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Look Into My Eyes
Iridologists look you in the eye and know what’s wrong with you, for your iris tells all about your illness, writes Dhara Kothari.
‘Look into my eyes – you will see, what you mean to me…’ Bryan Adams could not have been far from truth literally, when he sang that number. But eyes can convey more than one message. Ask iridologists, they’ve known it for a long time. A diagnostic technique, iridology has existed in India from the days of the vedas where the sages ‘Read’ the eye for astrological as well as medical reasons. It has also been around in the west for some time now. “Iridology”, says Mumbai–based iridologist Dr. Hoshang Daruwala, “Is a science which informs us about the eruption of any disease in the near future, through the iris of the eye. Illness can be detected from a few months before to just a few days depending on the disease”.

In the West, after the idea had long faded, iridology was re–discovered by an 11 year old boy in Hungary in 1837. The boy, Ignatz Von Peczely, was trying to free an owl trapped in his garden when one leg of the bird broke. Ignatz noticed that a dark stripe immediately appeared in the lower portion of one iris of the bird. He subsequently found that this region corresponded with the leg. Later in life, Ignatz studied irises of wounded soldiers and published a book on the concept.

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