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.