The German New Medicine of Dr. Hamer
I’m presenting this series of articles as a simple introduction to the extraordinary medical research of Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer.
Dr. Hamer’s important and vast body of work is no less than a new discovery of natural science as it applies to human health and illness, based on five empirically discovered and documented laws.
His work tackles the problem of cancer and other chronic diseases, and gives us a new basis for understanding how and why disease arises, and where the real solutions lie. His book “Summary of the New Medicine” explains in detail the complete process.
The research shows exactly how emotional conflicts end up manifesting as physical disease, how the whole disease process can be understood as an adaptive mechanism, and how we can heal. For bringing that mind/body perspective into the realm of modern medicine, it’s an eminently valuable contribution.
German New Medicine, as it is called, is a new methodology so clear and logical that we would wonder how we could have accepted the old assumptions. Even in this short gist you may find all of your assumptions about disease and healing challenged. So be prepared for an interesting look at the old beliefs in light of this new research.. and in the spirit of the New Medicine, let’s see how those old beliefs might be reevaluated.
German New Medicine shows us that the draconian medical treatments we’re familiar with are most often misguided, unnecessary, and damaging. We do have other options, ones that truly heal, not just suppress and weaken us over time.
With this new understanding, we can begin to squarely address the stressful life issues that cause disease, and work at the real causative level to assist the disease process to its natural healing resolution. The “cures” we’ve been seeking are perhaps not where we thought they’d be, and healing is not so elusive anymore.
Acceptance of German New Medicine may be a slow process, but in 1998 at the University of Trnava, Slovakia, a double blind study was conducted that verifies Dr. Hamer’s work scientifically, and several other similar studies have also verified the New Medicine.
We are seeing the beginning of a radical transformation in medicine, which will demystify disease and allow us to voyage into the realm of real knowledge beyond theory and dogma.
The article is in six parts, divided into three posts. Please see the end of the last one for the links to recommended reading.
Part 1: Overview of Dr. Hamer’s German New Medicine
Part 2: How and why disease develops: The conflict phase of disease
Part 3: The healing phase of disease and the role of microbes
Part 4: Treatment
Part 5: Comparison of German New Medicine and the conventional view
Part 6: The International Meta-Medicine Association
Note: This information is for educational purposes only, and doesn’t constitute medical advice. For chronic health issues, I would recommend working with a Heilkunst practitioner. (See articles on Heilkunst).
Heilkunst is probably the most powerful treatment modality we have today, and it embraces the understandings that Dr. Hamer has discovered vis-a-vis the emotional underpinnings of disease.
Happy paradigm shifting!
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Hi there! I teach German New Medicine in Los Angeles area. Where are you located?
best,
Margo
(818)903-1630
Hi Margo, that’s wonderful! Do you have a website?
I’m in upstate NY, having some emotional trauma from the awful weather :).
Best,
Karen
Happy paradigm shift? Happy lobotomy would be more accurate. That’s what is needed to believe something like the Germanic New Medicine.
Hi Johannes, instead of simply dismissing it, it would be useful if you’d like to discuss your understanding of the principles themselves and what fallacies you see specifically. I’m interested in rigorous discussion, not blanket statements of opinion that don’t futher real discussion.
I don’t think Dr. Hamer is interested in anyone believing his work, but understanding the principles scientifically. Belief isn’t what we’re after here.
-Karen
Hi Karen! Thanks for your reply and your willingness to discuss. Most of the disciples of GNM I have encountered so far are not so eager to learn anything new aka anything that goes beyond their precious belief. As a medical doctor myself I can say that it takes only superficial knowledge in biology to dismiss 3 of the 5 “laws” of the GNM. The most easily observed fallacy is that germs don’t casue harm but are mere co workers of the body. Anybody with as much as a petri dish and a microskope can find out that the Henle/Koch postulates are valid. that means, we get sick by infection with several bacteria, these bacteria aren’t there to cleanse necrosis after the illness is “resolved”.
See you soon - happy to continue discussion… Johannes
Hi Johannes,
>>Thanks for your reply and your willingness to discuss.
And thanks to you too! Discussion that isn’t simply a defense of beliefs is very refreshing!
>> Most of the disciples of GNM I have encountered so far are not so eager to learn anything new aka anything that goes beyond their precious belief.
I understand, and I see that in every discipline. I’m not a guru or disciple of anything, and wherever I can discern truth, that’s where I go.
>>As a medical doctor myself I can say that it takes only superficial knowledge in biology to dismiss 3 of the 5 “laws” of the GNM. The most easily observed fallacy is that germs don’t casue harm but are mere co workers of the body. Anybody with as much as a petri dish and a microskope can find out that the Henle/Koch postulates are valid. that means, we get sick by infection with several bacteria, these bacteria aren’t there to cleanse necrosis after the illness is “resolved”.
