Some beliefs of what Iridology Can and Cannot do
What Iridology CAN identify...from Jensen & Bodeen, Visions of Health, 1992.
- The primary nutritional needs of the body.
- The inherent strength or weakness of organs, glands and tissues.
- Constitutional strength or weakness
- Which organs are in greatest need of repair and rebuilding.
- The relative amount of toxic settlement in the organs, glands and tissues.
- Where inflammation is located in the body.
- The stage of tissue inflammation and activity.
- Under activity or sluggishness of the bowel
- Spastic and ballooned conditions of the bowel.
- The need for acidophilus in the bowel
- Prolepses of the transverse colon.
- A nervous condition or inflammation of the bowel.
- High-risk tissue areas in the body that may be progressing toward a disease.
- Pressure on the heart
- The circulation level in various organs.
- Nerve force and nerve depletion.
- Hyperactivity or hypoactivity of organs, glands, and tissues.
- The influence of one organ on another or the contribution of an organ to a condition elsewhere in the body
- Lymphatic-system congestion.
- Poor assimilation of nutrients.
- Depletion of minerals in an organ, gland, or tissue.
- The relative ability of an organ, gland, or tissue to hold nutrients.
- The results of physical or mental fatigue or stress on the body.
- The need for rest to build up immunity.
- Tissues areas contributing to suppressed or buried symptoms
- High or low sex drive.
- A genetic pattern of inherent weakness and their influence on other organs, glands, and tissues.
- The effects of iatrogenic conditions.
- The preclinical stages of diabetes, cardiovascular conditions, and many other diseases
- Miasms
- The recuperative ability and health level of the body.
- The buildup of toxic material before the manifestation of a disease.
- Genetic weaknesses affecting the nerves, blood supply, and mineralization of bone.
- The genetic influence on any symptoms present.
- Healing signs indicating an increase of strength in an organ, gland, or tissue.
- The potential for varicose veins in the legs
- Positive and negative nutritional needs of the body.
- A probable allergy to wheat
- Sources of infection.
- Acidity of the body and catarrh development.
- Suppression of catarrh
- The condition of tissues in any one part of the body, or in all the parts of the body at one time.
- The climate and altitude that is best for the patient.
- The potential for senility.
- The effects of a polluted environment
- Adrenal exhaustion
- Resistance to disease.
- The relationship or unity of symptoms with conditions in the organs, glands, and tissues.
- The difference between a healing crisis and a disease crisis.
- The accuracy of Hering’s Law of Cure
- Whether a particular program or therapy is working.
- The quality of nerve force (nerve energy) in the body.
- The body’s response to a treatment.
- The whole, or overall, health level of the body.
What Iridology CANNOT identify...
- Blood pressure levels (normal or abnormal), blood sugar level, and other specific diagnostic findings and laboratory test results
- Which specific medications or drugs an individual is using or has used in the past.
- What surgical operations a person has had
- Specifically what foods a person does and does not eat.
- How much uric acid is in the body.
- The time and cause of an injury to the body.
- Whether a snake bite is poisonous and if the snake venom has entered the bloodstream.
- The correlation between tissue inflammation levels and specific diseases or symptoms or disease.
- Diseases by name.
- Whether a subject is male or female.
- Whether asbestos settlements or silicosis exist in the body.
- If hair is falling out and why.
- The number of organs with which a person was born.
- The presence of a yeast infection, such as Candida albicans.
- Which tooth is causing problems.
- The presence of lead, cadmium, aluminum, or any other metallic elements in the tissues.
- If a woman is on birth control pills.
- If a woman is pregnant.
- Whether an operation is necessary
- Whether a tumor is present and what size it is.
- Whether Hemorrhage exists in the body or where it is located
- The difference between drug side-effect symptoms and the symptoms of actual diseases.
- Whether irregular menstrual periods are caused by the thyroid
- The presence of multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, or bubonic plague.
- Whether healing signs indicate a rising of the general health level.
- The presence of syphilis, gonorrhea, or another sexually transmitted disease.
- Orientation toward homosexuality.
- The presence of AIDS
- The presence of gallstones or kidney stones.
- Whether a cardiac artery is blocked.