GNM Glossary

The moment a biological conflict resolves — GNM's proposed hinge between the conflict-active phase and the healing phase, abbreviated CL.

The first half of the two-phase pattern — the stress state GNM proposes runs from the moment of the shock until the conflict resolves, marked by sympathicotonia.

The unexpected, acute, isolating shock that GNM proposes as the starting moment of a biological program, registering on the psyche, a brain relay, and an organ at the same instant.

The brief, intense turning point at the peak of healing, where GNM proposes the body swings back into stress physiology to expel accumulated fluid from organ and brain.

A conflict that never resolves, which GNM proposes leaves a program stuck in the conflict-active phase indefinitely rather than moving on into healing.

The second half of the two-phase pattern, which GNM proposes begins the moment a conflict resolves — a rest-and-repair state where most noticeable symptoms appear.

GNM's term for what conventional medicine calls a disease — a purposeful, two-phase biological program that the framework proposes runs across psyche, brain, and organ with a survival purpose.

The Second Biological Law — GNM's proposal that every biological program runs a conflict-active phase followed, if the conflict resolves, by a healing phase.

The three embryonic layers — endoderm, mesoderm, ectoderm — that GNM uses to sort every tissue by its brain control, conflict theme, and behavior across the two phases.

The concentric ring formation Dr. Hamer identified on brain CT scans at the relay corresponding to an active conflict, which GNM reads as the brain-level mark of a program.

The five principles that make up the whole of German New Medicine, covering the conflict shock, the two-phase pattern, germ layers, the role of microbes, and biological purpose.

The First Biological Law — GNM's proposal that every biological program starts with an unexpected conflict shock hitting psyche, brain, and organ simultaneously.

The Third Biological Law — GNM's organization of every tissue by its embryonic germ layer, which the framework says determines brain control, tissue behavior, and conflict theme.

A conflict of feeling that one's very existence is threatened, or of being abandoned and left with nothing, which GNM associates with the kidney collecting tubules.

A conflict about something that cannot be caught, swallowed, digested, or gotten rid of, which GNM associates with the digestive tract via the brainstem.

A conflict of suddenly feeling worthless or not good enough, which GNM associates with new mesodermal tissues — bones, muscles, joints, connective tissue, lymph nodes.

A conflict of losing physical contact with someone or something, which GNM associates with the outer skin and other ectodermal tissues via the sensory cortex.

A conflict about losing, defending, or being unable to mark one's domain, which GNM associates with ectodermal tissues such as bile ducts, bronchial and stomach linings, and coronary arteries.

GNM's proposal that whether a person is right- or left-handed determines which side of the body a mother/child conflict versus a partner conflict affects — a mapping that is reversed for left-handers.

The specific point in the brain that GNM proposes receives a given conflict shock and controls the corresponding organ — the middle level of the psyche-brain-organ chain.

Sensory imprints that GNM proposes the brain records at the moment of the original shock, and which can reactivate the same biological program on later encounter.

The German internist (1935-2017) who developed German New Medicine and its Five Biological Laws after the unexpected death of his son and his own subsequent cancer diagnosis.

The framework developed by Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer that views physical symptoms as purposeful biological programs triggered by specific, unexpected emotional conflicts.