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The correlation between amount of iris pigmentation and age, as shown by Velchover, et al., is a good example of a well-designed epidemiological study. The AMA-published study ‘Looking for gallstones in the iris’ is a good example of poorly executed …
To advance the state of the art, a baseline study of iris color and texture is needed, then a study of correlations between iris structure and health predispositions.
The rigorous application of scientific and objective methodology to the theoretical beliefs and more professional standards of practice are necessary to elevate the status of iris analysis techniques to a modern position. Iridology is benefiting from the development of technology. …
Iris analysis will eventually become an accepted and respected field of inquiry and will also see widespread clinical application in mainstream health care. This will be accelerated by the use of the iris for identification purposes. Baseline studies of individual …
Iridology has been used in a mostly non-technical way, and often by amateurs or those without rigorous training in health-care. As a result, orthodox medicine has not seen the redeeming value in a field cluttered with erroneous and oversimplified belief. …
In addition to the above-mentioned problems with professionalism, the other hurdle for the medical approach is the concept of ‘Reflex’ which is the phenomenon of information referral via autonomic nervous system, ch’i meridians and other more subtle energy pathways throughout …