How did Iridology develop?
How did Iridology develop?
Reference to the eye’s value in health assessment can be traced back to numerous ancient scriptures and stone slabs found in Asia Minor depicting the body and eye connection. Clinical Iridology, however, began in the late nineteenth century with the Hungarian Doctor – Ignatz von Peczely.
As a young child, von Peczely was trying to free an owl trapped in a vine in the garden and accidentally broke the owl��s leg. During the struggle, the two glared into each other��s eyes and he noticed a black streak instantaneously appear at 6 o��clock in the owl��s iris. He nursed the owl back to health and observed that the streak had changed over time to a crooked white line. When von Peczely became a doctor, he remembered this incident while examining a patient with a broken leg. To his amazement, Dr. von Peczely saw the same crooked white line at 6 o��clock in this patient��s iris (which he then realized was an indication of scar tissue in the leg). After that, he began to examine all of his patients�� irises and found correlations between the markings in their irises and their health conditions. Based on those findings he designed the very first iris chart.