According to modern colour therapists there are seventeen principles of colour healing. None of these principles calls for the use of chemicals alone. Which is done ordinarily in the allopathic prescription of chemotherapy.

The application of colour for ushering a good health, emotional stability and spiritual elevation are made most effective by utilising these seventeen principles.

1. Colour can be introduced into a person through various methods, such as: Coloured foods, solarised (exposed to sun) liquids and solids. Sunlight or artificial rays are also applied to the skin, contrasting coloured room decor, coloured clothing, birthstones, crystals and gems. Meditation on and in colour, coloured lights and colour breathing which change the consciousness of an individual and help him reach his Aura or electromagnetic force field.

2. Either by the supply of colour that the diseased person lacks or reduce colour that is overabundant and unbalancing to the body or neutralise the overabundant colour by furnishing its complementary shade.

3. The two foundation colours of colour healing are red and blue. All other colours are subsidiaries or refinements of red and blue.

4. Apply coloured lights at the most strategic time and in the most suitable manner to the human body systems, organs, parts, tissues and cell structures.

5. The pure the colour, the more penetrating the rays and the faster the body's reaction.

6. When in doubt, undertreat the patient, rather than giving him too much colour treatment.

7. Don't overload one's body system to help another's. Be careful not to load the circulatory system with the eliminating toxins produced by invading microorganisms when treating an infection.

8. Overexposure to one colour can be remedies by applying the complementary colour.

9. If the wrong colour is accidentally used, first neutralise the wrong colour with its complementary colour, then, treat the conditions itself with the correct colour.

10. When planning for colour therapy either for yourself or someone else, take into account the circumstances under which the treatment will be delivered. For instance, you may need to apply the colour as white light behind a colour filter. Other circumstances to be considered could be the colour medium, any sensitivity of the patient, the quality of the colour filter, the nature of the disease, the extent of pathology, the present weather, the climatic, the required colour, the time of the day, the season of the year and the patient's biorhythm. (The biorhythm is a biologically inherent cyclic variation or recurrence of an event or state such as the sleep cycle, circadian rhythms and periodic diseases.)

11. Natural colour is more powerful healer than the colour in glass, filters and dyes. It is the power to transmit colour rather than the visual effect of colour that is important in healing.

12. Misapplied colour can deteriorate certain body parts. For instance, misused bright red colour shocks the eyes and leads to fatigue and irritation in general. A red room raises the blood pressure, a green one lowers it.

13. Colour rays absorbed through the skin affects all the glands, blood cells and chemicals in the body.

14.Colour in clothings and hairdyes affects the entire body.

15. Both artificial lights (such as from incandescent bulb) and that of natural light from the sun rays heal by the process of stimulation, oxidation, metabolic enhancement and also through immunoregulation.

16. Healing with colour aims to re-establish body balance and release tension caused by colour starvation.

17. Apply colour to the specific organ by selecting first the organ's appropriate trigger points and then, apply appropriate colours.