Mary Allen
Colors can promote the healing process and help the organism to regain its balance. vet dr. Katharina Seybold uses color therapy on her four-legged patients.
Dr. Katharina Seybold has had good experiences with color therapy in her small animal practice. After operations, she uses light of a certain wavelength to stimulate the vital functions of the four-legged patients. Yellow or orange have a good effect, for example after a castration procedure, says the veterinarian, whose treatment focus is on holistic veterinary medicine. In her practice, the animals that have just been operated on can regain consciousness from the anesthetic in this light. And at home, the cats can then be treated further by their owners without any problems. Which color, how often, and for how long, the veterinarian writes down exactly on a prescription. With certain therapies, e.g. if a cat has been diagnosed with cancer that is inoperable, she prescribes color therapy as an accompanying treatment. Or for cats with skin problems.
Orange For Senior Cats
The color is picked up through the eyes, the cells in the skin, and the animal’s electromagnetic field. The latter is divided into different levels, with color therapy affecting the emotional level, explains Katharina Seybold. The light rays absorbed by these three major receptors (eyes, skin, electromagnetic field) influence bodily functions, and increase organ functions and circulation in the body, they can stimulate cell and gland functions or – on the contrary – also inhibit them. That is why colors, when used correctly, can also promote the healing process and help the organism to regain its balance. The veterinarian is happy to prescribe light therapy for older cats whose mobility, willingness to play, eyesight, and hearing have decreased. Their immune system is often weakened. “Especially with them, the owners can achieve a lot with the colors,” she says: “Radiate them with yellow or orange for 10 to 15 minutes twice a day, which reactivates their vital functions.” For color therapy at home, you can use colored light bulbs or party lights (available in hardware stores or electronics departments in large department stores) that screw into a floor lamp. You can also irradiate colored water and give it to the cat as drinking water or with the food. As a further option, Katharina Seybold recommends placing cushions or a blanket with a supporting color on the patient’s favorite spot. And dying animals that the owner does not want to put to sleep, but wants to let go sleep, can be accompanied very well by colors. Depending on the different phases of death or the transition from one phase to the next, the cat gets either yellow alternating with orange, weak blue light, green or dark violet as an aid at home on its self-chosen death bed. The owner who is having trouble identifying these stages can contact Dr. Call Seybold and describe the animal’s condition and behavior. She then assigns the correct color in each case. However, as the vet emphasizes, color therapy is always useful in addition to, for example, Bach flower therapy.
Patient Completes Treatment
Irradiation with light has already brought many successes, says Dr. Seybold. For example, she helped a patient suffering from back hypersensitivity. The poor animal was chasing itself, biting its own tail over and over again. This behavioral problem was probably due to nerve irritation. The cat was prescribed blue light. The owner, who had previously sought advice from several vets in vain, made every effort with the light treatment. Today the cat, which was previously considered untreatable, is cured. It is important that the cat sitting in the cone of light can get up and leave whenever it wants, i.e. it can stop the treatment prematurely. You can decide when enough is enough. Another example: A cat had had surgery for a fibrosarcoma, a malignant soft tissue tumor, and came to Dr. Seybold’s practice. As an additional treatment, she received green light or gold-colored. Green has a balancing effect and is intended to dissolve congestion. So far the cat has not had a recurrence, which is very rare with such cancer – a nice success.