Sunrooms and Solariums

Sunrooms and Solariums
The Sun’s Healing Powers
Part 3

Modern houses have sunrooms that create a bright place to relax or have breakfast while reading a book.
In Florence Nightingale’s day, sunrooms and solariums were built to nurse people back to health. Ms. Nightingale believed in sunlight and air therapy. She designed hospital rooms to ensure patients got sufficient sunlight and air circulating through the rooms.
These sun filled rooms were in hospitals and clinics that treated deadly diseases with the healing powers of the sun.
People with tuberculosis and other deadly diseases were healing and getting better with air and light treatment, which was pioneered by Naturopath Arnold Rikli.
In the late 1800s, scientists began to take note of how sickness and disease improved with sunlight and fresh air hospital solariums.
Arthur Downes and Thomas Blunt discovered sunlight had anti-bacterial properties in 1877. Robert Koch showed in 1890 that sunlight kills bacteria.
Solariums and sunrooms became common place once these important discoveries proved that sunlight helps to heal disease.
Hospitals, clinics and even houses, were built to let the sunshine in and to circulate fresh air, to encourage health and to kill harmful and deadly bacteria, which led to disease and death.
Once antibiotics were discovered, solariums and sunrooms were no longer as popular. I always encourage clients who live in colder
climates to sit near a brightly lit, sunny window to absorb some sun into their vitiligo areas.
Sunlight encourages pigmentation in those with vitiligo. Its healing vitamin D3 helps to prevent deadly diseases such as tuberculosis,
Muscular Sclerosis, cancers, prostate and ovarian diseases, osteoporosis and heart disease. Sunlight speeds the healing process, and helps
to alleviate and prevent depression, studies show.
Soak up some sun safely.

References:
Hobday, Richard. The Healing Sun. (1993) Findhorn Press: Scotland, UK
F. Kirchfelt and W. Boyle. Nature Doctors. (1994) NCNM Press: Portland, OR