The New Medicine of Dr Hamer
by Walter Last
Dr
Hamer had an exceptionally high success rate with his cancer therapy, by far
the highest I have seen of any therapy. During one of several trials of the persecuted
Dr Hamer the public prosecutor (Wiener-Neustadt in
Dr Hamer started his cancer research when he
developed testicle cancer after his son was shot dead. He wondered if his son’s
death was the cause of his cancer. Subsequently he investigated and documented
over 15,000 cases of cancer and always found the following characteristics to
be present, which he termed the Iron Rules of Cancer.
The Iron Rules of
Cancer
2. The theme of the psychic conflict
determines the location of the focus or HAMER Herd in the brain, and the location
of the cancer in the organ.
3. The course of the psychic conflict
correlates with the development of the HAMER Herd in the brain, and the course
of the cancer in the organ.
At the
moment of the conflict-shock a short circuit occurs in a pre-determined place
of the brain. This can be photographed with computed-tomography (CT) and looks
like concentric rings on a shooting target or like the surface of water after a
stone has been dropped into it. Later on, if the conflict becomes resolved, the
CT image changes, an edema develop, and finally scar tissue.
How
specific and precisely located these brain lesions are may be seen from the
following. After a professional lecture
a doctor handed him the brain CT of a patient and asked to explain it. From
this Dr Hamer diagnosed the patient to have a fresh bleeding bladder carcinoma
in the healing phase, an old prostate carcinoma, diabetes, an old lung
carcinoma and sensory paralysis in a specific area, in addition to the
corresponding emotional conflicts.
Amazingly,
Dr Hamer was able to show that at the same time as the concentric brain lesion
appears also the target organ CT may show such a concentric lesion. According
to Dr Hamer this happens instantly when the psychic shock hits the subconscious
level and this same second is the start of cancer. However, also other diseases
can be caused by the same mechanism. How severe a disease becomes may depend on
other psychological, energetic and nutritional factors but its nature and
location are determined by the content of the conflict shock.
Hamer
believes that the correlation between key emotional shock events, the target
brain areas and the related organs has developed as an adaptation of our human
evolution from similar programs in the animal world. When we unexpectedly
experience emotional distress, an emergency repair program is set in motion, a
biological conflict program with the aim of returning the individual to normal.
Such programs can even apply to families or other groups.
Hamer
gives the following example. A mother sees her child in a bad accident. In
evolutionary terms small children recover faster when they receive extra milk.
Therefore, the biological conflict program tries to stimulate milk production
by increasing the number of breast cells. If the mother is right-handed, that
will instantly cause the appearance of a Hamer Herd in a specific part of her
right brain, which in turn relates to the left breast. When the child is well
again, conflict resolution begins and extra milk is no longer needed. The
mother gets a benign form of tuberculosis in that breast which breaks up the
excess breast cells. However, if the mycobacteria required for this are
lacking, then the area may just calcify and remain as a dormant tumor.
The
same process applies also to animals. A sheep that loses its lamb to a wolf is
prone to develop teat cancer; the side depends on whether it is right or left
footed. However, commonly the sheep resolves this conflict by bearing another
lamb.
The
following example may illustrate the original survival value of this mechanism.
Lets assume a lion chases an antelope. The antelope must immediately mobilize
all its resources to survive. The sympathetic nervous system takes over and in
addition a specific brain center becomes active that stimulates lung activity.
After the successful escape the animal rests and the parasympathetic nervous
system becomes dominant for a while to normalize body functions.
If
instead a human gets a cancer diagnosis, even if the diagnosis is wrong, the same
biological program is set in motion by the same fear of death that helped the
animal to escape. The stress level jumps and the brain-lung connection is
activated but now there is nowhere to run. Until the conflict is resolved,
which may take years, there will be constant stress as well as brain-induced
stimulation of lung activity, which now takes the form of increasing lung
capacity by the incessant division of cells.
This
process can only be stopped by switching off the trigger in the brain through defusing
the original conflict shock. This happens when the patient subsequently has
surgery or natural therapy, which he or she fully believes will lead to a cure.
However, the same procedure in a patient who has doubts about its effectiveness
will leave the conflict unresolved and the disease to progress. Thanks to Dr
Hamer’s work, this is no longer just an unsubstantiated assumption but rather
scientific fact that can be verified anytime with a CT brain scan.
The
selection of the conflict focus occurs by subconscious association. For
instance biological conflicts involving water but also other fluids, such as
milk or oil, lead to kidney cancer, fear of death to lung cancer and
psychologically swallowing a bigger chunk then we can digest to stomach or
intestinal cancer.
