Colour Therapy Part 2

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Colour Therapy Part 2 (Teacher: Michael)

Researchers at the University of California claim that yellow helps lose weight, green helps convalescent patients, violet helps depression, turquoise is good for spots. A psychologist from Boston University suggested that a patient who difficulty in getting to sleep try gazing at something blue for 20 minutes or so. Blue, it is , is a calming colour which relieves tension and reduces blood pressure. On the other , red lowers the pain threshold, researchers at Cambridge University.

Drug companies using colours therapeutically for years. They believe that blue is the best colour for heart drugs, yellow is the best for anxiety, orange stimulates the appetite and red is good for pain. They , however, to careful when selling pills around the world. The drug company which tried to promote a blue contraceptive pill in a blue package in India discovered that Indian women regarded blue as a colour for women with a rather less than immaculate moral character!

Hospital designers their problems too. The colour recommended for intensive care units is purple, but one hospital where the whole unit to repainted when it that the purple walls all the patients cyanosed and to death. So, despite colour therapy having its uses, there plenty of teething problems to overcome.

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