Yes, I think your observation is valid, so let me clarify. The microbes that Dr. Hamer is talking about are the pleomorphic ones that shape-shift according to the milieu. Besides those, there *are* infectious microbes for sure, such as the lyme spirochete, the microbes that cause cholera, yellow fever and certain other infectious diseases. However, that list is fairly limited. Then there are other conditions like AIDS and cancer where any viruses that may be found are correlations not necessarily causations, and don’t fulfill Koch’s postulates.
A very interesting small book on this subject is The Curse of Louis Pasteur, by Nancy Appleton. Also, the book The Dynamic Legacy, Book Two, by Rudi Verspoor, has an extensive, well-referenced treatment of this topic.
It would take a longer discussion to lay out the fallacy of the germ theory; it applies according to its true jurisdiction but not to many chornic illnesses that the medical establishment has decided to blame a microbe for. Bechamp found that the body was not in fact sterile. He saw that microbes could be seen arising within the body (he experimented on cats), when there was no possible exposure to external microbes. So given that pleomorphism is a real phenomenon, now we have to determine when it applies, and when a given disease is the result of an external infectious microbe. It’s not only one or the other, but of course there are proponents of the germ theory and proponents of pleomorphism, with each wanting to own the whole territory!
And when something found by an independent researcher such as Dr. Hamer seems too easily dismissed, I tend to give him the benefit of the doubt while I look further to see how he substantiates his findings.
I don’t think that GNM is the end of the discussion on this. It’s an important link for the understanding of the connection between mind and body. But as for therapeutics, I think that Dr. Hahnemann’s Heilkunst system of medicine goes further.
Happy to chat further,
Karen
Sorry for waiting so long to reply – I have been pretty busy this month.
I would like to discuss some of your statements and would be glad if you could explain some things.
“The microbes that Dr. Hamer is talking about are the pleomorphic ones that shape-shift according to the milieu.â€
Pleomorphic Microbes – I have heard of this hypothesis in two different ways. First, there are some people who claimed that the bacteria are indeed one big family and can shapeshift to various other forms of bacteria if neccessary. Unfortunately nothing like that could be confirmed (I have found just one or two books cited in the internet) in lab testing. Since the age of genetics the idea seems even more improbable – we have mapped the genome of several bacteria and have changed many environmental milieus but never seen shapeshifting going on. This would be like a dog morphing into a cat when there was the need to climb a tree.
Second, and since Hamer speaks about viruses and fungi, too, I have heard about the idea that even these 3 families could morph into another. I guess you don’t mean this by your statement, because this hasn’t been observed, too. Genetically this would be a dog morphing into a mushroom and then into a dinosaur if neccessary.
(to be continued)
(continued)
“However, that list is fairly limited. Then there are other conditions like AIDS and cancer where any viruses that may be found are correlations not necessarily causations, and don’t fulfill Koch’s postulates.â€
First, Aids and cancer are different things. In AIDS we have indeed sucesfully identified the HI Virus as a cause. No person without the virus gets the disease, and as you might know, a huge amount of people gets regular tests against this Virus (Elisa, PCR, Western Blotting, Antibody tests) during blood donations, regular healthchecks among medical personal and deliberate testings of concerned individuals. And the anti-retroviral meds aren’t the cause for the disease, as a short trip to Africa where people in endemic areas can’t afford the medication might show. Nobody says that antiretroviral medication has no sideeffects or would help forever – but nobody in his/her right mind would deny the cause and effect of AIDS when knowing all the facts. And if the postulates of Koch aren’t valid in AIDS, why do condoms and proper medication (in case the partner doesn’t know) help stopping the distribution of HIV/AIDS, while unsave sex is transmitting the disease (in case the partner doesn’t know, too)?
And the list of dangerous bacteria and viruses is not so short after all. Jut think of salmonella, tetanus, rabies, measles, scarlet fever or even single celled parasites like in malaria. Cancer can be caused by viruses, too, by activation of protooncogenes or continued inflammation, but this isn’t the majority of cancer. Mostly it is a mutation caused by errors in reading, radiation, chemical cancerogens and so on. (to be continued)
(continued 2)
“A very interesting small book on this subject is The Curse of Louis Pasteur, by Nancy Appleton. Also, the book The Dynamic Legacy, Book Two, by Rudi Verspoor, has an extensive, well-referenced treatment of this topic.
