Shaun Watson discusses 'German New Medicine'     

Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, formerly of the Universities of Munich and Tubingen in Germany, founded the        German New Medicine after extensive research and a therapeutic practice dating back to 1981. The German New Medicine is a set of findings and principles that solidly bases the nature of disease on universal biological principles and on the interaction between the three levels that make up the organism: the psyche, the brain and the organ. In German New Medicine, diseases have a biological meaning and are not mistakes of nature. In fact, we can now categorize most of the diseases known to medicine in pairs of events. These pairs are actually programs of nature relating psychological and biological events. The programs are designed by Nature to either help the individual to cope or as a selection mechanism to serve the group.

Dr. Hamer realized that his wife’s death and his own cancer had to be connected somehow with the tragic shooting and eventual death of their son, Dirk. As a medical doctor,   scientific researcher and head internist of an oncology clinic in   Munich, Dr. Hamer was in the position to be able to come to the conclusion that a physical event can create a biological conflict shock that manifests in a visible physical transformation in the brain, and leads to a measurable change in physical-nervous parameters and to the development of       cancerous growths, ulcerations,    necroses and functional disturbances in specific organs of the body.

After twenty years of research and therapy with over 40,000 patients, Dr. Hamer finally established firmly,     logically and empirically how biological conflict-shock results in a cold cancerous or necrotic phase and how, if the conflict is resolved, the cancerous or necrotic process is    reversed to repair the damage and return the individual to health.

Disease, or the meaningful biological program of nature (as Dr. Hamer likes to call it), is divided into five        biological events, all of which can be identified, measured, observed and are part of a system that makes possible a definite (not just statistically probable) prediction of events and development.

A biological conflict-shock - called a DHS (Dirk Hamer Syndrome in honour of his son) - causes the  appearance of a focus of activity in the brain - called an HH (Hamerschenherd). This set of concentric rings that can be seen in a computerized tomography scan (CT) is centered on a precise point of the brain. The location of the focus depends on the  nature of the shock-conflict or conflict contents. As soon as the HH appears, the organ controlled by that specific brain centre registers a functional transformation. This transformation can manifest as a growth, as tissue loss or as a loss of function.

Dr. Hamer further discovered that the program that is initiated after a conflict-shock is dependent on the layer of the brain that is affected, something to be understood and  explained from the point of view of evolution. The     system makes sense both from the evolutionary point of view. Dr. Hamer prefers to keep theory to a minimum and grounds all his observations and conclusions on hard, rock-solid empirical evidence, so we will be referring to ontogenesis in this summary.

For man and mammal, the oldest conflicts originate from the brain stem and result in cancerous growths - tumours. The  resolution of these conflicts leads to a breakdown of the tumour and restoration of health. The old brain controls the organs of the endoderm, the innermost germ layer in our organism. This was the first system to appear in the embryo, later to be covered by the mesoderm and the ectoderm over several million years of evolution.

All diseases start with a cold phase, activity of the parasympathetic nervous system predominates, the shock is a constant preoccupation, nights seem long, extremities are cold and meanwhile the organ lesion extends. With the brain stem (the old-brain - controller of the endodermal organs), a tumour is growing. If and when there is a conflict resolution or lysis (CL), the process will be reversed. The HH in the brain begins to heal, as does the organ. All physicians know that healing is accompanied by edema.

Biological conflict-shocks exist throughout the    animal kingdom but acquire special meaning for human beings. The conflicts of the endoderm, the first and most primitive of the dermic layers, come from the basic functions of survival, food and      reproduction. If an animal experiences a conflict-shock, it usually has something to do with a plain fact: it can be that a morsel of food is too big to swallow, that there is an obstruction in the intestine, or that there is a life or procreative-threatening injury. The types of tumours that develop often   increase the ability of the organism to deal with the specific crisis within a given time frame. If the crisis remains unresolved, the individual often dies as a result of the transformation brought about by the growth (increased hormonal release, increased digestive activity, increased strength of a tissue, etc.). If the crisis is resolved, healing sets in and the tissue or organ is often left stronger than it was before. 

For humans, these same conflicts are mediated by language and symbol systems - conflicts of swallowing, as in: I can't accept this, I can't swallow it; of inability to obtain sustenance; of uncontrollable anger; of loss of       territory: a lay-off at work, dismissal; of separation from child, partner, etc. - all conflicts which have their natural analogies but, mediated by man's symbolic meaning system, are     transposed into human terms.        Biological-conflict-shock is not a    complex Freudian abstraction; it is a real life conflict that is very acute, traumatic and usually isolating (not easy to discuss or mull over with    others). As well, the conflict catches us unaware, without any time to   prepare ourselves (sometimes even a few seconds would avoid the          formation of the HH and the unleashing of the organic program – as, for example, the expected death of a loved one).

There is another difficulty to overcome in the case of ulcers and necroses: from where are the "malignant cells" emitted, given that in cell loss there are none to be found? We were always looking for a "primary" tumour of the old brain type (another hypothesis) that could play the role of the "primary" focus. Yet nobody noticed that essentially benign ulcers or necroses of various organs (stomach ulcers, for example) would all of a sudden become "malignant" (in the PCL phase), as if by a stroke of bad luck. Continuing this train of hypothesis, the "metastatic" benign osteolysis would become a raging "malignant" osteosarcoma.

We can become humble once more and understand for the first time that nature is orderly, that every occurrence in nature is meaningful even in the framework of the whole, and that the events we have called "diseases" are not senseless disturbances to be repaired by  magicians. We are entitled to call this meaningful interplay of nature, of the whole inhabited cosmos, "divine.

Not understanding disease as a   sequential organization of two, usually opposing phases has prevented our recognizing the "meaning" of these special programs and their essential "goodness".