs and stimulate the respiratory system. Used to treat Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Emphysema, Chronic Bronchitis, Asthma, Tuberculosis
| YELLOW is associated with the stomach, liver, gall bladder and pancreas. Possible benefits:
Can help with night blindness because it filters out blue light
Depress the spleen and the parathyroid gland and stimulate the lymphatic glands
Increases appetite. Better assimilation of food for better nutrition
Healing for all kinds of paralysis from stroke to sluggish organs. Stimulates and builds nerves
Strengthened heart resulting in better circulation
Strengthened the nervous system
Destruction of body worms
Improved rheumatoid arthritis, neuritis and similar conditions because yellow may help eliminate calcium and lime deposits
| GREEN is the master color, associated with the pituitary which is the master gland.
Useful for overall wellbeing, for chronic or acute issues
Use green along with turquoise for the treatment of burns
Healing of sores, bruises and cuts
Promote the release of mucus/phlegm
Stimulate the brain
Improved long term memory
Stimulate the digestive
Dissolving blood clots
Tremors, twitching, shaking
| AQUA possible benefits:
Rebuild the skin when damaged by burns, scratches, infections or sores. Relieve pain from burns. Help with scaring
Irritations, itching and inflammation of the skin
Remove muscle fatigue toxins from the body. Relieve aches and pains
A mild sedative with no side effects
Harmonize all circulation processes
Dyslexia. Read more about dyslexia and color
Macular degeneration. Reported to improve vision and relieve stress on the eyes
| BLUE is associated with the thyroid, parathyroid, throat, mouth and lungs.
Acts as a bactericide. Useful in the treatment of acne and other skin disorders
Relax and calm muscles
Shrink tumors, get rid of goiters, and warts
Relieve itching, skin irritations and inflammations
Sleep disorders since blue has a peaceful effect
Slightly stronger than turquoise for the relief of burns and fevers
Rebuild the skin when damaged by burns, scratches, infections or sores
Pain from burns
Cluster Headaches Remedy- Wear blue glasses at the first sign of onset
Dyslexia. Read more here: dyslexia and color
| INDIGO may depress the thyroid while stimulating the parathyroid at the same time. Possible benefits:
Use indigo for ear, eye, sinus, throat and nasal problems
An analgesic. Reduce swelling relieving the associated pain
An alternative antibiotic which may be more powerful than prescription antibiotics with no side effects
A strong sedative resulting in a deep sleep. Upon awakening, you will feel rested, refreshed and alert
Stops hemorrhages and nose bleeds
Acts as an astringent, tightening, toning and firming the skin
| VIOLET possible benefits.
Overall immune enhancer
Stimulate hormonal activity. Use it on the throat to stimulate the thyroid
For over excitable people, may relax and calm the nerves
Depress any over active part of the body, except the spleen and parathyroid
Stimulate the spleen, helping it build white corpuscles. The spleen is the final checkpoint for the blood before it returns to the heart. It cleanses the blood of poison or any undesirable cells. Violet may act as an antibiotic, helping to destroy harmful organisms
Cardiac depressant, relaxing the muscles and nerves controlling the heart
Depress the appetite
Relieve dysentery and diarrhea
Deep, restful sleep
| MAGENTA possible benefits:
Stimulate and build the heart
Bring blood pressure within normal range, whether up or down
Strengthen reproductive organs
Stimulate or depress arteries or veins to bring them to normal
Stimulate or depress adrenal glands and kidneys to bring them to normal
| BAKER-MILLER PINK possible benefits:
Read more about Baker-Miller Pink