Iris diagnostics – also known as iridology, eye diagnosis or iris diagnosis – is a method of diagnosing diseases, which is mainly used by alternative practitioners. In alternative medicine, this method is often used in combination with other diagnostic procedures. What exactly is behind it and whether the diagnosis of diseases with the help of the eyes is really possible, you will learn below.
An ancient art
Iris diagnostics is an old method of detecting diseases. Its beginnings date back to the 17th century, when Philippus Meynes first established the basic principles.
In 1881, the idea that the iris is the mirror of the body and the soul was revisited and published by the Hungarian physician Ignaz von Peczely in the textbook “Diagnosis of Organ Diseases from Color and Shape Changes of the Rainbow Skin (Iris)”.
How does iris diagnosis work?
Among the advocates of this diagnostic procedure, the following is true: eye diagnosis is the art with the help of which it is possible to determine the physical and also the mental condition of a person from the color, the tightness and the many signs of the iris.
For this purpose – at least according to one irisdiagnostic doctrine – the iris is divided into 59 circular segments of equal size, which are supposed to represent the organs and regions of the body. The diseases are diagnosed by the iris phenomena in detailed indication on these iris segments. For example, signs of liver disease are at 8 o’clock, throat and ear ailments are between 10 and 11 o’clock, and gallstones are at quarter to eight.
Gallstones can be detected thereafter by dark pigment spots, while biliary infections produce white streaks on the iris. In addition, iris diagnostics assumes that the right half of the body is completely imaged in the right iris, while the left half of the body is completely imaged in the left iris. Other iris diagnosticians use an iris map, which roughly correspond to the foot reflex zones.
