GNM Therapy Introduction

Dr. Hamer...

"Applying common sense would be so simple, so fulfilling, so adequately in tune with the patient’s needs and an important mainstay of professional medical practice. But what seems simple is often the most difficult task to accomplish. It should be remembered that through the ages, our ancestors usually selected the wisest (in terms of common sense) individuals to serve as doctors, sorcerers and medicine men; a person being familiar with the highs and lows of the human soul was considered ’knowing’."

According to the principles of German New Medicine (GNM), any therapeutic intervention in the treatment of cancer patients begins with explaining the context, helping the patient overcome his unsettling fear that ”metastasizing cells” are crawling around in his body, and explaining the pathogenesis and progression of his disease, something which he is most likely already aware of. German New Medicine is diametrically opposed to the traditional medical therapies, including their more exotic fringe applications. In conventional medicine, the patient, the suffering being who endures his ailment, is usually subjected to the mere treatment of his symptoms, with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, morphine, or else with bran, soy sprouts, mistletoe injections, red beets, right-turning milk bacteria, etc.

This whole (non-)system has become obsolete. The patient now becomes an active "agent" in the treatment of his disease. He assumes responsibility for resolving a conflict, perhaps with some support, but basically he has to solve this conflict on his own. A real solution is certainly the best and the most viable, a definitive solution. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, no general recipe that may be applied in advance in order to achieve possible solutions. There are only potential ways of optimal resolution, and these differ from patient to patient. Of course, a real solution may not be possible for some conflicts – they require an intellectual approach. A spiritual or religious outlook can be helpful in achieving this, just as the support of a loving friend, after the motto: a shared pain is half the pain. Offering spiritual support in solving a conflict on an intellectual level has certainly been a central element of religion throughout the ages. Based on the principles of German New Medicine, we can only tell the patient about different ways to resolve his situation. Ultimately, however, it is up to the patient, and up to him alone, which way he chooses. In other words, the patient manages his own therapy, but always assisted by his physician if complications arise.

Yet, a patient going back and forth between the beliefs of standard medicine and the concept of German New Medicine will feel like being continuously doused with hot and cold showers. Already affected by his ailment, the patient will not keep up his defense for very long. The mere mention of a cancer diagnosis or the term ”generalized metastasis” will propel him into an abyss of utter helplessness. For most patients, the common assumption that a cancer will continue to grow constitutes a death sentence, or an assumed death sentence. Being torn between hope and panic, between activity and passivity, is therefore a catastrophic situation for the patient. Alternating between these ”hot and cold showers” brings on the worst complications.

There are a number of complications which may also occur during the healing phase. They include not only the reparative processess in the brain, but also the body’s repair mechanisms targeting the cancerous growth. This is a normal occurrence in all reparative process taking place during the vagotonia phase after a so-called disease, such as hepatitis or influenza. The patient perceives it as completely acceptable to be tired and lacking energy for several weeks, or, in the case of hepatitis, for several months. However, a patient suffering from hepatitis during the healing phase, who is tired and worn-out despite feeling well otherwise, will tend to think that this is not normal. Many patients who were still up and about throughout their active cancer disease (sympathicotonia) now become so tired during the ensuing vagotonia that their seeming frailty forces them to stay in bed. Every cancer patient has to learn that this stage is good and desired, that it is, in fact, the optimal stage. A patient who has fractured a bone, for example, will expect to experience pain while the fracture heals. He is told that the broken bone has to regenerate by forming callus cells, and sometimes this hurts. This is basically similar in patients with osteolytic lesions. The osteolysis has to recalcify, the tissue surrounding the bone becomes markedly swollen, and this process is sometimes accompanied by severe pain, especially in the vertebrae, when the foramina intervertebralia (small openings between the vertebrae) are compressed and pushed on the lumbar spine’s neural structures. The pain is almost intolerable in many patients. However, a patient knowing that the pain is part of the healing process ultimately leading to bone recalcification, will be much better prepared to tolerate this pain. Achieving vagotonia in the healing phase after a state of sympathicotonia in the conflict active phase is like welcoming rain drenching a barren land.

