著者

石丸 圭荘 増山 茂 平松 礼二 了德寺 健二

出版者

了德寺大学

雑誌

了德寺大学研究紀要 = The Bulletin of Ryotokuji University (ISSN:18819796)

巻号頁・発行日

no.1, pp.117-123, 2007

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Our purpose is to evaluate the contribution of oriental medicine to art therapy by paying close attention to the theory of five colors (blue, red, yellow, white and black) in conjunction with the theory of five parenchematous viscera functions (liver, heart, spleen, lung and kidney), which is thought to reflect underlying five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal and water). Questionnaires were distributed to 160 young paramedical students who had no special knowledge of oriental medicine nor the five-color theory. Subjects' favors or disfavors of five colors (blue, red, yellow, white and black) were compared with his viscera condition determined by Meiji oriental score (MOS) which classifies it by analyzing six representative clinical symptoms of the five viscera theory. Chi-square test among the favorite or disfavorite colors and the viscera conditions revealed a statistically significant relationship between the favorite blue color group (69 out of 160 students) and the liver group (55 out of 160 students) by MOS. These results suggest that one's favor or disfavor of colors possibly reflects one's internal viscera condition and that the five-color theory based on oriental medicine would be applicable to art therapy.