http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.rss http://www.earthclinic.com/template_img/logo.jpg http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.rss Blue And Sun-Lights, Their Influence Upon Life, Disease by General A.J. Pleasonton. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:11:17 EST en-us http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.html&name=RF_20340 /Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.rss1 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST Pamela from Houston, Texas writes: "I was very much interested in the article in regards to the blue light therapy. I have had some experience with light therapy and know that it can be helpful. I was wondering if anyone has tried using a blue light bulb and if so what were the results? I know the article mention blue glass with the sun being the source of light but maybe electricty would work as the source of light? If anyone has tried this please respond. I priced blue light bulbs on the internet and you can get them for $1.83 each. Wouldn't it be great if the light bulbs would work?" http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.html&name=BUY_16983 /Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.rss2 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT RG from Waco, Tx writes: "Here is an inexpensive way to get all the Blue Glass you will ever need! (1). Go to your nearest fabric store and purchase the sheerest (light in weight) cotton fabric in the appropriate color (Cobalt Blue?) (2). At your local Walmart or other grocery store, purchase a bottle of liquid starch. (3). Cut the fabric to fit your window pane/panes. (4). Completely wet the fabric with the starch. (5). Apply the starched fabric to window pane/panes. (6). Use a sponge to apply more liquid starch as needed to spread the fabric seamlessly over the window pane/panes. (7). Bubbles and creases can be burnished (pressed)out by applying pressure to the wet fabric with the sponge and stretching it out completely flat. The fabric will dry and stay in place indefinitely! If it starts to detatch, just apply more starch to that area that is detatching and wa-lah, good as new! When dirty, just remove, wash and reattatch the same way. Hope this helps. You can use this technique to cover just about anything with fabric." http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.html&name=RF_16357 /Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.rss3 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT [YEA] Shirley from Missouri writes: "I loved reading about the Blue Glass Therapy so I'm trying it now. I put some of the blue painters tape over a small window that is in one of our smaller rooms. I haven't really understood yet as to how much light should be coming through. It does look like I have turned on a blue light in that room. The whole room glows with a blue tinted hew. Also I found this information on the web about Color Therapy and I thought you'd like to read it. I'm not sure if it's the same thing you're talking about, but I found it interesting myself. If you want to read the whole article this is the site: http://www.health-science-spirit.com/colourtherapy.html The Curative Properties of Colours RED (BRIGHT RED) - Warm and stimulating. Use in anaemia, or whenever you are feeling cold and pale, with chilled extremities; also useful for ultraviolet and X-ray burns and frostbite; red is a liver stimulant and counter-irritant (to bring internal inflammations to the surface). Nutrients: vitamin B12, acidity. ORANGE - A respiratory stimulant; useful for weak lungs, asthma, consumption, emphysema; also for overweight and under-active people with an under-active thyroid (energises thyroid, sedates parathyroids). Orange relieves spasms and cramps; increases milk secretion; corrects rickets and soft bones, osteoporosis; stimulates stomach and digestion, and relieves flatulence and distension; also stimulates the bladder, kidneys, liver and pancreas: try with epilepsy. It is valuable for chronic kidney disease and gallstones, arthritis, gout and rheumatism during non-painful periods. Minerals: boron, calcium, copper, selenium, silicon. YELLOW - The most luminous colour. A strong stimulant and energiser for muscles and nerves: use in all cases of paralysis and muscle disorders, for nerve building, and in nervous exhaustion. Yellow energises the alimentary tract and stimulates digestion, flow of bile, gastric juices, pancreas activity, lymphatic system, heart, eyes and ears. It generally activates all bodily functions except those of the spleen, which is sedated; use for indigestion, constipation, diabetes, and depression, for skin cleansing and to destroy intestinal worms. Minerals: magnesium, molybdenum, sodium. LEMON (YELLOW-GREEN) - Stimulates brain activity and activates the thymus. It is a mild laxative and expectorant (expels mucus): use in respiratory problems involving phlegm, asthma, coughs. Lemon is useful for dry, scaly skin disorders and bone building. It neutralises overacidity, and is indicated for chronic disorders in general, including cancer (systemic), diabetes and dwarfism. Minerals: gold, iodine, iron, phosphorus, silver, sulphur. GREEN - Stimulates pituitary gland, encourages muscle and tissue building, and breaks up hardened cell masses and clots. It is anti-congestive, germicidal, disinfectant, purifying: use for heart problems, ulcers, cancer, wound healing, skin improvement, burn pains, glaucoma, headaches, neuralgia. Elements: chlorine, nitrogen. TURQUOISE (BLUE-GREEN) - Normalising for acute disorders. It is calming, and therefore useful for headaches, for soothing inflammations, sunburn and itching. It improves, rebuilds and tones the skin: use for moist- or weeping-skin disorders. It is also valuable for acute childhood diseases and infections, acute venereal diseases, and hyperactivity. Minerals: chromium, zinc. BLUE - Cooling, strongly anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, stops bleeding, reduces fever, pain. Use to treat all conditions marked