A book on Iridology you must read...

The growth and development of natural medicines, including iridology, were influenced by the baby-boomer generation becoming older and more health conscious. People in general turned for help to alternative medicine after realizing that traditional medicine could not help them because it is too chemical-based, symptom-focused and machine-dependant. In spite of high technological advancement in mainstream medicine, more and more people do not get a proper diagnosis of their symptoms and illness. This frustration is reflected in the statistical fact that a large percentage of the North American population has turned, partially or completely, to complementary and alternative health care. One of the many alternative modalities is the science and practice of iridology.

Iridology is not itself a therapy, but rather an assessment tool that should be used not only by alternative health care practitioners but also in allopathic medicine. Iridology assesses changes in the iris, which reflect the changes in the tissue of all the organs in the body. These changes appear in the iris before the physical symptoms actually develop and preventative action may be taken to improve health and avoid those illnesses/diseases that might otherwise follow. If at the time of the iris analysis the person is already experiencing symptoms, then iridology is really the best tool to find the real underlying cause (s) of those symptoms, unlike allopathic medicine, which is concerned solely with symptoms.

This book has been written with both the public and the professional in mind. The layperson should be informed and educated about iridology, so he can seek out a professional person in the field who can help him stay healthy, or to return to a healthy state perhaps without the need of radical medical care. For the professional, the following information will re-confirm or, for the skeptic, it will reveal and confirm, that iridology is a non-invasive assessment tool to monitor the complete system of the patient. Applying the practitioner's knowledge of the functions of the different body systems and correlating with the findings of the iris analysis it enables him to detect the true cause of his patient's health problems.

Because of the two types of audience, we have to begin with the presentation of the brief history of iridology as well as the definition of this science and the detailed explanation of how it works.

High blood pressure is a medical condition which lends itself well as an illustration of the usefulness of the science and practice of iridology, in finding the contributing factors in someone's body developing this condition. There will be an overview and explanation of the causes, symptoms, complications and side effects of hypertension. Then sixty people's iridology assessment - all who had high blood pressure - will be evaluated.

This information will first be classified based on the three iris colours (brown, blue, mixed) that already denote different body characteristics. For example, systems with brown and mixed irises are more prone to digestive disorders, while blue iris systems are more prone to mineral imbalance(s) resulting from acidic conditions. This classification will show that people with different iris colours have different initial causes of high blood pressure.

These files will further be organized by considering specific imbalances in those organs that are the contributing factors or the components of the anatomy of high blood pressure. Looking at the patient's medical history and the medications they have been prescribed in the past will reveal that most of them do not really serve to treat the actual cause of the condition, but rather suppress the most obvious symptoms. The in vitro cases will be diagrammed and displayed in easy-to-interpret tables and graphs.

The conclusion will aim at fulfilling the two main purposes of this discussion, which are to prove that iridology does not diagnose medical conditions, but instead gives us something more important-it reveals the inherited and acquired underlying cause(s) of medical condition, thus allowing people who suffer from the same illness to obtain more personalized treatment. And secondly, that every medical visit should begin with an iris analysis assessment, therefore iridology clinics should be included within every medical unit. Not only this would be beneficial to the patients, but it also would be costs saving for the health-care industry.

About the Author

Dr. Agota Csekey, Ph.D. is the President of the Canadian Institute of Iridology, which is the first established school of iridology in Canada (1989), and it is the leader in training iridology professionals.

Her many years of education include studying with Dr. Bernard Jensen and Adam J. Jackson. The latter founded the Institute, and handed her the reins when he moved to London (England).

Dr. Csekey has been teaching and practicing iridology in Toronto, Canada, for the past twenty years. She is an experienced clinician of natural medicines (nutrition, herbology, homotoxicology as well as, clinical iridology) and is dedicated to furthering the practice of clinical iridology in order for it to obtain recognition as a regulated profession in Canada.