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Colour Therapy Part 2 (Teacher: Michael)

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

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

Hospital designers have had their problems too. colour recommended for intensive care units is purple, but one hospital where whole unit had to be repainted when it was found purple walls were making all patients look cyanosed and close to death. So, despite colour therapy having its uses, there are plenty of teething problems to be overcome.

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