The Origins of Color Therapy
Sir Isaac Newton's scientific studies are responsible for the majority of our current understanding of color. But before then, the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians all employed color to cure. The Roman physician Aulus Cornelius Celsus wrote about the use of color therapy as early as the first century. The Arab physician Avicenna wrote on the connection between color and illness and cures in the ninth century. Throughout our history, we have always been fascinated by color. Every culture has had, and continues to have, connotations with color. The renowned philosopher Aristotle believed that blue and yellow were the genuine primary colors in the fourth century BC since they were related to the sun and moon, male and female, and stimulus and sedation. Additionally, according to Aristotle, colors correspond to the four elements of fire, water, earth, and air. Before Newton's discoveries in the 17th and 18th centuries supplanted them, many artists borrowed and used his ideas....
