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.
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.
The official
English-language website of Dr Hamer is at www.newmedicine.ca.
However, much 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.