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What is "iridology?"

Posted on Jun 17th 2007 12:58PM by Rigel Celeste

Filed Under: Alternative & Green Health

What is iridology? I'd never heard of it before now, but it's the study of the iris to determine the overall well-being and health of person. Practitioners of iridology believe that every color, fiber, pattern, and defect in the iris of the eye is a direct reflection of something wrong in the body. At a glance, healers using this method can tell at a glance how well organs and systems are working together by looking at the left eye for the left side of the body, and the right eye for the right side.

Although iridology can be traced back to the days of Hippocrates and is found all over the United States, not all natural and holistic healers believe in it. Do you?

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Tags: alternative, alternative therapies, alternatives, AlternativeTherapies, eye, eyes, healing, holistic, iridology, iris, natural

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Sid 6-18-2007 @ 10:20AM

Iridology is inane, and utter nonsense.

Jim Murphy 6-21-2007 @ 3:04PM

Not being a medical professional, I don't know that much about the iris being a barometer for overall fitness or health, but what IS fascinating to me is the progression from retinal scan to iris scan technology for identification purposes. Instead of leaning into a viewport for a retinal scan, a subject can be iris scanned from conversational distance.

Okay, that's not as impressive as the longer-distance technology promised in Tom Cruise's motion picture, "The Minority Report", but it nevertheless represents an impressive step forward... and coupling iris scan technology with whatever validity exists in iridology, a diagnosis on a person's health could be made while they are sitting in a distant waiting room.