Module 01: The Origins of Colour Healing

1.1 Introduction Most of what we know today about colour itself is attributed to the scientific research of Sir Isaac Newton. However, before that, colour was used in healing by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. As early as the first century in Rome, the physician Aulus Cornelius Celsus wrote about using colour as a therapy. In the ninth century, the Arab physician Avicenna wrote about the relationship of colour to both diseases and treatments. 1.2 History There has never been ...