IRIDOLOGY – GENERAL INFORMATION
Recently, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported an experiment where a panel of three iridologists and three eye doctors were shown a series of colored photographs of the irises of healthy people and those suffering from kidney disease.
When the results were analysed, JAMA reported “. . .no value in iridology as a screening technique for detecting or diagnosing kidney disease.”
Orthodox, that is scientific medicine, will need to look closely to discover the reasons why many people have abandoned or distrust medicine and its practitioners.
We live in a scientific world and more people are trained in science, at least to the secondary school level.
The scientific method means that no proposition can be accepted unless it is capable of proof.
Yet we are aware of the “placebo” effect, where any treatment can achieve an improvement in symptoms in a significant number of cases.
Medicine remains an art as well as a science and its best practitioners are expert in both.
At the moment, alternative medicine is all art with little science. But if it works for you and does no harm, then who can complain?
We who practise orthodox medicine are just as willing to accept the benefits of the “placebo” effect of our treatment.
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