Healing Sun
In this video, Richard Hobday spends about 25 minutes speaking on "Healing Sun" at the 30th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Richard Hobday
RICHARD HOBDAY, PhD., born in England, received his Ph.D. Degree from the School of Engineering, Cranfield University, England. As a Chartered Engineer, Richard has been responsible for a number of projects concerned with solar energy, energy efficiency and health in buildings.
Working alongside Architects on one particular project he became aware of a “lost” tradition of designing sunlit buildings to prevent disease, rather than to save energy, and became interested in the healing powers of sunlight. He began to study the history of Sunlight Therapy and found that the Physicians who practiced this ancient healing art called Heliotherapy, and the Architects who supported them in their work, used sunlight very differently from the way many of us do today.
Dr. Hobday has become a leading authority on the history and practice of Sunlight Therapy. He is the author of The Healing Sun: Sunlight and Health in the 21st Century, a very revealing book on the beneficial effects of sunlight on human health. He relates how sunlight can help prevent and heal many common diseases like breast, prostate and colon cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis and osteoporosis. He also describes how sunlight speeds up the healing of wounds and relieves stress. The book also has information on how to sunbathe safely and the importance of full spectrum light.
The light and heat from the sun are indispensable to all nature and large numbers of people may be compromising their health through sunlight deficiency.
Transcription
Right. Can you hear me? Yeah, okay. What I'm gonna do very briefly is talk about the history of sunlight as medicine. Then I'm gonna look at the bone disease, rickets, which is a classic disease of sunlight deprivation. Then I'm going to look at sunlight and cancer and finally draw a few conclusions from that. So there's no tax for about an hour and a half to do so. We'll start the very beginning. The first physician known to history was an Egyptian imitate, currently the star of Hollywood films for all the wrong reasons. But he was a sun worshiper, a high priest of sun worship. And the Egyptians use sunlight as a medicine, and they worshiped their sun gods for their healing powers. The same applies to the ancient Greeks. You see the Greeks depicted outside taking sides outdoors, athletes who train outside in the sun develop better stamina, better muscle definition and so forth than athletes who train do. So the Greeks must have known something about this. They again, used sunlight as a medicine. They also adopted solar architecture. They had a. An energy crisis run out of wood. So they started building solar cities to capture the sun's rays. And they also worship the healing powers of the sun. So as with the Egyptians, you get architecture, medicine, sun worship very closely linked. I should mention about Imer tape, the first physician actually became the Egyptian Gaal's of medicine. So the first physician in the history became a God. That is a joke there, but I'm not going to tell it.
Imperial Rome, the Romans adopted many things from the Greeks. They imported the Greek sun gods, Apollo, Helios, Asclepius, Asclepius.
And again, worshiped these gods for their healing powers. They use sunlight as a medicine. The thing that always me about the Romans was that they they spend a lot of money on things like aqueducts to provide clean water, sanitation, sewerage, plumbing and these public baths where they used to go in. And relaxing the bars and sunbathe the in the imperial period, the public baths were solar heated and were designed for somebody and I always wondered why they invested so much. And it turns out that it was because they didn't trust doctors. Very few Roman citizens became doctors. It was left of the slaves and the freedmen. The Romans did not trust doctors. So anyway, the Romans use analyze the medicine. But if you go through the literature from about the fifth century, I dated the 17th. There's almost nothing in Western medical literature on sunlight and health. It dies out for reasons that I don't have time to