Sclerology Discourse
FUNGUS / CANDIDA
Q. Does the sclera reveal fungal conditions in the body?
A. The Sclerologist must always work from the position that the sclera reflects stress patterns, not specific diseases. It is the job of the Sclerologist to evaluate and interpret what the stress patterns reveal. Thus, the sclera shows the stress pattern; the Sclerologist evaluates the patterns, and makes interpretations.
Since the sclera reveals reflective stress patterns, if fungus is affecting a tissue, a stress pattern will present itself as a line or marking. However, the lines that Sclerologists most often find are not specific to fungus. This is because first there was a predisposing stress pattern such as a constitutional, genetic weakness; or toxic terrain. The predisposing stress pattern was already registered in the sclera either as a line or a bio-energetic static matrix in the sclera’s inner layer. This means that fungal issues are an evaluation and assumption of the Sclerologist, and a well-trained Sclerologist knows how to discover fungal involvement by looking at the whole presentation of stress patterns in the sclera.
The True Fungal Pattern. (Specific registration of fungus infection.)
Dr. Wheelwright contributed the fungal pattern to Sclerology in 1974. When fungus proliferation is the primary stress on a tissue, it can register as faint, feathery, wispy, disorganized lines in the affected area. Even so, the fungus markings only appear in the sclera for a few days or weeks and then change into an organized pattern such as a “Y” line or a “pocket line with a faint pinkish hue” as the body defines and attempts to limit fungal expression. [Examples of this pattern are taught in the International Sclerology Institute’s Art & Science of Sclerology Certification Course. See: www.sclerology-institute.org for more information.]
Thus, the opportunity to specifically pinpoint fungus by a line or marking in the sclera is extremely remote. While many people have fungal challenges affecting their health, the fungal involvement is not the primary stress pattern in the tissue. It is only a contributing stress and is often preceded by 1) constitutional weakness, 2) toxic terrain such as heavy metal accumulation, 3) pH imbalance; and accompanied by 4) bacteria, 5) parasites, and 6) viral involvements. These other contributors also exert a stress-registration in the sclera. Thus, the fungal stress is but one of several stressors that are reflected and registered as a particular stress pattern in the sclera.
In 20-years of clinical practice, I have seen five cases of true fungal lines appearing in the sclera. These were not people with a little candida overgrowth. Three were in a hospice situation, one was a medically-diagnosed fungus in a diabetic due to have an amputation, and one was in a patient with a lung disease. These were people whose lives were being threatened by a pathogenic fungal challenge.
For example, a 64-year old lady from South Texas was medically diagnosed with a rare fungal proliferation in her lungs. The fungus was resistant to drugs and her doctors were concerned that it would soon take her life.
The sclera revealed a large pocket in the lung zone encompassing 8:45 to 10:30 in her right sclera, as well as a smaller complimentary pocket in the left sclera. In these pocketed areas were the faint, feathery wisp markings that Dr. Wheelwright discovered were reflective of a primary fungal offensive.
From a treatment perspective, I knew that it would be fruitless to “attack” fungus as the medical model did. If the fungus was resistant to powerful drugs, it would probably also be resistant to anti-fungal herbs. As a Naturopath, I knew the secret to winning this case and her life was to 1) change the terrain, 2) strengthen the immune system’s response, as well as 3) inhibit the fungal activity to hasten the results. This was done with classical homeopathy and three of Dr. Wheelwright’s bio-energetic herbal formulas. Here I saw the incredible beauty of Sclerology combined with the laws of natural cure.
So the point here is, if you do see the true fungal markings in the sclera, you are dealing with a life and death situation. Otherwise, to evaluate that fungus is a concern or should be addressed in a treatment program, the Sclerologist must look at the whole picture in both the eyes and find the syndrome. Then, an anti-fungal program will benefit the patient and the practitioner can avoid putting people on anti-fungal programs and finding that the case was not cured.
The Fungus Syndrome
So, let’s look deeper at how fungus affects people and undermines their health, and how we can use Sclerology to recognize this. Since it is highly unlikely we will ever see the true fungus registration in the sclera, let’s avoid the practice of the inexperienced health practitioner and blame everything on fungus or candida. Such specious “diagnosing” has already brought much discredit to the natural health movement. Instead, let’s learn how to look at the whole picture, and like a smart detective, discover when fungus or candida is truly a predisposing condition and a treatment priority.
Fungus is most often a systemic condition. Candida (yeast overgrowth that converts to fungal pathogens) in the bowel is a systemic concern as it can effect the immune system and its by-products can cross the blood/brain barrier. Even external athlete’s foot fungus is a symptom that the immune system is not addressing fungal pathogens adequately. [The book, Conquer Candida and Restore Your Immune System provides a questionnaire based on lifestyle and symptoms to help determine if candida and fungus are primary concerns. More information at apple-a-daypress.com.
Fungus will become involved in the tissues that have a favorable terrain for its proliferation. Thus a tissue that is weak due to constitutional reasons, injury, congestion, accumulation of heavy metals and metabolic wastes, will be susceptible to fungus and other pathogens such as bacteria, virus, and parasites. The susceptibility appears first and establishes a line or marking in the sclera, or establishes the bio-energetic matrix in the sclera for a line to easily form.
