Dinshah P. Ghadiali
& Spectro-Chrome Color Therapy
By Ken Adachi <Editor>
http://educate-yourself.org/products/dinshahandspectrochrome.shtml
May 5, 2001
Another unheralded giant among 20th century Natural healers who
was trampled into obscurity and insignificance by the American Medical
Association (AMA) and their government enforcement thugs, the American
Pharmaceutical Protection Administration (APPA), (more commonly known as
the Food and Drug Administration-FDA) was the Indian physician, scientist,
engineer, civil reformer, editor, aviator, scholar, metaphysician, inventor,
and color therapy researcher Dinshah P. Ghadiali (1873-1966). This
man was extraordinary in many ways and pursued a wide range of investigative
inquiry; scientific and otherwise, in his long, but persecuted lifetime
(thanks to the American Medical Association).
He was truly a Renaissance man in every sense of the word. His greatest
legacy is a simple, but enormously successful, system of light therapy
which he had labeled “Spectro-Chrome”. As a physician in India,
Dinshah was familiar with the color therapy investigations of two men: Dr.
Edwin D. Babbitt who had published a book, The Principles of Light
and Color in 1878, which detailed experimental findings using colored
light and its effects upon living systems and Dr. Seth Pancoast,
author of Light and its Rays as Medicine (1877).
In 1897, Dinshah was presented with a unique opportunity to apply
these theories in order to save the life of a woman who had been given
up for dead by her orthodox physicians and was merely hours away
from death. When all other conventional avenues were exhausted, Dinshah
saved this woman's life by the application of colored light directed to
portions of her nude body using a blue colored glass bottle and light from
a kerosene lantern as his sole source of illumination. The woman was the
niece of one of Dinshah's Theosophical Society friends and was dying of
mucous colitis. She was losing all of her vital fluids because of almost
constant diarrhea; which occurred up to a hundred times a day. Dinshah
also exposed to the sun, the same blue colored bottle filled with milk
and gave it to her to drink. After the first day of treatment, her urge
to evacuate reduced from a hundred times a day down to ten. After three
days, she was able to get out of bed and soon recovered completely. Needless
to say, her doctors were dumbfounded. Following this remarkable experience,
it took Dinshah an additional 23 years to fully integrate and focus on
his theories of Spectro-Chrome color therapy that history would show to
be his greatest (and almost lost) contribution to humanity.
By the 1920's, Dinshah was lecturing on color therapy and soon offered
a complete course of study for physicians (first at his home in New Jersey
and later in a classroom building) in the application and use ofSpectro-Chrome.
Things were progressing nicely and word was rapidly spreading of the ease
and efficacy of this simple therapy among professionals. More and more
physicians were signing on to take Dinshah's course and installing the
Spectro-Chrome color instruments in their offices. The future was looking
bright for Dinshah and the prospects of integrating Spectro-Chrome color
therapy into every doctor's office in the nation appeared to be a distinct
possibility. That is, until the AMA got wind of Dinshah's burgeoning reputation
among their own.
In 1924, the AMA published a scurrilous slam piece in the Journal of
the American Medical Association (JAMA) debunking Dinshah and his Spectro-Chrome
color therapy as a hoax. The AMA branded him–without any investigation
whatsoever-and his Spectro-Chrome color therapy as worthless and fraudulent.
Up until then, interest in his color therapy among the ranks of physician
advocates had been growing exponentially. The 1924 AMA attack, however,
was the beginning of the end for what could have been another milestone
and major advancement in the healing arts, to say nothing of the abatement
of suffering for millions of people.
AMA Persecution
The AMA's 1924 debunking article in JAMA grew into an unrelenting harassment
and debunking campaign which led to a jury trial in 1931 in which Dinshah,
defending
himself, won the case handily, thanks in part to the supportive
testimony of eminent physicians and scientists which included
Dr. Kate
Baldwin, director of The Women’s Hospital in Philadelphia, PA.