by redness, swelling and heat, and acute phases of arthritis, gout and rheumatism. Blue is relaxing and calming, slows the pulse, can reduce high blood pressure, and is valuable for underweight and overactive people. Use to treat itching, irritation, irritability, insomnia, throbbing headaches, speedy brain; sore throat, loss of voice, burns, bruises; diarrhoea, dysentery, colitis, neuralgia, sciatica, earache, biliousness and jaundice. Also good for treating tumour areas and red or infected skin disorders. Element: oxygen. INDIGO (BLUE-VIOLET) - Sedative, pain relieving, arrests discharges and bleeding, astringent. Use for piles and varicose veins. Indigo improves the immune system during infections: use to irradiate swollen lymph glands; in whooping cough with fever and other acute lung disorders; for convulsions and nervous irritation. It stimulates the parathyroids and sedates the thyroid; use locally for goitre. VIOLET - Relaxing and soothing. It also stimulates the spleen and builds white blood cells. Violet sedates heart and muscle activity, and calms hyperactive people. It is useful for overactive kidneys and bladder; bed-wetting; nerve disorders and overactive mental disorders; epilepsy; insomnia. It also suppresses appetite. PURPLE (BLUE AND RED) - Dilates blood vessels and reduces blood pressure: slows the pulse as with palpitations (irradiate heart area). Purple lowers body temperature, and is excellent for high fevers; it stimulates the activity of veins; is a good sleep inducer for insomnia; decreases pain; is antimalarial; sedates the kidneys. MAGENTA (RED AND VIOLET) - Energising; improves and normalises the emotions. Magenta energises the adrenal glands and the heart muscle, normalises the heart and blood pressure and improves the circulation. It is diuretic; useful for kidney stones; complementary to green. Mineral: potassium. SCARLET (2 PARTS RED AND I PART VIOLET) - arrows the arteries and raises the blood pressure; energises kidneys (diuretic); use as a sexual stimulant or for frigidity, and for suppressed menstruation. Scarlet accelerates the birth process and expels the placenta." http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.html&name=RF_16270 /Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.rss4 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT [YEA] Cindy from Wichita, USA writes: "Update: Holy cow! First of all, the elmer's glue and blue food coloring work and it even washes off, BUT you have to be very careful not to get it on anything else because that's a mess. Plus, it doesn't dry as clear as I thought it would. Very dull. I think the way to go is with royal blue netting from the fabric store. I just bought 10 yards on sale for 1.04 per yard.I covered the kitchen window glass and the living room window glass and I can't believe the difference in the feel of this space! I doubled the netting as it is a fine mesh and very sheer however, the feel of the place is so different that it may be too much. I will have to wait and see what happens. I got a very bright, royal blue because the other, lighter blues looked a bit greenish and I wasn't sure about the dark navy. What I got is a beautiful, deep jewel tone of blue. And it's a matte finish. Not shiny. I can't believe how different the sun feels coming through it. It's soft and warm rather than harsh and white-hot. It's a hot, bright - albeit "white sky" - day here and the sun is very harsh. I usually hate having my shades open on days like this but not today! Cool!" http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.html&name=RF_16281 /Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.rss5 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT Teresa from Kenedy, Texas writes: "Some information on blue light therapy, link at bottom of page. Using blue light for "light therapy" As you probably know, there's a version of depression called "Seasonal Affective Disorder" (SAD), or "winter depression". This kind of depression -- which is very common in people with Bipolar II -- can be treated with light. Plain old light will do, but in some parts of the country in December plain old light is hard to come by So several decades ago researchers studied whether sitting in front of a bank of lights for 30-60 minutes might help reverse the seasonal sag in mood, and found that indeed some people seemed to respond very well. In the most recent study of "light therapy", sitting in front of a box of light every morning during a Canadian winter was as effective as fluoxetine (Prozac). But the light needed for this, from a suitcase-sized "light box", was hard to get: insurance companies almost never pay for these boxes, which are expensive, usually around $250-300. They are not very portable. However, now a very small light box is available for around $140 (e.g. from Costco last winter) that's much more portable, so you can use it where you happen to be in the morning. The key was finding just the right wavelength of light for this purpose, which allowed the box to be much smaller. I hope you already know, from the story above, what wavelength that is: blue light -- the striped peak in the graph above, which comes from the manufacturer's website (I have no financial connection to that manufacturer, and get no gain from telling you this story. I'm telling it here because I think it's a great story, and because understanding it may help people get an effective treatment they might not have considered otherwise). This little light box has been tested for effectiveness just as the older bigger light boxes have, and shown to be superiorGlickman to the "control" condition -- a dim red light, admittedly not the greatest control condition, but this research has been hard to do, coming up with a plausible "placebo" treatment. A better test would be a comparison of the blue light versus white light, which might be more plausible as a placebo, as the older light boxes emit a white light. That study has been done, and the blue light was superior (not yet published, the manufacturer tells me, as of June 