By Leonard Mehlmauer, ND
Grand Medicine,
For countless millennia, we humans have peered into each others eyes to see our response or reaction to our environment—and to determine our relative health. Written records from a thousand years ago show that the Chinese used sclera markings to help them understand patient health conditions—over against what they learned from acupuncture pulses. Native American cultures, including the Blackfoot and the Nez Perce tribes, are known to have used sclera markings to discern maladies.
These indigenous groups, however, were not particularly interested in research and development of sclera landscape cartography and pathology. Enter Grand Medicine. Having worked in the science since 1972, GM is now involved in a 10-year grant-supported study of how diabetes is seen in the eyes.
There are many maps on the body: the skin, the hands and feet, the nails, the pulses, and so on. Physicians depend on the eyes—an easily visible natural body map—to provide vital health data. As a direct extension of the brain, the eyes are a very direct representation of bodily conditions via the nervous system. The scleras connect immediately to the brain’s dura mater. Theoretically, other systems also express data via the scleras: the endocrine, lymphatic and cardiovascular systems seem to be showing us data thru sclera markings.
The sclera is the tuff, white coating that covers at least 5/6ths of the eye, along with its transparent extension, the cornea, at the front of the eyes. The visible sclera is an almond-shaped white area that surrounds the irises (which are the colored portion surrounding the pupils). The markings that we see there can be many and varied, depending on bodily conditions. We can define Sclerology, then, as the science and art of the various markings and colorings in the whites of the eyes as determining health.
By one eyewitness count (you should forgive the pun!), the late, great Howard Hughes actually had his eyes viewed by a practitioner in
Cartography
For Sclerology purposes, the scleras can be divided into four general sectors or Quadrants: Upper, Lateral, Medial and Lower, each showing the body a
reas common to that Quadrant. The Upper Quadrants generally show the head and neck, the Lateral the lungs, heart and other chest organs and structures, the Medial the thyroid, middle respiratory and back, and the Lower the abdominal organs and lower extremities.
Shown here is an illustration of an otherwise blank right sclera map with the pancreas area hi-lited. This was drawn from the most recent Sclerology map by Grand Medicine, as seen in the book, SCLEROLOGY—A New View of an Ancient Art (map and book available from Grand Medicine, www.eyology.com).
In terms of the eyes, good health is traditionally described as briteness and clarity by such phrases as “brite-eyed and bushy-tailed!” When we’re sick, there is darkness of some kind, which shows as dullness, redness, yellowing, the blue of anemia, and/or many other possible colors, depending on pathology. The sclera can develop various gels, including pinguiculas and pterygiums, and so on. And then, there are the lines.
All Those Red Lines
Lines can form that can go away with a good nite’s rest. Then, there are also the lines that don’t go away but get thicker over time. These are the ones that show chronic conditions. And lines can appear at different levels, both in the conjunctiva (the moveable membrane that overlies the sclera, as e-lines and o-lines) and in the sclera proper (s-lines). Lines can show their information via their type (primary or secondary), configuration (single, forked, or compound), length (long or short), thickness (thick or thin), depth (superficial or deep), shape (curved, strate, or angled), color (see above), clarity / shading (clear or faded), location (origin, travel, and destination), and juxtaposition (in relation 
to the iris).
Lines in the conjunctiva layering basically express emotional reactivity as well as the commonly known redness from lack of sleep and local eye irritation. And besides the well-documented eye diseases, the scleras can show disorders of every system and organ of the body.
Most of what shows up in the scleras, as represented by the true sclera lines, is important to bodily health—or it wouldn’t show up at all. Among the many conditions that appear are tumor, trauma and injury, infection, emotions, drug embedment, irradiation poisoning, pathologically significant parasitic activity, immune depression, and neoplasm (abnormal tissue development).
The general term used in Sclerology under which these signs appear is “congestion.” Another term that is ruffly synonymous is “stress.” We have plenty of that in our lives these days. The scleras show both—and quickly. But there is relief. GranMed Sclerology Courses also teach how to deal with and manage virtually all disease conditions—and resolve them is a positive fashion. While the irises emphasize genetic tendency, the scleras are big on current pathology—what’s happening now; and their focus is cause, not symptoms. So, when the body cleanses, the scleras show the results within a few days (see www.eyology.com, click on “research”).
Learning Sclerology
There are currently only two schools in the world—including Grand Medicine—that teach Sclerology formally. Grand Medicine certifies practitioners and teachers worldwide thru intensive 6-day/54-hour courses (designed as a whole career in 6 days), followed up with rigorous testing and careful screening of applicants plus regular peer review. Email us or check www.eyology.com for a list of courses, books, maps, and GM Certified Sclerologists in your area.
Textual note: The author uses a modern English spelling that largely eliminates the Middle-English suffixes “-ough” and “-aight”.
