Color Therapy can help to balance a person’s energy wherever the body may be lacking whether physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental. In the Canon of Medicine, Avicenna wrote that “Color is an observable symptom of disease” and developed a chart that related to the temperature and physical condition of the body. In his view red moved the blood, blue or white cooled it, and yellow reduced muscular pain and inflammation. In The Seven Spiritual Causes of Ill Health and Help One Another Hanna explains how spiritual congestion can manifest itself as illness in the body and should be cleared with holistic therapies, including color therapy. Take a look at what healing quality each color has for the body here.

• Red-Stimulates the nervous system, which energizes sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch. Stimulates and energizes the liver and builds hemoglobin. By stimulating the natural warmth of the body, red makes you feel energetic and expels poisons from the system through the skin.
• Orange-Stimulates the lungs and is a lung builder. Stimulates the thyroid and relieves cramps and muscular spasms. Assists stomach glands in proper function and relieves flatulence. Best of all, orange corrects bone softness and rickets and helps calcium to be absorbed properly. Orange is also a parathyroid depressant, antispasmodic, mammary stimulant, and aromatic.
• Yellow-Stimulates the motor nervous system, which energizes the muscles and helps the lymphatic system, which becomes sluggish due to scanners and the overuse of modern technology. Stimulates bile production and influences pancreatic enzyme output and therefore, increases bowel movements. Increases peristaltic movements and can assist in parasite cleansing. Yellow is used for melancholia because it functions as an equilibrator by balancing portal circulations.
• Lemon-Works by being a cerebral stimulant. Favorably assists in assimilation of food and can repair old, persistent disorders. It is a bone builder because it brings phosphorus into action. When mucus congests the lungs and bronchia, lemon becomes a good expectorant and can loosen all types of congestion. Lemon is also a thymus stimulant, antacid, and laxative.
• Green-A pituitary stimulant. It influences muscle/tissue building, and may dissolve blood clots and should always be tried when a clot forms. Green destroys bacteria, viruses, and viroids while acting as a germicide, disinfectant, and cleanser.
• Turquoise-A cerebral depressant which is cooling and refreshing to the body. Combats acidity, relieves pain from sunburn, or the heat of fever and irritated conditions. A tonic for the system and skin builder.
• Blue-A pineal stimulant which builds vitality. Blue is useful in reducing fever, inflammation, itching, and burns. Cooling for the system like turquoise.
• Indigo-A parathyroid stimulant which can help to make calcium available to the nervous system while acting as a tranquilizer. Indigo checks the flow of blood because more calcium is freed to act on blood corpuscles and platelets. It is a pain reliever that eases suffering caused by grief, excitement, and uncertainty.
• Violet-A spleen stimulant. Builds white blood cells to defend against infections, decreases overstimulated muscular activity, and calms an overactive heart. Violet is a lymph gland depressant which is especially helpful with the treatment of mononucleosis or other lymph diseases.
• Purple-Increases the function of the veins, lowers blood pressure by dilating the blood vessels, reduces heart rate, and supports the kidneys. Reduces fever, assists with pain sensitivity, and induces relaxation for deeper sleep. Purple lowers body temperature, decreases sex drive, and is hypnotic.
• Magenta-An aura builder. Magenta stabilizes emotions while stimulating the heart, kidneys, and adrenal glands. Increases circulation, regulates high and low blood pressure, and helps you feel happy.
• Scarlet-Contracts blood vessels and increases blood pressure. Scarlet is a sexual stimulant and stimulates menstruation, the adrenal glands, the heart, and circulation.

There is a great deal of information available on color therapy and you can find books and tools to help you on our website. This overview from Hanna’s books serves as a gentle introduction to this therapy and how it may be able to complement other natural applications of healing. Learn more about color therapy and its connection with flower therapy, light therapy, Reiki, acupuncture, and other holistic practices to decide how you can find optimal health.