Originally,
in the animal world, it really was a big chunk of food, but for us it may be a
financial over-commitment or any other obligation that we have taken on and
cannot fulfill. However, the target focus is not determined by the event
itself, but rather by the psychological significance that it has for us at the
time of the event.
Hamer
illustrates this with another example, a woman who finds her husband in bed
with another female. As a sexual frustration conflict it causes uterus cancer.
If she instead experiences it as a partner conflict, then in a right-handed
woman it leads to cancer of the right breast. If the conflict feeling is fear
and revulsion then it causes hypoglycemia and with lack of self-worth cancer
may develop in the pubic bone.
If the
lack of self-worth had been due to a failure in sportsmanship rather than being
sexually related, then the problem would have arisen in an arm or leg instead
or possibly in the fingers or shoulder.
Other
typical situations that may lead to biological conflicts are loss situations,
loss of a loved one, of a job, a valued possession or a territory.
Dr
Hamer believes that most metastases or secondary tumors are caused by the
cancer-fear or death-fear resulting from the patient given the cancer diagnosis
or a negative prognosis. However, also in this case the resulting conflict
shock may not be fear of death but rather anger, resentment or a separation
conflict from partner or children and then tumors would appear in different
places. Also a diagnosis of colon cancer commonly leads to liver cancer because
of a subconscious fear of starvation.
Generally
hopelessness, despair and meaninglessness create chronic stress, which prevent
the healing from cancer and other diseases but they are not the cause.
According to Hamer the real cause of cancer and other diseases is an unexpected
traumatic shock for which we are emotionally unprepared. The following list
shows some of the relationships between conflict emotions and target organs.
Adrenal
cortex - Wrong direction, gone astray
Bladder - Ugly conflict,
dirty tricks
Bone –
Lack of self-worth, inferiority feeling
Breast
milk gland – Involving care or disharmony
Breast
milk duct - Separation conflict
Breast, left (right-handed) –
Conflict concerning child, home, mother
Breast, right (right-handed) –
Conflict with partner or others
Bronchials – Territorial conflict
Cervix – Severe frustration
Esophagus – Cannot have it or
swallow it
Gall Bladder - Rivalry conflict
Heart
– Perpetual conflict
Intestines - Indigestible chunk of
anger
Kidneys –
Not wanting to live, water or fluid conflict
Larynx - Conflict of fear and fright
Liver – Fear of starvation
Lung – Fear of dying or
suffocation, including fear for someone else
Lymph glands – Loss of self-worth
associated with the location
Melanoma – feeling dirty, soiled,
defiled
Middle ear – Not being able to get
some vital information
Mouth - Cannot chew or hold it
Pancreas – Anxiety-anger conflict
with family members, inheritance
Prostate –
Ugly conflict with sexual connections or connotations
Rectum –
Fear of being useless
Skin – Loss of integrity
Spleen – Shock of being physically
or emotionally wounded
Stomach – Indigestible anger,
swallowed too much
Testes and
Ovaries – Loss conflict
Thyroid – Feeling powerless
Uterus –
Sexual conflict
The conflicts for some other diseases are as follows:
Heart infarct: fight for territory or its content.
Hemorrhoids: both, a right-handed woman with an identity conflict
and also a left-handed man with territorial anger in the healing phase will get
hemorrhoids.
Multiple sclerosis and Paralysis: inability to escape or continue
on or to hold on to or not knowing what to do.
Facial paralysis: fear of losing face, having been made a laughing
stock.
Psoriasis involves separation conflict concerning mother,
father, family, home, friends or pets.
Psychoses of all kinds have one or more active Hamer Herds in
each of the two parts of the brain.
In regard to AIDS Dr Hamer observes that no one ever
died of AIDS without having previously been told that they are HIV positive or
believe that they are. The implication is that just as with cancer, it is the
negative perception associated with AIDS that causes its devastating effect.
Left-handed
individuals develop problems on opposite sides to genuine right-handed
individuals. Handedness can be tested by observing which hand is on top when
clapping; this is the leading hand. With right-handedness all muscles at the
right side of the body are involved with partners and possibly other
individuals and all left-sided muscles with children or the own mother. These
conditions may change with hormonal changes as with the birth control pill or
menopause.
The
start of a DHS or conflict-shock experience is different from other conflicts
that we experience in our daily lives. It causes a continuous stress resulting
in a tendency to develop cold hands and feet, lack of appetite and weight loss,
sleeplessness and dwelling all the time on the conflict content. If the
conflict does not become resolved soon, the long-lasting stress will lead to
specific symptoms and the development of cancer or another disease.
