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Does any one have any practical experience with healing by light.......

Dinshah P. Ghadiali & Spectro-Chrome Color Therapy


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May 5, 2001

Another unheralded giant among 20th century Natural healers who was trampled into obscurity and insignificance by the American Medical Association (AMA) and their government enforcement thugs, the American Pharmaceutical Protection Administration (APPA), (more commonly known as the Food and Drug Administration-FDA) was the Indian physician, scientist, engineer, civil reformer, editor, aviator, scholar, metaphysician, inventor, and color therapy researcher Dinshah P. Ghadiali (1873-1966). This man was extraordinary in many ways and pursued a wide range of investigative inquiry; scientific and otherwise, in his long, but persecuted lifetime (thanks to the American Medical Association).

He was truly a Renaissance man in every sense of the word. His greatest legacy is a simple, but enormously successful, system of light therapy which he had labeled “Spectro-Chrome”. As a physician in India, Dinshah was familiar with the color therapy investigations of two men: Dr. Edwin D. Babbitt who had published a book, The Principles of Light and Color in 1878, which detailed experimental findings using colored light and its effects upon living systems and Dr. Seth Pancoast, author of Light and its Rays as Medicine (1877).

In 1897, Dinshah was presented with a unique opportunity to apply these theories in order to save the life of a woman who had been given up for dead by her orthodox physicians and was merely hours away from death. When all other conventional avenues were exhausted, Dinshah saved this woman's life by the application of colored light directed to portions of her nude body using a blue colored glass bottle and light from a kerosene lantern as his sole source of illumination. The woman was the niece of one of Dinshah's Theosophical Society friends and was dying of mucous colitis. She was losing all of her vital fluids because of almost constant diarrhea; which occurred up to a hundred times a day. Dinshah also exposed to the sun, the same blue colored bottle filled with milk and gave it to her to drink. After the first day of treatment, her urge to evacuate reduced from a hundred times a day down to ten. After three days, she was able to get out of bed and soon recovered completely. Needless to say, her doctors were dumbfounded. Following this remarkable experience, it took Dinshah an additional 23 years to fully integrate and focus on his theories of Spectro-Chrome color therapy that history would show to be his greatest (and almost lost) contribution to humanity.

By the 1920's, Dinshah was lecturing on color therapy and soon offered a complete course of study for physicians (first at his home in New Jersey and later in a classroom building) in the application and use of Spectro-Chrome. Things were progressing nicely and word was rapidly spreading of the ease and efficacy of this simple therapy among professionals. More and more physicians were signing on to take Dinshah's course and installing the Spectro-Chrome color instruments in their offices. The future was looking bright for Dinshah and the prospects of integrating Spectro-Chrome color therapy into every doctor's office in the nation appeared to be a distinct possibility. That is, until the AMA got wind of Dinshah's burgeoning reputation among their own.

In 1924, the AMA published a scurrilous slam piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) debunking Dinshah and his Spectro-Chrome color therapy as a hoax. The AMA branded him–without any investigation whatsoever-and his Spectro-Chrome color therapy as worthless and fraudulent. Up until then, interest in his color therapy among the ranks of physician advocates had been growing exponentially. The 1924 AMA attack, however, was the beginning of the end for what could have been another milestone and major advancement in the healing arts, to say nothing of the abatement of suffering for millions of people.

AMA Persecution
The AMA's 1924 debunking article in JAMA grew into an unrelenting harassment and debunking campaign which led to a jury trial in 1931 in which Dinshah, defending himself, won the case handily, thanks in part to the supportive testimony of eminent physicians and scientists which included Dr. Kate Baldwin, director of The Women’s Hospital in Philadelphia, PA.

But two other FDA persecution trials (oh yes, the APPA never accepts defeat with anything resembling equanimity-never) in the 1940’s were both lost and spelled the end of Spectro-Chrome usage by physicians or even by lay persons who had purchased the Dinshah light projectors. The openly biased judge in charge of the last trial in 1946, declared that the Spectro-Chrome color therapy system was an “evil” that “had to be stamped out”.

A photo was published in many newspapers and magazines in the late 40’s showing federal agents smashing Dinshah's Spectro-Chrome Light Projectors (actually seized from hundreds of private homes between 1945-48) out in the street using sledge hammers; a scene somewhat reminiscent of the government's staged publicity photo stunts of the 1920’s and 30’s which showed Federal agents swinging sledge hammers in the street demonstrating their sophisticated approach to eradicating the intrinsic evil possessed by slot machines and wooden whiskey barrels.

