Michael Stein

Orange - meaning and effect

Orange color meanings

Being halfway between yellow and red, orange is the most actinic of colors. In other words, has the greatest capacity to produce photochemical reactions. Between gold and red celestial htonian, this color symbolizes the first point of balance between mind and libido. If this balance tends to break in one sense or another, it becomes orange or revelation of divine love or lust emblem.

When this balance tends more towards spirituality, it is saffron-colored race of Buddhist monks and orange velvet Cross Knights of the Holy Spirit.

Fiancées wave, is the emblem of marriage and thus corresponds perpetuation profane sense, flamurii the sacred. Virgil wave that gives it the color saffron is Elena. The museum, which, after some versions appear as daughters of the earth, wear, and they, saffron-colored robes.

Iacin stone, orange, was considered an emblem of fidelity. It is the emblem of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Pass through the fire, the stone fade. This explains why it was considered as the expression of faith burner flame triumph of passion and their repayment.

The balance between spiritual and libido is something so difficult that, orange color is also symbolic of unbelief and luxury. This balance, according to tradition sprung from the Earth Mother cult was sought in ritual orgy, thought to bring revelation and sublimation. About Dionysus is said to wear orange robes.

Orange color effects

Antioboseala color orange is a par excellence. It is recommended to all temperaments, generally having no contraindications.
Orange stimulates the respiratory system and facilitates the assimilation of calcium. Also, this color is a very good sexual stimulant.
Adequate exposure to orange light for a certain period of time allows us to experience a feeling of freedom plenary everything from being limited. It also helps us become more tolerant.
Orange color helps us to realize quickly assimilate new ideas.

Physiological effects of the color orange: accelerating pulsations of the heart, promotes gastric secretion and improves digestion.

The psychological effects of color orange: color hot, uninhibited, gives optimism, joy, sensuality, causes stimulation of emotion, love, gives strong feeling of close intimacy, increases sociability, gives a state of health, the sexual highs.
 
Indications of the color orange:

- Sexual abuse, sexual obsession, anger,
- Tinnitus (ringing in the ears), otagie (ear pain),
- Asthma (including chronic forms)
- Bronchitis,
- Mental debility, senile dementia,
- Delusions, deception, melancholy,
- Elimination (excretion) poor,
- Epilepsy,
- Epitaxis (nasal bleeding)
- Fever with mucous secretions,
- Grain size (grain) of the eyelids,
- Gout,
- Hallucinations,
- Cholera,
- Inflammation of the kidneys,
- Hypochondria,
- Hysteria,
- Gallstones (gallstones)
- Anal prolapse,
- Chronic rheumatism,
- Spasmophilia,
- Stress,
- Suspension of menstruation (emenagog effect - is to return to menstruation)
- Cough (with serous or irritating cough, dry)
- Chronic ulcers in the cornea.

Red - meaning and effect

The strength, power and brilliance of, red is everywhere regarded as fundamental symbol of the vital principle. Color of fire and blood, shows, symbolically speaking, the same ambivalence as the latter, depending on its color, light or dark.

V. Kandinsky considers red light, explosive, centrifugal, as the diurnal, male tonic, prompting action and throw and brightness like the sun, with a huge and invincible power.

Is dark red, on the contrary, nocturnal, feminine, mysterious, centripetal. He is not the expression, but the mystery of life. Dark Red has a funerary significance. A red blood ambivalence reveals two situations: when is hidden, blood is the essence of life, Aquarius, he is dead.

Red living, diurnal, solar, centrifugal urges action. He is the image inflacararii and beauty, impulsive and generous strength, youth, health, wealth, and triumph of free eros.

Ambivalence from which all the power of fascination wears her red color, closely related, the deepest human impulses: the action and passion, release and oppression.
In the Far East, generally evokes red heat, intensity, action and passion. Red is the color of expansive trend, rajas.

Embodiment of youthful ardor and navalnicei, red is, in Irish traditions, the great warrior color.

In Japan, the color red is worn almost exclusively by women. It is a symbol of sincerity and happiness.

Effects of red color

Red is considered a universal incentive. This color has beneficial actions on the blood and facilitates cellular regeneration, increases will power and courage.

Especially if blood temperaments, choleric or hipertensionate is recommended to use (as we presented in previous articles) gradually and in small doses.

Physiological effects of the color red: increased blood pressure, increases muscle tone, active breathing, give a striking sensation of heat due to high intensity radiant energy of electro-magnetic wavelength that corresponds.

Psychological effects: warm color, general stimulant, excite, irritate, provoke, incite action plan particularly in psychomotor, intellectual stimulus, slightly unsettling, gives feeling of loss in space, ignition, animate, activation, mobilization, facilitates associations of ideas.

Therapeutic indications of the color red:

- Anemia,
- Bronchitis,
- Cold,
- Physical debility (weakness),
- Mental depression,
- Rheumatic pain,
- Flu
- Cold,
- Stupidity, imbecility,
- Drowsiness, weakness,
- Fatigue,
- Paralysis, infantile paralysis,
- Cold,
- Tuberculosis,
- Respiratory.
 
Contraindications:

- Inflammatory states,
- Emotional distress.