The eyes are the window to the soul

The science and practice that reveals inflammation, where located and in what stage it is manifesting.  The Iris reveals body constitution, inherent weakness, levels of health and the transitions that take place in a person's body according to the way he lives.

Dr Igantz von Peczely (1822-1911) is often referred to as the father of Iridology.  When he was a young boy of 11, he made his first observation of the iris markings.  While trying to free a panicked owl trapped in his garden he accidentally broke its leg.  He noticed a dark stripe in the lower part of the bird's eye appear shortly afterwards. 

After nursing the owl back to health Peczely noticed the beginnings of a white zigzag line in the area of the iris where the dark mark had been.  

There are two main schools of Iridology.  What are they?

How do the differ?

The two schools of Iridology would be American and European.

European Iridology talks of lacuna or lacunae (cluster of lesions) rather than lesions and specifies 12 types of fiber defects, while Amercian Iridology uses one.  

The signs of the Iris are meticulously differentiated in the European school and the marks as distinguished between wisps, clouds, streaks and lines.  American Iridologists most blotches and discolorations are seen as general irritations, and their analysis depends more on where they are found in the eye and their color rather than their shape.  

The European Iris map is divided into 5 radial zones and 6 circular zones while the Amercian follows Jenzen's map which has 7 circular zones and specific locations for all major organs.

European names specific diseases while American emphasizes it cannot detect  specific diseases, only tissues conditions such as inflammatio and congeston.

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