The 5 Principle Rules of German New Medicine

In 1981 a German physician, Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, MD,[1] was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Since he was working in an oncology hospital, he knew that this cancer was treatable and mostly curable. However, he had some doubts. He began to wonder why he had this particular type of cancer, and how it could be related to the death of his son three years before. His son was shot in an apparent accident and was treated for four months before succumbing to the trauma. His father, a doctor, could not even help him, which became a great source of grief for the physician. Now, with a diagnosis of testicular carcinoma, he knew he had to deal with the loss of his son before treating the cancer. He faced his fears and grief, and after a year of counseling, without any other treatment, the testicular cancer was gone.

From his personal experience, Dr. Hamer realized the power of treating the psyche over traditional treatments of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. So, he set out to begin researching it. The university with which he was associated just dismissed his thesis outright and would not allow him to work there. He began treating patients in his own clinic, but there was a great deal of opposition. The district government finally revoked his license because he “failed to convert to the tenets of official medicine,” (as if it were a religion) since he didn’t treat cancer patients with chemotherapy like everyone else. Despite this, he persisted in treating patients, and found that other illnesses are also based in the psyche. From his research and experience, he developed what is called The German New Medicine.

The German New Medicine is an entirely different form of medicine called Brain Body Medicine, which can be broken down into three parts:

1. Psyche: The psyche is consciousness, which provides the body with life.
2. Brain: The brain controls the body through the nervous system. The brain is the mediator between the psyche and the body. The brain is trying to bring about conflict resolution in the psyche, using the tools it has in the body organs and tissues.
3. Organ or Tissue – Organs and tissues are the physical hardware of the body.

Dr. Hamer said, “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.”[2]

The German New Medicine, or GNM, is based on disease being caused by psychic trauma. If the trauma is resolved, there is no illness. However, if the trauma remains unresolved, the brain will create a lesion in the body that has the purpose of helping the psyche resolve the conflict. Dr. Hamer came up with five absolutes.

The Five Principles[3]

1. Disease comes from unresolved conflict shock.
2. There are two phases of illness: Conflict-active, and healing.
3. Tumors are controlled in the brain by their embryological tissue type.
4. Microbes exist to help healing.
5. Disease has biological meaning to help the organism respond to a psychic conflict.

The purpose of the brain is to control the body according to the needs of the psyche. The brain cannot serve a conflicted psyche. Resolve the conflict first, and then things can run smoothly. The brain controls the blood flow, immune function, and autonomic systems in the body to resolve conflict. For example, if there is the shock of the loss of a child, the brain creates extra tissue, tumors, in the gonads (testicles or ovaries) to increase the chance of creating a child.

Essentially, the brain is using the tools at its disposal to manage conflict in the psyche. In doing so, there is some sort of language being used to transmit that information. The tissues and organs affected will be related to the type of psychic conflict that must be resolved.

Interestingly, Dr. Hamer had a completely different view of microbes, as you will notice in #4 above. He found that various microbes existed to help repair tissues in the healing phase. Different types of microbes worked on different types of tissues. For example, he thought tuberculosis was healing lung cancer, causing it to be locked into calcified masses, and that by getting rid of the bacteria in the lungs, people are more susceptible to lung cancer.

Mind-Body Medicine

Does the mind really create physical illness? Science proves the association. Nevertheless, medical school teaches physicians it is the other way around. We learn to treat just the physical symptoms of disease with chemicals and surgery. Every time I hear an advertisement for a drug, I notice the statement:

“This medication may relieve the symptoms of…”

…whatever ailment it is purported to treat. We are taught about relieving symptoms, and not curing illness. In fact, we should never use the word “cure.” We are also taught to avoid accusing patients of having a psychic origin of disease.

The body and the mind are inextricably woven together; one affects the other in meaningful ways. This morning I spoke with a young woman who is suffering from multiple issues related to “fibromyalgia syndrome.” This is a “wastebasket” diagnosis. This mean whenever people have pains without a physical injury, they may call it “fibromyalgia syndrome.” This causes muscle, joint, and fascia pain all over the body due to a decrease in blood flow causing hypoxia. The lack of oxygen in the tissues causes pain as the lactic acid builds up and is not removed due to the lack of blood flow. The sympathetic nervous system impairs circulation and causes constriction of arteries, which decreases blood flow.

While all illness is not caused by “psychic trauma,” many illnesses are. In his book, The Body Keeps the Score, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, MD, describes how trauma to the brain can show up in the body in multiple ways. He calls it Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. Dr. John Sarno, MD also found emotional causes of many different types of illnesses. He started searching for the cause of back pain, and ended up finding many illnesses: neck pain, fibromyalgia, migraine headaches, arthritis, and autoimmune diseases were all associated with emotional trauma. He wrote many books on the subject. It is interesting how each of these researchers came to the same conclusion from very different angles. Dr. Hamer started with cancer, Dr. van der Kolk with mental illness, and Dr. Sarno from back pain, and all ended-up in the same place. Emotional trauma causes illness. AND the cure is dealing with the emotional issues. It can resolve the problem entirely.

