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Colorful Lights to Cure What Ails You

news article · 2024
type:news article
year:2024
citation:Livia Gershon, "Colorful Lights to Cure What Ails You," JSTOR Daily, 12 April 2024.
LINK
https://daily.jstor.org/colorful-lights-to-cure-what-ails-you/
SUMMARY
Verified by direct fetch of the live page on 2026-08-13: byline "Livia Gershon," publish date 2024-04-12T12:15:45+00:00 per the page's embedded JSON-LD, hosted in JSTOR Daily's Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences pub-tag section, summarizing lavine-science-automatic-precision-hsns-2014 and linking directly to its JSTOR record. The fetched page describes the device as a metal box holding a 1,000-watt bulb fitted with various colored glass filters; states orange light stimulated respiration and thyroid function while magenta wavelengths promoted "love and well-being"; gives the practitioner count as at least 10,000 people completing ten-day trainings; and notes that most practitioners were working-class and many were women. Used for these paraphrased/quoted facts and as a secondary cross-check on the Lavine 2014 article's content.
NOTES

A 2024 JSTOR Daily magazine feature (byline Livia Gershon) summarizing the peer-reviewed Lavine 2014 history of the Spectro-Chrome, including the device’s physical description, its claimed organ-specific color effects, and the demographics of its practitioners.