HISTORY

The ancient Chinese and Greek healers may have lived thousands of miles apart, but were thinking along the same lines with acupuncture and colour light therapy. Both:

1. stimulate the body to heal itself
2. have an understanding of the interconnectivity of cellular matter
3. can be used proactively as well as reactively.

Due to these, has made them amongst the most complementary of healing modalities and this complementary relationship can endure beyond the treatment phase. Pursuing healthy lifestyle choices and employing Colour Acupuncture Light Therapy to rebalance the inner life force can help keep us physically, emotionally and mentally strong in our pursuit of one of humanities favourite challenge - longevity.

Light is the only energy we can see, and we see it in the form of colour

I will expand a little more into these two powerful modalities: -

Colour:

The use of colour as a vibrational treatment goes back over thousands of years and many cultures. Archaeologists have discovered that the Egyptians had temples that were constructed of interlaced crystal domes. This filled the temple with spectral colours, and around the circumference of the temple were individual healing rooms which resonated to the required colour frequencies. In ancient Egypt the use of colour healing was attributed to Thoth, patron god of physicians and scribes.

In Ayuvedic medicine treatment, they include the use of minerals and gemstones which were believed to be a concentration of cosmic rays. A common practice amongst the Greeks and Romans was treatment by sunlight; know as Heliotherapy, which Herodotus is supposed to have introduced. In ancient Greece Pythagoras established a philosophical medical centre where students worked with the science of numbers, establishing scientific theories of sound and musical octaves which they used for healing in conjunction with colour. Their deep knowledge and understanding of the healing powers of the colour rays was nearly lost when, later on in history, the Greeks considered colour only as a science. Hippocrates, amongst others, abandoned the metaphysical side of colour, concentrating only on the scientific aspect. Fortunately, despite this, the knowledge and philosophy of colour was handed down throughout the ages.

In the first century those using medical practices involving colour and other unorthodox methods of treatment were deemed by the Christian Church to be pagan and punished for there sins. This drove such practices underground, where the ancient knowledge was passed on orally. Although many Greek and Roman writings on procedures were lost, many were preserved and translated, first into Arabic and later into Latin. Colour was restored to medical practices by the outstanding Persian physician, Avicenna.

In the Middle Ages, Paracelsus reintroduced this knowledge using the power of the colour rays for healing along with music and herbs.

By the nineteenth century the use of drugs was growing and the concept of treating the whole person was lost, emphasis being placed on diseases of the physical body. With the exclusion of the spiritual, emotional and mental aspects colour fell into disuse. It's re-emergence during this time was attributed to Dr. Seth Pancoast and Dr. Edwin Babbitt. At the beginning of the twentieth century colour was investigated by the occultist, philosopher, teacher and religious leader, Rudolf Steiner. He related colour to mathematical form, believing that form had the power to amplify colour's effect. Two great twentieth century pioneers of colour therapy were Dinsaha Ghadiali and Dr. Harry Spitler. Although Ghadiali, a qualified physicist, had no medical training he was awarded four honorary medical degrees for his research into colour. Spitler, a doctor and optometrist, developed a system of colour treatment called syntonics which applied light directly through the eyes.

At this present time the medical profession is using various forms of light treatment. Studies carried out in the 1960's suggested that blue light was able to rid jaundiced babies' bodies of the biliruban that the immature liver was unable to cope with.

Recent uses of Light
Physician Antal Tiszold discovered that combining the power of a quality Quartz Crystal, Light and Colour to acupuncture points triggered powerful healing impulses in the physical and energy bodies. His technique involves administering the appropriate colour/s to the appropriate points requiring the treatment.

Treatment with lasers is another fairly recent use of light. The advantages of lasers are their potency, speed of action and ability to focus on a minute area allowing great advances to be made in microsurgery. In surgery they have two main uses: photo coagulation of bleeding vessels and the incision of tissue. Other uses include the removal of small benign tumours, removal of unwanted tattoos and the treatment of detached retinas. Soft laser light is used for the amelioration of burn victims' pain and the acceleration of wound healing.

In Budapest Dr. Marta Fenyo, a biophysicist, laser specialist and inventor, began researching the component in laser light responsible for healing leg ulcers and varicose problems and discovered polarized light. Polarized light was found to boost the immune system and have a dramatic healing effect on varicose ulcers. This research lead to the manufacturing of the Bioptron Light & Colour Therapy devices, her clinic is still open and treating people to this day.

How Colour Therapy works
Colour can be applied by various means such as shining light on the body through coloured filters or lenses, through drinking or bathing in solarised water, and visualization. Even the colour of clothing worn and foods eaten have an affect upon the body and the colours in one's environment and the type of lighting used also have a profound effect.

We are energetic beings. Within our physical bodies is a natural system of lights which is generated within the DNA of each cell and is amplified and broadcast by the cells as a way to communicate with other cells. Groups of cells create electro-magnetic fields which reflect the status of the organs. These electromagnetic fields both store information and guide how the body grows and develops. This information can be perceived as coloured light.

The information in these fields is easily changed with applications of coloured light. Colours are a way of transferring information and energy into matter. The cells communicate with each other through photons, light waves. This process is called bio-communications.

When colour reaches a cell, the electrons in the cells reorganize. Some absorb photons and jump into higher frequency orbits. Others release photons, and the electrons settle back down into less excited states. In both occasions, the photon-electron activity sets up energy and information impulses that travel instantly through the body. These impulses interact with the other regulatory systems of the body, especially the endocrine and nervous systems, and thereby take effect to harmonize whole body activity. The cells also absorbs energy from this light to be later released when the body requires it - for healing, energy release - exercise etc.

Acupuncture:

The earliest instruments of acupuncture or skin puncture were modified from arrows, stones, bones, bamboo slips and finally needles made of gold, silver and copper. The Nei Ching or The Yellow Emperor's classic of Internal Medicine is the earliest known text on acupuncture. It was believed to have been written between 2697 and 2596 B.C. during the reign of Emperor Huang Ti. The Nei Ching is an extensively detailed manual explaining all treatment methods for a wide range of ailments. It has been used for thousands of years as the foundation of modern acupuncture. The Nei Ching is one of the oldest know documents written about medicine of any sort. Acupuncture is the oldest known form of medicine, and has more published, practiced and documented about it than any other form of medicine in history. Chinese medicine was ignored by the western world until the 17th century when Jesuit missionaries were sent to china to introduce and convert the Chinese to Christianity. Instead they returned to the west with unbelievable accounts of Chinese physicians curing illness by inserting needles into the surface of the skin. In 1928 a French specialist in Chinese culture, Souile De Morant, translated many of the documents about acupuncture into French, thus introducing the west to Chinese medicine.

During several periods in recent history acupuncture has been outlawed by the Japanese and Chinese governments. In 1884, Emperor Tao-Kuang prohibited the practice within the imperial palace and strongly punished physicians who used it. Perhaps he had an intense needle phobia. The common people continued to use acupuncture regardless. In Japan, acupuncture which had been in use since the sixth century, was also abandoned during the late 1800's in an attempt to establish hospitals based on western medicine.

Mao Tse Tung's army was key in revitalizing the art of Chinese medicine in 1935-35 as the army was living and fighting under conditions which did not allow the practical use of other forms of medicine. Currently, Japanese and Chinese hospitals and medical centres use a combination of traditional acupuncture and herbology along with western approaches such as surgery and drugs. But the country who has surpassed all others in the use of acupuncture is France. There are approximately 6000 doctors using acupuncture and it is a routine treatment in more than 15 hospitals.

In the late 1970s the World Health Organization, did a series of studies and declared Acupuncture medicine to be highly effective in 40 major internal disease processes. It is common to find the use of acupuncture in many western medical facilities now, although much of the application of this medicine is limited to pain control and less focused on internal medicine.

QI or Chi the root of life
The root of the way of life, of birth and change is Qi (energy); the myriad things of heaven and earth all obey this law. Thus Qi in the periphery envelopes heaven and earth, Qi in the interior activates them. The source wherefrom the sun, moon, and stars derive their light, the thunder, rain, wind and cloud their being, the four seasons and the myriad things their birth, growth, gathering and storing: all this is brought about by Qi. Man's possession of life is completely dependent upon this Qi. Nei Ching Chi, (CHEE) or Qi, (KEY), are two names for the life force energy. That thing; which is a tangible substance and is the basic energy which supports all life and matter in the universe.

According to Chinese medical theory, a child is born with Chi which has been transmitted from the mother's kidneys. This chi is a fixed amount of life energy which travels through the body along pathways known as meridians. Because the kidneys hold the inherited chi or life force energy, we never want to sedate the kidney meridian or energy circuit. This could create a great loss of vital energy for a human or animal. A mother or brood mare may need a lot of kidney stimulation to restore that chi which has been passed on to her offspring.

The Meridians
Energy, Chi, or Qi circulates throughout the body along pathways called Meridians. Electrical energy travels along these pathways or meridians separate from the nervous system. Not only does the energy travel along the surface of the body, it has connections to every organ, blood vessel, muscle, gland, and portion of the body. (Many individuals also feel these pathways are the link between the emotional, spiritual and physical aspects of ourselves.)