This last part is important because those who persist in seeking a physical cause continue to have problems. Those with depression and anxiety may be temporarily helped by medications but continue to get worse. People who have surgery for back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain and so forth end up with multiple surgeries and are still in pain. If you don’t fix the problem and restore blood flow, the surgery will not heal properly. Then you are more likely to get infections and other complications, and the pain comes back. In fact, back surgery for pain does not have good evidence. A review article on the subject concluded:

“The available evidence does not support the hypothesis that spine fusion confers a clinical benefit compared to non-operative alternatives for low back pain associated with degeneration… or thoracolumbar burst fractures.”[4]

What to do?

Having introduced you to the “IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD” hypothesis, I want to make something very clear. People want to apply their discoveries too broadly, thinking that everything can fit into their paradigm. That is most certainly not the case. There are many reasons for illness:

• Toxins
• Anatomical abnormalities
• Infectious disease
• Deficiencies of nutrients
• Reactions, such as allergies
• Autoimmune disease
• Genetic abnormalities
• And others…

First, and above all, find out the reason for your pain. Telling someone to get over their psychic trauma when they have mercury toxicity will not help. You probably won’t think away your urinary tract infection, either. However, if you have chronic headaches, back pain, or fibromyalgia due to PTSD, you must deal with that first. In the case of cancer, you must be willing to look at the possibility of emotional, as well as genetic, and metabolic factors.

Cancer and Dr. Hamer

The point is, there is no single thing that is the “root cause of all disease.” Be open to all the possibilities. Consider everything. Go down each road and find what applies to your illness. But remember that there are many illnesses that have their roots in emotional trauma. If you just deal with the obvious tumor, for example, you will not get to the root, and may miss an opportunity to cure the cancer.

I think the greatest benefit Dr. Hamer gave us is his own story. There are thousands of people who listened to him because of his personal experience. They found their own emotional issues and were able to heal their illnesses. Dr. Hamer himself had case histories of over 20,000 patients[5] who responded to the treatment.

Blaming the Victim

Many see the theory of an emotional basis for cancer to be “blaming the victim.” While blame is not at all useful, there is another way to look at it. Dr. Hamer wanted to show that the psyche was trying to help, that diseases, including cancer, were an attempt to bring peace and unity to the body and mind. Thus, as in his own case, the patient upon finding the underlying cause of his disease, rather than be ashamed of being the cause, is empowered by knowledge.

Many years ago, scurvy was the bane of every doctor. Treatments included all sorts of poisons, such as mercury, and noxious potions, being buried up to your neck in hot sand, or blowing smoke into the colon. Despite such inhumane treatments people died of scurvy anyway. Then, one day, a British naval researcher found the cure – lime juice! It was so simple that nobody believed it, and sailors continued to die of scurvy for fifty years, until the captains defied the doctors and insisted on lime juice aboard their vessels. Knowledge of the cause cured the illness forever. I have never seen a case of scurvy. Only knowledge of the cause can bring a cure.

Likewise, we have such inhumane treatments for cancer, and people continue to die of cancer at the same rate[6]. If we could find the underlying cause we could cure cancer, instead of treating it. Don’t be afraid to look inside and empower yourself to remove the cancer from your body. Your immune system has the capacity to clean up ANY cancer so long as you are living. There are many remarkable recoveries that attest to this. No treatment for cancer is universally curative. It is therefore incumbent upon each person to investigate the underlying cause.

• Toxins?
• EMF?
• Metabolic disturbances?
• Infections?
• Yeast?
• Bacteria?
• Fungi?
• Viruses?
• Inflammation?

Yes, yes, and yes – all of these influence cancer, but you must remember that the body still allows it to grow. Don’t think that your body cannot get rid of it. It can, at any time. Emotions control the autonomic nervous system, meaning blood flow, as well as the immune system that can clean up a cancer mess. Thus, emotions can have a large effect on cancer.

Curing the Incurable

Reading stories of others who have found the courage to face their pain, grief, loss, and trauma can be very helpful. I had a recent patient who had prostate cancer and a doctor did a cystoscopy that was very traumatic, bringing to his mind an old memory of sexual abuse that he had forgotten for forty years. He understood the connection between the trauma and the cancer and continues to work on his emotional issues as he gets treatment for the prostate. Whatever else you do, don’t leave out the emotional part. As the title of the book by Dr. van der Kolk attests: THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE. You can suppress emotional trauma for many years, but it doesn’t just go away. As Dr. Hamer had to deal with the loss of his son, each must deal with grief, loss, and a broken heart by facing it with courage.

Sources:
[1] http://www.newmedicine.ca/bio.php
[2] http://www.newmedicine.ca/german-new-medicine.php
[3] http://www.newmedicine.ca/german-new-medicine.php
[4] Internal Medicine Journal Clinical Perspectives
Lumbar spine fusion: what is the evidence?
Ian A. Harris, Adrian Traeger, Ralph Stanford, Christopher G. Maher, Rachelle Buchbinder
05 December 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.14120
[5] http://www.newmedicine.ca/science.php
[6] https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics