Meta-Medicine

Meta-medicine is a diagnostic tool based on the work of Ryke Geerd Hamer, the inventor of German New Medicine. A Meta-Medicine diagnosis works on the principle that all illness - acute or chronic, physical or mental - is created by a specific unexpected emotional shock.

Ten main principles of META-Medicine

1. Symptoms of illness are biological meaningful reaction.
2. The mind, body and spirit are not separate, but one and react to our environment in a synchronous way.
3. Traumatic life events are the beginning of a disease process.
4. Disease is a process with two phases and key points which every disease can go through. One phase of disease is a 'stress' phase, another a 'resolution' phase. The symptoms of an illness appear in one phase of the complete disease process.
5. The brain acts like a computer containing 'brain relays' which can start a disease process in any organ of the body.
6. The order of the two phases of a disease depend on the embryonic layer that affected organ grew from.
7. Microbes in illness - bacteria, viruses and fungi - are biological helpers in a disease process, not the cause of disease.
8.The body can heal itself. A person's life energy or vitality can stimulate a healing response to all illness.
9. Disease is subjective. Our beliefs, values and personality help decide which disease process starts following an unexpected emotional shock.
10. Disease is a spiritual journey - through understanding disease according to the above rules, health can be created and illnesses shortened. Health is created by knowledge and awareness.

Meta-Medicine is not a therapy but a diagnostic system. Conventional medicine is excellent at diagnosing specific symptoms but it can rarely explain why someone becomes ill.

Meta-Medicine and conventional medicine

Conventional Medicine (including many alternative and complementary therapies):All disease, pain and illness (i.e. symptoms) are a problem because the body has made a mistake. The body is a machine which can be broken down into its constituent parts, with faulty parts being repaired or replaced. Diagnosis takes the symptoms and labels them as a disease. All therapy and treatment is designed to eliminate, remove, suspend or relieve these symptoms and therefore ‘cure’ the problem.

The Merck Manual Of Medical Information [The Merck Manual Of Medical Information, Second edition] – the definitive medical dictionary – says that over 95% diseases have “unknown cause”. Medical doctors diagnose symptoms, and then prescribe a way of suppressing those symptoms. Disease is seen as something that goes wrong in the body, usually attributed to risk factors such as genetics, poor diet, lifestyle, smoking or stress. But even the esteemed doctors who contribute to The Merck Manual concede that, "Most people... believe that emotional stress can precipitate or alter the course of even major physical diseases. How these stressors do this is not clear." Meta-Medicine aims to explain the mechanism at work between thoughts and emotions and disease.

In Meta-Medicine, the mind, body and spirit are one – what affects one level, affects the others at the same time. All disease, pain and illness are a part of a biological programme caused by a shock which has threatened the survival of the person and their family. Diagnosis is designed to find why the programme is there, what caused the programme to occur, and discover where the client is within the programme. A therapy plan is designed to assist the client through the biological programme to wellness, therefore completing the biological programme.

Meta-Medicine not only has roots in Dr Hamer's work, but in the work of Candice Pert, Bruce Lipton, Carl Simonton and Deepak Chopra. In her book Molecules of Emotion [Candace B Pert PhD, Molecules of Emotion] , psychoneuroimmunologist Candice Pert discusses the revolution since the 60s in mind-body thinking. She throws out the old idea of our brains communicating with our bodies via hard-wired neurons that talk to each other through chemical neurotransmitters. Instead, her research showed that these neurotransmitters are discovered right throughout the body, showing that the mind and the body has a two-way conversation using chemicals created by our thoughts - hence the phrase 'molecules of emotions'.

Deepak Chopra MD, author of several books looking at mind-body interactions, including Quantum Healing [Deepak Chopra MD, Quantum Healing] points out that over the past few decades neurotransmitters for various emotions and feelings have been uncovered, changing pain, hunger and dis-ease from something that was considered 'all in your head' to a complicated interaction between body and mind.He also points out that as our cells are constantly being replaced in our body, a cancer that a doctor diagnoses in a patient cannot truly be called the same cancer one year on. "It must be tied in to a distortion that is more abstract," says Chopra, "perhaps a distorted memory can occur at a cellular level." In Meta-Medicine, an unexpected emotional shock creates just these kinds of cellular distortions.

Chopra believes that healing can be initiated by the mind when constructive thoughts are positively reinforced. Cellular biologist Bruce Lipton [Bruce H Lipton PhD, The Biology Of Belief] continues this thinking, offering a mechanism for how thoughts change our bodies to create and cure disease. He points out that DNA is not the brain of the cell. In fact, the cell wall is, by choosing what to allow into the cell, through its chemical receptors. By having a thought that creates an emotion of happiness for example, opiate-like proteins flood the body. If your cells have abundant receptors for these neurotransmitters, they lock onto the cell wall and create a chemical cascade inside the cell, this internal chemical change can tell our DNA to make certain proteins that control the functioning of our body. Lipton also believes that our thoughts and emotions can turn our genes on and off, and likens our mind and body to TV sets, while the environment is the TV signal. This kind of thinking is readily accepted by Meta-Medicine consultants.

Meta-Medicine Consultants aim to provide meaningful answers to questions such as “Why did I get ill?” and “For what purpose do symptoms occur when they do?” Any significant emotional event or shock can have an impact on a person, and this can lead to disease.

The event is not something that a person has conscious or unconscious control over. It is an event which affects us at a biological level by threatening the person. It is a biological reaction. This emotional event can show up on a Computer Tomography (CT) scan at a specific point in a brain relay which directly corresponds to where and what type of disease will develop.

Pre-requisites of a disease process

A Meta-Medicine diagnosis connects a person's disease to a 'Biological Conflick Shock' - a specific shocking event that happened in the blink of an eye and was comprised of the following 4 factors:

1. It was unexpected.
2. It was dramatic.
3. It was isolating - the person felt they were all alone, that only they could deal with the shock.
4. The person had no strategy to deal with the shock.

Every illness has two phases

In Meta-Medicine every disease process has two phases. The symptoms that are conventionally considered to be a disease, is actually only one part of the entire process.

After a significant emotional event, Meta-Medicine principles state that we experience the first phase, in which we often don’t feel ill, but are cold, stressed and tense, with little appetite and sleeplessness. In the second phase, we feel warmer, sleepy, and later, hungry. It is in this phase that we often experience typical disease symptoms. The first phase of disease can exist for a few weeks or many years, and because we don’t feel ill we are unaware of the process.

Criticism

The above mentioned anomalies in brain CT scans have been identified by radiologists to be ring artifacts. [ [http://www.promed-ev.de/modules/news/article.php?storyid=105 Statement by Prof. Maximilian Reiser, president of German radiologist association "Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft" January 22, 2007 (German)] ]

Meta-Medicine is merely a set of tautologies and rationalisations with no scientifically proven effect.

References

External links

* [http://www.metamedicine.info/ The International Meta-Medicine Association]
* [http://www.newmedicine.ca German New Medicine English website]