It would take a longer discussion to lay out the fallacy of the germ theoryâ€
Well, I think in this thread I shouldn’t discuss homeopathy, but the Germanic New Medicine…
The curse of Lois Pasteur…fallacy of the germ theory…†it applies according to its true jurisdiction but not to many chornic illnesses that the medical establishment has decided to blame a microbe for  Bechamp (well, debunked, I don’t dig deeper into the cell-morphing and biophoton stuff)…
No, it is only germ theory. The human body is indeed sterile. Millions of blood samples are cultivated each year and only in sick persons there are any microbes detectable. Not every chronic illness is, of course, caused by pathogens. But since the immune system is sometimes overreacting, chronic illnesses can be caused by it due to pathogens long annihilated from the body. Speaking of annihilation – the immune system is evolutionary “designed†to fight specific pathogens. All pathogens. That’s why vaccinations work so well.
“And when something found by an independent researcher such as Dr. Hamer seems too easily dismissed, I tend to give him the benefit of the doubt while I look further to see how he substantiates his findings.“
In nearly 30 years Hamer hasn’t produced anything that could convince anybody that wasn’t a complete layman or a delusional doomsayer. And I have encountered both. I wouldn’t say that his “findings†are easily dismissed, but rightfully.
“I don’t think that GNM is the end of the discussion on this. It’s an important link for the understanding of the connection between mind and body. But as for therapeutics, I think that Dr. Hahnemann’s Heilkunst system of medicine goes further.“
Hamer himself regards homeopathy as tampering with symptoms. And I would rather not discuss homeopathy here… But even though every medical doctor worth his/her money knows about the connection between mind an body, Hamer hasn’t contributed anything worthy to the further understanding on this topic.
THX for reading and best wishes - Johannes
Johannes
Even before reading about Hamer’s work i found the “evidence” of HIV causing AIDS very thin. If you look at these test, they only detect antibodies, none of wich are specific for AIDS, but can be antibodies for various other diseases.
In africa it is even worse because the criteria for determing AIDS are not based on antibody tests but on criteria like ‘more than 10% weigth loss”, “chronic diarrhea for more than a month, “
In the past there used to be people there who died of malnutrition, poverty and all sorts of diseases. Today we say they are dying of AIDS which is probably easier for us. see for example http://www.duesberg.com/subject/africa2.html
Dr. Hamer gives a much better explanation.
2 explanations for the sexual transmittance of AIDS without need for a virus
1)If someone is diagnosed with AIDS, his/her partner will want to get tested. Given the nature of the test this can lead to positive results for all sorts of reasons, including pregnancy.
2)The shock of your partner being diagnosed with AIDS, the shock that you had unsafe sex with a person stigmatized with AIDS or even the fear that you have aids can according to dr. Hamer give rise to the symptoms.
Thanks for all the good discussion here. I’m trying to work out a way to accommodate longer discussions in this format, where currently the site is only set up for brief comments. As you can see, the entries don’t create new pages as needed but just continually scroll down forever :). Thanks for bearing with me! I hope to be back in the discussion soon. For now, please feel free to carry on.
-Karen
I’m, a practitioner of an NGM off shoot. I have doubted Hamer’s germ theory or at least parts of it. Infections get out of control and can be life threatening. I encourage the use of antibiotics. I, as Hamer have good results helping people with cancer and other illnesses.
I’m aware of several practitioners that have lost patients due to infections in both in NGM and in Total Biology. They having told the client that antibiotics will only slow the healing phase.
Before the advent of sterilization the mortality from surgery was horrendous. I’m aware of only one case in the American Civil war of a surgeon surviving an abdominal wound because he used carbolic acid to cleanse his wound. He removed the bullet and sewed himself up. The other surgeons viewed him with horror; it was not normal to be infection free. They would not allow him to use carbolic acid on other patients.
I believe that pathogens are opportunistic, but that our emotional state also plays a major role in disease. I tell people you need both, the conflict and the microbe to be present to get sick.
I have had patients that have had excellent results with the Rife Machine. Though I still have serious doubts about its ability to kill cancer, it seems to work well with infections. I believe the Rife device seems to work because the cancer may be already in the healing phase.
Hi Stephen,
Thanks for your insightful comments.. and I fully agree with your view, which really transcends either side of the argument. To hold to a categorical imperative on either side is to miss recognizing the deeper level of function which is etheric and can’t be lined up into neat categories as the one-sided intellect always wants.
The Heilkunst system of medicine recognizes that when the state of mind is altered, there is susceptibility to disease, which means that the life force of the individual is penetrable by the disease entity, whatever that may be. Without that susceptibility, the microbe can be there but it can’t penetrate and engender disease. This is rather like a sexual act, as Dr. Hahnemann and Wilhelm Reich explained. It takes two to tango.
