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![]() Edwin Dwight Babbitt, an early proponent of Chromotherapy | |
Claims | Colored light can balance "energy" in a human body. |
Year proposed | 1876 |
Original proponents | Augustus Pleasonton |
Subsequent proponents | Seth Pancoast, Edwin Dwight Babbitt |
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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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