Infection

What conventional medicine calls "infection" is the healing phase of a special biological program, during which endemic microbes assist in tissue breakdown or rebuilding according to the Fourth Biological Law of the Germanic New Medicine.

The microbes involved are not external pathogens attacking a host (see "parasites" to learn more about non-endemic microbes); they are organisms encoded in the organism's own DNA whose activity is coordinated by the nervous system in precise response to the needs of the healing phase.

This understanding resolves several observations that conventional medicine cannot adequately explain:

• Why, when everyone in a given environment is exposed to the same microbes, only some people become "infected" — specifically, those who are in the healing phase of a special biological program.
• Why some people with an injury develop "infection" while others with identical injuries and identical microbial exposure do not — the difference is whether the injured person formed a biological conflict (an attack conflict) about the injury.
• Why hospital infection rates dropped drastically when general anaesthetic began to be used. Credit was given to Joseph Lister's carbolic acid antiseptic spray; however, the ether inhalant that rendered the patient unconscious during surgery prevented the patient from forming an attack conflict (and therefore prevented the biological program that would have produced the "infected" healing phase).

The specific microbe involved in any given healing phase is determined by germ-layer logic: fungi and mycobacteria participate in endoderm and old mesoderm healing phases; bacteria participate in old mesoderm and new mesoderm healing phases. Ectoderm healing phases do not involve microbial activity.

The presence of microbial activity ("infection") is a sign that the healing phase is underway: that a biological conflict has been resolved and the organism is restoring itself. Suppressing this activity with antibiotics, antifungals, or other antimicrobials interrupts the healing process through metabolic "cooling." In a very intense healing phase, this can be life-saving, as long as the suppressing medication is administered in doses and at a frequency that allows the individual to complete the healing phase.

The intensity of an "infection" is in proportion to the conflict load or conflict mass formed during the active-phase of the special biological program. A deep, severe infection means that the biological conflict in the psyche was either extremely intense, long-lasting, or both.