KEYWORDS: Iridology, Iris, Brain, Nervous system, Embryo development, Constipation, Colon health, Cancer

Health and Disease by Iridology Examination

by Professor Serge Jurasunas

Today with all the recent developments and new devices found in both conventional and alternative medicine, we may wonder if iridology is as reliable and has still kept a place in the diagnosis of patient diseases, biological terrain, and organic function. I originally learned about iridology when I first met Dr. Bernard Jensen ND, DC, PhD, back in 1962 in Los Angeles. He was probably the greatest or at least one of the greatest iridologists of his time, a true pioneer of the past century. I have always been fascinated by iridology since observing an iris is like opening a window on your patient’s physical, psychological, and hereditary condition, which to me is critical in understanding your patient’s disease.

Over the past 50 years, I have always used iridology even if we have other modern equipment at our disposal, including molecular markers testing, because I feel that iridology should remain the main diagnostic tool for a true Naturopathic doctor. Lately, many medical doctors have been taking iridology courses which really favors this science.

A Brief View of Iridology

We could say that looking into the iris is a relatively new science but, historically speaking, it is not. Even if we refer to Ignazt Von Peczely (1822-1911) as the father of iridology, the oldest archaeological records show a form of iris interpretation was used in Mesopotamia as far back as 1000 BC. I personally have a copy of an iris chart dated from 600 BC found in a cave in Israel. We also have some references by the physician Philippus Meyers in the year 1670, where in his book he described the division of the iris according to the organ regions of the body. Dr. Henry Lindhar, MD, DO, introduced iridology in the USA and published his book Nature Cure: Philosophy and Practice, a monumental work, in 1913. Other well-known names include Dr. M. McLain, F.W. Collins, and H. Kristzer. This does not even mention the German pioneers and the enormous amount of publications made since 1913. So, yes, iridology is not new. While we can say iridology’s teaching and practice were done under an empirical state, the same can be said for medicine and even oncology at the beginning.

Why the Iris Can Reflect the Body’s Organs

Recent new discoveries in embryology are finally showing some strong support regarding the relationship between the iris, the brain, the nervous system, and the position of the organs found in the embryo. With regard to human embryology, iris tissue derives from the same embryological layer as the nervous system, we call the ectoderm. Since the eye is formed from embryonic brain tissue, it has a real neurological umbilical cord in which the written data derives from the parental body’s condition and nervous system. It is interesting to learn that the hypothalamus has a rich neural connection with all aspects of the eyes, including the iris, pupil, pigmented retinal epithelium (IPB), retina, and sclera during the embryo’s development and maturation in-utero. The hypothalamus receives, processes, and sends information to the eyes and iris constantly. Observing both the brain area and the hypothalamus remains one of the major examinations in iridology. In fact, the eyes are connected directly with the sympathetic nervous system and the spinal cord, while the optic tract extends to the thalamus area of the brain itself functioning as a major relay and integration station for the information that goes to all the areas of the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, hypothalamus, and brain stem.

Iris analysis can uncover hereditary parthenogenesis decades before any symptoms occur or conventional diagnostic testing may be able to reveal. In fact, over my decades of practice, I have predicted physical disease and cognitive disorders, even cancer, to patients that came back to me after four years or even after 30 years later with a diagnosed disease. I even mention such an example in my book along with supporting iris photos.

This was possible because all the parental inheritance was included right at the beginning of embryonic development cycle since the eyes are formed before the organs start to differentiate with all the genes already being present in the mass of iris cells, fully encoded with the genetic system. When we are born, all the data related to the tissues of the organism, the nervous system, the mechanical and psychological brain, the organs, and the lymphatic system are already imprinted in the iris stroma just like a map or cartography.

Embryonic Development of the Nervous System and Gut

This article cannot describe the whole science of iridology since this needs a book by itself. It does explain why or how health and disease begin in the colon and the embryonic association between the gut and other organs of the body. Long before we associated the intestine as our second brain, we utilized iridology to make this association quite visible in the iris, provided one had the knowledge and experience to do so. This is what I first observed many years ago.

