Iridologists fine-tune this idea by identifying and unfolding the corresponding signs in the iris that advertise the body’s condition. The stunning parallels confirm this investigative technique as the functional equivalent of a whole-body MRI or CAT scan. While many use Iridology as a somewhat useful ‘side-tool’, there is a strong need for serious, focused application of anatomy, physiology and medicine, as well as a healthy investigation and awareness of alternative modalities. Iridology is especially valuable in assessing a person’s systemic health.
Dark area around the pupil indicating an under acid stomach
An Iridologist makes calculated judgments identifying patterns, spots, colors and many other characteristics of the iris, all of them in fact. The composite picture that emerges gives great insight as to the condition of the body’s tissues as they work together systemically, and as they stand alone. From there, bodily ailments that appear in weak and strong areas can be readily identified. A good Iridologist can then take this a step further and offer advice on how you can enable your body to tackle those ailments. At the NY Center for Iridology practice includes not only Clinical Iridology but a variety of modalities including naturopathy, herbology, phytotherapy, and medical herbology.
Used by mainstream medical practitioners in Europe and around the world, Iridology is an alternative/complementary practice in the United States. Its two strengths are:
While the European practice of Iridology tends to focus on genetic inheritance and predispositions seen in the irides, NYCI focuses on current health conditions seen there. That’s the short answer. To understand this better, you need to know the three strengths of iridology as a discovery tool (using that term to voluntarily and legally distance ourselves from the incorrect notion that Iridology diagnoses diseases –more on this below).
The first strength is that marks or ocular biomarkers in the iris are found to show Genetic predispositions, i.e. do I inherit my family’s heart weakness? The eye is not a blank slate at birth. The iris displays marks in specific sectors which relate to the body organ or system represented by that precise spot in the iris. Second, trauma over the lifetime, i.e. an audit trail or log of injury serious enough to cause a reflex marking to be recorded in the area of the iris associated with a particular organ or system. This is similar to reflexology, which finds not marks, but sensitive areas in the foot which correspond to injury in a remote body organ or system. And third, Current conditions, i.e. exactly where your body is experiencing an inflammation or abnormal condition–sometimes even without acute awareness on your part.
Harvey Vedder
Clinical Iridology places primary emphasis on the third–current conditions. Other schools of Iridology focus primarily on the first–genetic predispositions. At the NYCI Clinic, we find our clients are concerned with freeing themselves from current symptoms, although you won’t hear us use disease names … for a good reason. While the medical world has a vast and growing vocabulary of symptom-groupings called ‘diseases,’ disease names are primarily a convenience enabling medical professionals to talk among themselves in abbreviated language: “This patient shows indications of having ingested inordinate amounts of toxic arsenic,” gets shortened to “she has hyperarsenemia.”
The body expresses itself in simple language–indications like under-active, over-active, trauma, enervation (weakened vitality) or inflamed condition, without any Latin or Greek suffixes. Pain, discomfort, agony, expelled toxins (like rashes or pimples) and many others are all body indicators of an unnatural tissue condition (something your body feels keenly) in a particular organ, region or system. In the iris, these indicators are readily seen as colors, marks, or depressions visible in the iris segment that corresponds to a particular organ.
Thus a trained iridologist recognizes distinct ocular biomarkers as indications of abnormal tissue conditions in a particular region of the body, by non-invasively scanning your eye. Iridology’s three strengths conjoin to identify and distinguish genetic, trauma-caused, and currently active abnormal tissue conditions rather than diseases as such. Knowing what is troubling guides the body’s owner to do something about it. Two steps suggest themselves: verifying initial conditions are “clear to go,” and providing the body what it seeks to begin healing.
Given first, the proper initial conditions (a balanced biologic terrain) and second, healing substances demanded by damaged tissues, healing is accomplished by the body itself rather than the “healer,” who merely makes the two requisites available. Like unerring instinct in an animal, the body possesses and uses self-diagnostics to heal itself.
Thus, Clinical Iridology’s ability to identify where and what is currently going on, directs an intelligent, motivated client to arm their body with the two things needed to turn on the body’s natural healing ability.
We think you will be very impressed at what Clinical Iridology can do for you.
Taking charge of your own health can initially be daunting — the amount of information available is overwhelming, often contradictory, and hard to sort out. Iridology allows you to see your entire body, including every organ and system, all at once. Professional analysis by a Clinical Iridologist will show you:
Judy Vedder, NYC’s full time Iridologist and founder (1996) of the New York Center for Iridology, is a Clinical Iridologist, Master Herbalist, respected New York instructor and author of four textbooks. She completed training in American Iridology (Bernard Jensen method), studying under two Naturopathic doctors, Dr. Joanne Mied and Dr. Marge Jones.
Judy combines two rare qualities: a straightforward, practical grasp of body functioning and an intuitive ability to unearth hidden issues that often baffle “reductionist” approaches to wellness. Expect your Iridology scan to uncover unsuspected, latent issues. Even genetic predispositions may be brought into relief as she reviews your history and current concerns with you, after a careful examination of your body’s own history log, encoded in your eyes.
Therapeutically, Judy’s working knowledge of nutraceuticals, minerals, herbs and their precisely targeted action offers remedies that are safe, natural, and kind-to-the-body. Adverse reactions, common in the medical world, are strikingly absent in the holistic realm, and Judy will tell you in advance what specific indicators to look for as you shift between a saturation, therapeutic or maintenance program. Negative experiences with natural products, Judy has found, almost always arise from misinterpretation of cleansing or detoxing symptoms (“dieoff” or the medically-known Herxheimer Effect) — symptoms that are actually positive, expected responses when your body is in healing mode.
Harvey Vedder, CI, is the Education and Research Director of NYCI. Harvey and Judy have been working together for fifty years, the last sixteen here in NYC. Early retirement from a Verizon engineering management spot enabled Harvey to focus his considerable research and study efforts on holistic health, an area he (and many New Yorkers) find rewarding. His lectures in NYC are well-received, as are his articles and contributions to ongoing issues in that field. Collaborating as a team, Harvey’s broad ranging and theoretical approach coupled with Judy’s down to earth practicality, often spark striking new insights into complex, over-studied but meagerly-understood health issues. NYCI callers greeted by a male voice often are pleasantly surprised by his willingness to listen and take time to offer these insights as they bear on their own health problems. Call him and see!
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