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therapy, blue increases the elimination of the toxins
through perspiration and relieves the irritation/pain from
burns and itching. Red colour worked well in eliminating
the parasite after 15 days of therapy. In this case it can
not be attributed to effect of heat as previously [14-16]
reported. The rise in temperature on the skin was only
1˚C which is negligible. Also, at this distance the heat
produce d wa s a pproximately equa l to 1 joule s /˚C.
This is a preliminary repo rt of an original idea of pub-
lic health interest tested on a single patient; a more con-
trolled clinical trial is needed to authenticate the treat-
ment regimen. Treatment with prevalent antimonials is
not only expensive, it is painful too. Although 30 mi-
nutes for 30 days duration is hard to comply with but
having advantages of no pain and almost no cost is a
good enough incentive for patients to stay with this
treatment regimen.
6. Conclusions
• The treatment is safe, with no apparent side effects.
• It is v ery ch eap as compared to the treatment given to
the patient in form of injections of glucantine or am-
photericine B.
• It has proved to be very easily manageable by the
patient , wi th no probl e ms during the treatment.
• Green and red colour therapy may be used as the al-
ternative treatment for curing the ulcers of cutaneous
Leishmaniasis.
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