At this point the body’s repair process sets in, not only in the brain lesion caused by the conflict, but throughout the entire body all the ”leftover” or ”delayed” tasks are now being carried out and completed. A previous inflammation, for example, will flare up; bleeding, previously at a minimum level, increases; and weight that was lost is now regained. "Malignant tumors" or necroses are repaired, recalcified, and decomposed by microbes in the body. However, as much as these responses are normal and desired, they may result in complications, such as in bleeding, or swelling caused by the edema, leading to impaired vital functions (e.g. diphtheria impairing the airways, a bronchial carcinoma the bronchia, or a carcinoma the bile ducts). No complication must therefore be underestimated.

We distinguish between two types of complications: those occurring in the conflict-active phase (such as disorders arising in a diabetic patient) and those occurring during the healing phase. On the cerebral level, most complications arise during the healing phase when the brain edema, causing pressure on the brain, forms as a sign of healing. At this point everything possible needs to be done to prevent the patient from falling into a coma. In less severe cases coffee, tea, fructose, vitamin C, Coca-Cola or an icepack applied to the head, just as in the olden days, are helpful measures. Of all patients in the healing phase, between 60 and 70 % do not require medication. However, the decision to refrain from administering drugs should only be made once a brain scan has clearly shown that this is not necessary. We can learn a lot from Mother Nature: an animal in the healing phase naturally keeps quiet, sleeps a lot and waits calmly until it reaches a state of normotonia. During this healing phase, no animal with a brain edema would expose itself to direct sunlight because it instinctively knows that the sun would do more harm than good. Cool compresses applied to the hot spot of the brain lesion (Hamer Focus - HH) are recommended, especially at night, the vagotonic rest period of the normal day-night-rhythm. Patients in the healing phase suffer most during the night, until 3 or 4 in the morning when the organism switches over to the day rhythm. My experience has shown that 95% of patients survive these complications. As for the remaining 5%, this number could most likely be reduced further, and the critical point passed, through intensive care treatment of patients, in particular those suffering from complications in the brain.

If we know now that practically all cancer diseases will result in cerebral symptoms after the conflict resolution – the patient will now calmly and readily accept temporary headaches, vomiting, dizziness or double vision, etc. as healing symptoms and he will no longer be thrown into fits of panic. In most cases, everything will pass without serious consequences.

Physicians have to regard the many possible complications that could arise just as in any other ”disease”: a task to be dealt with. We must remind ourselves constantly, what is the use if the patient doesn’t die from the cancer itself but from a complication that prophylactic care could have prevented? Death is final. Almost all the patients who have come to see me were those labeled as hopeless cases by traditional medicine. And I was forced to see many patients succumb to their illness, patients whom I could no longer help at that point and with the primitive means available to me because my former colleagues chose not to support me. Many of these patients should not have had to die. I am convinced that if only some of my former peers, in particular colleagues specializing in neurosurgery and intensive care, contributed their expertise, we would be able to manage these complications in a very short time.

Therapeutic measures in the GNM happens on 3 levels (see ”Steps of GNM Therapy):

When initiating therapy, we must keep in mind that everything happening in the organism happens simultaneously and in a synchronized fashion. Under no circumstances should we be tempted to divide German New Medicine into subspecialties, with someone taking care of the soul, another the brain, and the third the organs. As a rule, we must distinguish between the conflict active phase - (ca-phase) and the healing phase (post-conflictolysis, pcl phase). If the individual is still experiencing an active conflict, the conflict shock or DHS must be determined in order to know the maximum conflict duration, the conflict content and its manifestation in the organs. Moreover, it is very important to identify the conflict progress, in particular its intensity, in order to assess the conflict mass properly.

It is equally important to find out whether the patient is left- or right-handed, and what his current hormone status is: for example, is the female patient sexually mature or has she entered menopause, or does she take contraceptives. The same applies, mutatis mutandis, to male patients.

