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Introduction to Dr. Hamer’s “German New Medicine”
Interviewer: Dr. Hamer, how did it happen that you became involved with the treatment of cancer, and made your general observations concerning the connection between psyche and disease? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: Until 1978 I was not involved with the topic of cancer. I was a specialist in internal medicine, had worked for 15 years at university clinics, and for five years taught students as an assistant professor; I was a regular internist and also had a private practice for some years until 1978. Then something terrible occurred. An Italian prince went crazy and shot, without any reason or cause, my son Dirk, who was asleep in a boat. That was a shock that was completely unexpected, it caught me totally off guard. It was a shock against which I was totally powerless and defenseless. Normal conflicts and happenings do not catch us so "off guard", for we always have a little time to prepare ourselves for them. Those are the normal problems and conflicts that we all have from time to time. Those conflicts that we have for which we cannot be prepared, that strike us without warning, totally unanticipated and with utter shock, those we call biological conflicts. And so I fell ill in 1978 because of such a biological conflict, a "loss-conflict", with testicular cancer. And I suspected at that time, because I had never been seriously ill before then, that this testicular cancer had something to do with the death of my son. Three years later, as Chief of the Internal Medicine in a gynecological cancer clinic at the University of Munich, I had the opportunity to research my patients, to explore whether the mechanism had worked with them as it had with my own case - that is, whether these cancer patients too had had conflict-shock experiences like mine, leading to their cancers. And I found that, yes indeed, in all cases, without exception, such a shock-experience had taken place, and from that time on the patients had had cold hands, lost weight, could not sleep well, and one could reconstruct that the cancer they suffered from must have begun at the time of the shock. These observations were in those days so totally against all the conceptions of conventional medicine, that I, as I reported these findings to my colleagues, was immediately ordered either to leave the clinic or to renounce this idea, to abjure. Interviewer: That sounds like something out of the Dark Ages. How did you react? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: Of course as a Friesian (from Friesland, Germany), I couldn’t simply renounce what I believed to be true especially without any counterargument. So I left. As a result of being thrown out like that, I suffered another biological conflict, more precisely, a "breach of self-esteem". I can recall it quite well, because I found it a monstrosity being expelled from the clinic for presenting well-substantiated, incontestable new scientific findings. I had never before thought that such a thing was possible. It was also rather dramatic at the end, because on the last day I researched my two hundredth patient, and it was right around then that I recognized the Iron Law of Cancer. The Iron Law of Cancer (ILC)Interviewer: Could you explain to us simply, what the essential criteria of the Iron Law of Cancer are? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: The Iron Law of Cancer is a biological natural law, an inherent regularity of nature. It has three criteria. The first criterion states: Every cancer or cancer-equivalent disease originates from a Dirk Hamer Syndrome, or DHS. A DHS is a most severe, highly acute-traumatic, and isolative conflict shock-experience. It occurs simultaneously on three levels:
I call it the DHS, the Dirk Hamer Syndrome, because I myself got testicular cancer upon the death of my son Dirk, through just such a shock experience. This DHS concept has since then become the fulcrum and central point of the entire New Medicine. We must try scrupulously, for every cayse of disease, to ascertain the DHS and everything connected with it. We must try to specify what the situation was like when it occured. Only from understanding the situation at that time can we determine why someone experienced a problem as a biological conflict -- why it was so traumatic, why the shock was experienced as isolative (no one able or available to discuss it with), and why the problem was conflictive (that is, that the person in question was either unable to make a choice between two options, or else simply had no possibility to address the problem). A good doctor must be able to determine and characterize the situation at the time of the DHS. Only through such means can he/she ascertain the difference between a problem, of which we have hundreds, and a biological conflict. Interviewer: What is the second criterion of the Iron Law of Cancer? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: The second criterion states: the content of the conflict determines, at the moment of the DHS, the location of the "Hamer Herd" (= "focus") in the brain, as well as the location of the cancer or cancer-equivalent disease in the body’s organs. There is no such thing as a conflict without content -- every conflict must be about something. The content is fixed at the moment that the DHS occurs. The content of the conflict arises associatively. It is set up through involuntary thoughts, and goes right past the filter of our intellectual understanding. So for example take a typical water- or liquid-conflict. A driver of an oil tank suffers a leak in his oil tank and the oil drains out. Or a dairy trucker’s entire milk tank accidentally runs out. This will be associated with liquid or fluid, and so makes a biological conflict pattern in the mind, associated with the concept of fluid, for short called a water-conflict -- and with it comes a particular type of renal (kidney) cancer, assuming this disaster is perceived as a biological conflict. Interviewer: So, for every type of conflict, there is a specific type of cancer, and a specific place in the brain steering it? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: Yes, there is a very specific relay in the brain. In the same moment as the DHS, a very specific place in the brain undergoes something that I first called a "short-circuit" but meanwhile recognized as the beginning of a special program of the organism. In the case of our kidney cancer caused by a special "water or liquid-DHS" the special program begins at this very moment at a predetermined place in the brain causing something in the kidney. This special area in the brain can be photographed with a computer tomogram (a type of brain X-ray). The area affected looks like the concentric circles of a target, or as if you had let a stone fall into a pool of water. (This phenomenon was earlier often thought by many radiologists to be an artefact of the tomography equipment.) Such an altered relay in the brain is called a Hamer Herd (HH). The expression comes from my opponents, who dubbed these altered areas "the strange Hamer Herds". Interviewer: And what does the third criterion of the Iron Law of Cancer say? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: The third criterion says: as the conflict runs its course in the psyche, so will the Hamer Herd in the brain, and so will the cancer or cancer-equivalent disease in the organs. To put it in a nutshell -- it means that this biological conflict strikes on three levels: in the psyche, in the brain, and in the organs, virtually simultaneously. It is conclusively demonstrable that in all cases the conflict or disease run simultaneously on all three levels. And once the conflict is solved, we also see the recuperative changes taking place on all three levels simultaneously. The three levels run in parallel. The ensuing process of healing is also synchronized on all three levels. We are dealing here with a so-called "overdetermined system" in the strictly scientific sense, wherein if one knows the condition of a single level, one can infer the condition of both the other levels. We are basically taking an organism and thinking of it as consisting of three levels, even though it is actually a unit. Here’s a little story. After I gave a lecture in Vienna in May 1991, a doctor brought to me a computer tomogram (CT) of a patient’s brain. He asked me on behalf of the other 20 colleagues in attendance, among whom were many radiologists and computer tomography specialists, to say what conditions the patient had in his body and the conflicts corresponding to those. So only one level was presented to me, namely, the brain level, and from this I was supposed to derive facts about at three levels. I diagnosed from the CT a freshly bleeding bladder carcinoma in the healing phase; an old prostate carcinoma, a diabetic condition, an old bronchial carcinoma, and a sensory paralysis of a certain area in the body -- and for each of these the corresponding conflicts that the patient must have experienced. At this point the doctor stood up before all his colleagues and said, "Dr. Hamer, congratulations! Five specific claims -- five successes. The patient had exactly what you say. And you can even differentiate what he now has from what he had earlier. Fantastic!" One of the radiologists said, "As of today I am convinced of this New Medicine. Because how in the world were you able to detect a freshly bleeding bladder carcinoma! I myself had examined this CT and concluded nothing. But now that you have shown us the relevant relays, I can understand your procedure." Biological ConflictsInterviewer: How can people find out if they have had such a biological conflict, a shock that gives rise to cancer? How can one tell? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: There are very specific signs which enable biological shocks to be clearly distinguished from the normal conflicts and problems that we all have every day. From the moment of the DHS on, the patient has a prolonged sympatheticotonic effect, an extended period of stress. That is, he/she has quite cold hands and feet, has reduced appetite, loses weight, he/she cannot sleep well at night, dwells day and night on his/her conflict, and this state of affairs come to an end only when the patient has solved this conflict. And so, quite differently from normal conflicts and problems, we see with these biological conflicts that the patient is undergoing an extended period of stress that causes very specific symptoms. Thus we can observe not only the growth of the cancer, and the existence of a Hamer Herd (HH) in the brain (which, by the way, appears in the brain from the very first moment of the conflict), but also the patient has very definite outward symptoms that one cannot fail to notice. Interviewer: What happens when such a biological conflict is solved? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: In that case we again see very clear indications on the psyche level, on the brain level, and on the organ level. On the psyche level, we see that patient suddenly no longer thinks day and night about the conflict -- and he/she gets warm hands, his/her appetite returns, he/she sleeps well, he/she gains back the weight that was lost during the conflict active sympatheticotonic phase. He/she becomes quite weak and tired, and can sometimes do little more than just stay in bed. This is nevertheless not "the beginning of the end", but rather a very positive sign. This healing phase is of variable duration; it will last roughly as long as the patient’s conflict lasted. At the high point of the healing phase or post-conflictolytic (p-cl.) phase, in which the body has taken on a lot of water (edema, serous fluid), we see the epileptic or epileptoid crisis, which, although with varying symptoms, every disease evinces. From this crisis on, the body quite simply pushes out the edema, and returns slowly back toward normality. At the same time the patient will notice that his/her strength is gradually returning. And on the brain level, once again in parallel with the other two levels, we see during the healing phase that the Hamer Herd which in the conflict active phase had a target-ring-like appearance, now collects edema, and the rings on the computer tomogram become hazy, indistinct and dark, and the entire relay in the brain swells significantly. The epileptic or epileptoid crisis, which is triggered by the brain, also marks the high point of the edema. It is the point of change over, back to normality. During the second half of the healing phase there appears in the brain harmless brain connective tissues, called glia, for the purpose of repairing the Hamer Herd. These quite harmless connective tissues, which we can color white on the CT scan with an iodine contrast substance, had often been misinterpreted as brain tumors, and due to that complete misunderstanding, were surgically removed. The brain cells themselves cannot, after birth, multiply. So in that sense there is no such thing as a brain tumor. On the organ level in the healing phase, we now see something that counts for more than all these other phenomena -- the cancer does not grow further. That is, with the conflict solution (conflictolysis), the biological conflict ceases and the cancer’s growth is stopped. This is a very important finding which at the same time programs the therapy ahead. On the organ level we also see quite specific processes of repair, which we will later discuss in more detail. And the epileptic crisis also appears in the organs, together with the corresponding happenings on both of the other levels (psyche, brain). The Epileptic CrisisInterviewer: Could you describe exactly what an epileptic crisis is? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: The epileptic crisis is a process that Mother Nature has been providing for millions of years. It runs simultaneously on all three levels. The purpose of this crisis, which comes about at the highest point of the healing phase, is to bring us back to normality. That which we normally call an epileptic fit with muscle spasms, is only a special form of the epileptic crisis, namely, the one that follows the solving of a motoric conflict. Epilepsy-analogous or "epileptoid" crises are to be found in every case of disease, with varying symptoms. Mother Nature created quite a trick for this meaningful occurrence. The patient, right in the middle of the healing phase, suffers a physiological conflict relapse; that is, every patient encounters his/her conflict again, for a short time, right in front of his/her eyes. As a result, he/she is briefly pushed back into the stress phase, gets cold hands, gets centralized with cold sweat, and experiences all the symptoms of the conflict activity once again. The purpose of all this is that the brain edema now gets pressed out and pushed out, and the patient is brought back to normality. After the brief epileptic crisis the patient becomes warm again. After that he/she experiences the first urinary ("pee-pee") phase. From the epileptic crisis on, the patient is directly on the road to normalization. That means, when the patient has gotten through this crisis, normally nothing disturbing happens further. At the end of the healing phase we have the second big urinary phase, where the body then completely expels the remaining edema. The most dangerous point lies just after the epileptic or epileptoid crisis where it shows, whether or not the epileptic or epileptoid crisis was enough to turn the disease around. The best-known epileptoid crisis is the heart attack. Other epileptoid crises are the pulmonary embolism, the hepatitis crisis, or the crisis in pneumonia. We assist the patient´s body in making the necessary changes in severe cases, if the conflict active phase has lasted a long time, with an injection of cortisone. In very severe cases the cortisone injection can also be administered earlier. Examples Interviewer: Perhaps you could give us some typical examples of conflicts, and also explain why you call them biological conflicts. Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: We call them biological conflicts because they have to do with biological evolution, the development of species, and are to be found both in humans and animals, occurring analogously for both. They have nothing to do with the conflicts and problems that we so often have, which we call intellectual or psychological conflicts. These biological conflicts have a fundamentally different quality. They are by nature quasi preplanned trouble-events of the programmed archaic behavior patterns in our brains. One thinks that one thinks, but in reality the biological conflict has already associatively hit a fraction of a second before there is even a chance to think. For example: if a wolf robs a mother sheep (ewe) of her baby lamb, then the mother undergoes a mother-child conflict, just like a human mother would. The sheep-mother will get a teat cancer on the same side of her body as the human mother would suffer her breast cancer, depending on whether she is right- or left-handed (or right- or left-handed). The HH for the mother-child "nest-territory" conflict will be in the same place in the mother’s brain as the relay for the mother-child "relationship". The HH for the child-mother conflict, especially the suck-behavior conflict, will also be in the same place in the infant’s brain as the relay for the child-mother "relationship". All of our biological conflicts can be organized according to the evolution (ontogenesis, phylogenesis). Interviewer: Could you give more examples from everyday life? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: Yes, let us say that a mother holds a child by the hand, and is standing on the sidewalk, chatting with a neighbor. The child tears itself loose, runs into the street, the brakes of a car can be heard screeching, and the child is struck. The mother had never anticipated any such thing, of course, and is now suddenly caught completely off guard. She is scared stiff. The child is brought to the hospital, and lies all day long in danger of dying. The mother has ice cold hands, cannot sleep, cannot eat, is in a prolonged stress condition, and from that moment on in her left breast, if she is right-handed, a node has begun to grow. She suffers a typical mother-child conflict, with a target-ring-like configuration in a specific relay area on the right side of the cerebellum. Now let us say that the mother is later permitted to bring her child back home from the hospital, and the doctors say to her: "Well, it all worked out fine, the child is back to normal". From that moment on the conflict-solution (p-cl.) phase begins. With the conflict solved, she again has warm hands, can sleep well again, gains weight back, and has a good appetite. That is a typical course of a conflict, and it is practically the same for animals as for humans. Or take another example. A woman discovers her husband in bed with her best friend. She suffers a sexual frustration conflict. In biological terms, this is a conflict of "not-going-to-mate-with", bringing about a cervical cancer (assuming she is right-handed). The very same situation need not produce the same conflict in everyone. For instance, if the woman did not care much for her husband, and had for some time been considering divorce, then she may well experience this shocking scene not as a sexual conflict, but rather as a human conflict of mangled family solidarity. This conflict would be a partner conflict, and would bring about a breast cancer in the right breast, assuming she is right-handed. Seen from the psyche-level perspective, the same occurrence as perceived through different psyche-level constellations is only the same occurrence in appearance; in reality it can be entirely different. The determining factor is not just what happened, but rather how the patient perceived it in the moment of the DHS. This same set of circumstances could also have produced a disgust conflict with hypoglycemia (abnormally low blood sugar), if the woman had discovered her husband with a prostitute or some other offensive situation. There are several things one must find out, in order to discern, what the patient was thinking at the moment of the DHS. Because in these seconds, the track or trail is laid in the brain, along which the disease will subsequently travel. This "track" is an extremely meaningful image, because any later setbacks or relapses will all, run again, as if spellbound, according to that same track. We can even talk here about a conflict allergy. The Second Biological Natural Law of the New MedicineInterviewer: Dr. Hamer, can one treat a patient with the Iron Law of Cancer already? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: In principle yes, but the Iron Law of Cancer is only the first biological natural law of the New Medicine. There are in total five biological natural laws, which I have discovered empirically. That is, I base my views on the study of some 15.000 assembled and documented cases. If one really wants to work with certainty, one must treat every case in accordance with all five of these biological laws. The second biological natural law of the New Medicine is the two-phase pattern of all diseases. Interviewer: All diseases, not just cancer? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: Yes, all diseases in medicine run in a two-phase manner. Earlier, we in the medical profession had, in our ignorance of this law, observed some 1,000 types of diseases. Half of these were "cold" diseases, in which the patient’s blood vessels of the skin were contracted, he/she was pale, lost weight, and so on. The other 500 were "hot" diseases, with fever, dilated vessels, accompanied by good appetite but great tiredness. All these alleged diseases counted as their own, independent diseases -- now we know that that was not right. They were really only half-diseases, and logically we know now that we have been observing only roughly 500 diseases that were two-phased. The first phase is always the cold one, conflict active, sympatheticotonia, the stress phase; and the second phase, assuming a solution to the particular conflict is found, is always a hot, conflict solved vagotonia, a healing phase. In the brain the HH of both of these phases lie in the same place -- one can say it is the very same HH. In the conflict active phase it is like a sharp target-ring, and in the healing phase these rings take on fluid and melt away in edema. Take for example an old stag who has been thrown out of his territory by a young stag. He is in a prolonged stress condition. He suffers a biological conflict, namely a territorial conflict with a HH in the right side of the brain, in a particular area over the right ear. The stag rages now and things only of recapturing his territory. He doesn’t eat. He doesn’t sleep. He loses weight readily, because he is in a prolonged stress condition. He has sharp heart pains (angina pectoris), organically speaking, he has ulcera, little ulcers in the coronal arteries. And he "goes into overdrive" thereby he has the chance to succeed, defeat his rival, expel him from the area and seize back his territory. From that moment on he enters a prolonged vagotonic condition. He once again feeds well, a great tiredness comes over him, he gains weight back, and he has warm extremities. In the middle of the healing phase he suffers a heart attack as the epileptoid crisis. If he survives that he has completed the recapture of all that he had lost. That is the way of the animal kingdom, just as it is among humans. With humans the territory would perhaps be a farm site, one’s own business, one’s family or one’s job security -- we humans have many more kinds of territories. Even a car can be a territory. Among humans heart attacks are noticed only when the conflict has lasted at least three to four months, and the attack is normally fatal if the conflict has lasted more than a year and one fails to notice the onset of the vagotonic healing phase. The brain CT scan is very quick to demonstrate this. People may wonder why regular medicine did not discover the two-phase pattern of diseases long ago since this two-phased process is really so obvious and rule-governed. The answer is as easy as it has been difficult before. It was tricky, because only a certain percentage of conflicts wind up getting solved. If the conflict is not solved, the disease remains one-phased, that is, the individual remains in the conflict-active phase, wastes away, and dies in the end of enervation and cachexia. The law of the two-phase pattern of all diseases in fact only applies in cases where the individual attains a solution of the conflict. Nevertheless this law accounts in full for every disease, every conflict, since in principle every conflict can in some way be solved. The Third Biological Natural Law of the New MedicineInterviewer: What is the third law that you have discovered as part of the New Medicine? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: It is the ontogenetic system of tumors and cancer-equivalent diseases. Interviewer: What does the concept "ontogenetic" mean? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: The concept ontogenetic means here that all diseases in medicine are derivated in important ways from evolutionary species development of mankind. Interviewer: How did you discover this principle? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: I examined a very large number of cases; some 10,000, in fact, up to the time when I discovered the ontogenetic system of tumors and cancer-equivalent diseases. And I worked as an honest natural scientist should work -- purely empirically. I documented the facts of every case, assembled the computer tomograms of the brain and the histological medical evidence, and then always laid them all out together and compared them. And there I saw the breathtaking result that had up to then been considered impossible: there was a system. There were many patients with whom a solid tumor, a cell increase, grew during the conflict active phase. And there were others, that grew something in the healing phase, the vagotonic phase, subsequent to conflict solution. And such processes could hardly be one and the same. There must be two types of cell increases. There is one kind of cell increase in the conflict active, sympatheticotonic phase. The other type of cell increase occurs in the healing phase, namely, among those diseases, that in the conflict active phase had had cell decrease, shrinkage or atrophy (often called holes, necroses or ulcers). Again and again I compared these various items and formed by cell augmentation in the conflict active phase always had their relays in the brain close by one another. They were moreover always in either the brainstem or the cerebellum, the oldest portions of our brain in terms of evolution. These two brain parts together are called the "old brain". So, all cancers which in the conflict active phase make a cell increase, have their relays, the place from which they get directed, in the "old brain". And all so-called tumors, that are basically just an excessive healing process, that make their cell increase in the healing phase, had been in the conflict active phase, holes, ulcers or necroses. Their relays in the brain lie always in the cerebrum. This regular, law-governed interrelationship was discovered in 1987 and is the basis of the ontogenetic system of tumors and cancer-equivalent diseases. After the Iron Law of Cancer and the law of the two-phase pattern of every disease, the very first systematic classification of the whole medicine was laid out. The concept "ontogenetic" here means that neither the localization of the Hamer Herd in the brain, nor the type of tumor or necrosis (which means its histological formation) happens just by chance, but rather that it is all very logically derived from the evolution of men. Through ontogeny -- it is a pre-determined pattern. You’ve heard it said that ontogeny is a recapitulation of phylogeny. That means that during a human organism’s time as an embryo and an infant, the development of various species all the way up to mankind is repeated. We now recognize three different layers in the development of the embryo. These developmental layers (blastodermic layers) start building up from the very beginning of the embryo’s existence, and from them derive all the body’s organs. These are called the inner layer or endoderm, the middle layer or mesoderm, and the outer layer or ectoderm. Every cell, and likewise every organ in the body, can be categorized as coming from one of the three blastodermic layers. The cells, and likewise the organs, that develop from the inner blastodermic layer have their relays, their "control tower", in the brainstem, the oldest portion of the brain. The organs belonging to this inner layer experience, in the case of cancer, a cell increase with solid tumors of the adeno-cell type. All cells, and likewise organs, that have developed from the outer blastodermic layer, have their directing relays in the cerebral cortex, the youngest part of the brain. These all experience in cases of cancer or cancer-equivalent diseases, a cell decrease, whether it takes the form of ulcers or necroses or a loss of function on the organ level, for example diabetes or a paralysis. With the middle blastodermic layer we distinguish both an older and a younger group. The cells, and likewise organs, that belong to the older group of the middle blastodermic layer, have their relay in the cerebellum. That is, they still belong to the old brain and therefore in the case of cancer will make solid tumors of the adeno-cell type in the conflict active phase. The cells or organs that belong to the younger group of the middle blastodermic layer, have their steering place in the medulla (interior) of the cerebrum and in the case of cancer will exhibit in the conflict active phase necroses or gaps, a cell decrease. Examples are the gaps in the bone called bone osteolyses, the necroses in the spleen, in the kidneys or ovaries. So you can see that cancer is no senseless storm of wild, random cells, but rather a very orderly, understandable, and even predictable process that holds fast to the ontogenetic facts. Interviewer: So growths need not be at all like one another. Cell growth, it seems, means different things in different phases. Perhaps you can further clarify the whole picture by explaining this, with regard, to specific diseases. Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: This is really the basic reason why, until now, it had never been possible to bring the entire process of cancers into a system -- because there was no system. Conventional medicine has produced nothing more than long lists of unrelated phenomena that really have nothing systematic to do with one another. There was no law-governed linkage among them. They simply said cancer is when cells grow excessively. But as we can now see, cells in quite different places exhibit excessive growth. In the conflict active phase cells can grow, and in the conflict healing phase cells can also grow. Consider these two examples. One -- if a patient has an "inability to digest" conflict, he has already swallowed a lump of morsel of something but cannot digest it. It need not be, an actual lump of something with humans the way it is with animals. Let us say that the patient has just bought a house and suddenly he learns that his bill of purchase, has been declared invalid. The whole transaction is botched, and he loses the house to some other buyer. Then he could get a stomach carcinoma, a cell increase in the stomach that we call an adeno-carcinoma, a cauliflower-like cancerous growth. He suffers this carcinoma in the conflict active phase (and the HH belonging to it lies in the old brain, on the right side of the