Chromo-Lab

Light and its potentional is used for treatment of some diseases. One of the treatment methodsis chromatherapy. Color has been investigated as medicine since 2000 BC(1). Chromo therapy/color therapy is a method of treatment that uses the visible spectrum (colors) of electromagnetic radiations (wavelength 7700-3900 AU) and invisible spectrum (infrared and UV), to cure diseases. There are specific sites (centers) in body which absorbs color of varying wavelength and produce effect. When the ratios of the required colors in one or more centers of the body imbalances, it gives rise to the various ailments and when the colors are balanced, diseases are easily cured. In order to overcome the deficiency or to normalize excess of a color, sunlight or artificial lights are used. Each color generates electrical impulses and field of energy that serves as activators of biochemical and hormonal processes. So, the dysfunction of body organs can be treated by chromo therapy (3)(below chart). Daylight affects both the physical and etheric bodies. Also, colors generate electrical impulses and magnetic currents or fields of energy that are prime activators of the biochemical and hormonal processes in the human body, the stimulants or sedatives necessary to balance the entire system and its organs(1). Additional, light can affect humans is through the circadian system. Humans have adapted to 24-hours pattern of daylight and darkness by evolving biological rhythms. These rhythmn are called circadian rhythms from the Latin circa(about) and dies (day) (2).

What is the Chromo-Lab?Chromo-lab is a chromo therapy center located in Turkey’s Cappadocia region. However, unlike traditional chromo therapy centers, it takes its source from sunlight. Famous for its caves and fairy chimneys, Cappadocia is a geomorphotourism center. Every unit, underground and aboveground, is almost a mystical place. Chromo-Lab has been designed to combine these mystical earthly spaces with an innovative approach to therapy. The system is simply based on the coloring of sunlight and its transmission to completely dark cave units. Light comes into the head that adjusts the wavelength and color. Daylight is transmitted to the units in the caves by solar tunnels. The permeable color filters placed at the end of the tunnels ensure that the color light suitable for the needs of the person in that room is given. Hereby the person exposed to the time and wavelength deemed appropriate by the light therapists is expected to recover. Both natural light and circadian rhythm are supported and therapy is performed with color. Referances:1:Azemi, S., y., A. and Raza, M. (2005). A critical analysis of chromotherapy and its scientific evolution. eCAM 2(4) 481-488.

2:Figueiro, M., G. (2013). An overview of the effects of light on human circadian rhythms: implications for new light sources and lighting systems design. J.Light & Vis. Env.: 37,(2&3), 51-61.

3:Gul, S., Nadeem, R. K. and Aslam, A. (2015). Cromotherapy-an effectine treatment option or just a myth? Critical analysis on the effectiveness of chromotherapy. American Research Journal of Pharmacy.: 1(2), 62-70