The means whereby man is created, the means whereby diseases occur, the means whereby man is cured, the means whereby disease arises; the twelve meridians are the basis for all theory and treatment. Nei Ching is the meridian which decides over life and death.

Through it hundreds of diseases may be treated. Nei Ching Meridian is a word borrowed from geography indicating a thin line joining a series of ordered points. There are 12 main meridians, one assigned to each of the five organs, the six bowels, and the pericardium or heart constrictor. The six bowels include the gall bladder, small intestine, stomach, large intestine, bladder and the triple heater. The meridians are channels which are 20-50 milli-microns in diameter. They have a thin membranous wall and are filled with a transparent, colourless fluid. Each of the main meridians intricately develops subsidiary branches, some of which supply adjacent areas with energy while others ultimately reach the surface of the skin. The places at which the branches reach the skin's surface are the acupuncture and pressure points. Several channels may converge at one point, therefore it is possible to affect several meridians at one time.

The meridians cannot be seen with the human eye but scientists have been able to precisely map these energy channels or meridians using sensitive electronic instrumentation. The Russians found both temperature differences and greater conductivity of electricity at the acupuncture and acupressure points.

To bring Balance to Life
The ancient Chinese viewed all of nature as the expression of a universal, natural law called Tao ("Dao"). The Tao gives rise to the dual polarity of nature, embodied in the concept of Yin and Yang. Yin and Yang represent the two extremes found in nature. The original meaning of the term Yang(male), as reflected in its Chinese ideogram, is the sunny side of a hill. Yin(female), on the other hand, represents the shady side of the hill.

• The Yin/Yang convention is relational: there is no Yin without Yang; there is no Yang without Yin. There are both or nothing. Everything in the universe is a manifestation of the relative relationship between the polarity of Yin and Yang. If one end of a stick is designated Yin, and the other is designated Yang, breaking the stick in half yields two identical sticks, each with a Yin and Yang end. Yin and Yang cannot be broken apart.
• Nothing is permanently or absolutely Yin or Yang. On the body, the head is considered to be Yang with respect to the rest of the body, but the head is considered Yin when compared to the sky. This relational concept can be defined in terms of direction. No location is East or West by itself, without reference to another point in space. China may be East of Europe, but it is West of North America. Nothing can be defined without its reference point.
  

The Tao creates Yin and Yang. The dynamic polarity between Yin and Yang produces the flow of a "life force" called Qi (pronounced "Chee" or "Chi"). Qi is omnipresent in nature, manifesting as change and movement. In the body, Qi accumulates in the organs and flows through a series of channels or meridians. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the flow of Qi in these meridians can become deficient, excessive, stagnant, or wayward. When this occurs, the symptoms of disease manifest.

• It is believed that these conditions can be influenced and altered by the insertion of acupuncture needles into acupuncture points located along these meridians. The objective of acupuncture is to regulate and normalize the flow of the Qi in the body, so that Yin and Yang return to a state of dynamic equilibrium.
• Typically, 365 acupuncture points are described. However, today, the number of points has increased to nearly 2,000, in part due to the creation of "micro-systems" such as auricular (ear) acupuncture and hand acupuncture systems.
• When an acupuncture needle is inserted into a traditional acupuncture point, certain nerve fibres are stimulated, which results in a nerve impulse being sent to the spinal cord. Here, endorphogenic cells are stimulated to release endorphins (brain chemicals) such as enkephalin and dynorphin. These substances provide local inhibition (blocking) of the incoming pain signal.
  

In the late 1990's Antal Tiszold invented the Med-Colour Quartz Light & Colour Acupuncture device and with Prof. Roger Dalet M.D. acupuncture expertise, they together developed and perfected over following years the 116 different treatments. They then asked Professor Szilveszter Torok the President of the Scientific Assoc. and Gabriella Hegyi M.D. Ph.D Head Physician of the Yamamoto Rehabilitation Institute to independently assess the device. Click here for their reports.

For thousands of years, acupuncture and colour light therapy have shared similar approaches to human physiology. Both stimulate the body to heal itself; both have an understanding of the interconnectivity of cellular matter; and both can be used proactively as well as reactively. This has made them among the most complementary of healing modalities, but this complementary relationship can endure beyond the treatment phase. Acupuncturists can introduce a patient to colour light therapy with the recommendation that the patient incorporate the techniques into a personal, long-term wellness strategy. If not an apple a day, then a brief colour light therapy session a day, may be what keeps the doctor away. Pursuing healthy lifestyle choices and employing colour light therapy to rebalance the inner life force can help keep us physically, emotionally and physically strong in our lifelong pursuit of longevity. The Med-Colour Quartz Crystal Light & Colour Acupuncture Therapy device combines both of these and also the ancient use of quartz crystal power into one effective tool.