When
the conflict resolves, the patient is no longer occupied with the conflict
content, the appetite returns, hands are warm again and also normal sleep
returns, but there may also be weakness, fatigue and a need to rest. These
effects show that the parasympathetic nervous system is now in control. This is
the beginning of the healing phase, which can be long and difficult.
During
the first part of the healing phase we see water retention and inflammations
but the tumor stops growing. This eventually leads to a healing crisis, which
Hamer calls an epileptic or epileptoid crisis because it is caused by an edema
in the Hamer Herd brain lesion. It shows unique symptoms for each illness.
After
this the body starts to expel the accumulated water, the patient gradually
regains strength and body functions become normal. Now the connective tissue in
the brain, the glia, starts repairing the Hamer Herd. This may be interpreted
by conventional radiologists as a fast-growing brain tumor and treated
accordingly. Hamer writes that real brain tumors do not exist, as nerve cells
in the brain cannot divide.
Hamer
estimates that 99% of brain events, such as strokes, bleeding into the brain,
cysts and tumors are due to healing events of Hamer Herds and with this
temporary and self-limiting unless there is inappropriate medical intervention.
The most important support in these situations is the reduction of any brain edema.
During
the healing crisis the patient may for a short time re-experience the original
psychological conflict with cold hands and cold sweat. This serves to suppress
and eliminate the edema in the brain lesion, which then allows other body
conditions to normalize. The main danger point is just before the end of the
healing crisis when it will become apparent if the body is strong enough to
eliminate the disease. In difficult cases with long or strong conflict duration
massive brain edema may develop for which Hamer uses cortisone injections. In
natural therapy we use an assortment of urea and anti-inflammatory therapies
instead.
Urea
has strong diuretic properties and an excellent effect in cases of dangerously
high fluid pressure in the brain. Generally 20 g of urea are used 2 to 5 times
daily. One life-threatening case has been described of a massive “brain tumor”
re-growth that completely disappeared within 2 hours after receiving 256 ml of
30% urea (described in Your Own Perfect Medicine by Martha Christy,
Future Med). This report clearly shows that the presumed brain tumor in fact
was a massive edema as postulated in the New Medicine.
What
Hamer calls the epilepsy crisis may be experienced by the patient as a heart
attack, lung embolism, hepatitis or a lung infection. Generally, during the
healing phase, the patient will have more discomfort than when the tumor was
actively growing. In the first part of the healing phase most problems are due
to water retention, inflammations and swelling of tissues that can cause a lot
of pain. Hamer regards edema, whether found in the brain or
in an organ, as positive, a sign of healing.
After the healing crisis adeno-carcinomas are removed
by fungi and mycobacteria while hepatitis virus may in addition help to
regenerate the liver. At this stage, bacteria, viruses and fungi that help to
break down the tumors and repair damaged tissues also cause inflammation, pain
and fever.
If you
find it odd that Hamer regards microbes as essential friends and helpers in the
healing of cancer, he has made an even more surprising discovery. In his
ontogenetic system of tumors and cancer equivalent diseases he distinguishes
between two opposite processes during the active conflict phase. Depending on
the location of the Hamer Herd in the brain, there may be either cell
proliferation or cell destruction.
The
first group has cell proliferation and tumor growth during the conflict phase
and then removes excess cells with the help of microbes during the healing
phase. The other group causes cell destruction during the conflict phase
resulting in ulcers, necroses and tissue holes affecting for instance bones
(osteoporosis), kidneys, spleen or ovaries.
During
the healing phase, this second group tries to fill in the created holes through
cell proliferation. Tissue necroses and osteolyses (dissolved bone) are now
repaired by bacteria that first form abscesses, which are then filled in with
scar tissue and later with granulating tissue to form osteosarcoma, lymphoma,
fibroma and healing cysts. Also leukemia commonly occurs during the healing
phase, as after bone marrow damage from radiation, chemicals or bone cancer.
According
to Hamer these conditions are generally self-limiting and only get out of
control when additional conflict shocks occur or the body is too old or weak or
through the methods of conventional medicine. In contrast, natural healing
methods aim to support body and mind during this trying time. Most healings
proceed without major problems, but about 10% need the full support of an
experienced therapist, especially at the time of the healing crisis.
Healing
the Psychic Conflict
The main task in every
case of cancer is to find the original emotional shock experience and make sure
that it has been healed or is being healed. In many case it will have corrected
itself and the patient suffers from an effect of the healing phase.
