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 Edwin Dwight Babbitt, an early proponent of Chromotherapy | |
| Claims | Colored light can balance "energy" in a human body. |
| Year proposed | 1876 |
| Original proponents | Augustus Pleasonton |
| Subsequent proponents | Seth Pancoast, Edwin Dwight Babbitt |
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Chromotherapy, sometimes called color therapy, colorology or cromatherapy, is an alternative medicine that is considered pseudoscience and quackery.[1][2][3][4] Chromotherapists claim to be able to use light in the form of color to balance "energy" lacking from a person's body, whether it be on physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental levels. For example, they thought that shining a colored light on a person would cure constipation. Historically chromotherapy has been associated with mysticism and occultism.[1]
Color therapy is unrelated to photomedicine, such as phototherapy and blood irradiation therapy, which are scientifically accepted medical treatments for a number of conditions,[5] as well as being unrelated to photobiology, which is the scientific study of the effects of light on living organisms.
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