Naturopath and Iridology...what do you think?!


Question: I recently saw and Iridologist and was very pleased with her services. She gave me a foot bath in which toxins were removed from my body. She also put me on a program to promote better health and a healthier lifestyle. My friends and family thinks she's a quack. Has anyone had any experience in using someone like this? If so, what were the results?


Answers: I recently saw and Iridologist and was very pleased with her services. She gave me a foot bath in which toxins were removed from my body. She also put me on a program to promote better health and a healthier lifestyle. My friends and family thinks she's a quack. Has anyone had any experience in using someone like this? If so, what were the results?

Naturopath and Iridology are both excellent. I have used both services a lot, with huge health benefits.

Two weeks ago a Iridologist looked at my eyes and told me I had a magnesium deficiency. Just got my blood test results back from the doctor and he tells me I have a magnesium deficiency. Should have listened to the Iridologist and saved myself $50 on blood tests.

I have tried the foot bath but I am very suspicious about it. I did feel better after using it and people commented that my skin looked clearer. Only tried it once so I could experience it, no plans to keep using it. It may be a con, not yet made up my mind about that one.

However, a program to promote better health and a healthier lifestyle sounds great.

Who cares if your friends and family thinks she's a quack. Most people knock things they don't understand. The only person whos views really matter are your own, and you have already said you were very pleased with her services.

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She is a quack. The ionic foot bath toxin remover is an old scam. It is a chemical reaction that has nothing to do with "detoxifying" you through your skin. Also, there are no toxins to remove, so it is a non treatment of a nonproblem.
Can I hear cash register ringing? Ca-ching !

Iridology is one of the "bodily map" based alternative practices.

First advocated by Ignatz von Peczely a Hungarian doctor in the 19th century. It was based upon his "epiphany" when he noticed a pattern in the eyes of a man with a broken leg, and it reminded him of the look in the eyes of an owl with a broken leg he had looked after as a boy. This made him think that each part of the body must be represented by a corresponding spot on the eye. That's it for research.

There is no evidence of ANY kind of a connection between the eye and and any other parts or organs. Iridologists have been given detailed photographs of the iris's of sick and healthy people, and they were unable to detect any difference.

Reflexology and Auricular acupuncture are very similar....and equally ludicrous....types of body map altmed

The Ionic Foot Bath really does work. I was trained to administer it when I used to work at a beauty salon. I've seen the foot bath change colors and the nasty smell is awful if someone is really yeasty. And when you have to clean the machine, you KNOW that this works. It is different for everybody and it will be different each time you get the Ionic Foot Bath. It is recommended that you have 7 sessions over a 4 week period and this will be equivalent to a full-body cleanse.

The saying "The eyes are the windows to the soul" has immense meaning. Any trained medical doctor can look in the eyes of a person and tell if they have liver problems, high blood pressure. An optometrist can tell if a person has high cholesterol, diabetes, hardening of the arteries by looking inside the eye. An iridologist can tell by the color of the iris if you have potential health problems. If she is any good, and she sees something, then she needs to recommend that you follow up with a medical professional. Alternative Medicine and Conventional medicine should work together.

Also, remind your family that a few hundred years ago, people who said the world was round were hung. Magnets used to be considered the "tool of the devil" and crystals (just an inanimate object with no power) are used for medicine (Lithium) and in our electronics.

Iridology is nonsense. So is the idea of removing "toxins" with a footbath. Your "naturopath" is a quack. No doubt about it.

skepdoc: if there is no correlation between the two, then success results should be random. obviously, they're not.

Could go either way on this. I think itidology is quackery, though, since when I had it done, it seemed silly. The footbath is probably nonsense. If you want to remove toxins, (pcb's, heavy metals, etc) you have to do it via the liver and kidneys, not your feet. A mechanism that cleanses/filters the blood makes more sense than a foot, which has no filtering organ in it. I'd go to another naturopath. There are many really good ones.





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