The colour yellow has healing power. Turmeric, which is yellow in colour, is widely used in India as a spice and even as a beauty enhancing product. Turmeric acts as an antiseptic ingredient and which is why it is used in most food items prepared pan India. Even during marriage, family members of the bride and the groom apply haldi on their body. Haldi helps in lightening the skin tone and also heals the skin of infections. Yellow in India is also symbolic of holiness.