Continued History of Colour Therapy.

Ancient Egyptians-

In 1500BC the Egyptians used colour therapy cures, which were listed on papyrus, and the Ancient Chinese ( around 2000 years ago)The Chinese also used colour therapy as part of their cures.

Their Colour therapy was one of the nine basic cures applied in Feng Shui, the Chinese art of divination and directing energy (qi) to create conditions that are conducive to health, happiness and good fortune. Some basic concepts about different colours.

Aristotle-

He discovered that light travelled in waves.

Plato

Pythagoras

They both did various studies on lights.

Paracelsus During the Middle Ages, he reintroduced the knowledge and philosophy of colour using the power of the colour rays for healing along with music and herbs. Unfortunately, the poor man was hounded throughout Europe and ridiculed for his work. Most of his manuscripts were burnt, but now he is thought of, by many, to be one of the greatest doctors and healers of his time. A man, it would seem, very much ahead of his time. Not only do we now use Colour Therapy once again, but, his other ideas, using herbs and music in healing, can also be seen reflected in many of the complementary therapies now quite commonplace.

Isaac Newton.

So what did Newton discover? Newton passed a beam of sunlight through a prism. When the light came out of the prism is was not white but was of seven different colours: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. The spreading into rays was called dispersion by Newton and he called the different coloured rays the spectrum.

He learnt that when the light rays were passed again through a prism the rays turned back into white light. If only one ray was passed through the prism it would come out the same colour as it went in. Newton concluded that white light was made up of seven different coloured rays. However; the Chinese believed that white was not a colour, as they believed that white was a mingle of colours with equal proportions, which they came to believe that white signified purity, innocence and serinety. I hope you enjoyed the history of colour therapy, a science used thousand years ago with success. If you want to know more come and join discussion on http://www.colourmed.2323874.n4.nabble.com/Colour-therapy-

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