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Descriptor English: Color Therapy
Descriptor Spanish: Cromoterapia
Descriptor colorterapia
Entry term(s) cromoterapia
terapia por colores
Scope note: Forma de fototerapia que emplea el color para influir en la salud y para tratar diversos trastornos físicos o mentales. Los rayos de color pueden ser del espectro visible o invisible y pueden administrarse a través de luces de color o ser aplicados mentalmente mediante sugestión.
Descriptor Portuguese: Cromoterapia
Descriptor French: Chromothérapie
Entry term(s): Chromatotherapy
Chromotherapy
Therapy, Color
Tree number(s): E02.190.888.249
E02.774.215
F04.754.215
HP3.018.304
MT3.685.184
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016500
Scope note: A form of phototherapy using color to influence health and to treat various physical or mental disorders. The color rays may be in the visible or invisible spectrum and can be administered through colored lights or applied mentally through suggestion.
Annotation: treatment of dis with color; coord IM with disease /ther (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Color (1972-1991)
Phototherapy (1972-1991)
Public MeSH Note: 92
History Note: 92
Entry Version: COLOR THER
DeCS ID: 30182
Unique ID: D016500
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1991/01/02
Revision Date: 2005/06/30
Color Therapy - Preferred
Concept UI M0025195
Scope note A form of phototherapy using color to influence health and to treat various physical or mental disorders. The color rays may be in the visible or invisible spectrum and can be administered through colored lights or applied mentally through suggestion.
Preferred term Color Therapy
Entry term(s) Chromatotherapy
Chromotherapy
Therapy, Color



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