German New Medicine
It is easy to recognize that stress can lead to illness. Most of us have probably had the experience of “crashing” after a particularly stressful period, coming down with a nasty cold. We know that chronic stress can contribute to high blood pressure and even stomach ulcers. Many chronic diseases flair up or go into remission along with our stress levels such as colitis or multiple sclerosis. We can easily observe these occurrences, but medical science has not been able to fully explain most of these mechanisms. Three decades ago, a new paradigm to understand the mind-body connection emerged out of the research of Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, M.D. This new paradigm is known now as German New Medicine and provides us with a series of biological laws that link the psyche, brain, and organs in a coherent process of diagnosis and healing.
Dr. Hamer, an otherwise robustly healthy man, was diagnosed with testicular cancer a few months after the Shock of his son being accidentally shot and eventually dying. Dr. Hamer related the development of his disease with this shock he had experienced. He theorized that if a psychological shock is interpreted by the brain then translated into a disease in the body, perhaps a physical change in the brain takes place as well. As the head internist at the oncology clinic at the University of Munich, Germany, he began to explore his theory by analyzing his patients’ brain scans. What he found was a precise correlation between the type of disease, a specifically located target-ring lesion in the brain, and the traumatic history of the patient. These target lesions had been seen before on CT scans but had been dismissed as reflections from the machine because they were so perfect. Upon further investigation with Siemens, the company who produced CT machines, finer imaging revealed that these target rings were in fact three-dimensional lesions.
Dr. Hamer’s continued research revealed a completely new medical paradigm that purports that illness is caused by an unanticipated biological shock that simultaneously affects the psyche, brain and organ tissue in a very predictable two-Phase pattern. Before a biological shock is resolved, a person is considered to be in active conflict phase which is a high stress state dominated by the sympathetic nervous system. This phase is characterized by an organ response of either cell growth (ie. a tumour) or cell ulceration (which is usually not noticeable) depending on the type of biological shock and its location in the brain. The second phase is the Healing Phase dominated by the relaxation of the parasympathetic nervous system. It is during this healing phase when we will sometimes get infections to help us resolve earlier cell growth or tissue will grow to repair earlier ulceration. Half of the symptoms that we often call disease are actually the healing phase of an illness! Perhaps the most important piece is in the understanding that every illness (other than poisoning) has a biological purpose to help protect the individual and the species. Our bodies are innately intelligent healers!
To use Dr. Hamer’s testicular cancer as an example, the biological shock that affected his testicular tissue was the “profound loss” shock of this son’s death. Mediated through the specific brain location that controls the testicular tissue, microscopic ulcerations formed during the active conflict phase while Dr. Hamer was still in shock about his son’s death. As the reality of his son’s death sunk in, he entered the healing phase in which the testicular tissue began to repair with the biological purpose of increasing virility to be able to create a new child. Our bodies try to solve our problems so logically! Without the understanding of German New Medicine yet formed, Dr. Hamer had his tumour removed although he now understands that as a healing phase tumour, it would have stopped growing on its own and been completely benign.
An example of a “disease” that is actually just a healing phase symptom is eczema. The biological shock that causes eczema is “separation” from a loved one or desired separation from someone. In the active phase when we are experiencing the separation shock, mild numbness or no skin symptoms may appear at all. When that separation shock is resolved however, we develop eczema that will take 6-8 weeks to run its course. For most people though, eczema becomes a chronic condition simply because we believe it is an illness. The powerful influence of our mind creates what is called a hanging healing in which the natural healing progression is interfered with. When we can understand where our symptoms are originating from, they no longer have to scare us and we can rest and let the body heal as it knows best.
Using the knowledge of German New Medicine in practice, we must first determine through symptoms and history (or from CT imaging) whether a person is in an active conflict which would need to be identified and resolved, or in a healing phase which simply requires rest, time, and perhaps some support. By understanding the very predictable nature of “disease” progression, as revealed by Dr. Hamer’s research, we can be free of the fear and panic that often come with the onset of symptoms and instead focus our energies on simply supporting our bodies with good nutrition, an active lifestyle, and a positive outlook!
Learn more about German New Medicine at www.newmedicine.ca and watch for upcoming talks by Laura Stark ND
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