For instance, someone
may have lost a farm or business but has now started another satisfying venture
or hobby. As after-effect there may now be a tumor that gradually becomes
dormant or eventually disintegrates.
About 40% of tumors discovered during routine medical investigations are
said to be old and harmless, that is dormant and calcified. However,
complications may still arise if medical intervention now instills a fear of
death conflict shock that induces the same or another tumor to grow.
Nevertheless, in other
cases the original conflict may still be active or there may be a second active
conflict. As we do not know, we have to probe in every case to find the
original and any other conflicts. We need to think back, especially one to two
years before our problem started and analyze our emotional history during this
time as well as before and after. Also meditation and regression therapy may be
useful to discover conflict shocks.
If we still have a
strong emotional response when we discover the content of the conflict, then we
can be sure that it is still unresolved. If at all possible it is best to solve
it in a natural way. For instance if it was caused by losing a partner, then
find someone new; if you lost a child, become pregnant again or adopt a child
or buy a pet. Cancer does not continue to grow after the third month as
pregnancy has priority.
If a natural solution is
not possible, then use guided imagery either on your own or with the help of a
partner or a suitable therapist. In a relaxed and meditative state re-create
and re-experience the conflict as intensely as you can but then substitute a
desirable or acceptable outcome. Create and experience this new outcome as
vividly and detailed as possible, see it, feel it and possibly even hear and
smell it. The original experience may also have imprinted you with the memories
of unrelated details of your ordeal (tracks) to which you may now react with
allergies. You may try to overcome these in the same way with guided imagery.
If neither of these
methods is possible because you feel that you have to continue your present
duties or ordeal for whatever reason, then only increased spiritual
understanding and acceptance may be able to help. In either case, be aware of
your vulnerabilities and avoid any further conflict shocks but if one does
happen, get it out of your system is soon as possible.
In addition, I firmly
believe that all active conflicts will be terminated and the healing phase
begin when we are able to strongly feel love and forgiveness within ourselves
and then radiate it to all others but especially to anyone who we feel might
have wronged us. We can further ease the healing phase by expecting it to be
short and mild and lead to full recovery.
It is my perception that
full recovery requires a two step program to heal this conflict. The first step
involves appropriately expressing the emotional shock experience. When losing a
loved one, this means feeling and expressing the inner grief or sadness; when
losing a job, asset, or business, this means feeling and expressing the anger,
frustration, or disappointment felt at the time. The second step involves
repairing the external damage, such as finding another partner, pet, job,
business or hobby.
According to Hamer, animals in the wild
get cancer from the same shock programs as we do. However, 80 to 90% survive
and do not notice much because the healing phase can take its natural course.
Those that die are mainly old animals that cannot resolve a conflict, such as
regaining their territory from a rival or replacing a lost cub.
It is different in our society as the
natural healing process is routinely interfered with. It starts with getting
tranquilizers or antidepressants during the active conflict phase, which
prevent us from fighting back and regaining our territory. This may then lead
to a cancer diagnosis that causes an additional active conflict and ends with
morphine, which totally disables our healing responses.
While
Hamer does not believe that health foods, remedies, cleansing or healthy living
in general can cure cancer, these certainly can be important in order to
survive the ordeals of the healing phase. Actually, Hamer regards all diseases
as consisting of two phases, initially with active conflict followed (if
possible) by a healing phase that reverses the conflict program. He does not
call them diseases anymore but rather special biological programs. In all he is
stated to have worked with over 31,000 patients and found his theories
confirmed in every single case without exception. Hamer claims that overall the
New Medicine has a 95% success rate with cancer.
Siemens,
the manufacturers of the CT equipment have independently verified the existence
of the Hamer Herds in the brain. Furthermore, their diagnostic significance was
confirmed in 1998 at the
Under
German law the right to practice medicine can be withdrawn if the doctor has
diminished mental abilities. This law was used in 1986 by a German district
court to withdraw his right to practice. As proof of Hamer’s inadequate mental
condition the court stated that he was not wiling to retract his theories and
swear allegiance to the principles of orthodox medicine. Even worse, the court
had discovered evidence that he was incapable of converting back to the
principles of orthodox medicine: he tried to convince a group of prominent
professors of the correctness of his theories only one month before the court
case! One year later the same court requested
a psychiatric assessment of his mental abilities, which Hamer refused. A
court-appointed psychiatrist, without ever seeing him, diagnosed him anyway as
being a psychopath.
