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  • Essay / A Critical Analysis of Chromotherapy - 1037

    Victorian mysticism is a group of myths that emerged during the Victorian era, when new areas of science were discovered or invented. They usually combined the field of new metaphysical science with ancient myths or stories from the Bible, including stories about the pyramids or the power of the pentagon. Chromotherapy, known as alternative medicine, is also part of it. It combined the theory of light waves and ancient experiments concerning colors. Proponents of chromotherapy believe that exposure to colors can cure physical or psychological ailments. The bottom line is that the certain power of colors can cure certain diseases. For example, the color red can cure anxiety problems and circulatory problems. The facts about light waves and these are the basis of therapy. Since the cells in our body can absorb a certain range of light waves, giving colors that are light waves with a specific frequency, the cells can draw energy from the color. By receiving the energy of color, our body can heal itself. Additionally, chromotherapy has adopted theories regarding color psychology, which focus on the influence of colors on the human mind, claiming its use in psychological problems. This appears to be a new area of ​​medicine and successful cases of therapy have been reported. However, chromotherapy is not a validated medical treatment, given the exaggerated psychological effects of colors, their illogicality and environmental factors. Chromotherapy is deeply overdone. The practice of chromotherapy claims that by affecting the human mind with color, psychological problems can be resolved. This is somewhat true because colors affect people's minds. Faber Birren, who is a researcher at Yale University, is the first scientific person... middle of paper ...... ability to recover himself and time. The role of colors is insignificant compared to these natural factors. So the effects of color on humans could simply be a simple reaction to other factors. In conclusion, chromotherapy is not a scientific medical treatment. Chromotherapy treats mental and physical problems related to colors. However, the psychological effects of color therapy are overestimated taking into account certain factors. Furthermore, chromotherapy is illogical. It presents a selection bias with a weak base and lacks verifiability. Finally, many other factors are often misunderstood as being an effect of chromotherapy. The main ideas of color therapy are actually quite similar to those of a real science, light therapy and color psychology. These two scientific fields are logical and proven while chromotherapy is not. Chromotherapy will therefore remain a pseudoscience, without any medicinal value..