But two other FDA persecution trials (oh yes, the APPA never accepts
defeat with anything resembling equanimity-never) in the 1940’s were both
lost and spelled the end of Spectro-Chrome usage by physicians or even
by lay persons who had purchased the Dinshah light projectors. The
openly biased judge in charge of the last trial in 1946, declared that
the Spectro-Chrome color therapy system was an “evil” that “had to be stamped
out”.
A photo was published in many newspapers and magazines in the late 40’s
showing federal agents smashing Dinshah's Spectro-Chrome Light Projectors
(actually seized from hundreds of private homes between 1945-48)
out in the street using sledge hammers; a scene somewhat reminiscent of
the government's staged publicity photo stunts of the 1920’s and 30’s which
showed Federal agents swinging sledge hammers in the street demonstrating
their sophisticated approach to eradicating the intrinsic evil possessed
by slot machines and wooden whiskey barrels.
Dinshah’s remarkably effective Spectro-Chrome therapy system might have
slipped into obscurity unnoticed and unappreciated
had it not been for the efforts of his three sons, especially Darius
Dinshah, who became the president of what is now called the Dinshah
Health Society. Darius published a book explaining his father's Spectro-Chrome
system and color therapy protocol in his 1985 book titled, Let
There Be Light.
Darius' father originally used 5 colored glass slides (glass plates)
along with an ordinary incandescent light bulb for his light source to
apply the Spectro-Chrome therapy. Dinshah experimented with higher wattage
bulbs, but found that a 60 watt incandescent light bulb or even a flashlight
worked
just as effectively as a 2,000 watt bulb! Darius repeatedly reminds the
reader in Let There Be Light that high power lighting wasn't necessary
for Spectro-Chrome therapy to work. The colored light energy applied
in Spectro-Chrome is intended to buttress and enhance the color frequency
spectrum of the human aura to achieve results, and the refinements
of that etheric energy matrix require no bombardment of high intensity
photons to yield results.
Today, glass slides could still be used, but they are difficult to find
with the proper polychromatic characteristics. Roscolene plastic
color gels (filters) seem to work just as well AND they are easier to obtain
and carry around. Let There Be Light explains how to match the symptoms
the patient is experiencing with the appropriate color filter(s) for a
“tonation” as Dinshah had coined the treatment. Tonations are usually one
hour long and the colored light is exposed to the area of the body requiring
treatment (all detailed in the book). Far better results are achieved if
the user pays attention to the something that Darius calls the “Variant
Breath Forecast Time” which coincides with the body's natural cyclic
breathing rhythms and change with different times of the day or night.
As we go through these daily breathing cycles, more air will predominantly
pass through one nostril over the opposite nostril, then gradually a point
will come when both nostrils are drawing in an equvalent amount of air
(this ideally should be the midway point of the one hour tonation), and
then the opposite nostril will predominate and so on as the cycle repeats
itself.
Other aspects of color “toning” and the explanation of how certain colors
achieve balance in an over-active or under-active organ systems, etc. are
explained and illustrated in the book with diagrams and color charts. An
A-Z catalog of 400 diagnosed disorders covering most known health conditions,
along with a listing of the correct color filters in the desired order
of tonation is included and cross referenced to the alphabetical index.
Thanks to the efforts of Darius Dinshah to preserve the memory of his
father's work, we are able to learn much more of the
discoveries and therapeutic techniques of this important humanitarian.
I'm hoping to write many more articles about Dinshah’s
work in the near future. This introduction just touches the tip of
a huge iceberg of Spectro-Chrome information. Darius’ book, Let There Be Light, is available for an $18 donation plus $3
shipping ($6 for Priority mail). Also, those interested in obtaining Roscolene
filters and other materials associated with Spectro-Chrome therapy,
should visit our Products page under Spectro-Chrome
Light Therapy
All information posted on this web site is
the opinion of the author and is provided for educational purposes only.
It is not to be construed as medical advice. Only a licensed medical doctor
can legally offer medical advice in the United States. Consult the healer
of your choice for medical care and advice.