All the organs of our body are formed from the three layers of embryonic tissue which are the ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm. We are going to see that the gut and other internal organs like the liver, pancreas, heart, lung, bladder, and kidney are made from the same embryonic tissue as the endoderm that also keeps a link with the nervous system and brain that comes from the ectoderm. The positions of the body’s organs in the iris chart correspond exactly to the same positions of the body’s organ development in the embryo. (See my book for more detail) Just to explain, in the embryo the nervous system is developed right along side of the gut, called the spinal nervous system or notochord. The anatomical position of the gut is located right in the middle of the embryo and the central nervous system (brain) is located on the top exactly as shown in the iris topography. The spinal cord has little branches that go almost everywhere in the body even extending to the organs, including the gut, and maintains a close relationship. At eight weeks, internal organ buds are beginning to form along the gut, extending as they develop, to feed them. (See figures)

Therefore, we have an embryologic relationship between the gut and the internal organs made from the same tissue and a relationship between the gut, the nervous system and the brain. This is what the iris can show you when you realize that organs in the iris chart are situated according to their position in the embryo. (See figure) In placing the embryo outline over the iris chart, we see the areas of the ectoderm, the mesoderm, and the endoderm relate to the location of the various organs and body structures. Now, if the tissue colon is weak where the liver buds, you probably have a bad liver and the iris will show some specific signs. Since the beginning of my practice, I always observe the colon area first and then around what is called the collarette or the autonomic nervous system that emerges from the bowel during the development of the embryo, which represents our nervous, physical, and emotional constitution and its relation with the colon itself, the liver, and the pancreas.

The collarette is a main landmark within the iris and one of our most important structures in the entire body. The difference in collarette structure that goes all around the colon as a circle in normal condition can appear contracted, restricted, in a zig-zag pattern, or even distended. This is indicative of our nervous constitution, our hereditary status of emotional and physical condition. This observation of the colon and collarette is crucial since it may inform us about the origin of a lung, liver, or pancreas disease because there is an arc reflex existing between the colon, the collarette, and a particular organ. In iridology practice, we find today that most patients have a bad liver that doesn’t detox or they have a bad pancreas; but they don’t know about these conditions. Many non-sick patients show risk of pancreatic cancer with an arc reflex syndrome visible in their iris. I remember warning a patient about a high risk of ovarian cancer because her left iris showed an arc reflex syndrome involving the ovary and a very intoxicated colon especially the sigmoid. Unfortunately, she didn’t pay attention and never came back for consultation. But four years later, what do you think? She came in to see me with the diagnosis of ovarian cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy, which she could have avoided by listening to my warning.

Often you may observe that the colon area is extended to one particular organ, like the liver or lung, for instance. Why? Once the organs of our body are formed, they are covered with tissue called peritoneum, which is itself generated from the intestine. So, all of our internal organs in the embryo are covered by this tissue which originates from the colon wall. Therefore, we can say that each one of our organs has an embryonic relationship with the colon. All the organs are placed around the intestinal tract exactly like in the embryo. This is why iridology is important as a way to diagnose a patient and know about his or her hereditary status, to understand the whole condition and the cause of the disease.

Today we also realize that intestinal disorders are probably the main problem in our society coming from unhealthy diet, stress and bad bowel function. This is central in an iris examination because looking at the colon in the iris you can observe where the weaker tissue zones are located that pick up more toxins and always appear darker. We also look at the nearest opposite internal organ by remembering the collarette’s structure. First you observe an intoxicated colon, maybe also with some inflammation, maybe a spasmodic colon, a ballooned colon, a prolapse of the transverse colon or sigmoid, maybe diverticulosis, a colitis, or even a very dark intoxicated colon resulting from chronic constipation.

