An excerpt from his book "Summary of The New Medicine"
Foreword
When I discovered the 'Iron Rule of Cancer' and the two-phased nature of disease in 1981, I submitted my work as a thesis to the University of Tübingen [Germany] in the belief that I had discovered the connections linking all cancers. Two years later, during the course of my ongoing research, I noticed that all diseases behaved in accordance with these two biological laws and not just carcinomas.
In 1987, I discovered the third and fourth biological laws based on embryology and the behavioural sciences. To my surprise, I was able to establish that these four biological laws can explain all diseases and can be reproduced in each individual case. This forced me to a breathtaking conclusion:
That there is obviously a biological meaning in the diseases of the different germ layers and that they are not meaningless mistakes of nature that we should fight, but instead, are very meaningful events. I therefore had to ask myself:
What brought this disease about? (How?)
What is its biological meaning? (Why?)
I understood that it would only be possible to find the meaning of diseases by referring to the science of embryology and that the biological-social context should also be taken into account in this biological understanding of meaning. (e. g., a mother becomes ill for the benefit of her child or her partner).
I finally had to ask myself whether our understanding and our concept of disease had not been entirely wrong because of our not knowing about the biological purpose of diseases.
I was able to prove that the biological reason for diseases depended on the germ layers (Chapters VII to IX). For example, the reason for diseases of the organs of the inner germ layer (endoderm*) lies in the conflict active phase (first phase). In contrast, the biological reason for diseases affecting organs controlled by the cerebral-medulla* lies in the conflict resolution (second phase).
I ended up with an entirely different nosological* understanding of the concept of 'disease'. We can no longer really speak of it in its earlier sense, but instead, should call it 'an intentional program of nature'.
- The DHS (Dirk-Hamer-Syndrome) is the first, meaningful event that triggers this special program.
- This summary of my thesis is to make the process of nosological understanding clear and to explain the biological meaning of so-called diseases.
- 'Disease', in a natural-science-nosological sense, is a teleologically* comprehensible, meaningful biological occurrence, a 'special program of nature'.
Chapter I
The NEW MEDICINE as a natural science discipline with five biological laws
I should like to explain what I mean when I speak of NEW MEDICINE as opposed to 'old medicine'. The NEW MEDICINE understands the body as a unified organism, a unity, with the psyche being the integrator of all functions of behaviour and all areas of conflict, and the brain being the main computer of all behavioural functions, conflict areas and organs, and the sum of the consequences of all these events. It is more complicated in reality because the computer brain programs the programmer (psyche) and therefore itself.
The NEW MEDICINE is a natural science, based on five empirically* discovered laws that apply, in a strong scientific sense, to each and every case of disease of man or mammal.
It admits no dogma, no hypothesis and no statistical probability. It is clear and logical in itself, and can be understood and applied by any normal intelligent person because it follows the causal logic of natural science.
Materialistic, idealistic and metaphysical concepts are out of place here. In truth, we possess no key to understanding metaphysical phenomena. For thousands of years, we thought thunder and lightning were metaphysical forces. Not until recently have we understood them to be electro-physical phenomena. Even though we now understand that the phenomenon of thunder is not due to an act of God, we have not lost our sense of wonder of the unknown.
Physicians have always longed for a body of knowledge that abides by natural and scientific methods and is in accordance with natural scientific laws. However, they have been forced to accept too many hypotheses and this will be discussed in Chapter II. It became admissible to string a group of hypotheses together to 'prove' the most daring claims. These were only assertions and not real laws, as they exist in natural science.
In what follows, we present five ironclad biological principles that can be reproduced and verified in every comparable case with sound scientific criteria.
There is at present a movement to divide medicine into organic medicine and psychological medicine, or psychotherapy. When a doctor states that there is no organic cause, he is giving the psychotherapist a free hand to treat these 'clean' psychological diseases. Such division is absurd in the eyes of a practitioner of the NEW MEDICINE, because illness cannot be divided and parcelled out. The psyche, brain and organ are three levels of the same organism and the course of events on them is always synchronous!
The five biological laws of the NEW MEDICINE are:
1. The Iron Rule of Cancer
The law of the two-phased development of every disease to the extent that there is a resolution of the conflict
The ontogenetic* system of tumors and cancer equivalent diseases
The ontogenetic system of microbes in diseases
The biological meaning of each Special Program of Nature
Criterion
Every cancer or cancer-like disease originates with a Dirk Hamer Syndrome ('DHS') which is a
very difficult
highly acute, dramatic and
isolating shock
The experience of shock is simultaneous or virtually simultaneous on three levels:
1. the psyche
2. the brain
3. the organ
Criterion
The content of the conflict caused by the DHS determines, at the very moment of the DHS, the location of the Hamerschenherd ('HH') in the brain and the corresponding location of the cancer or cancer-equivalent disease in the organ (body).
Criterion
The development of the conflict determines a specific development of the HH in the brain and of the cancer or cancer-equivalent disease in the organ.
2. The Second Biological Law
Every disease is a two-phased occurrence, as long as there is a resolution of the conflict.
Medical textbooks previously identified a few hundred 'cold' and a few hundred 'warm' diseases.
Patients with 'cold' diseases present with cold skin and cold extremities; they are in protracted stress, lose weight, have difficulty falling asleep and suffer sleep disorders. For examples we have cancer, MS, angina pectoris, neurodermatitis, diabetes and mental and mood disorders.
Other diseases are defined as rheumatic, infectious, allergic, and especially exanthematous*.
But we have discovered that this is not correct. These cold and warm diseases were not single illnesses but one of two phases of an illness, the 'cold' being the first and the 'warm' being the second phase. This will be covered more precisely in Chapter IV.