2006). The best test would be a head-to-head study of the little blue one versus one of the older big ones, which we know from years of research are truly better than a placebo. But the blue-light manufacturers have little incentive to do that study (what if theirs was not as good?), so we're not likely to see that research unless one of the manufacturers of the old light box pays for it! link http://www.psycheducation.org/depression/BlueLight.htm" http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.html&name=BUY_15971 /Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.rss6 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Janet from Houston, TX writes: "For the blue window glass, I might try the car window tinting kit. It is supposed to repel heat, and you can cut it with an exacto knife to fit a window pane. It is about $30 a roll (for one car) but that could be for 2 windows of a midsize." http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.html&name=RF_14169 /Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.rss7 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT [YEA] Kin from Auckland, New Zealand writes: "I am amazed every time I look at the pot of vegetables under the BLUE transparent plastic sheet; it has been 3 weeks now since I put the pot of vegetables under it. In this rectangular pot, I grew radishes on one half and Winter Spinach on the other half. The Radishes was not growing very well before I placed them under blue light, the leaves were leggy and most of them were eaten by slugs. The Spinach was just sprouting and really expected them to be completely eaten by snails and slugs. Well, the vegetables are now growing very well, the Radishes had recovered completely and they are bushy and lefty. With torchlight, I do find at night baby slugs roaming on the new leaves of the Winter Spinach and really expect them to be eaten completely sooner or later. Inspection done today on broad daylight, could hardly find any leaves been eaten. (yes, no holes on the leaves). Interesting! It is mid winter in Auckland, New Zealand. Also no fertilizer and insecticide had been used. Anyone who grows his own vegetables knows how hard it is too keep vegetables healthy without using fertilizer and insecticide. To achieve result like this in 3 weeks and in these conditions I can only contribute that to the blue light. Will experiment blue light with more vegetables growing this coming spring. Will keep you updated if I have positive results. " http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.html&name=BUY_13594 /Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.rss8 Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT Earth Clinic from writes: "Google "stained glass suppliers" and you will find hundreds of companies that will ship blue glass. Appears to be quite cheap to buy a decent sized piece of glass. Cobalt blue is the color of the glass that our family used in the mid-1900s for the blue glass and sunlight therapy." http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.html&name=RF_13593 /Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.rss9 Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT [YEA] Stella from C, OH writes: "Regarding blue sunlight therapy, I don't know if this is the same thing but I can testify to using a blue light device for acne. They also have expensive treatments in dermatologists offices that use blue light. I think I may lay in the sun in the privacy of my back yard for 15 min a day with a blue veil over my face to see if it has any effect. Also I do plan to try this on some of my plants and maybe on my basement windows to keep bugs out." http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.html&name=RF_13558 /Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.rss10 Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT [BETTER BUT NOT CURED] Geraldine from Fort Lauderdale, USA writes: "I have tried both General A.J. Pleasanton's therapy recently, and the more modern Dinsha Ghadiali "Color Therapy" now used by Dr. William Campbell Douglass. (His booklet, Color Me Healthy available from Second Opinion). After reading your online Gen. A.J. Pleasanton book, I immediately sought some blue glass but had to settle for painted glass and then blue transparent sheets wrapped around glass. I am fighting a 2-1/2 year Zoster shingles PHN virus infection, and though there has been no immediate improvement in my condition, I am going to pursue this because of the extreme pain and the fact that pain medications do not stop pain, but do make me dizzy. For explanation, Dr. Douglass (following Dinshah's method) uses different colors with light from either a flashlight or lamp, and uses different colors (and combinations) for different diseases. I have used both methods, but have used Gen. Pleasonton's only twice, and will email you when I see some definite improvement. It is not easy to find colored glass; such glass is all 1/4" thick, and of a rather small size. Only for Gen. Pleasanton's method have I used the sun for energy, but I think sunlight is necessary. (Both Dinshah and Dr. Douglass have had success, however, using flashlights and lamps.) " http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.html&name=RF_13446 /Remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.rss11 Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT Joyce from Joelton, Tn writes: "Blue Glass & sun Therapy: I'm not familiar with this particular one but I think it may be a spin off from something in one of Mary Summer Rain's books (I think the title is "Earthway" and is called color therapy. which mentions filling different colored bottles, (color depending on the problem you want to treat) sitting the bottled water in the sunlight all day and drinking it. I think she also mentioned that it would be next to impossible to commercialize because it had to be drunk immediately since the healing properties of the water didn't last long (don't remember the exact timing but think it was probably 30 minutes to l hour after preparation)."