Dinshah’s remarkably effective Spectro-Chrome therapy system might have slipped into obscurity unnoticed and unappreciated had it not been for the efforts of his three sons, especially Darius Dinshah, who became the president of what is now called the Dinshah Health Society. Darius published a book explaining his father's Spectro-Chrome system and color therapy protocol in his 1985 book titled, Let There Be Light.

Darius' father originally used 5 colored glass slides (glass plates) along with an ordinary incandescent light bulb for his light source to apply the Spectro-Chrome therapy. Dinshah experimented with higher wattage bulbs, but found that a 60 watt incandescent light bulb or even a flashlight worked just as effectively as a 2,000 watt bulb! Darius repeatedly reminds the reader in Let There Be Light that high power lighting wasn't necessary for Spectro-Chrome therapy to work. The colored light energy applied in Spectro-Chrome is intended to buttress and enhance the color frequency spectrum of the human aura to achieve results, and the refinements of that etheric energy matrix require no bombardment of high intensity photons to yield results.

Today, glass slides could still be used, but they are difficult to find with the proper polychromatic characteristics. Roscolene plastic color gels (filters) seem to work just as well AND they are easier to obtain and carry around. Let There Be Light explains how to match the symptoms the patient is experiencing with the appropriate color filter(s) for a “tonation” as Dinshah had coined the treatment. Tonations are usually one hour long and the colored light is exposed to the area of the body requiring treatment (all detailed in the book). Far better results are achieved if the user pays attention to the something that Darius calls the “Variant Breath Forecast Time” which coincides with the body's natural cyclic breathing rhythms and change with different times of the day or night. As we go through these daily breathing cycles, more air will predominantly pass through one nostril over the opposite nostril, then gradually a point will come when both nostrils are drawing in an equvalent amount of air (this ideally should be the midway point of the one hour tonation), and then the opposite nostril will predominate and so on as the cycle repeats itself.

Other aspects of color “toning” and the explanation of how certain colors achieve balance in an over-active or under-active organ systems, etc. are explained and illustrated in the book with diagrams and color charts. An A-Z catalog of 400 diagnosed disorders covering most known health conditions, along with a listing of the correct color filters in the desired order of tonation is included and cross referenced to the alphabetical index.

Thanks to the efforts of Darius Dinshah to preserve the memory of his father's work, we are able to learn much more of the discoveries and therapeutic techniques of this important humanitarian. I'm hoping to write many more articles about Dinshah’s work in the near future. This introduction just touches the tip of a huge iceberg of Spectro-Chrome information. Darius’ book, Let There Be Light, is available for an $18 donation plus $3 shipping ($4 for Priority mail). Also, those interested in obtaining Roscolene filters and other materials associated with Spectro-Chrome therapy, should visit our Products page under Spectro-Chrome Light Therapy.

The effects of color and light on the human system are subjects of continuous scientific investigation. The research and experiments of the late Dinshah Ghadiali proved that the body could be tuned or adjusted from disease to health by systematically exposing it to colored light. An example of this effect is found in the medical practice of treating premature babies with Bilirubin Syndrome (jaundice) by exposing them to blue light, although the methodology is somewhat different from Ghadiali’s.

Dinshah Ghadiali was born of Persian descent in Bombay, India, in the year 1873. At the age of eleven, he became assistant to the Professor of Mathematics and Science at Wilson College in Bombay. In his early career, Dinshah was Superintendent of Telephone and Telegraph for Dolphur State in India.

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Greetings from our family to yours. You have reached Dinshah Health Society - Spectro-Chrome System home page, the preeminent spectrum-based health system. Spectro-Chrome therapy is a safe, natural, inexpensive home-use medical system that does not rely on any drugs or chemicals, with their uncertain side effects. This system has been in use since 1920, and was used in a major medical center in Philadelphia, PA for many years (for documentation, see the article by Dr. Baldwin near the end of this Website). This system utilizes safe, specific colored light for particular problems with a simple, low-powered lamp and color filters.

If you reached this Website by chance, it will be worthwhile to read the four articles at the end of this Website, written to enlighten the open-minded to the possibility of using this therapy. Spectro-Chrome is now in a form more easily applied than ever, even in a home setting.

