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The Greek physician Soranus of Ephesus (110.AD) prescribed heliosis for chronic diseases which included epilepsy, paralysis, haemorrhage, asthma, disease of the oesophagus, jaundice, elephantiasis, diseases of the bladder, and obesity. He combined heliotherapy with various forms of hydrotherapy, such as bathing in natural springs and sea bathing. The Greek surgeon Antyllus (300 AD) and Herodotus (200AD) also supported and practiced heliotherapy (Hobday, 1999). The Ancient Romans were great believers in sun therapy and used it as a form of preventative medicine. The Roman scholar Pliny the Elder (23 - 79 AD) described sunbathing as ‘the best of all self-administered remedies’. The Roman philosopher Cornelius Celsus advocated exposure to the sun for the debilitated and corpulent, or those suffering from dropsy (oedema). In his treatise ‘On Medicine’, Celsus says that swollen parts should be exposed to the sun for short periods of time. An Arabic philosopher and physician, Ibn Sina (980-1037 AD), recommended sun baths for asthma, sciatica, flatulence, swellings and dropsy (Scarborough, 1969). In Ancient China, people were wrapped in red silk and placed in the sun to prevent scarring from chicken pox (Leven, 2000). Small pox was treated in a similar way. This principle would be examined in 1893 when Niels Finsen proposed a theory that the most dangerous and painful phase of small pox could be averted if patients were protected from ultraviolet radiation. This theory would be tested by two physicians later that same year who removed small pox patients from any source of UV radiation during their treatment. Their findings indicated that the suppuratory phase of the disease would remain absent as long as the patients were protected from all forms of UV radiation. Even the slightest exposure to this radiation would cause the suppuration to continue. It was also found that if the patients were exposed to red light, the healing process could be accelerated with little or no scarring. ‘Red Rooms’ were later used by physicians in Scandinavia and Europe for the treatment of small pox (Hobday, 1999). With the fall of Rome and the rise of Christianity, sunlight therapy was viewed as a pagan form of sun worship and was therefore abolished. For the next thousand years, a period commonly (and aptly) known as the ‘dark’ ages, solar/light therapy would disappear completely (Leven, 2000). 1.2.2 Light Therapy Rediscovered In the 17th century Isaac Newton’s research into the scientific classification of light formed the foundation for our present understanding of colours as constituent parts of white light, which can 3PDF Image | THE USE OF LIGHT AND COLOUR AS A HEALING MODALITY
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