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German New Medicine (Germanic New Medicine)

Developed in the early 1980's by Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, head of oncology at a women's teaching hospital at Turingen _________, German New Medicine is a body of medical science which arose out of Dr. Hamer's observation of connection between disease and psyche.

"Through the millennia, humanity has more or less consciously known that all diseases ultimately have a psychic origin and it became a "scientific" asset firmly anchored in the inheritance of universal knowledge; it is only modern medicine that has turned our animated beings into a bag full of chemical formulas." -Dr. Hamer

Based on extensive research with thousands of patients in both his private practice in Rome and at the teaching hospital at Turningen, Dr. Hamer concluded that disease is only brought about by a shock experience for which the patient was totally unprepared. Symptoms generated within the body, whether systemic, anatomical, or psychological, originate in an orderly fashion specific to the type of conflict-shock experience which is registered in the patient's psyche and brain. These biological responses are not within our conscious control.

Further, Dr. Hamer's thesis presents the concept that every disease symptom is either an active response to an unresolved shock experience, or is a healing symptom which occurs when the body spontaneously begins to heal itself after resolution of the conflict, either by a change of circumstances or by a psychological coming-to-terms.

Lastly, Dr. Hamer observed that microbes - specifically fungi, mycobacteria, and bacteria - are only active participants of the disease process during the healing phase of a shock experience, and that the types of microbes which will be observed in diseased tissue always correspond to the type of tissue and therefore the type of shock which has been involved.

The implications of Dr. Hamer's observations and conclusions have enormous implications for the entire field of medicine, and, if recognized as a discipline, would impact virtually all medical practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness in human beings, as well as in veterinary care. Virology and epistemological theory - indeed, the entire Germ Theory of Disease - do not agree with Dr. Hamer's observations about the controlled and orderly manner in which microbes become involved in disease process. The German New Medicine cannot reconcile with the notions of "malignancy" and "metastasis" in what traditional oncology refers to as cancer. Instead, symptoms which arise in the body in response to a conflict experience are seen as a special biological response to an unusual situation, and when the "shock" situation is resolved, the body sets about returning to normalcy. Indeed, the very concept of an immune system, as it is understood by conventional medical thought, does not reconcile with Dr. Hamer's basic realization that, if we can in any way be prepared for a shocking event (or recover promptly), we will not become ill.

Dr. Hamer was not able to present his thesis ("Documents of the New Medicine") to the University of Tubingen, despite a review process, court orders, etc. The thesis presents what are referred to as the five biological laws: The Iron Rule of Cancer: every internally-originated symptom (other than those caused by poisoning or other physical trauma, or malnutrition) originates from the experience of a shock event for which the individual was completely unprepared. The nature of the shock experience - it's psychological content - corresponds with the form and location of the disease in the body, as well as the appearance of a focus of heightened electrochemical activity in a corresponding area of the brain. Thus, German New Medicine makes diagnoses of conditions from several sources: the patients bodily symptoms, the patient's description of their conflict experience, or from observation of a brain CT scan. From this perspective, healing and prevention of disease would therefore require a psychologically-supportive and non-isolating environment for the patient, as well as promotion of psychological resiliency as a primary disease prevention model.

The two-phased nature of disease: A patient who has not solved their conflict is in the first, active conflict phase, where the sympathetic nervous system predominates and which manifests as a “cold disease” accompanied by cold skin and extremities, stress, weight loss and sleep disorders. If they manage to resolve the conflict, they enter a second, post-resolution healing phase, in which the parasympathetic nervous system predominates, commonly diagnosed as a separate “warm” (rheumatic, infectious, allergic, etc.) disease. This second phase is the one which usually entails more risks, and a complete cure only comes upon its completion. In some circumstances, not solving the conflict but downgrading it to a reasonably livable level may be preferable than facing the second phase.

The ontogenetic system of diseases: Hamer proposes that disease progression is primarily controlled by the brain, either by the "old brain" (brain stem and cerebellum) or the "new brain" (cerebrum). The old brain controls more primitive processes, having to do with basic survival, such as breathing, eating, and reproduction, whereas the new brain manages more advanced personal and social issues, such as territorial conflicts, separation conflicts and self-devaluation and identity conflicts. Hamer's research is tied to the science of embryology because he links the type of disease progression—whether involving tissue augmentation (tumor growth), tissue loss (necrosis or ulceration) or functional impairment—with the embryonic germ layer (endoderm, mesoderm or ectoderm) from which both the organ tissues and the corresponding brain regions originate. Conflicts which have their focus either in the brain stem (which controls body tissues that derive from the endoderm) or the cerebellum (which controls tissues that derive from the mesoderm) show cell multiplication in the conflict active phase, and destruction of the resulting tumors in the healing phase. Cerebrum directed conflicts (affecting the rest of mesoderm-derived tissues and all ectoderm-derived ones) show either cell decrease (necroses, ulcers) or function impairment or interruption in the active phase, and the replenishment of the damaged tissues in the healing phase (which can also be diagnosed as a tumor). Major implications for treatment, use of drugs and radiation, approaches in psychological care. The German New Medicine recognizes that substances ingested into the body will impact the body by impacting the brain, just as our own natural hormones impact our brain. The brain will interpret chemicals, radiation, and environmental signals as being either "cooling" (stress-inducing, stimulating the sympathetic nervous system) or "warming" (relaxing, stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system). "Cooling" therapies such as an antibiotics, caffeine, steroids, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment will exaggerate active-phase symptoms, but will counteract healing-phase symptoms and, according to Dr. Hamer, should be applied appropriately in order to help ease a patient through acute symptoms of the healing phase. Conversely, "warming" therapies such as opiates, heat treatment, may help a patient to ease conflict-active symptoms, but, once their shock experience is resolved and their system enters the healing phase, a warming therapy can exaggerate healing symptoms to the point of fatal overdose.

The ontogenetic system of microbes): Microbes do not cause diseases but are used by the body, coordinated by the brain, to optimize the healing phase, provided that the required microbes are available when needed. Fungi and mycobacteria work on tissues that originated in the endoderm, as well as on some of the tissues originating in the mesoderm. Bacteria work on all mesoderm derived tissues and viruses on ectoderm derived ones. Hamer maintains that these microbes, rather than being antagonistic to the body, actually perform a necessary role in healing. And that some of the interventions of conventional medicine are counterproductive, by interfering with these natural processes.

The Quintessence: The conflict active phase and the healing phase of diseases, as described above, constitute “special meaningful programs of nature,” developed during the evolution of the species, to allow organisms to override everyday functioning in order to deal with particular emergency situations. Therefore according to Hamer no real diseases exist and what established medicine calls a disease is in reality a "special meaningful program of nature" (sinnvolles biologisches Sonderprogramm) to which bacteria, viruses and fungi belong too. Hamer's GNM explains every disease and treatment with those biological laws, making traditional medicine in most cases obsolete in his view. The cure is always the resolving of the conflict. Some treatments like chemotherapy or pain relieving drugs like morphine are deadly according to Hamer.[8][9]