The research history of color health care has a long history of human research on color and its influence on human body. Traditional medicine in China has a theory that five zang-organs are matched with five colors, and ancient Indian medicine has a similar view that each color has special energy, which is consistent with the seven dominant energies in the human body: purple corresponds to the top chakra, indigo corresponds to the Yu Mei chakra, blue corresponds to the throat chakra, green corresponds to the heart chakra, yellow corresponds to the umbilical chakra, orange corresponds to the reproductive chakra, and red corresponds to the undersea chakra. Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher, also made extensive research on color. The works on color published by Alberto Magno, a famous European doctor in the Middle Ages, are still of great significance today.
First, the psychological impact of different colors
People's personal experience shows that color has an important influence on people's psychological activities, especially has a very close relationship with emotions. In our daily life, entertainment activities, military activities and so on, there are various colors in various fields that affect people's psychology and emotions. All kinds of people: ancient rulers, modern entrepreneurs, artists, advertisers and so on. Are consciously or unconsciously using color to influence and control people's psychology and emotions. The reason why color can affect people's mental state and mood is because color comes from the innate color of nature.
Color psychology is a very important subject. As far as natural appreciation and social activities are concerned, color is objectively a stimulus and symbol for people. Subjectively, it is also a kind of reaction and behavior. Color psychology begins with vision, from perception and emotion to memory, thought, will and symbol, and its reaction and change are extremely complicated. The application of color attaches great importance to this causal relationship, that is, from the accumulation of experience in color to the psychological norms of color, and what reaction can be produced when stimulated, which are the contents to be discussed by color psychology. Corresponding to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, there is a theory that the five zang-organs are matched with five colors: "white enters the lung, red enters the heart, green enters the liver, yellow enters the spleen and black enters the kidney", and the five zang-organs have their own emotions, so the five colors also have their corresponding five-element attributes.
1. cyan system
Cyan (green) is the main color of the liver. It likes comfort, hates depression, and doesn't like the intense change of mood. But cyan is a cool color, calm and restrained, just in line with the characteristics of the liver. It can be inferred that cyan can calm down the excited mood and help to make a rational judgment. Green gives people unlimited sense of security and can play an important role in the coordination of interpersonal relationships. It symbolizes freedom, peace, freshness and comfort, and has the meaning of permanence, ideal, youth, safety, freshness and peace, giving people a cool feeling; Yellow-green gives people a fresh, energetic and pleasant feeling; The low lightness of grass green, dark green and olive green gives people a calm and intellectual impression.
2. Red system
Red (red) is the main color of the heart and a symbol of enthusiasm, vitality, enthusiasm, sexiness, authority and self-confidence. But sometimes it gives people the impression of blood, violence, jealousy and control, which is easy to cause psychological pressure. Therefore, staring at red often causes anxiety and makes people impatient. But in short, red is an energetic, confident and outstanding color. If a person lacks vitality, he can use red to refresh himself. However, if a person is often emotionally unstable and easily excited, he should avoid using red and use red more when he is mentally exhausted.
Other colors of the red series, such as pink, symbolize tenderness, sweetness, romance and no pressure, which can soften attacks and appease impetuousness. Pink, which is darker than pink, symbolizes the enthusiasm of women. Compared with the romance of pink, pink is a more free and easy color.
3. Yellow series
Yellow is the main color of spleen, and it is a neutral color with high brightness. It can stimulate the areas related to anxiety in the brain and has a warning effect, so rain gear and raincoat are mostly yellow. Bright yellow symbolizes confidence, intelligence and hope; Pale yellow looks naive, romantic and delicate. It is suitable for a wide range of ages, but long-term use will also cause people's irritability.
Yellow is orange, which is one of the most suitable colors for social service work, especially when it needs to be as warm as the sun. There is a kind of maternal love or big sister's enthusiasm, which often gives people a cordial, frank, cheerful and healthy feeling. Pink orange, between orange and pink, is a mature color in romance, which makes people feel very comfortable and secure.
4. White series
White is the main color of the lungs, symbolizing purity, holiness, kindness, trust and openness. It is also a cool color system, suitable for people who are usually strong and full of emotions. If a person is weak, fragile or eccentric, it is not suitable, because white will make people more calm, lonely and sad.
5. Black series
Black is the main color of kidney, symbolizing authority, elegance, low-key and creativity; It also means persistence, indifference and defense. It is an eternal fashion color, suitable for both men and women, especially for professionals who are most suitable to show their bold, calm and experienced side with black. But black is not suitable for the elderly and children, because it is also a cool color, which is easy to suppress people's personality, is not conducive to reflecting optimistic emotions, does not conform to children's lively and active personality characteristics, and is also easy to cause sad emotions for the elderly.
Black is gray, symbolizing sincerity, composure and elegance. Among them, iron ash, charcoal ash and dark ash send out strong messages of intelligence, success and authority. Medium gray and light gray have the silence of philosophers.
6. Some colors other than the five-color system
According to the traditional five-element classification, colors can be divided into five color systems, but there are far from five colors in nature. Psychologically, colors are divided into four primary colors: red, yellow, green and blue, which are called four primary colors. Usually, red, green, yellow and blue are called psychological complementary colors, and black and white cannot be mixed by these four primary colors. Therefore, red, yellow, green, blue plus white and black become the six basic feelings of psychological color perception. Although physically black is the situation that human eyes are not exposed to light, psychologically many people think that exposure to light is just a feeling, and black is indeed a feeling. In addition, although brown series and purple series can be obtained by mixing four primary colors, they all have their own unique psychological explanations.
(1) blue series
Blue is one of the four primary colors, which symbolizes authority, conservatism, regularity and pragmatism. This is a color that is both spiritual and intellectual. In the test of color psychology, almost no one hates blue. In art design, it is the most widely used color. The bright blue sky symbolizes hope, ideal and independence; Dark blue means honesty, trust and authority. The enthusiasm of Zhenglan and Baolan is firm and wise; Light blue and pink blue can completely relax themselves and each other.
(2) Brown series
Brown is a color composed of a small amount of red and green, orange and blue or yellow and purple pigments. It is often difficult to define and determine the true color position. Many colors belong to this color system, such as earth, khaki, brown, chocolate, cocoa, ochre and champagne. It symbolizes the image of elegance, stability, calmness, peace and kindness, giving people the feeling of emotional stability and easy to get along with. From a moral point of view, brown is almost the opposite of purple in some ways. Brown is often associated with land, nature and simplicity. People feel reliable, healthy and conservative. On the contrary, it is considered a little dim, but this situation can be compensated by using brighter colors.
(3) Purple
Purple is a combination of warm red and cold blue, which is an excellent stimulating color. Represents authority, prestige, profundity, spirit, elegance, romance and philosophical temperament. Purple light wave is the shortest and rarely seen in nature, so it is extended to symbolize noble color. In China tradition, purple is a noble color. For example, the Forbidden City in Beijing is also called the Forbidden City, and the so-called "Purple Gas from the East" originated from the worship of Polaris in ancient China. Today, the Japanese royal family still worships purple. Lavender romance is different from pink girlish style, but it feels noble, mysterious and unattainable like a veil. Deep purple and brilliant purple are gorgeous romance full of charm, a little wild and hard to detect.
Second, the influence of different colors on health preservation
People's first feeling is vision, and the biggest influence on vision is color. The reason why people's behavior is influenced by color is that people's behavior is often dominated by emotions. Blue sky, bright red blood, golden sun ... When you see these colors related to nature are the same, you will naturally think of the sensory experience related to these natural objects, which is the most primitive influence. People's clothes, food, housing and transportation also reflect the application of color all the time: wearing lake blue clothes in summer will make people feel cool, and turning meat into sauce red will make people more appetizing. These are not influenced by region, country, nationality and personality, but the same sensory experience of certain colors produced by human beings. These sensory experiences will naturally have various effects on the human body, and making good use of these effects will produce good stimulation to the human body's function.
1. cyan system
Green is the color of grassland and forest in nature, which can improve efficiency and eliminate fatigue, improve people's hearing sensitivity, help to concentrate thinking, improve work efficiency and eliminate fatigue, and also slow down people's breathing and reduce blood pressure. However, because cyan is the main color of the liver, patients with liver disease often look pale and dirty, which is also a feature of liver disease.
2. Red system
Red usually brings excitement, enthusiasm, enthusiasm, boldness and strength, as well as solemnity, solemnity, jubilation and happiness. With the development of society, there are more and more substances that affect people's feelings about color, and people's feelings about color are becoming more and more complicated. Foreign scientists have found that under the irradiation of red light, human brain waves and skin electrical activity will change. People's hearing sensitivity will also decrease, but their grip strength will increase. The same object looks bigger in red light than in blue light. People who run red lights react faster than ordinary workers, but their work efficiency is reduced. Because of the exciting effect of red light, patients with hypertension and heart disease should use it with caution.
Pink symbolizes health. It is a common color for Americans and a favorite color for women. It has the function of relaxing and calming the mood. Its mechanism of action is that pink light stimulates the eyes-cerebral cortex-hypothalamus-pineal gland and pituitary-adrenal gland, which reduces the adrenaline secreted by adrenal medulla, thus slowing down heart activity and relaxing muscles. Another research report pointed out that taking a nap in pink can make people feel weak, but staying in blue for a few seconds can recover.
3. Yellow series
Yellow is orange. It is better to paint the machines in the factory orange than the original gray or black, which can improve the production efficiency and reduce the accident rate. The walls of the factory building without windows can be painted yellow, which can eliminate or alleviate the depression brought by monotonous physical labor to workers.
4. White series
The basic definition of white is that all the light in the visible spectrum enters the visual range at the same time. So white is a bright color, symbolizing brightness, cleanliness, carefree, simplicity, elegance and chastity. And white can reflect all the light, so it can be cool and fresh to use white in summer. Although it is a collection of various colors, it does not have a strong personality and cannot cause a strong feeling, but it is indispensable for the stimulation of taste, because it means cleanliness and deliciousness, but it is only a single white without arousing appetite.
5. Black series
Black is basically defined as no visible light enters the visible range. On the contrary to white, if the pigment absorbs all visible light in the spectrum and does not reflect any color light, the human eye will feel black, so black has a strong absorption, will absorb the nearby miscellaneous gas or negative energy, and has a calming effect.