On the other side of the coin, you may find Websites thoroughly ridiculing Spectro-Chrome and the theory behind it. Such naysayers may well have to change their tune: NASA and the US Navy are utilizing near-infrared (close to the end of red visible color) which heals injuries in a considerably shorter time, and are investigating the value of other colors. For decades, hospitals have used "blue-light therapy" on jaundiced babies. While they are looking you can be doing, using the 89 years' experience behind Spectro-Chrome color therapy. Further, while Spectro-Chrome cannot overcome every health condition, it does not cause disastrous side effects as so many medical drugs are known to do.

Dinshah Health Society, an IRS-recognized nonprofit organization (with no paid employees), has been advancing Spectro-Chrome since 1975, primarily through Let There Be Light, a book written for non-professionals. Though results cannot be assured for a particular case, it has proven effective for a surprisingly long list of health problems. Hundreds of testimonials and reports (arthritis, burns, constipation, fever, heart conditions, hemorrhoids, measles, etc.) are available, many written by practitioners (see item P, below). Our complete list of publications is shown below, including Let There Be Light in English, German and Chinese language versions.


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Spectro-Chrome Color Healing:
An interview with Darius Dinshah


Darius Dinshah is President of the Dinshah Health Society and author of Let There Be Light: A Practical Manual for Spectro-Chrome Therapy. Mr. Dinshah is the son of the late Dinshah P. Ghadiali (1873-1966), the inventor of the Spectro-Chrome apparatus, renowned scientist, and one of the twentieth century's leading advocates for the use of color and light therapy for healing.

In this interview with JEM, Mr. Dinshah shares some valuable insights into the therapeutic use of color and light using the Spectro-Chrome method.

More information about the Dinshah Society can be obtained through its web site link at www.wj.net/dinshah , or write PO Box 707, Malaga, NJ 08328 .


JEM: Thank you for joining us today. Please describe the work of the Dinshah Health Society.

Darius Dinshah (DD): The Society's work is strictly informational. It provides information about color healing through such books as Let There Be Light and Dr. Babbitt's Color Therapy . There are some legal considerations why that is so. If we sold color projectors, they would be considered medical devices. Although it wasn't banned by the FDA, the Spectro-Chrome machine was prevented from being shipped outside of New Jersey since 1957. Fifty years ago, the machine was branded by the medical establishment (AMA/FDA) as useless, though it had been used with great enthusiasm in a Philadelphia, PA hospital and by hundreds of professionals.

JEM: The fact that it if a device is restricted, such as the Spectro- Chrome was, wouldn't that imply that there was recognition that it worked?

DD: They said it was quackery, that it did nothing except possibly for psychological effect. They are now, slowly realizing that color does make a difference in our lives. The conditions of SAD or neonatal jaundice are examples of conditions which are usually much improved with light therapy.

JEM: How does Spectro-Chrome work?

DD: Depending upon the location of a given condition, exposing the skin to a particular color or colors is expected to cause a change. If a particular organ is deficient in activity, a specific color is recommended. If it is overactive, then we use the opposite color to reduce its activity. There is a color corresponding to each organ's cellular emanation.

JEM: That sounds similar to the acupuncture model which says that if there is a deficiency condition in an energetic system of the body one would "tonify" the system, while in the case of of an excess of energy, a "dispersing" treatment would be used.

DD: There is certainly some similarity. The body normally takes in only the color energy it needs. In time, unbalanced energy sources, such as fluorescent lights, do wear down defenses until something fails and affects the person's weakest link which results in disease. The body has innate defenses against excesses of energy. Were this not so, then a photographic technician working for hours in a dark-room lit solely with a red light would be overwhelmed; however, in time ill-effects may result from this unbalanced illumination.

JEM: Can health or illness be regarded as a frequency issue?

DD: Essentially, yes. We believe that there is a vibrational rate for each cellular part of the body. For instance, the liver has a different function to perform than the pancreas so it has a different vibrational rate. By using a color that is appropriate to that vibration whether it is octaves higher or lower, it resonates with that particular organ. For example, for the liver we would use red to increase its activity or repair it, and for the spleen it is violet, for digestion yellow or orange, and so on; these are ,of course, simplified examples as diseases are often complex and require more than one color. There 78 different attributes listed in Let There Be Light for the twelve colors we use.

JEM: So, if we begin to view our physical ailments in terms of a vibrational frequency imbalance, would that account for why color has such a beneficial effect?

DD: That is correct.

JEM: In Let There Be Light, you use the terms "Tonation" and "Normalate". What do those procedures refer to?