brainstem, in the area called the "pons"). Case Two -- a patient suffered a water-conflict, a conflict with fluid, with water or some other liquid. Example, while swimming in the sea a young man’s strength fails him and he nearly drowns, and he is rescued at the last moment and revived. From then on, he dreams for months about drowning and doesn’t want ever to go near water again. Thereby he suffers a kidney parenchyma necrosis cancer and develops cell decrease and dwindling in the renal tissue until all of the kidney’s tissue "melts away" and the kidney is practically without function. At least the conflict was solved years later because, the patient’s young daughter wanted badly to splash around at the seashore, and the patient relented and for the first time returned to the sea to spend a vacation. Now, a large cyst grew in the kidney, a cell increase during the healing phase. And the original purpose of this cyst was to support durability, with a kind of connective tissue which is meant to become kidney tissue to enable later on the normal elimination of urine. We must now look at the question. What exactly was the purpose of tumors originally (or perhaps still today)? These cancers or tumors were not senseless, but were something purposeful. Every mechanism, every process, has its purpose. For example, if a lump was already in the stomach, already swallowed, but impossible to digest, because it was too large, then the organism would make a big so-called tumor. This tumor is however not something random; those are digestion cells, intestinal cells, that produce a great deal of digestive fluid. They try to make the lump more digestible, so that the lump can then be broken up and digested safely. That is how the system operates in the animal kingdom, and how in principle it operates also in humans. In the second example, this kidney cyst originally had the purpose to build a big new piece of kidney, which really is able to excrete urine. That is the sense of these various cell growth tumors, among which we were earlier unable to distinguish. in the New Medicine we can distinguish these cell growths in the brain. We can distinguish them in their historical formation, and we can distinguish them according to the corresponding conflicts as well. And all these interrelationships are part of an ontogenetic system of tumors and cancer-equivalent diseases. All diseases that we in medicine know of run in accord with these five biological natural laws and can be examined and reproduced with an understanding of these laws. In the psyche and in the brain all symptoms are, in the same phase, also the same. Only on the organ level do they differentiate themselves from one another so much. There, the old brain directed organs show cell increase in the conflict active phase, while the cerebrum directed organs show cell decrease, cell dwindling (gaps, necroses or ulcers) in the very same conflict active phase. In the healing phase it is completely reversed. Here the old brain directed organs break down their tumors with the help of special microbes. While likewise in the healing phase the cerebrum directed organs have their holes and ulcers filled back in by swelling through the help of certain viruses and bacteria. So, our microbes are our helpful, loyal workers. The imagination of an immunologic system as an army, which fights against the "bad" microbes is simply wrong. The Fourth Biological Natural Law of the New MedicineInterviewer: I suppose we now come to the fourth biological natural law you have discovered? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: Yes, the ontogenetically dependent system of microbes. Interviewer: What role do microbes play in your system, and how do they relate to the much talked-about immunologic system? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: Up to now conventional medicine has only understood microbes as though they caused the infectious diseases. This viewpoint became an automatic assumption, as these microbes were constantly found to be present in infectious diseases. But that was not the whole story. The first phase of these putative infectious diseases, the conflict active phase, had been overlooked. Only upon the solution of the conflict do these microbes become active and do work. They are not at all our enemies, but rather they help us. They work under the command of our own organism, directed from our brain, and they assist us by clearing away the excessive cancerous growth. After fulfilling their mission they are no longer needed, or in the case of the bacteria and viruses, they help to build tissues back up again. They are our loyal helpers. The whole concept of the "immunologic system" as an army that our body has to fight against these very microbes, turns out simply to be false. Interviewer: This brings to mind the affliction, tuberculosis. What did the people who lay in TB sanatoriums for so many years really have, and what could cure them? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: If we leave aside for now pleural tuberculosis and concentrate just on pulmonary (lung) tuberculosis, then one can say that pulmonary tuberculosis is actually always the healing phase of an earlier lung alveoli cancer. This lung alveoli cancer has corresponding to it on the psyche level a death-anxiety conflict, and is always directed from the brainstem. Thus it grows in the conflict active phase, and will in the healing phase be broken down by the mycobacteria, the tuberculosis bacteria if they are present. The remnants become caseous and are coughed out, often with bloody sputum, which often shocked patients and doctors and led to new death-anxiety conflicts, so that they were thrown into a vicious cycle. But among animals it all functions according to plan -- the lung tumors are "caseated", coughed up and their little caverns remain. Thus the lung has a fundamentally better ability to breathe than the lung had earlier with those solid alveolar tumors. To be sure, if in this healing phase the necessary mycobacteria are lacking, then the tumors remain. Today we often still see, after decades have gone by, these old lung tumors that cannot grow anymore and are completely inactive. In former times we saw these caverns, emptied nodules instead, as there were tubercle mycobacteria everywhere. Cancer TherapyInterviewer: Dr. Hamer, perhaps we could now turn to the practical therapy of conflicts. Is this primarily a talking therapy? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: We must not oversimplify. We do not require the type of talking therapy as used in earlier psychotherapy, wherein one has to talk out his/her problems with another; one must of course also do that. But we would do best to look again to the animal kingdom. The animal can only survive, can only solve its conflict, through a real solving of it. The stag can only survive if he takes back his territory. The animal mother, whose off-spring was taken, can only survive if she seizes back her off-spring from the robber. (or else, Mother Nature has built in a special helping system -- if this animal quickly gives birth to another off-spring, then the conflict is solved in and by reality). Therefore, we must try among people, to solve the conflict really, in the real world, to find a totally practical solution. A man whose wife has left him needs his wife back, or needs another wife. The stag needs his territory back, or else a substitute territory. The real solution is always the best and most helpful, a permanent one. Only if that is absolutely impossible and could not work, should we then try talk therapy, as the second best alternative; it is a fall-back strategy. But I must caution against the type of therapy that until now has always been turned to in cases of psychological problems -- "you must calm yourself, you must stay quiet, you must take tranquilizers, above all you must be relaxed". In actuality, Mother Nature has programmed this stress for a reason, for it is only through this stress that the individual can overcome his/her conflict. In order for an individual to obtain a real solution we must not take away the stress, but, if anything, enhance it, so that through it the patient can solve his/her conflict. If one were to give tranquilizers to the stag, then he would never be able to take back his territory, so we would be stuck in his conflict active phase. One can see that in psychiatry through the giving out of tranquilizers, chemicals, to make someone calm, the patient is turned into a chronically ill person. As far as being able to make an effective campaign to solve his/her conflict naturally, he/she has had "the wind taken out of his sails". These poor people can no longer solve their conflicts and they often live the rest of their lives in psychiatric wards. Interviewer: Given the five biological natural laws that you have found, how should therapy actually proceed? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: We must imagine that the patient has three levels: the psyche level, the brain level and the organ level, although naturally, all three comprise a single organism. The therapy must concern itself with all these levels. Above all, it is necessary to find out the DHS, the content of the conflict shock and to spell it out. It is important to note its effects as concretely as possible on all three levels. One must work scientifically and painstakingly. We must find out whether the patient is left- or right-handed, in order to ascertain from which of the two hemispheres of the brain the patient predominantly operates. One must not only find the conflict on the psyche level. One must also be able to localize it in the brain according to the conflict phase in which the patient is at the moment of the anamnesis and examination. This conflict, this cancer disease in the body, always stands in clear correspondence to the HH in the brain. For every particular localization in the brain, there always belongs a quite specific place in the body (and so a specific cancer), and vice versa. The conflict must be solved. That works best in reality. The conflict poses fundamentally a real problem. So the mother’s child who had an accident must get well again as quickly as possible. A man who loses his job and on account of that suffers a territorial conflict, must either find another job or establish a substitute territory -- in which he joins a club, or takes early retirement, or turns to a new hobby. Thus there can be for most conflicts a whole array of possible solutions. In the animal kingdom, by contrast, most solutions are already preprogrammed. For instance, we find that many animal mothers, upon losing on off-spring to a predator, readily go into heat and can become pregnant again -- the most direct, practical solution to the conflict. In humans, pregnancy has absolute precedence from the third month on, no cancer can continue to grow, as in nature pregnancy has absolute priority. On the brain level, it is in the healing phase that we see the most complications, for the brain edema swells as a sign of healing. When pressure builds up in the brain, then the top priority is making sure that the patient does not lapse into a coma. In this phase such things as coffee, tea, glucose, vitamin C, Coca Cola, and an icepack on the head (just as Grandma would recommend), all help to give relief and ease the pressure. In more difficult cases the treatment of choice today still is cortisone (in the compatible retard form). Cortisone is not used to fight against the cancer. It is purely a symptomatic drug against the build-up of cerebral edema, like with all organic edema in the healing phase. Example: the aches in the bones through swelling in the periosteum. Here is a general rule for severe cases: decrease your fluid intake, keep your head elevated, avoid direct sunlight, and one should, if possible, not lie down on the side with the brain edema. On the organ level, until now, the only attempted therapy was to remove the tumor, or whatever they thought might be the tumor. Without regard to whether the tumor was growing in the conflict active phase, or whether the cell increase happened in the healing phase. No difference. Everything was cut right out. This level we now see in a totally different light. The tumor, if the conflict has been solved, need only in the rarest of cases be operated on, or be destroyed in some other way such as through radiation, but only in the most exceptional cases. As for the tumors that cause cell increase during the healing phase, these also seldom need to be operated on, indeed only if the growth bothers the patient mechanically. This is evident in the example of a big kidney cyst or an enlarged spleen, which is observed in the healing phase after an earlier spleen necrosis. The spleen necrosis was the organic substratum of a blood and injury conflict with reduced thrombocytes (blood platelets) in the conflict active phase and an enlargement of the spleen (splenomegaly) in the healing phase. This means we now have to shuffle the cards again. We must consider on the basis of the New Medicine and its findings, what doctors need to continue doing, what makes sense, and what we no longer need to do. With that knowledge today, we can give the patient the choice, whether he/she would like to have a small intestinal removed surgically. If, he/she knows that the conflict belonging to the tumor has definitely been solved. And this tumor with logical certainty will not grow any further, then naturally, in 99,9% percent of the cases the patient will say to us, "Doctor, let’s leave this thing where it is. It won’t disturb me in the remaining 30 or 40 years of my life!" Five Biological Natural Laws and the Course of DiseaseInterviewer: Could you explain why the Iron Law of Cancer is called iron? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: It is called "iron" because it is a biological natural law. It is a law of the same sort, for example, as "every child has to have both a father and mother" -- two organisms had to combine biologically for there to be a new child. So in the New Medicine we have found five new biological natural laws that are "iron". The first is the Iron Law of Cancer. The second is the law of the two phases of every disease (two-phase pattern of every disease). If the conflict could be solved, then "disease" can now be seen as a Significant Biological Special Program (SBSP) of nature. The third is the Ontogenetic System of Tumors and Cancer-equivalent Diseases. The fourth is the Ontogenetically Dependent System of Microbes. The fifth law (the quintessence) means, the New Way of Understanding Every So-called "disease" as part of a Significant Biological Special Program (SBSP) of nature, interpreted through the evolution of species. All these laws are iron, just as much as the Iron Law of Cancer, and all are in the strongest sense reproducible findings of natural science, which can be verified in the next-base case. If one has a biological law, then it says only that there is a rule, governing how something will take place. It does not say the particulars of how this will work out because this depends on which program the psyche will supply to the system. So for instance, according to the same laws of mathematics, one can record debts or assets -- the laws of mathematics apply in either case and do not make you richer or poorer by themselves. The conditional part of these biological programs is what the organism, the individual, does or programs in. Upon solving a conflict the therapy runs practically by itself. But if the individual cannot solve the conflict, if the conflict remains unsolved, then the individual dies, according to the very same biological laws. That is why we can call these laws iron biological natural laws. Interviewer: What role is played by these interrelationships with respect to time, especially the timing of the complications that can be expected during the healing phase? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: The patient asks, "Doctor, how long will it be until my condition is healed?" If we have worked well, have discovered the DHS and found the moment of the conflict’s solution, then we can reckon how long the conflict has lasted. With the help of a good medical anamnesis, we can also estimate how strong the conflict’s intensity was. And from the duration of the conflict and its intensity we can calculate the conflict’s mass or volume. And normally in 90 percent of the cases in the healing phase, no important complications arise. That leaves the remaining 10 percent. When the conflict has lasted a long time, or perhaps the intensity was very great, or both. The patient thus has a great "volume" of conflict, this can create complications after the conflict solution in the form of a brain edema, and especially during the epileptic or epileptoid crisis within the healing phase. One must learn to recognize these complications. As I said, they are only really serious in some 10 percent of cases. They can also sometimes even lead to death. But since we know that, we can be prepared and plan our responses early on; also, with medications, particularly with cortisone, we can decrease the danger, and these complications have been to a large degree brought under control. So today we find ourselves successful with bringing patients through the healing phase, who under other systems of medicine would certainly have died. Most important however is, that throughout all these complications the patient has a new way of understanding. Has complete confidence because he/she sees a doctor who really knows about the occurrence of diseases. He can distinguish between the conflict active phase and the conflict solution phase. He can steer every single treatment or every single step in therapy very meaningfully and according to the needs of the situation. Through all that a great mutual trust is built between patient and doctor, and it is, for once, completely justified. That is, we can now under the New Medicine give therapy that is really directed to a specific goal and with real knowledge, which the conventional medicine cannot do. Through this knowledge of the pathways of the various diseases, the patient for all practical purposes, will never again "panic". Who would panic, if the doctor told him he had a purulent angina? No one. What is a purulent angina? Answer: the healing phase following a tonsil adeno carcinoma. Doctors nowadays are taking more biopsies of the tonsils. So what happens if the doctor says to the patient, which is correct, that the patient has a tonsil cancer? The result is, that the patient who does not know the New Medicine falls into total panic. This can responsible for new conflict shocks, for example cancer-anxiety panic or a fear of death panic. These can start additional cancers. What doctors say in their first diagnosis then often comes true, with fatal results. And what happens among the animals? In the animal kingdom we see practically no cases of so-called "metastases". An Austrian professor once put it his way -- "Dr. Hamer is calling us fools. He says, the animals have it better. They don’t understand the doctor’s voice, and that’s why they do not get metastases." Interviewer: In your view there is no such thing as metastasis? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: Frankly, no. Those things that ignorant conventional medicine had perceived as metastases, were whole new cancers, brought about by additional conflict shocks. First and foremost brought on by panic-inducing diagnosis and prognosis shocks. The "fairy tale" of metastases was made up of purely unproven and improvable hypotheses. Never yet has a researcher been able to find cancer cells in arterial blood of a cancer patient. But one would have to find them there, if they were to get into the periphery, that is the outer regions of the body. The hypothetical "fairy tale" that the cancer cells, under way on a never-observed journey through the bloodstream, also alter themselves. Example: an intestinal cancer cell, which has made a cauliflower-like solid tumor in the intestine, suddenly wanders over to the bones, where it then transforms itself yet again into a hole in the bone, is the most ridiculous nonsense and smacks of dogmatism from the Middle Ages. The New Medicine completely refutes by the ontogenetic system any possibility that a cell, which is directed by the old brain and makes solid tumors could suddenly depart from its brain relay, somehow joint the cerebrum and suddenly produce a cell decrease. We can guess that around 80 percent of second and third cancers are brought about through the insane machine of the present conventional medical establishment, triggered by their panic-inducing pseudo therapy. Carcinogenic Substances and NutritionInterviewer: What role do carcinogenic substances play? Also, what about cancer-preventive foods -- can these slow or hinder cancer? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: In truth, there are no such things as carcinogenic substances. Scientists have made so many research studies on animals and have never yet, by any of these animal experiments, shown that there exists a single carcinogenic substance. To be sure, idiots have made idiotic attempts. In one, for a whole year a terribly highly concentrated formaldehyde was squirted into the noses of rats, a substance they would normally avoid. The poor animals then got cancer of the nasal mucous membrane. But they did not get it from the substance itself, but rather from the fact that this substance has an extremely strong smell and stinks terribly. Can you imagine having something with an awful smell forced into your nose every day? The helpless rats thereby suffered a conflict for the nasal mucous membrane, a DHS, a traumatic biological conflict of "don’t want to smell", one could say. We also know that for an organ whose nerves attachments to the brain are severed, no cancer can grow. This simple fact wreaks havoc with conventional ideas about metastases and carcinogens and is completely consistent with the New Medicine. Nevertheless, science has assembled nearly 1,500 allegedly carcinogenic substances, yet only through ruthless animal research and torture can anyone support the notion of a carcinogenic substance. This is not to say that, all these substances are not poisonous, for many of them are; it’s just that they do not cause cancer, at least not without our brain. All such ideas that smoking causes cancer or that Aniline causes cancer, are missing the point. We already know that such things are bad for our health, but cancer can only arise from a DHS -- the psyche and the brain levels must be involved. So the assumption that smoking or Aniline cause cancer are all pure hypotheses, which can never be proven or verified. On the contrary, it has been discovered in experiments on 6,000 gold hamsters that had cigarette smoke blown at them for six years. They lived longer on the average than a control group of 6,000 other gold hamsters who were not exposed to smoke. It had been completely overlooked that gold hamsters are simply unafraid of smoke, because they normally live under the ground. So in their brain there was no need for a program of warning alarm against smoke. Among house mice it was completely the opposite. They, when exposed to the least amount of smoke, fell into death panic and tried to escape. In medieval times whenever mice were seen running out of a house, then one knew that something was burning. Many of these mice in that experiment afterwards suffered a lung alveoli cancer, which took place in virtue of a death-panic conflict caused by the smoke. These examples should suffice to make it clear that nearly all animal research that is nowadays undertaken is only the senseless torture of animals. In all this research, the minds and souls of these creatures are entirely ignored, as it is the developmental background of their species. There is, to put it briefly, absolutely no proof of carcinogenic substances that work directly with the organ, without going through the psyche and brain first. Interviewer: Is this true also of radioactivity? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: Radioactivity for example, which came from the accident at the Chernobyl atomic power plant. It destroys countless body cells; mostly the germ cells and bone marrow cells which are affected, because they by their very nature have the greatest rate of mitosis (dividing). If the bone marrow, where our blood is produced, becomes damaged and the body manages a healing, then we see leukemia in the healing phase of bone cancer brought on by a biological self-devaluation conflict shock. We must also point out, that strictly speaking, the blood symptoms of leukemia are unspecific; that is, they occur not only in cases of cancer, but in every healing of the bone marrow. The fact that few people survive leukemia, is solely due to their being led right back, by the ignorant conventional doctors, to chemotherapy and radiation, as further bone marrow is destroyed -- the exact opposite of what is really needed. In brief: radioactivity is bad, it destroys cells, but does not itself cause cancer, because this can only through a DHS which first has to pass our brain. Interviewer: And the impact of healthy diet and nutrition? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: We must separate common sense from nonsense. An individual person or animal who eats properly is less susceptible to all sorts of biological conflicts. That is self-evident. It’s a lot like how rich people get only about one-tenth as many cancers as the poor -- because the rich are able to solve many more types of conflicts, simply by bringing out their cheque book and writing a cheque. But to prevent cancer through diet is impossible, because diet cannot stop conflicts from occurring. The Role of Aches and PainsInterviewer: What role do aches and pains play in the New Medicine? In medicine up to now these have been regarded as negative signs. Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: Aches and pains are an especially complex matter. There are different types of pains: pains in the conflict active phase, such as those in angina pectoris, or in a stomach ulcer. The other group is the pain in the healing phase, which occurs, on account of swelling or an edema, or is due to scar tissue. The aches of the conflict active phase, as for example those of angina pectoris, disappear immediately upon the solution of the conflict. These aches one can solve on the psychic level. As for the pain in the healing phase, which in principle, is something positive. One can merely make sure that the patient understands the role played by the aches, and adjust to them; healing is a truly vital job that the body needs to perform. Naturally, there are many possibilities through medication or external treatment to alleviate the pain for the patient who is suffering. Fundamentally the aches in animals and people have a biological purpose; namely, that the entire organism and the affected organ are to be discouraged from activity, so that the healing process can proceed optimally. So it is for example with the healing of bone cancer, in which the extension of the bone’s periosteum in the healing phase brings about strong pains. Or, for example, the tension in the membrane around the liver, which is painful during the swelling of the liver in the healing phase of hepatitis. One could also name the scar pain in the late healing phase, after a cancer of the pleura. Through the scarring of the pleura cavity or the pain from ascites, as seen in the healing phase after cancer in the peritoneum. The biggest danger is that we current medical establishment sees to it that patients who have cancer and have pain, even if the pain is quite minor, receive shots of morphine or a morphine-related substance. This morphine, when given to a patient in a deep state of vagotonia, can be fatal on the very first injection. It changes the entire set of brain wave patterns in a destructive way and completely takes over the patient and his morale. From then on the intestine is paralyzed, that is, it can no longer digest food. The patient’s will to live is sapped. He/she no longer notices that he/she is slowly being killed. Even though, he/she was already in the healing phase, and would have become healthy again in a few weeks simply in virtue of the natural path his/her body was already following. Patients are simply not informed adequately. Even a notorious criminal in a prison is informed when he/she will be executed. But, say to a patient that with a shot of morphine his/her own "execution" is about to begin and will in two weeks result in his/her death. You’ll find that he/she would prefer to bear his/her aches and not let him/her be put to death. When patients look back in hindsight after the relatively short time of aches, then they are thankful that someone who knows the New Medicine had warned them about the danger or death by morphine. "But don’t the doctors know that?" people ask in disbelief. Of course, they know! Yet conventional doctors dogmatically insist on taking the viewpoint that aches are the beginning of the end and there is nothing further to do. The natural healing of cancer, as indicated by the New Medicine, is ignored by the conventional medical establishment, for purely dogmatic reasons. Therefore, cancer remains a deadly disease and the innocent patient remains easy to manipulate. Conclusion Interviewer: How could one summarize the most important points of the New Medicine? What is the essence? Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: The New Medicine is a complete revision of the prior hypotheses of medicine. Conventional medicine requires hundreds of hypotheses and several thousand supplementary hypotheses, because it has a huge mass of facts without structure and conventional doctors have always worked merely statistically. The New Medicine explains for the first time the biological laws according to which our diseases run. It shows that fundamentally there is really no true sickness. Rather that these conflict active phases are necessary, that we must allow nature to help solve the conflicts that we have, and that the conflict can actually be something good for us. And for the first time it is really possible for us to see diseases in an organized overview, aligned in a system, on the psyche level, the brain level and the organ level. Following the New Medicine’s five biological natural laws will lead the practice of medicine to become again, for the first time in many generations, a fine art. An art for the doctor with a healthy human understanding, warm heart and warm hands. The New Medicine cannot be put aside. The new way of thinking that is embodies will break the magic spell of conventional medicine. The worst kind of human slavery, namely the total dissociation from one’s own-self will end. The anxiety caused by the complete loss of natural trust in ourselves and our bodies, and caused by the disability to concentrate on the voice of our organism, will be gone. With the understanding of the connection between psyche, brain and organ, the patient will also grasp how to avoid the mechanism. The panic, irrational anxiety, prognoses of ostensibly unavoidable dangers, which may become truly life-threatening, merely because the patient believes them and suffers distress. This fear of an ostensibly wildly destructive cancer-mechanism, that constantly makes life-consuming metastases and the like, must end. Only in the minds of the dogmatic doctors will that mechanism continue to grow forever. The responsibility for a patient’s health that conventional doctors have in reality never taken on, and never really were capable of taking on, must now be
given back to the patients themselves. The New Medicine can mean a great new freedom for those who really grasp it.
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