Resolutions for the conflicts - must be found together with the patient. The better developed the therapist’s intuition and the more pronounced his common sense, the easier it will be to assist the patient in finding a practical real or intellectual solution to the conflict. In my opinion, a conflict solution chosen by the patient seems to be the most beneficial because he will thoroughly agree with it. The patient will only be able to surmount his panic conflict if he is calmed down and reassured, just as any animal will overcome his panic as soon as it feels or sees its den, nest, mother, herd, pack, other animals, etc. Sedatives of any kind only distort the overall picture and might bear the risk of turning an acute active conflict into a subacute, hanging conflict. Any type of agitation is also very dangerous and to be avoided because disturbing or unsettling events, as trivial as they may be, could escalate and trigger a new conflict or a conflict relapse at any time.

When the patient’s conflict has been resolved, carrying out a brain CT scan as soon as possible is important since the imminent epileptoid crisis (conflictolysis) may trigger a complication which should be assessed in advance. In the case of a territorial loss conflict, the potential of an imminent heart attack may thus be estimated, give or take 14 days, if the time of the conflict resolution and the brain CT scan findings are known. Appropriate counter-measures can then be applied, if necessary.

SURGERY in the GNM should only be considered if deemed appropriate, e.g. if the natural spontaneous healing process would take too long and result in severe consequences for the patient. For example, a female patient’s breast may have been damaged to the point where the continued biological course would no longer be psychologically acceptable to the patient.

A treatment with MEDICATION is not only a domain of traditional medicine; in the GNM, however, the use of drugs is restricted to alleviating or preventing complications arising during the natural healing process. We do not use medication to treat cancer, in contrast to a so-called chemotherapy approach, which is nothing short of exorcism. You may ask me, well, what exactly is the therapy treatment of a cancer disease?

A wise, charismatic physician will know right away what I mean. Just ask a mother how she handles her child’s sadness. Surprised by this question, she will reply that she does not know how, but that she has always managed to comfort her child and make it happy. Similarly, I cannot supply tried and true rules on how to approach a patient on a ”psychotherapeutic” level, and I can do so even less in terms of therapy treatments for a patient’s family, his supervisor, work colleagues or his neighbours to make them ”play along”, especially if they are part of the conflict. We do not only treat the patient, but the persons in his environment must always be encouraged to participate as well. If not, the patient cannot be helped. It is practically a matter of the treating physician’s skill and tact. But often, and God is my witness, the relatives of the uncle, brother-in-law or father are not even interested in keeping the patient alive and possibly further delaying the whole ”inheritance business”. This is where therapy truly has its limits!

There is no need for panic in the GNM. Very few successive conflicts, especially panic conflicts, are triggered because the patient, having understood its principles right from the start or even better, before his disease occurred, will react very calmly to the predictable symptoms, in particular to those encountered during the healing phase. He knows, contrary to common assumptions, that they do not constitute diseases. The patient knows that every single process is part of a Significant Biological Special Program (SBS) activated by Mother Nature for his own benefit.

The patient will be able to understand what happens and why it must happen and he will know that 95% of patients treated with the GNM will survive. Certainly, many of us will at one time or another experience a new conflict and suffer a new ”cancer”, but this is normal, part of life, and not such a bad thing once you have understood the principles of German New Medicine.

Some patients might be doubtful in view of the fact that the GNM therapy approach does not embrace traditional medical (dis-)beliefs. However, the comprehension of GNM principles logically dictates to a large degree what type of therapy should be used.

GNM therapy comes as close as possible to what we consider to be biologically sound for humans and animals alike. It is not a ”medicine that can be swallowed” – as was aptly described by a former patient. This does not mean, of course, that we do not employ medication if we find it useful and good for the patient. In fact, all medication with a positive symptomatic effect should be used for the benefit of the patient, but only after asking ourselves first if the doctor would prescribe it to his own wife.