DD: Tonation refers to shining a Spectro-Chrome color on the body or a part of the body. One "tonates" with a color. A tonation is, normally, one color on a given area for one hour. You might call it a "treatment." My father didn't associate the word "cure" when using the Spectro-Chrome. Normalate was his term which means not quite the same thing as cure. It means bringing your body to the best possible state at that time. In other words, bringing your system to its norm. It does not necessarily mean to eliminate a particular condition, rather, it is the best that your body can achieve at that time. Spectro-Chrome will not change the individual's genetic factors that can play an important role in one's general health. However, Spectro-Chrome can minimize some of the negative influences, thus, helping one to become "normalated" to the extent their constitutional abilities are able.

JEM: Many systems of energetic healing interface with what has been called the aura. Is this concept used in Spectro-Chrome therapy?

DD: Undoubtedly, a dozen theories have been advanced to explain how light energy can affect us. We define the aura as the energy field surrounding and extending from the physical body which is generated by the electro-chemical cellular activity within the body. The aggregate of a person's cellular radiant energy is known as the aura. That is one of the auras, the one that we work with. The reason why tonations must be directed on the skin itself is because the energy field or aura diminishes rapidly with increasing distance from the body. Color therapy acts by reinforcement or interference of the aura.

JEM: Do human beings emanate a "sound aura" or vibration, as they do a color aura?

DD: To accept that, I would need to know how it is being generated. In our view, the activity of each cell causes an electro-chemical radiation resulting in an aura well above sound frequencies; to my knowledge there is no mechanism to generate sound.

JEM: What does the term "radiant energy" refer to in Spectro-Chrome therapy?

DD: Radiant energy means energy that is being radiated either from the body or from a color projector. The radiant color energy is intended to cause an effect using the radiant aura as the conducting medium. It also could be said that each organ is radiating its color energy, the intensity of which will vary according to the state of health of the organ. The intensity also changes with age because our cellular activity tends to lessen as we become older. As we age, the body is not able to respond so well to drugs , homeopathy or any therapeutic modality. At some point, no type of intervention will be effective and we will die.

JEM: Is the use of color more appropriate or effective than another therapeutic intervention?

DD: Not necessarily; there is a time for employing every type of method man can devise. The challenge is to become eclectic so the appropriate therapy is given which would be best for that patient at that time. However, Spectro-Chrome should be one of the first treatments employed in most cases because it does not generate disastrous side-effects. It can, however, cause people to became quiet uncomfortable because of the resulting changes in the body as it heals; some do feel worse before they get better. These are not side effects, but beneficial in the long run. From a medical standpoint, side effects usually means that the liver, for instance, is being poisoned or that the kidneys are failing because of the overload of powerful chemicals being put into the body.

JEM: Would the uncomfortable, yet, positive changes experienced after a Spectro-Chrome treatment be called a "healing crisis?"

DD: You might call it that. It's actually a turning point when the cells move in the direction of more healing, and away from becoming more inflamed, etc.

JEM: You speak about the relationship between color and sound frequencies in the book.

DD: That's right. There is a chapter on equivalent sounds for colors, with a chart displaying sound frequency rates to color frequency rates. Sound or musical notes can be an important adjunct to color healing but sound has a lower energy potential than color and light so the effects would possibly be at a lower level. However, I don't know every thing about energy healing; the world is still so full of surprises. One that comes to mind was instead of shining color on the body, I used an intermediary substance (water.) I always thought that color- charging water was a "weak cousin" compared to applying color directly to the body. But I found out, to my surprise, that drinking color charged water can have an incredible effect (in this instance, stopping a cold overnight, with an additional color treatment.)

JEM: Would that be similar to the process of preparing the "mother stock" of a flower essence?

DD: Possibly. There are modalities which are coming to the fore such as aromatherapy that work with different, yet, similar principles as color healing in that they both work to achieve a better balance in the body.

JEM: What would you say is the main difference between the Spectro-Chrome therapy and other types of healing arts?

DD: Its simplicity in training and application. Many of the healing arts require significant amounts of training, where as the use of color through the Spectro-Chrome system requires relatively little time to learn and apply the principles. In Let There Be Light, there are listed hundreds of different conditions with the corresponding colors to be applied. By simply following the instructions and recommended color combinations, one can achieve some very significant results though, as with all modalities, there can be no guarantee because people do react differently under seemingly similar circumstances. One significant difference between Spectro-Chrome and other forms of healing would be in its safety as mentioned above, and from decades of reports, its capability to ameliorate where others have failed.

