Blue-glass craze Pleasonton’s theory led to what was called the “Blue-glass Craze”, whereby people began growing crops under blue light. Soon, blue panes of glass were being sold as a way to increase crop production. Chromotherapy After Pleasonton’s findings, scientist Dr. S. Pancoast studied the blue-light phenomenon and described his findings in his book ”Blue [...]
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Chromotherapy The ”Canon”, which described colour to be of vital importance in diagnosis and treatment, made significant contributions to chromotherapy. It stated that “Color is an observable symptom of disease” and also developed a chart that related colour to the temperature and physical condition of the body. His view was that red moved the blood, [...]
Personal life Augustus Pleasonton was born in Washington D.C. in 1801. He was the second son of Stephen Pleasonton (originally from Delaware) and Mary Hopkins (from Lancaster, Pennsylvania). Stephen Pleasonton served in the US State Department from 1800 until his death in 1854. Stephen Pleasonton served as the fifth auditor of the Treasury Department, acting [...]

Chromotherapy has been deemed pseudoscience by its critics, who state that the falsifiability and verifiability conditions necessary to deem an experiment valid are not being met, and therefore that it has not been proven that introducing colors is the key element in the healing process which is healing its patients. Chromotherapy has also been criticized [...]

Anaya has worked for years in healing arts using many types of therapies ranging from those related to the physical body to those related to the more subtle and spiritual aspects of Being. Coming from a family that practiced Kardec Spiritism, Anaya first had contact with the more subtle energies of the Universe through her [...]

Ayurvedic medicine describes the body as having seven main chakras, which are spiritual centers located along the spine that are associated with a color, function and organ or bodily system. According to this explanation, these colors can become imbalanced and result in physical diseases but these imbalances can be corrected through using the appropriate color [...]

Avicenna (980-1037), who viewed color to be of vital importance in diagnosis and treatment, discussed chromotherapy in ”The Canon of Medicine”. He wrote that “Color is an observable symptom of disease” and also developed a chart that related color to the temperature and physical condition of the body. His view was that red moved the [...]

Inherent difficulties in properly controlling trials of color’s effect on humans mean that a subject’s expectations and cultural bias cannot be ruled out. Moreover, much evidence is anecdotal (e.g. the blue street lighting case) or based on data that includes confounders (e.g. the shirt-color correlation). Chromotherapy, a form of alternative medicine, is based on the [...]




