Why Alternative Medicine?

I use Dr. Jensen’s Master Chart as a guide: we use the face of a clock to segment the iris into the organs and systems we want to assess. We also use zones to further segment the iris and identify areas of focus related to assessing healthiness. There are seven zones: stomach, intestines: colon and digestive system, on outside of the autonomic nerve wreath, vital organs, inside of organs and outside of organs, lymphatic and circulatory system, and skin. We pull all of this information together to make our recommendations to clients. The information obtained tells the NHP about a client’s past, present, and future health. With kinesiology you can determine when a past ailment or condition first presented. The information can tell you what the client needs to strengthen now and what has potential for causing problems in the future.

The rayid model of iridology provides information about psychological states, personality, and behavior based on the pattern of the iris itself. Jewels (mental type); flowers (emotional type); streams (kinesthetic type), and shakers (extremist type). I am doing research on this model in the psychological portion of my practice.

Alternative Medicine is that body of medicine providing you with a choice when it comes to dealing with your health. With the high cost of managed care, for example, we need to be able to maintain our own health. We need to be able to know what is going on in our bodies so that we are not dependent on traditional medicine. I am by no means suggesting that you no longer go to your traditional medicine physician or that you stop taking your prescribed medication. I am suggesting that you become able to determine for yourself what is weak or out of balance and that you endeavor to correct the imbalance or weakness yourself or with the assistance of an alternative medicine practitioner like myself so that you will not need traditional medicine.

Iridology: is simply an assessment tool NHPs use to identify strengths and weaknesses in the body, mind, and soul. We classify the markings we see as acute, sub-acute, chronic, or degenerative. The markings are colors, shadings, and the like that provide information.

Iridology markers include lesions, lacunae, crypts, radii solaris, nerve rings, scurf rim, lymphatic rosary, sodium ring, arcus senilis, and irritations. Constitution can be assessed by observing the closeness of the fibers.

I hope you are not overwhelmed but I wanted you to leave with some things you could look for yourself without too much trouble. These are just a few of the markers used in iridology to identify areas of strength and weakness.

Modality Connections Other Therapies or Modalities Include:

In the United States, the term “naturopathy” is posited to have been coined by Dr. John Schell in 1895 describing his approach to health (Thiel, 2000). There are presently two primary views of naturopathy with respective different agendas. The first view is that naturopaths should be licensed as physicians and are a type of medical doctor who uses herbs, homeopathy, manipulation, nutrition, isolates, counseling, prescription medications, injections, and sometimes minor surgery (2000). This view tends to be one shared by those endeavoring to require a medical degree of some sort for one to be a naturopath. The second view purports that naturopathy is in the public domain and that its practitioners are not medical doctors and should employ only those modalities that are natural, and should not perform surgery or write prescriptions (2000). This latter view I share in as much as it describes something that provides an alternative to traditional medicine by practice and definition. It is an oxymoron for a naturopath to perform surgery.

Naturopathy, according to Benedict Lust (Thiel, 2000), is a distinct school of healing, employing the beneficial agency of Nature’s forces, of water, air, sunlight, earthpower, electricity, magnetism, exercise, rest, proper diet, various kinds of mechanical treatment, and mental and moral science. Further, that because none of the aforementioned agents of rejuvenation can cure every disease by themselves, the Naturopath employs the combination that is best adapted to each individual case.

What most people have forgotten or do not know is that the original naturopaths were medical doctors (Thiel, 2000) dissatisfied with the medical options available to them and others were straight naturopaths, those using only natural modalities and/or who were not medical doctors. There are still medical doctors who incorporate some form of naturopathy in their recommendations to their patients, especially in the area of stress management and nutrition. A medical degree, however, is not a prerequisite to being a naturopath and should not be. After reading this article you may feel confident about making an appointment to see me, taking a course yourself, or about doing further reading on the subject. It is my hope and expectation that you will want to do one of the above.

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