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.