Chromotherapy

Chromotherapy
Alternative medicine
Edwin Dwight Babbitt, an early proponent of Chromotherapy
ClaimsColored light can balance "energy" in a human body.
Year proposed1876
Original proponentsAugustus Pleasonton
Subsequent proponentsSeth Pancoast, Edwin Dwight Babbitt

Chromotherapy, sometimes called color therapy, colorology or cromatherapy, is a pseudoscientific form of alternative medicine which proposes certain diseases can be treated by exposure to certain colors.[1] Its practice is considered to be quackery.[2][3][4][5] Chromotherapists claim to be able to use light in the form of color to balance "energy" lacking from a person's body, whether it be on physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental levels. For example, they thought that shining a colored light on a person would cure constipation. Historically, chromotherapy has been associated with mysticism and occultism.[2]

Color therapy is unrelated to photomedicine, such as phototherapy and blood irradiation therapy, which are scientifically accepted medical treatments for a number of conditions,[6] as well as being unrelated to photobiology, which is the scientific study of the effects of light on living organisms.

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  2. ^ a b Barnstone, Deborah Ascher. (2022). The Color of Modernism: Paints, Pigments, and the Transformation of Modern Architecture in 1920s Germany. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 175-183. ISBN 978-1350251335
  3. ^ Williams, William F. (2000). Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: From Alien Abductions to Zone Therapy. Facts on File Inc. p. 52. ISBN 1-57958-207-9
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