Chromotherapy
Chromotherapy, sometimes called color therapy, colorology or cromatherapy, is an alternative medicine that is considered pseudoscience and quackery. 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.
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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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Color therapy is unrelated to photomedicine, such as phototherapy and blood irradiation therapy, which are scientifically accepted medical treatments for a number of conditions, as well as being unrelated to photobiology, which is the scientific study of the effects of light on living organisms.