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Color therapy, color light therapy

As color therapy treatment forms are designated, in which the effect of colors on the human psyche and thus the human organism should play a role (psychoimmunology). This is to be achieved by the color design of the room as well as by the use of colored light.

Various approaches to art therapy, including anthroposophical painting therapy, are based on the creative activity itself and the immediate effect of the colors, without, however, being expressly referred to as color therapy. Meanwhile, there are first quantitative studies on the effects of color light therapy in specific diseases.
Furthermore, there are no known scientific studies on which the various theoretical concepts of color therapy could be based.

To be delimited the light therapy, the application of infrared light and phototherapy with UV light, a treatment option z. B. in children with neonatal jaundice. The effect of infrared light or UV light is not due to color.