Gustau Pau - The Foundations of Iridology: The Eyes as the Key to Your Genetic Health Profile

To my real-life heroes, my parents Magda and Gustavo, who gave the best years of their life to work, in silence, during the difficult times of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.

Acknowledgments

My thanks to the following people who made this book possible with their generosity and animus:

Adriana Ortemberg,

Rosemarie Zimmerman,

and Marian Senz.

Thank you also to my iridology professor,

Heinz W. Schmidt.

Foreword

Naturopathic medicine in Spain has experienced great technical and academic progress in recent times, which can be observed by the establishment of prestigious educational institutions devoted to it, like the Heilpraktiker Institut in Barcelona. For the past few decades these institutes have been teaching, researching, and publishing information in prominent journals and high-quality books, like this text on iridology by Professor Gustau Pau, which includes historical background, numerous clinical reports, and a renewed vision of this diagnostic naturopathic discipline, highlighting its use as a valuable tool for evaluating patients.

Iridology offers clinical physicians a quick method for diagnosis and the identification of appropriate treatments, and it works well as a complement to other diagnostic techniques and laboratory procedures that take more time to provide information.

Professor Pau masterfully shares his experience with identifying signs in the iris and offers expert insight into their meaning and their connection to pathological processes, detoxification, and tissue repair, all of which can be documented throughout the treatment process with systematic analysis and records of the iris. Thus, iridology can be a fundamental tool for evaluating the efficiency of the healing process. Healing, as we understand it, is the path of return to a normal biological state, which has been the most important demand naturopathy has made of its physicians and therapists throughout history, since the time of Hippocratic medicine.

Iridology has been and remains the most valuable technique for verifying this healing process.

DR. PEDRO SILVA JARAMILLO,

DR. PEDRO SILVA JARAMILLO, naturopath and master in nutrition, is also a specialist in internal medicine and neurology. He is a visiting professor in the Naturopathic Medicine Masters Program at the University of Barcelona, a full member of the Advisory Committee of Naturopathy of the Ministry of Health of Chile, a member of the Advisory Committee of Complementary Medicine of the Medical Association of Chile, and medical director of the Physis Center for Integrative Medicine in Santiago, Chile.

Introduction to Iridology

The iris awakens the curiosity of all those who observe it. It even awakens a certain plastic and artistic interest, given the infinite variety of chromatic details and the combinations of colors it can show, from light blue to burnt sienna, going through gray, green, and ocher... it offers us a complete symphony of beautiful colors.

From the perspective of health, it is important to clarify two points about the iris. First, sometimes iridological diagnosis, or iridodiagnosis, is seen as a synonym of medical diagnosis, but in reality, as you will soon discover, iridology has nothing to do with the traditional medical concept of pathology. That concept, which originated in the period of Linnaeus, is defined as an intelligent classification of the signs and symptoms of a disease. However, since the body does not understand these types of classifications, a direct relationship between the iris and what is known as pathology does not exist.

Iridology studies the reactions of a person in relation to their genetics. In other words, it concerns itself with the individual person, and not so much with the disease itselfthough that does not mean that a group of iridology signs does not correspond to certain clinical signs (for illnesses such as leprosy, rheumatism, sarcoidosis, etc.).

Second, we must note that observation of the iris is fundamentally subject to the interpretation of the observer. This marks a clear difference from medical diagnosis, where the data obtained from an analysis, CATscans, or X-rays is assessed directly and the resulting numbers or images (the number of red blood cells, an image of pleurisy or fracture, etc.) provide the relevant information. In the case of iridology, as in all reflexologies, the iris is subject to the interpretation of the reflexive signs that are observed. The signs are not a part of the pathology, but they allow us to deduce, for example, the strength or vulnerability of the organ systems, vicariation of functions, or predispositions. In this sense, the experience of the therapist is essential; in an empirical system such as this, if a therapist is very experienced, the therapeutic observations and recommendations he or she makes will be better and more accurate, as will be the assistance he or she is able to render.

Thus we can say that iridology is a bloodless empirical system that lets us redirect our lives in terms of personal, dietary, or physical behaviors, and if we feel ill, it lets us identify the most effective natural therapy for us. Iridology is an indisputable reference system for both naturopathy and homeopathy.

THE GOAL OF IRIDOLOGY

Thanks to centuries of medicinal practice and research, we know that people express their ailments not only through symptoms (sensations) but also through signs (signals), similar to the letters of an alphabet written, in this case, in the eye. This language of iridology mainly comprises three types of signs: forms carved in the stroma, in the pigments, and in the vessels. In this book you will discover not only the meaning of these signs but also the underlying philosophy of iridology, which is similar to that of other natural therapies.

Since people do not consult with an iridologist to obtain a diagnosis but to receive individualized therapeutic solutions for a specific previously diagnosed problem, a visit with the iridologist does not begin and end with observation of the iris. Instead, it aims to learn general characteristics of the patient. For example, an iridologist will seek to understand the behavior of the patient in relation to any medicine the patient takes (frequency of intake, details related to surgery, etc.) or the patients perception of his or her own reality and that of others, with the purpose of not only individualizing the treatment but also identifying the most effective therapeutic modality for this particular person.

People have a basic constitution that makes them more fit for one type of lifestyle than another. Without a doubt, learning about our inherent behavioral and physiological reactions through observation of the iris lets us get the most out of our existence and helps us live life to the fullest.