Early Medicine

Babbitt and Avicenna saw a relationship between color and the efficacy of medicine. "Red light, like red drugs, is the warming element of the sunlight., with an especially rousing effect upon the blood, and to some extent the nerves, especially as strained through some grades of red glass which will admit not only the red but the yellow rays, and thus prove valuable in paralysis and other dormant and chronic conditions." Blue and violet had "cold, electrical and contracting potencies." These colors were soothing to all systems in which inflamatory and nervous conditions predominated...sciatica, hemorrhage of the lungs, cerebrospinal meningitis, neuralgic headache, nervousness, sunstroke, nervous irritability. Blue and white were considered particularly effective in sciatica, rheumatism, nervous prostration, baldness and concussion. The medical princeple was to put the body back into harmony. Babbitt had a "Chroma disk" that was a funnel shaped affair which localized light and which could be fitted with special filters. Blue light, for example, was localized on inflamed parts, wounds and hemorrhages.

Hessey was another medical individual who believed in the efficacy of colors. He worked with equipment similar to Babbitt's and relied upon a color "bath" and the mental cooperation of his patient. While the light was being used, the patient remained passive and color was "forced into" him/her. Blue, according to Hessey, contracts the arteries and raised the blood pressure. He considered it a blood tonic, and antiseptic that had beneficial effects in skin diseases, rheumatism, and various forms of inflamation. He believed that blue had its best effect on the posterior pituitary gland.

Sander also prescribed colors to cure ailing individuals. He felt the robust, sanguine people needed blue.

Faber Birren in his book on color psychology devotes his chapter twenty, The Prescription of Color, to The Significance of Blue. "Blue has qualities that are antithetical to red. It seems to retard the growth of plants, to decrease hormonal activity, and to inhibit the healing of wounds. In its action upon the human organism it lowers blood pressure and pulse rate, though this effect may later be reversed. Under the influence of blue, time is underestimated and weights are judged as being lighter. Because color has a naturally low saturation it may be used in almost any form...light, dark, pure, grayish. Being visually primary, however, it tends to be bleak if applied in too large an area. While blues are suitable for homes they have not proved very successful in offices, hospitals, and schools. Because blue is a difficult color to focus, it is low in attention value. Yet blue is associated with dim light, is restful and sedate, and is an outstanding favorite color throughtout the world.

Subtle Energy Fields

Considerable research into the dynamics of bio-energetics has brought to light the fact that all matter has energy fields. These fields, which energetically organize physical matter, including our bodies, have specific frequencies which can be measured. Some of these frequencies belong to the color spectrum. If an organism is not in balance, certain colors are predominant, and others are lacking.

For instance, an individual who is easily angered has an excess of the frequency of the color red in his energy field and is deficient in blue.

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