Identifying Hearing Loss By Means Of Iridology

Abstract

Isolated reports of hearing loss presenting as markings on the iris exist, but to date the effectiveness of iridology to identify hearing loss has not been investigated. This study therefore aimed to determine the efficacy of iridological analysis in the identification of moderate to profound sensorineural hearing loss in adolescents. A controlled trial was conducted with an iridologist, blind to the actual hearing status of participants, analyzing the irises of participants with and without hearing loss. Fifty hearing impaired and fifty normal hearing subjects, between the ages of 15 and 19 years, controlled for gender, participated in the study. An experienced iridologist analyzed the randomised set of participants' irises. A 70% correct identification of hearing status was obtained by iridological analyses with a false negative rate of 41% compared to a 19% false positive rate. The respective sensitivity and specificity rates therefore came to 59% and 81%. Iridological analysis of hearing status indicated a statistically significant relationship to actual hearing status (P < 0.05). Although statistically significant sensitivity and specificity rates for identifying hearing loss by iridology were not comparable to those of traditional audiological screening procedures.

Determining diabetes using iris recognition system

“…The pancreas is a fish-shaped, grayish pink gland about 5 in long that stretches across back of the abdomen behind the stomach. Several researchers [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] have utilized iris recognition system along with clinical iridology as an aid to doctors in making their decision. Accuracy of various iridology-based diagnostic models is being illustrated in Table 1.…”

“…Iris recognition system can also be used for clinical applications. A large number of researchers [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] have utilized iris recognition algorithms along with iridology to determine the status of the health of an individual. Iridology, referred to as iris diagnosis [7,8], is an alternate medicine technique through which colors, patterns, and characteristics of iris can be used to gather the information regarding the status of health of an individual.…”

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Avaliação da prevalência e da herdabilidade dos sinais iridológicos que sugerem Diabetes Mellitus em indivíduos com e sem a doença

“…Um iridologista, que não tinha conhecimento dos diagnósticos dos participantes, foi convidado para analisar suas íris. Uma identificação correta de 70% do estado de audição foi obtida por meio de análise iridológica e houve uma relação estatisticamente significativa da análise da íris com o status da audiência real (p <0,05) (86) .…”