Since no single disease was understood correctly, no single case was understood correctly.
3. The Third Biological Law
The ontogenetic system of tumors and cancer-equivalent diseases.
The interconnections and relationships — covered in detail in Chapter V — are so fundamentally new that nothing even vaguely equivalent exists in the medical literature today.
The ontogenetic system of tumors and cancer-equivalent diseases includes the following criteria:
A. Conflicts related at the embryonic-layer level also have
-embryonic-layer related cerebral relays
-in cases of conflict, so-called Hamerschenherd ('HH')
-embryonic-layer related organs, which are affected and have
-embryonic-layer related histological formations.
B. Old-brain directed conflicts (brain-stem directed endoderm and cerebellar directed mesoderm) show cell multiplication in the conflict active phase (CA-phase) and destruction or caseation of the tumors by the appropriate microbes, if they exist, in the healing phase (PCL phase).
Cerebral directed conflicts (mesodermal organs directed by loci in the cerebrum and ectodermal organs directed by the cerebral cortex) show cell decrease in the CA-phase (necroses, ulcers) or impairment or interruption of function in the so-called cancer-equivalent diseases.
C. Each so-called illness, in reference to the CA-phase and the PCL phase, is a meaningful biological occurrence to be understood through embryology and behavioural research. This means that the illness is presenting us with the challenge of solving an unusual and unforeseen biological problem.
4. The Fourth Biological Law
There is a correspondence between embryonic-layer related organ groups — without exception in the PCL phase — and embryonically related groups of microbes. The microbes are not the harbingers of the symptoms, but the optimizers of the healing phase.
All microbes are steered from the brain. The so-called immune system, imagined by us as an army fighting the malignant cancerous cells and microbes in a grand battle, does not exist in this sense. Following instructions from the brain, the pathogenic microbes become benign apathogenic microbes that retreat into a part of the organism where they are no bother and can be recalled and reactivated in the PCL phase on specific organs.
Obsessed by our bacteriological, hygienic thinking, we have tried to stamp out these seasonal workers of the organism. As we shall see, by suppressing tuberculosis, we have prevented breast and intestinal tumors in the PCL phase from being caseated by the little souring rods, thereby preventing the consequent tumor destruction. This helped surgery and oncology, but it was biologically and medically wrong.
5. The Fifth Biological Law
This fifth biological natural law virtually takes us to the 'Original Medicine'; it turns the current nosological (disease) understanding totally on its head. Disease, as it has been defined until now, no longer exists. Our ignorance prevented us from recognizing that all so-called diseases have a special biological meaning.
The fifth biological law is really the quintessence of the four preceding natural laws of the NEW MEDICINE. In hindsight, one could call it the most meaningful of the natural laws. This quintessence not only encapsulates the earlier strongly scientific laws, but also opens up a new dimension. It is the soul of the NEW MEDICINE. In one step, it achieves the connection between what can be investigated scientifically and what can be called transcendental, supernatural, parapsychological or understandable only from a religious point of view. Things that are felt and experienced from a scientific point of view and that cannot be explained and seem puzzling or nonsensical.
With the fifth biological law, we can finally understand our connection to the cosmos around us and in which we are embedded. The Spaniards, who have a feeling for such dimensions of understanding, call the NEW MEDICINE 'la medicina sagrada' [sacred medicine]. This name came up in Andalucia some time in the spring of 1995.
'La medicina sagrada' opens up a new, cosmic, godly dimension! All of a sudden, our medical thinking and feeling includes every elephant, beetle, bird and dolphin; every microbe, plant and tree. Anything other than this 'cosmic thinking' in the framework of living nature is no longer tenable.
While we used to regard Mother Nature as fallible and had the audacity to believe that she constantly made mistakes and caused breakdowns (malignant, senseless, degenerative cancerous growth, etc.) we can now see, as the scales fall from our eyes, that it was our ignorance, arrogance and pride that were and are the only foolishness in our cosmos. We could not understand such a 'sewn up' totality, and so brought upon ourselves this senseless, soulless and brutal medicine.
Full of wonder, we can now understand for the first time that nature is orderly (we already knew that), and every occurrence in nature is meaningful, even in the framework of the whole, and that the events we called 'diseases' are not senseless disturbances to be repaired by sorcerers’ apprentices.
We can see that nothing is meaningless, malignant or diseased. Why can we not see this interplay of nature in all the inhabited cosmos as something 'godly'? Was it not so before the outbreak of the major religions? From the priests of the god Aesclepius, we learn that the profession of physician was always the profession of a priest.
After the details are set out, biology, human biology and medicine will become clear, transparent, and well understood. As a professor at the Pedagogic Institute in Heidelberg, I taught human biology for many years. I believe that those sessions -'docendo discimus' – were responsible for helping me to discover the fifth biological natural law.
Glossary
docendo discimus: we learn by teaching.
empirically: based on experience / data gathered in the real world rather than theory
endoderm: the innermost of the three primary germ layers of an embryo and the source of the epithelium of the digestive tract and its derivatives; any tissue wherever located that is derived from this germ layer
exanthematous adj. of exanthema: an eruptive disease or its symptomatic eruption, used especially of eruptions attended with fever
medulla oblongata: a part of the brain stem
mesoderm: the middle of the three primary germ layers of an embryo being the source of bone, muscle, connective tissue, inner layer of the skin, and other adult structures; tissue wherever located that is derived from this germ layer
nosological: relating to a classification of diseases
ontogenetic: of or relating to ontogeny
ontogeny: the biological development or course of development of an individual organism — distinguished from phylogeny: the evolution of a race or genetically related group of organisms (as a species, family, or order) as distinguished from the development of the individual organism
teleological: having the nature of or relating to, design, purpose, final intention, or cause