Dinshah Ghadiali - Pioneer of Chromatherapy and Color Therapy Gels
Dinshah Ghadiali is among the greatest natural healers of the 20 th century.
Unfortunately, as much of an impact as he had on the holistic health
world of today, his name is relatively unknown in the general
population due to problems that the American Medical Association (AMA)
and their government enforcement group the American Pharmaceutical
Protection Administration (APPA) created for him when he began showing
that non-pharmaceutical treatments can be effective and non-harmful for
treating illness and ailments.
Dinshah (also spelled
Dinshah) Ghadiali (1873-1966) was quite the renaissance man. He was a
scientist, physician, engineer, scholar, aviator, editor, civil
reformer, metaphysician, inventor, and finally, a color therapy
researcher. His most fantastic legacy, however, was to the medical and
scientific community, by developing an extremely successful form of
light therapy, which Ghadiali called "Spectro-Chrome Therapy".
Ghadiali was inspired, as a physician in India, with the work of two
other men, Dr. Edwin D. Babbitt, and Dr. Seth Pancoast, and their works
The Principles of Light and Color (1877) and Light and its Rays as Medicine (1877) respectively.
This
inspiration was furthered when, in 1897, Ghadiali was handed a unique
and moving opportunity to practice what he had learned and theorized
about the health benefits of light and color, when he worked to save
the life of a woman that orthodox physicians had claimed was beyond
help, and merely hours from death by mucous colitis. Dinshah, however,
still saw the potential to save the woman by using a crude colored
light therapy. Using a kerosene lantern and a blue glass bottle,
Ghadiali directed the colored light to different parts of the woman’s
unclothed body. The disease from which the woman suffered caused her to
lose her fluids from diarrhea almost constantly throughout the day.
Soon afterward, Dinshah filled the blue glass bottle with milk and
exposed it to the sun, giving the liquid to the woman to drink. After
only one day of treatment, the woman’s diarrhea was cut to one tenth
its former intensity. After three days of treatment, she was able to
get out of bed, and was soon fully recovered. Her orthodox doctors
could not explain it.
Over the next 23 years, Ghadiali
worked to perfect and polish this process to create his Spectro-Chrome
color therapy – a tremendous contribution to humanity.
By the time the 1920s came about, Dinshah Ghadiali had brought color
therapy to the United States, and began lecturing to spread the word.
This began in his New Jersey home, but as interest grew, it moved to a
classroom. Soon, Ghadiali was offering a complete course of study about
color therapy for physicians. The study was extremely popular among
professionals, and soon there were not only oodles of physicians
signing up to take the course, but there were many graduates who were
setting up the Spectro-Chrome color instruments in their practices.
Everything
was progressing very promisingly for Dinshah until the AMA finally
heard about his growing reputation among physicians and decided to get
involved.
In 1924, the AMA published a cutting article in
the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), claiming that
Dinshah was a quack, and Spectro-Chrome color therapy was a hoax –
without having performed a single investigation. After this unprovoked,
and unfounded attack, this promising doctor and his incredible
techniques were labeled as worthless and fraudulent.
The
article wasn’t the only thing that the AMA had up its sleeve. The
harassment continued until 1931 when it brought Ghadiali before a jury
trial where Ghadiali was able to defend himself and win the case hands
down. His case was greatly supported by the testimony of eminent
physicians and scientists, including Dr. Kate Baldwin, the director of
the Women’s Hospital in Philadelphia, PA.
Losing the trial
didn’t stop the APA – by then the FDA – and it brought on two more
persecution trials in the 1940’s; which Ghadiali was not able to win
(in the case of the last trial, in 1946, the judge was openly biased,
calling Dinshah’s Spectro-Chrome color therapy “evil” and needing “to
be stamped out”). It put a halt to the use of Spectro-Chrome use by
both physicians and regular people who had already purchased the
equipment to take advantage of its benefits.
It would have
been easy for Dinshah Ghadiali’s work to slip into obscurity, never to
be noticed again, except for the determination and appreciation of his
three sons, specifically Darius Dinshah. Today, Darius is the president
of the Dinsah Health Society.
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