Red:
It activates the five senses, fights laziness, and boosts energy for action and communication. It enhances vitality, sexual activity in men, cardiac function and the circulatory system.

Orange:
It mobilises existing energy and natural dynamism. It fights fatigue and improves one’s mood; it strengthens will and self-control.

Yellow:
It stimulates memory and mental faculties; it fights melancholy and enhances self-knowledge and self-criticism. The Japanese consider it the seat of feeling and call it ‘hara’, which is the first component of the term ‘hara-kiri’.

Green:
It helps express feelings and activates muscle and tissue regeneration. It relaxes and creates body and mind harmony; it has a soothing effect.

Azure:
It has a calming effect and relaxes the nervous system; it lowers arterial pressure and facilitates one’s decision-making capacity.

Indigo blue:
It clears the mind and soul, counters negative thoughts, annihilates fear and increases one’s intuitive capacity.

Mauve:
It activates the nervous system and enhances mental maturity and capacity for meditation; it creates a socialising mood and increases sexuality in women.

Violet:
It enhances vision and hearing, increases one’s intuitive capacity, brings psychological balance and prevents lung disease.