Even among natural medicine practitioners there is a kind of split in their thinking, where the use of drugs when appropriate is thought of as being in the other camp, the allopathic side, and we don’t want to be on that other side. But alopathy only means without principle, applying treatments to make symptoms go away without understanding any principles involved. What we really want is the higher consciousness that knows the true diagnosis and can apply the proper remedy according to principles of natural law - a truly principled approach. It doesn’t mean that we can’t allow the use particular tools just because allopathy uses them. (Of course we can’t legally diagnose, prescribe or dispense drugs, but we understand when they may be needed). It just means that the choice of remedy needs to flow from this deeper understanding of principle, and Dr. Hahnemann actually had a jurisdiction for surgery and palliative measures, right within his complete system of medicine called Heilkunst. He recognized that if the life force is completely overwhelmed, it may not have the wherewithal to complete the second part of the 2-fold remediation process. You can give all the correct remedies and yet if the life force can’t respond with its counteraction to complete the healing phase, it can’t succeed.
Usually we use “regimen” (diet, supplements, proper sleep, etc.) to support this sustentive aspect of the life force, but the limiting factor is always the patient’s vitality and whether its sustentive power can be roused enough to engage in healing. At certain times when a disease process is so advanced, it may be necessary to kill the messenger, even though we know that the messenger is not the cause, but to buy time and take some of the burden off the life force so it can engage in healing,
The state of mind and the microbe aren’t separate - in infectious disease, the microbe is just the carrier of what Hahnemann called the disease wesen, the etheric essence or entity. Each disease entity is actually a state of mind primarily. And in cancer, there are microbes present but they can’t cause anything if the cancer state of mind is not present. The Rife machine is limited, because cancer isn’t a microbe but a state of mind, and if you kill every last microbe without removing the disease state of mind, the microbes will simply return.
This doesn’t mean that psychotherapy is then the only remedy, because the disease state is lodged in the etheric body and needs to be removed with remedies that resonate on that level - what is commonly called “homeopathy” but is not limited to the narrow jurisdiction of homeopathy proper. Dr. Hahnemann’s complete system of medicine maps out the territory.
If a patient had a tumor cutting off their breathing, I think it would be obvious that emotional work at that point has to take a back seat to the immediate problem of removing the obstacle in a crude way, just like a person in severe pain may need a crude painkiller temporarily. In Dr. Hahnemann’s system, this still comes under the umbrella of a principled approach. At the same time, we can be giving remedies to remove the disease entities including the iatrogenic diseases caused by drugs, and the traumatic diseases caused by surgery.
When people are using suppressive drugs on an ongoing basis, certainly that does slow the healing phase, but we don’t throw up our hands in resignation - the genius of Dr. Hahnemann’s medical system is flexible enough to work with these situations and wisdom of the life force itself has an amazing capacity to find creative solutions, given proper treatment.
Also about mortality from surgery.. it’s not only the risk of infection at issue, but the multiple shocks and traumas involved, and the remedies for that can be given before and after surgery to help the patient handle it better and lessen the risk of infection.
-Karen
Anyone interested in the dangerous in Hamer should please read this:
http://anaximperator.wordpress.com/category/german-new-medicine-gnm/
There is no scientific evidence whatsoever for any of Hamer’s claims.
Granted, there is no evidence from conventional science to support Dr Hamer’s findings, and yet true science goes far beyond the constraints of mainstream medical journals. If we look at all the great scientific advancements in history, many were dismissed at first by mainstream dogma.
It is not only that there is no evidence to support his findings, there is an abundant amount of evidence which proves him wrong.
For example:
- his theory that cancer is always caused by a sudden emotional trauma;
- his theory on cancer metastases;
- his theory on germs.
Everything Hamer says can be so easily refuted that I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone should still fall for it.
The German New Medicine is quackery in its darkest, most evil form. Please beware of this man and his followers. It will only bring misery.
Evidence may be abundant, but the question is, is it truly sound. That kind of deeper questioning requires a kind of discernment that is not the forte of material science.
I encourage everyone to use their own critical thinking to bear on anything they read. The only way you can harm yourself is by abrogating personal responsibility and “following” beliefs that you have not digested and brought to the level of knowledge. Even then, you can always learn from the experience.
So there is no reason to dismiss information simply because it doesn’t fit into the mainstream paradigm, but it can be immensely useful to bring some true objective discernment to bear, if one wants to take the time and energy to explore more deeply than the surface appearances.
It can also be immensely beneficial to one’s personal development to explore their subjective judgments about these things.
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