JEM: In your book you noted that on your father's first trip to the USA in 1896, he had met with Tesla and Edison. Can you share any insights into what the nature of their discussion was? Did they have an impact on your father's development of Spectro-Chrome?

DD: My father was very current for his day on scientific developments such as x-rays, on which he lectured in New York City. So, they met as fellow scientists. I doubt that they had much of an impact on his work, though. The people who had the greatest influence on the development of Spectro-Chrome were Drs. Babbitt and Pancoast and General Pleasanton. Those three people worked with color long before my father did and they certainly laid the basis for it. My father extracted aspects of their work and simplified it. Dr Babbitt was quite complex in some respects. In the book Dinshah Society recently published, Dr. Babbit's Color Therapy (two chapters excerpted from his 1878 classic, Principles of Light and Color) there are pictures of some of his devices: Chromolume and Thermolume, which he used to project several colors simultaneously. There's also a chapter called "DuoChrome" in Let There Be Light, where I suggest and have used more than one color simultaneously in a manner similar to Dr. Babbitt's method, and the effects without a doubt are not the same as the two involved colors being tonated separately. There is much yet to be learned; the first step would be for the medical/scientific community to become more open-minded.

JEM: In Let There Be Light, you state that you believe that the world has not only the right but the need to have this system added to other therapeutic modalities. What are the major obstacles to integrating Spectro-Chrome into the main stream health care system?

DD: Its simplicity. To many people, it doesn't make much sense to use colors for almost any health problem; they don't believe that a change an occur by projecting light onto the skin. At this time, it still takes a leap of faith to say "I believe you" and then try it. Long before my father died (1966, at age 92), his Spectro-Chrome Institutewas turned into a lay organization as hundreds of his professional graduates bowed to AMA pressure which was applied to its members without any investigation into the merits of Spectro-Chrome. But, there are still people who don't want to try this on their own.... they want a professional to guide them. Those people we cannot help until they are willing to take greater responsibility for their health care. For the moment this will remain a lay organization.

JEM: Thank you for your time and willingness to share some thoughts with JEM. Is there any thing else you would like to add?

DD: Yes. There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come. The time for universal use of Spectro-Chrome has not yet arrived, but it will come eventually. In the words of my father, "Truth may be defeated but never conquered." Spectro-Chrome is too valuable, too useful to be suppressed indefinitely. Thank you for this opportunity to reach this audience.

Source: web.archive.org/web/20000818054554/www.energeticmedicine.com/archives/dariusdinshah.htm

JEM: How does Spectro-Chrome work?

DD: Depending upon the location of a given condition, exposing the skin to a particular color or colors is expected to cause a change. If a particular organ is deficient in activity, a specific color is recommended. If it is overactive, then we use the opposite color to reduce its activity. There is a color corresponding to each organ's cellular emanation

.JEM: That sounds similar to the acupuncture model which says that if there is a deficiency condition in an energetic system of the body one would "tonify" the system, while in the case of of an excess of energy, a "dispersing" treatment would be used.

DD: There is certainly some similarity. The body normally takes in only the color energy it needs. In time, unbalanced energy sources, such as fluorescent lights, do wear down defenses until something fails and affects the person's weakest link which results in disease. The body has innate defenses against excesses of energy. Were this not so, then a photographic technician working for hours in a dark-room lit solely with a red light would be overwhelmed; however, in time ill-effects may result from this unbalanced illumination.

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Is the future of healing light??????........

Hi,

I do have a practical experience with the Darius Dinsha color therapy. My 10 yr. old son was carrying a cup fresh coffee to his grandmother. It slipped in his hand and he accidentally spilled it down the front of his shirt and started screaming and crying. I was reading the Dinsha material at this time. I immediately got the shirt off and applied a cold wash cloth and a bag of frozen vegetables to the burned area. The burn area was about 4inches wide and several inches long along his chest and stomach. Within 5 minutes I had looked up the proper color for burns and had my son under the light for it. In about 30 minutes he was back to his usual self, without any pain. The next morning I could tell my son had received 2nd degree burns from the accident, but he was still not in any pain. I was very impressed. I have not had burns with blisters many times in my life, but I do recall that they hurt for several hours. Since this incident happened over a year ago, I cannot remember the details of the blisters on the following day. I do not remember if they were still blistered, or if they were already mostly healed. I just remember he did have blisters, and only received one 30 minute session to relieve the pain and it did not come back.