Thus, once the constitutional stress-pattern is made evident by a certain line in the sclera, other opportunistic stressors such as bacteria or fungus, will generally “tag along” on the pre-existing line and not register a separately unique line configuration. If the unique fungal pattern emerges, the concern is great as it actually overrides the prior stress pattern. The same is true of a bacterial stress pattern where a simple lung line changes into a high stress pattern such as bronchitis.
Generally, when a fungus affects a susceptible tissue, it further stresses that already-weakened tissue. The fungus is doing its job according to the terrain that allowed it to proliferate, but its waste products are causing greater concern. This most often results in 1) the already-existing line registering a greater stress by darkening, 2) a “secondary stress line” evolving, or 3) an additional “Y” fork line developing. Thus most of the time, fungus involvement (or other pathogens) is a reason that a “simple stress line” evolves into a medium or high stress line thus revealing a greater degree of stress. So, fungal involvement is not a new, uniquely distinguishable line, just an elevation of the existing stress pattern.
Further, fungus stress is similar to the effects of bacteria and other parasites and often all three are involved together in a less than optimal terrain. They all feed off debris and excrete waste. Sometimes they feed off the tissue. So an inexperienced Sclerologist could easily assign the wrong name to the stress pattern and make a specious diagnosis by erroneously claiming "fungus" when really it is bacteria, general toxicity, micro-parasites, alkalosis, or a combination of concerns.
Fungus does have a unique vibratory characteristic – a step above virus and a step below bacteria, so we might assume it could have a unique registration in the sclera. But since the real issues are 1) a weak immune system, 2) a favorable terrain, and 3) toxic by-products; the Sclerologist must look at a syndrome of markings, not a special line. This syndrome includes the thymus zone (immune stress registration), intestinal dysbiosis and pH imbalance (both terrain registrations), and the effects of fungal toxicity on the lymphatic system and liver (effects of toxic by-products).
In natural medicine, we treat causes, not effects if we are true to our craft. A practitioner who treats fungus is only treating an effect and would benefit people more by obtaining a deeper understanding of the natural healing arts.
Wheelwright once stated, “Finding a fungus-specific marking is a one-in-a-million registration of many wispy-squiggly lines in a tissue reflex zone. The markings only appear when the person is desperately ill. When the immune system is compromised almost to the point of death, fungus-specific markings can be seen. Fungus-specific markings are not seen in a person with a viable immune system, but that person still can have grave fungal concerns.” Thus the Sclerologist must learn how to determine fungus from looking at the whole chart, not just one line or zone.
How to identify fungal involvement.
So to evaluate "fungus involvement," instead looking for a "line" you must look for a syndrome - a group of markings. In addition to the three areas already mentioned, the patient's case history (such as prior use of antibiotics), lifestyle, and overt symptoms that spell "pathogenic involvement" will provide more insight.
This is why it is important to chart the eyes on one piece of paper, not just look at each eye or photos individually. To detect fungus, the Sclerologist must take in the whole chart. When a Sclerologist sees an immune-compromise marking (8:50 in the right eye), lymphatic congestion (right eye 8:00 – 9:00), spleen line (left eye, 4:45), dysbiosis pattern (both eyes, 6:00); then a strong stress line in a specific tissue such as the liver or lymphatic system takes on new meaning – a meaning that may include fungal concern.
Once this overview state is reached, the Sclerologist can then narrow down the possibilities to consider that pathogenic organisms, some of which are fungus, are proliferating in the patient's terrain. Here, other modalities (such as kinesiology, electro-acupuncture, biological terrain analysis) may be helpful to quickly differentiate fungus.
Fortunately, Dr. Wheelwright developed herbal blends that many doctors find to be most effective in addressing fungus, bacteria, parasites and virus. [More information on Dr. Wheelwright’s herbology is at www.jacktips.com. Natural health practitioners can easily help their patients overcome the CAUSE of fungus by changing the terrain through natural therapies, as well as specifically helping the body rid itself of opportunistic pathogens.
Summary: The fungus-specific markings are rarely seen, and are quite severe. Instead, fungal involvement is a syndrome, a collection of scleragraphic data that the knowledgeable practitioner interprets by charting the entire sclera and interviewing the patient.
Checklist For Fungal Concerns
1. Is there an immune-compromise pattern?
2. Are there dysbiosis lines in the intestines?
3. Is there a spleen line?
4. Are there registrations of congested lymphatic pathways?
5. Are there pH imbalances?
6. Candida/Fungus Probability Checklist (see the Conquer Candida book at apple-a-daypress.com)
If many of these checklist items are present in your charting, then fungus may be a primary concern in the case. Conversely, if the fungus syndrome pattern is not present, before claiming that fungus is a primary concern, think again. That extra thought just may help you find the primary concern. When the natural therapy can help the body heal the primary concern, the body will correct many other symptoms according to its inherent wisdom. This is why the proper natural therapy can be so powerful – it harnesses the body’s own healing powers to restore itself. Best wishes in your natural health endeavors!
