Sun provides one of the five elements of the body. It is the source of all life on earth. Sun-light is a combination of all colours of the spectrum, visible and invisible. Sun worship and sun bathing date back to antiquity. The love of basking in the sun seems to be common to all living creatures.
Sunlight has been recognised as a powerful factor in building and maintaining health. The system of building health with the help of the sun and its different rays is known as heliotherapy or solar therapy or chromo-therapy or colour therapy. It is a drugless system.
Light travels at 1,8600000 miles per second. The seven colours of the rainbow i.e. voilet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red (Vibgyor) are due to their different wave-lengths. There are some invisible colour wave lengths also. Three colours on one extreme i.e. violet, indigo and blue are cooling and soothing in nature. Three colours on the other extreme i.e. yellow, orange and red are hot and stimulating in nature. The green colour of the spectrum is a harmonizing colour. It maintains balance between the hot and cooling colours.
The classic work "The Principles of Light and Colour" written by Dr. Edwin D. Babbitt, published in 1879, is one of the master pieces on colour therapy. Recently dr. Alexander Scheauss, Director, The American Institute of Bio-social Research in Tacome, Washington has stated that "These bands of light energy stimulate the pituitary and pineal glands, regulate hormones and other physiological systems in the body." These findings have been consistent even in those with visual handicaps and blind. Colour is a form of energy that produces physiological change. The Changes are not the result of psychological or cultural factors". In one study in U.S.A. children prone to tantrums and aggressive behaviour became calmer after being in a class room painted blue. Interestingly both blind and children with sight, reacted the same calm in the blue surroundings. These findings support Dr. Schauss's theory that colour responses are physiological rather than psychological or cultural.
There are various methods of using colour for health. Charging water/oil are two frequently used methods. Short time exposure of the body to the sun is another methods. Charging the air in coloured empty corked bottles and then inhaling the charged air (colour breathing) also helps. Visualising of a particular colour during meditation is another method. Misri (sugar candy) or homeopathic milk sugar pills, which have been suncharged for a least 30 days, prove helpful during difficult days. It would be carried for use whenever and emergency arises.
Following action may be taken with respect to various body conditions of women:

1. Amenorrhoea (No menses): Mix two parts of suncharged orange water with one part of green charged water. Take about 80 to 100 mls. of such water three times a day. Have a daily massage of the pelvic region and back side of the waist with orange charged oil.
2. Excess bleeding: Have a massage with blue charged oil on the pelvic region. During the menses have a blue charged water pack on that region. Have blue clothes for night dress and, if not inconvenient, sleep under blue light at night.
3. Painful or irregular menses: Sleep under ordinary bulb light, not tube light. Start applying orange charged oil on the pelvis and back waist areas two or three days before the onset of menses, twice a day i.e. early morning and at night. Take a mixture of orange charged water and green charged water thrice a day as mentioned at No. 1 above. On the first day of the menses do not take a full bath of the body. General sun bath once a week between 1 to 3 hours after sunrise & 4 to 5 could also be helpful.
4. Leucorrhoea: Take a douche with aun-charged green water twice a day, on an empty stomatch in the morning and second in the evening before dinner. Also cook neem leaves in water and use that green water for douche once a day.
5. Itching of uterus: Wash the uterus with blue sun-charged water. Drink a mixture of green and white sun-charged waters, twice a day.
6. Threatened miscarriage: Have a cold water sitz bath. Massage the pelvic region twice a day with blue charged oil. Drink thrice a day an equal mixture of green charged and blue charged waters, half a cup at a time.

In other cases of disturbance of the normal body condition of women, drink half a cup of green charged water first thing in the morning. Wash the eyes with green charged water and gargle with that water. Also have half a cup of green charged water about half an hour before the major meals and orange charged water half an hour after each such meal. If you are on the move and cannot have charged water, use charged homeopathic milk sugar pills instead. The prescription will specially help in case of hair problems.
For preparing green charged water, take a green bottle. Fill 3/4 of it with potable water. Cork it. Place it on an unpolished wooden piece in an open place exposed to the direct rays of the sun. Keep it in sun for a minimum of 8 hours. Green charged water is ready. This will be indicated by the appearance of droplets on the inside open surface of the bottle. The more the bottle is kept in the sun, the more effective the water becomes. In that case occasionally clean the outer part of the bottle and shake it mildly. The bottle may be allowed to remain out even at night. For preparing orange or blue charged water, use a bottle of that colour.
For preparing green charged oil, take a bottle of the prescribed colour. Fill 1/2 of it with any oil. Mustard oil may be better for blue and sesame oil for orange bottles. Cork it. Place it on an unpolished wooden piece in an open place exposed to the direct rays of the sun. Keep it there for a period of 40 days. Longer, the better. Need not shift the bottle inside at night. Clean and shake the bottle once in a while.
Caution: During menses green charged water should not be taken alone.

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