What is German New Medicine?
I first heard of GNM many years ago, sometime in the early 2000's when I began looking into alternative health and metaphysical book stores, but it never took hold for me until much later.
GNN began in the late 1970's when German oncologist, Dr. Hamer, developed testicular cancer after the tragic loss of his son in a car accident. He wondered if his cancer was linked to his sudden loss and began to dive into the personal lives of his oncology patients.
Inevitably, he found very specific, shared experiences among patients of similar cancer types. We can go way deeper into this revelation but to sum up, he found specific 'conflicts' among not only specific cancers but all sorts of illness, pain and chronic conditions. He dives into these conflict types and whether the symptoms expressed are part of a 'conflict active phase' or part of the 'conflict healing phase'. When working to support the healing of the conflict/trauma/emotion, the illness would resolve on its own. In his groundbreaking and controversial treatment of cancer, he had an 80% success rate.
While there's much more to say about GNM, it isn't the first time we've seen these links made. Intuitives including Louise Hay, were sharing their discoveries of emotions related to illness before Hamer. Hay, similarly, had developed vaginal cancer and was sure it was linked to childhood abuse and rape. Refusing conventional treatment, she paired healthy diet, therapy, enemas and forgiveness as her medicine.
Hay published several books beginning in the 70's, namely Heal Your Body, listing illnesses and body systems along with their correlating emotions and potential healing mantras.
Then of course we can look into Traditional Chinese Medicine (over 2000 years old) which has been working on the premise that each organ generates its own specific frequency when out of alignment, leading to the the manifestation of a specific emotion.
We also have Dr. Gabor Mate who in his work discovered similar traumas among illness types and writes about these in his book When the Body Says No. Similarly, he writes of the childhood traumas and unmet emotional needs of those with ADHD in his book Scattered Minds, which correlates again with the findings of Dr. Hamer as explored how multiple emotional conflicts can create 'constellations' that we recognize today as psychological or cognitive conditions.
There are more parallels between these and other healing systems than I can list here. But let's just say, they all seem to have tapped into the same wisdom.
To summarize, we all experience challenges, but we each have a unique perspective on what those challenges mean, and therefore a single situation experienced my multiple people can effect each person differently. Depending on if an individual processes their mother going back to work as abandoning them, or craving more connection with them, or rejection, or as lack of self worth.. each can impact a different part of the brain and create a different biological adaptation in the body = a different symptom.
This work becomes quite nuanced and can be a puzzle to Sherlock one's way through, but when we do, it's shocking how easily symptoms shift, soften or disappear completely.
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While I work with herbs in my 1:1 practice, we work even more with the subtle emotions and frequencies in the layers between tissues. With training in Neurolinguistic Programming, GNM, muscle testing and more, we get to peel back those layers and find what emotions lay beneath.
In our small batch tinctures and body oils we do the same but in a broader perspective. For our Liver Support, we add flower essences to let go of anger and resentment. To our facial serums we add essences to support healthy boundaries, self love and self expression. To our Deep Sleep, we add essences to help release burdens and the need for control.
Working in these subtle worlds takes trust. A trust I'm stepping into more and more as I see the results of this work grow. Having grown up with muscle testing and homeopathy, these subtle realms are not new to me, but stepping fully in with my business and actually talking about it has taken some courage.
To find out more about how GNM and similar findings may apply to your lingering health issues, reach out and book a Seed Session. We use a variety of modalities and techniques to get to those underlying emotions; releasing what we can and working to soften and create space for flow and healing.