This is the one subject of my book addressing the introduction of intestinal disease and how to treat it with natural remedies and diet. Besides local disease we need to also look for an arc reflex syndrome that may be the cause of a chronic hepatitis, lung cancer, lung fibrosis, ovary cancer, kidney dysfunction, and also other organic dysfunctions or symptoms. I am speaking of cancer since many readers may know my long-term involvement with this disease. Every year I still handle 200-300 cancer cases while 20 years ago it was double or more. Even with using other modern diagnostics and, for the past 10 years, molecular markers testing, I still feel that iridology is always a good diagnostic approach for cancer patients.

A few years ago, I developed an iris chart showing a breast cancer profile, being the number one cancer coming to our clinic. I discovered, over the past 40 years, the relationship between breast cancer, a very emotional disease, with constipation, which is the subject of a whole chapter in my book. As I explain, chronic constipation is responsible for a number of symptoms, organic disorders, and even disease from toxemia and auto-intoxication, which for Naturopaths may be seen as the prime cause of disease. More recently, I heard about the report from Filip Scheperjans, a researcher at the Department of Neurology at the Hospital University of Helsinki (Finland), saying that constipation precedes several years before the manifestation of nervous motor symptoms related to Parkinson’s disease. Is this anything new? I have been claiming this for years; iridology can really show how intoxicated patients with Parkinson’s disease are.

Just remember that 70 million Americans suffer from constipation with a bowel movement every two or three days or even four or five days, as it happens with many patients coming to see me. It means four pounds of toxic waste and feces are stored in the colon and sticks to the wall, developing putrefaction with infiltration of toxins into blood circulation. Some reports show that the average American accumulates up to 6 kg of feces in the colon, sometimes even more. It creates conditions for the formation of gas and flatulence, which are visible in an iris examination. Pains, headaches , nervousness, irritability, bladder infection, not even mentioning ovarian cysts, colon ulcers, bad circulation in legs, and so many other disorders can be discovered. This gave me the opportunity to develop an iris chart showing the relationship between the colon reflex points and the body organ dysfunctions, which represent the long road of my experience with clinical iridology.

Of course, we cannot forget about the brain since we are talking about the intestine as our second brain; iridology really shows the relationship between the colon and the brain, which in the iris chart is situated above the intestinal tract between 11:00 o’clock and 1:00 o’clock. Often we observe the presence of Radii Solaris or radical furrows coming up from the transverse colon and going through the brain area especially on the hypothalamus zone. First, it shows an infiltration of toxins into the brain area and affecting the hypothalamus, a gland associated with various interactions of psychoneuroimmunology–not to mention the regulation of different systems in our body, being central to appetite, energy level, etc. One other hypothesis is that neurotoxins produced by intestinal bacteria can stimulate the neurons of the intestine that in turn activate the vagus nerve going to the brain, causing nervous dysfunction.

Live Blood Analysis Along with an Iris Examination

Hypothalamus-Radial Sign

It is amazing to see just how intoxicated the blood of patients with chronic constipation, along with other diseases that include breast cancer, can become. Their blood always indicates bacterial invasion. It shows in irises as congestion of the lymphatic system, of the Extra Cellular Matrix (E.C.M.), or as bad kidney function, offering a visual record of accumulated toxins, bacteria, yeast forms like candida, heavy crystals, or oxidized fats. Intoxicated blood circulates to the brain, and we know that bacteria release neurotoxins that cause inflammation of neurons; but it also can affect our cells since intoxicated blood with lower oxygen reaches the cells and nourishes them deficiently. Cells make up tissues, and tissues make up organs, and organs make up the body. So, to be healthy, we need healthy cells; we need a healthy E.C.M. (cellular environment) and especially healthy mitochondria. If you look at the figure of the iris embryology map, you’ll find in the ciliary zone that the E.C.M., connective tissue, and the lymphatic circulation just next to the periphery of the iris is often congested, also called lymphopathy (See my book). This is the basis of Naturopathic principles. We find, in the case of chronic toxicity or inflammation, the fluid consistency of the matrix becomes stiffer causing the connective tissue to become more gelatinous and even causing an edema in the E.C.M. This can further cause a blockage in the exchange between the cells and the rest of the body, which can provoke a total collapse of the cells’ mitochondria and may initiate a process of cancer.

