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CHAPTER THREE LIGHT AND COLOUR THERAPY 3. Introduction The following sections include information on the different light and colour therapies. Each individual therapy will be discussed according their history, original founders, principles, practical application and available research. They include Heliotherapy or Solar Therapy, Low Intensity Laser Therapy, Homoeopathic Colour Remedies, Colourpuncture, Spectro-Chrome Therapy and Syntonics (According to Dr. Harry R. Spitler, Dr. Jacob Liberman and Dr. Steven V azquez). 3.1 Solar Therapy The sun is directly, or indirectly, the source of all energy on earth and therefore it would be prudent to begin this discourse with the therapy from which all other light therapies originated - Solar Therapy. Until recently, little was known about the effects of sunlight on human health. Although sunlight had been used as a medicine for thousands of years, no one really knew how or why it worked. Practitioners such as Dr. Oskar Bernhard’s and Dr. August Rollier’s efforts in heliotherapy have aided the resurgence of the use of sunlight as a therapeutic agent. During the last two decades, scientists have advanced our understanding of the physiological and biochemical responses of the body to the sun’s rays and it is becoming clear that sunlight has a greater influence on our health than was once thought to be the case. Sunlight may cause skin cancer, but there is evidence that the sun plays a key role in preventing and ameliorating a number of common diseases seen today. The role of sunlight in vitamin D production will be discussed in detail as this is the most obvious benefit of sunlight. Further discussions will cover other benefits of sunlight which may offset some of the current accepted opinions which only focus on the dangers of exposure to solar radiation. 3.1.1 Sunlight and Vitamin D Exposing the skin to the sun’s ultra-violet rays (specifically UVB radiation) activates the production of vitamin D, which is essential for the growth and maintenance of teeth, bones and a 22PDF Image | THE USE OF LIGHT AND COLOUR AS A HEALING MODALITY
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