In
1997 Dr Hamer was arrested and jailed for 18 months under an obscure natural
therapy law introduced under Adolf Hitler to suppress Gypsies. His crime was
that he had given free health advice to some individuals who had asked him for
his opinion. The public prosecutor had openly stated that all means must be
used to remove Hamer from society. Compare this to a delay of the court case
for 13 years and then a sentence of only 6 months on probation for the killer
of his son. This mild sentence may have something to do with the accused being
the Prince of Savoy, the son of the last King of Italy.
Since
1999 Dr Hamer lives in
Dr
Hamer survived 8 assassination attempts, and the mass media in
Also
doctors and natural therapists in
However,
in 2001 a prominent neurologist openly defended Dr Hamer by publishing a book
about the New Medicine and demanding that his theories be officially tested.
Because Dr Therese von Schwarzenberg also belongs to the high nobility, the
mass media are in a bind on what position to take on this. Until now they have
only reported about Dr Hamer in the most derogative ways and here is now that
high profile personality who claims that Hamer is right and deserves a Nobel
Price! Nevertheless, the official response of prominent oncologists still
remains that it is totally absurd to assume emotions could be important in the
cause and cure of cancer and, therefore, Dr Hamer’s claims must not be tested.
My own understanding and experience leave no
doubt about the primary importance of our emotions and beliefs in the cause and
cure of our diseases. Furthermore, the writings of Dr Hamer give the impression
of a serious and meticulous researcher whose findings have been confirmed by
various scientific institutions and medical practitioners, including professors
of medicine. Only those continue to denounce him who refuse to look at his
evidence.
Therefore I have no doubt about the validity of
his basic premise, namely that specific diseases and in particular cancers are
associated with visible lesions in specific locations of the brain as well as
specific psychological experiences. His postulated two-part disease process in
which the healing phase is a reversal of the original disease conditions is a
basic concept of natural therapies.
However, Dr Hamer appears reluctant to consider
extending or modifying his theory to take other possibilities into account.
Basically Dr Hamer postulates a one-way communication from psyche to organ via
the brain. I suggest instead a two-way communication from psyche to organ as
well as from organ back to brain and psyche.
I like to explain this on an example. I
understand that the rate of death from breast cancer in
As the Chinese have normal rates of some other
cancers, there needs to be a special factor that causes these low breast cancer
rates. Assuming that it really is milk, I would apply the following reasoning.
Milk
is high in insulin growth factor, IGF-1, which stimulates breast tissue to grow
during puberty and pregnancy. IGF-1 is also present in the meat of dairy cows
and apparently also stimulates other hormone-related cancers, including
prostate cancer. Assuming that this causes constant low-level stimulation of
breast tissue and the related brain area in milk-drinking or dairy-consuming
women, there are now 2 possibilities.
1. The sensitized brain areas will cause the woman to
have a much stronger emotional response than normal to any child or partner
conflict, and this causes milk-drinking women to develop more frequent breast
cancers.
2. The second possibility is an existing sub-acute
conflict situation or past event that is still subconsciously active. The
persistent combined stimulation by a sub-acute conflict in addition to IGF-1
may cause the gradual development of a Hamer Herd or alternatively its
sudden appearance when a certain threshold is reached.
In
this way any environmental factors can be taken into consideration for creating
Hamer Herds in combination with psychological conflicts. Most people presently
have a very unhealthy lifestyle in addition to a poor quality of inherited
genes. It may well be that really healthy individuals will not develop a Hamer
Herd in response to an unexpected emotional shock or that it will be a mild and
self-healing event.
In a
similar way may appropriate natural therapy directed to a diseased organ give a
message to the associated brain area that helps healing the Hamer Herd, and in
time also leads to a resolution of the emotional conflict.
A
confirmation of the suggested interconnectedness between emotions, nutrients,
brain and organs can be found in kinesiology. Research in muscle testing has
revealed a relationship between different nutrients and emotions with specific
muscles and organs transmitted through the system of acupuncture meridians.
However, a surprising finding was the direct involvement of the brain. When an
isotopically labeled nutrient was placed in the back of the mouth within
seconds the isotope was also detected in the brain.
I suggest that conflict resolution may also
happen in unspecific ways. Assuming a patient receives a conflict shock due to
a diagnosis of cancer, then this conflict but possibly also the original
conflict shock may possibly be resolved if the patient fully believes and expects
that the subsequent treatment will be curable. Other possibilities have been
suggested under the heading Healing the Psychic Conflict.
English-language
websites of Dr Hamer are at http://germannewmedicine.ca and www.newmedicine.ca. More information is
on the German website www.pilhar.com. Dr
Hamer has written several books of which one is available in English under the
title Summary of the New Medicine.