Color Therapy
Color therapy in the treatment of eye disease - nothing new
under the sun!
Color therapy sounds like something that belongs to interior
design and not in the doctor's office! You may be surprised that
there is a long history of color in the treatment of eye disease.
A 73 year old institution called the College of Syntonics has
investigated color therapy in the treatment of eye disease. Evidence
shows that disease is caused by an imbalance in the autonomic
nervous system. The autonomic system has 2 parts the sympathetic
and the parasympathetic. The sympathetic responsible for survival
or "fight or flight" and the parasympathetic which
is responsible for the body sustaining life, like digestion and
healing disease. When you are running away from a grizzly bear
your body does not care about digesting your food! Stress - yes
we have heard of that word - STRESS certainly contributes to
disease and stress can also be the fuel that sustains disease
and prevents healing. The mechanism of stress is felt to over-stimulate
the sympathetic nervous system and to suppress the parasympathetic.
When the parasympathetic system is suppressed the body has a
difficult time to heal disease. Healing will not take place unless
there is a balance in the autonomic system. Color therapy can
help. The red spectrum has been documented to stimulate the sympathetic
system. No we do not want this since most of our life takes care
of this very nicely! The color red has been associated with anger
and increase heart rate and an increase in blood pressure. Blue
on the other hand will relax the sympathetic system and stimulate
the parasympathetic. This is the first step towards healing disease.
Think about how relaxing the blue ocean water and blue sky can
be! A vacation to the beach can be very healing.
The College of Syntonics has investigated specific color wave
lengths and has studied the affects on eye disease. This research
is on-going but data indicates that certain frequencies of blue
green light can improve the vision in patients with macular degeneration
and certain frequencies of green light can lower the pressures
in patients with glaucoma. The key is "certain frequencies" each
color can have a myriad of frequencies and the task is to identify
the best frequency that resonates with the eye. This therapy
can be compared to microcurrent stimulation. In microcurrent
stimulation specific frequencies of low current are administered
to the body to treat disease. Just like ion color therapy the
success of the treatment is based on selecting the proper frequency
for the patient.
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