Cromoterapiche practices were notes since the ancient Egypt: the mythology Egyptian assigns to the god Thot the discovery of chromotherapy. According to tradition, both the Egyptians the Greeks were use of mineral, stones, crystals and ointments coloured, in addition to paint the walls of places of care. The Greeks shared the colors the fundamental elements (air, fire, water and land) and these to the four "moods" or "fluid" of the body. The health was considered as resulting from the balance of these elements, while the disease it was the imbalance. The colours, as they were associated with moods, were also used as a treatment against the diseases. The philosopher Avicenna claimed that the color is a symptom of the disease observable; created a report that put in the colours with the temperature and physical condition of the body (for example: the red was scroll through the blood and was therefore not recommended in the case of injury or bleeding, while the blue "cool-down" and favoured the blood-clotting).
The Ayurvedic Medicine has always taken account of how the colors will influence the balance of the centres of subtle energy associated with the main glands of the body. The Chinese would its physical action of various colors: Yellow restored the intestine, the violet decreased the epileptic seizures.
In China, even the windows in the room of the patient were covered with sheets suitable colour and garments of the sick were to be the same shade.
In chromotherapy, each color is associated with special psychic and spiritual characteristics of individuals, in addition to having particular effects on the functioning of the body. In general the chromotherapy maintains that the colors have different effects, including:
expand or shrink blood vessels;
raise or lower the blood pressure;
increase the production of red blood cells;
to support the white blood cells;
destroy the bacteria;
to support the immune system;
protect the tissue by attackers;
to increase the activity of the tissue;
increase the transport of oxygen in the blood;
adjust the exchange between the tissue and bones;
encourage the training of enzymes, trace elements and vitamins;
activate and stable metabolism.
The aromatherapy is the treatment of disorders (therapy) through the use of essential oils of aromatic plants and is one of the techniques of natural medicine, alternative or holistic. Since the dawn of humanity, nature has always been a real treat for the man and the plant in particular, the mother of substances almost magical for culinary use, medicine and even religious, continues to fascinate still today. The Passion of the man for the herbs dates back even to Palaeolithic period.
Aromatherapy had been around for 6000 years or more. The Greeks, Romans, and ancient Egyptians all used aromatherapy oils. The Egyptian physician Imhotep recommended fragrant oils for bathing, massage, and for embalming their dead nearly 6000 years ago. Imhotep is the Egyptian god of medicine and healing. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, used aromatherapy baths and scented massage. He used aromatic fumigations to rid Athens of the plague. Oils were used not only for the therapeutic properties but were receiving the dual task of the Sacred-profane.
Aromatherapy is both preventive and curative i.e., rebalances the physical alteration . The sense of smell is between the senses that more closely linked to emotions and to the memory, which explains the extraordinary power evocative perfumes.
When the brain is stimulated by the aroma, the nerve endings placed in the nose shall send a message to the libic system, that is apparatus that presides over the memory and emotions, and manages the emotional attitudes of an individual. Then is sent to your hypothalamus, which regulates the hormonal system. It is a fact that some flower produce an appreciable effect on the balance emotional and psychological, able to relieve anxiety, sadness, and the damaging effects of stress.
The essence that induce a sense of comfort and relaxation (spices and wood) are relaxing and antidepressant (rosewood, ylang ylang, rose). Who search of a bit of relaxation and serenity, to citrus will prefer essences of lavender or to the lilac, two aromas antianxiety par excellence.
The principles on which the musictherapy must be sought in the night of the times, the dawn of human history. Every people has organised, in any time and in every corner of the Earth, musical events which confirm the power of sound, and thus of music. The same myth of Orpheus or by David's harp testify to the use of music for therapeutic purposes. All have recognised and recognize the music the power to influence the emotions.
Use the music listening literally means nourishing the body with the sound and use the sound to discover the hidden dimensions in the deep and to accelerate the process of evolution of consciousness. The therapeutic effects of the sound and music are able to modify the activities of the nervous system growing season.
Music can be an effective therapeutic addition in various conditions, especially those which are characterized by chronic pain in the capable of modular nerve complex activities that are expressed in quantifiable changes neurovegetative. But in addition to the physiological effects, the music may urge the imaginary and cause creative responses.
Go back to the last century, however, the real scientific research on physiological changes induced by the music through the measurement of its effects on breathing, heart rhythm, the movement and the blood pressure. In particular to the music therapy as for the chromotherapy, are also involved the same vital centers and energy of the body, that in the Tantra yoga are called chakras.
Based on seven different tones (and rebuilt at the Diapason) and on a tone specific sound, this music (used by diffuser for meditation and energy, respectively for the 4 superiors chakras and the first 3 below) comes in resonance in succession with each of the seven chakras, from Muladhara, the centre of sexual energy, until Sahasrara, centre of spiritual energy, environment by stimulating the energies and seeking all between them.