EFFECTS OF COLOUR ON HEALTH.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 566, 10 May 1913, Page 7

EFFECTS OF COLOUR ON HEALTH.

Important as is the effect of colour on materials, it exercises a much greater influence on the human system.

From actual experiment it is found that red associations encourage growth and vitality, and are'healing opposed to the spread of disease, and limit its power, for which, and for other reasons, sick persons are

sometimes kept in red rooms in certain illnesses ; the efficacy of red flannel also for sore throat is acknowledged to be scientific fact. This red-treatment of the sick, however, is but a modern application of similar practices in the dark ages,; still, beneficial results seem to follow the treatment, and theoretically this should he so, from the very nature of. the rays.

1 Using in the colour scale, we find yellow aids all intellectual pursuits, and gives ton© to the brain, especially so if the yellow is of a golden hue.

Of the tertiary colours, brown produces a similar effect, being conductive to study and thought ; it would therefore, appear that this colour should be the predominating tone ol a room in which plans, designs, and estimates are worked <-.ut. The green of nature gives an en(tirely opposite effect.—"Magazine of IQaqgaace."