Today science is studying the variation of the human genome and has come to the conclusion that four letters of the alphabet, the gene ACGT, are responsible for disease and cancer. But who or what is responsible for this? Toxic environment! Yes, but also a bad colon or a bad liver. A bad nervous system due to chronic constipation can even adversely affect your immune system. So yes, Health and Disease Begin in the Colon as Seen through Iridology. Remember that the gut is the first soft tissue organ developed in the embryo. Also, we should consider that the intestine or gut with original embryonic development is in the middle of the organism and everything else derived from it. Every organ, gland, and tissue in the body depends on it and what comes from it, including food, digestion, and elimination. Everything depends on this and so do our cells and our health status, even possible future diseases.

The beginning of each treatment should be concerned with the balancing of the embryonic germinal tissue layers such as the ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm, speaking of the colon and internal organs. Such an approach also includes protocols for detoxifying the colon, liver, kidney, lymphatic system, and E.C.M. This is then followed by regeneration of the tissue cells and DNA of the intestine, including the microbiome situated in the small intestine—all well defined in the iris chart. Then, we address any internal organ making an arc reflex condition that involves the collarette needing a specific treatment. See my book for detoxification protocols and associated therapies, vegetable juice cure, and natural supplementation.

The contribution that iris diagnosis can offer to medicine and, thus, to the individual in health and disease lies in that very field of preventive medicine that makes an essential distinction between a healthy iris and person and a sick person. It can establish the constitutional weakness of a patient, his or her genetic individuality, and the family predisposition pathology before manifestation of the disease. When you observe a very bad colon and collarette in a patient, you are also looking at the colon and nervous system of parents and grandparents. In my book, you will see iris photos of a bad colon and the associated symptoms in the case of a young woman next to the iris photo of her mother having the same problem: the genetic predisposition the daughter inherited from the mother.

Often we look to holistic medicine because the whole body is one with the physical, mental, and spiritual status, which today already has been proven. This new science is called psychoneuroimmunology; but iridology has always shown that all the organs of the body are connected with each other and, that more importantly, you are observing the genetic condition of your patient. From the study of embryology and the observation of the organs and systems connecting with each other, we can say that the iris is a vital and highly credible dynamic tool for analysis and diagnostics.

Here are the words of Hippocrates: “The whole is more than the parts but the part belongs to the whole”.

References

Bernard Jensen DC, PhD. Embryo Throughout Life (Text book) 2000.

John Andrew. Embryology in Iridology (Text book) UK. 2004.

Josef Deck. Differentiation of iris marking. *Book published by the author, 1980.

Serge Jurasunas, MD(Hom), ND. The Biological Approach to Breast Cancer. Deutscher Heilpraktikertag Congress 2004, Dusseldorf. Germany. (Available online)

Serge Jurasunas, MD(Hom), ND. Health and Disease Begin in the Colon. Featuring Prof. Jurasunas’ Natural Medicine. Ingram Spark USA. UK. 2016.

Serge Jurasunas

is an internationally well-known doctor of naturopathic medicine and Professor of Naturopathic Oncology, with 50 years of clinical experience in the treatment of cancer. He is a pioneer in developing innovative therapies in cancer treatment and an expert in live blood analysis, dried blood oxidative stress testing, and iridology. Serge Jurasunas has now become a specialist in molecular markers testing related to cancer patients and patients with high risk of cancer. He is an internationally known lecturer and frequent contributor to the Townsend Letter.

For more information and to learn about cancer treatment, colon detox, iridology, and molecular markers, please visit www. sergejurasunas.com or E-mail sergejurasunas@hotmail.com. Skype: Serge Jurasunas. Phone. 351-912565038 in Lisbon, Portugal.