13. A Look at Nature - What Role do Germs Play in Disease?¶
I often see ear infections in my patients. There is a bacterium that can be found in many inflamed ears. This germ multiplies because granulations (so-called "wild" flesh without skin) grow on the eardrum or in the ear canal. As long as the bacterium finds the nutrients it needs, it can multiply and cause inflammation.
Where should the treatment be applied? Should we fight the germ or tackle the inflammation? In medicine, we have both approaches. An antibiotic is usually combined with a corticosteroid to reduce both at the same time. However, if the cause of the inflammation is not eliminated, these drugs work only temporarily and sometimes not at all.
I have been able to observe how this works in a large number of cases.
Case 12
A 60-year-old patient came for treatment with severe inflammation of his right eardrum. I prescribed the usual medication to bring the inflammatory process to a standstill. However, during treatment the inflammation actually got worse, not better. So I spoke to the man about his life situation. He was in a serious conflict that would not be heard in court for another three weeks. Nothing helped him until the court hearing was over. The inflammation then disappeared under the applied therapy and the germ no longer multiplied. Germs cannot be killed but only reduced. They always remain present in an inactive form. What made the patient healthy, the therapy or the change in his thoughts?
Bacteria can only produce something if they have food and the body has to give them this food. Therefore, bacteria are also an effect of inflammation and not its cause. A bacterial infection can also cause damage through the toxins it produces, but always as a secondary instance and not as the cause.
Consequently, pathological bacterial growth is always preceded by inflammation in the body, both in the case of bacteria and fungi. I can therefore use an antibiotic if the toxins produced by the germ are harmful to the body. But this does not heal the inflammation, because it does not combat the cause. I have to explain to the patient where his illness is coming from. As soon as the inflammation disappears, the germ's activity also disappears.
Germs are able to grow only where the body gives them space and nourishment. Germs can be activated at any time. Only the host decides when to give the germ food and when not to. This is the only way a virus can be produced by the body and used as an inflammatory factor.
Case 13
A patient, about 60 years old, came to the practice with unilateral shingles on the right side of her body.
In shingles, blisters form in the skin along the nerve. Before these blisters appear, you have pain for about three days without seeing anything. When the blisters appear, we are told that it is a virus. However, where does this virus come from and who produces it? Why and why only in this part of the body? Who controls the localization?
I talked to the patient about the two sides of the body, the two hemispheres of the brain and the inheritance from father and mother. Where there is dissatisfaction and conflict in a personal relationship, illness manifests itself. It is often difficult for patients to understand when I explain to them that the illness comes from their thoughts. Incidentally, in conventional medicine stress is also known to be a trigger for shingles. From my consultations, I have observed that the side of the body with the dominant hand is the side of the body that is influenced by the relationship with the mother or partner.
I explained to the woman that her illness was triggered by thinking in the left side of the brain and that it must have been something negative concerning her mother or partner. It must have been a personal loss, something she didn't agree with, which caused damage to the body. The body cannot lie.
Case 13 continued
The patient had just come back from a holiday with her husband. Everything had been fine and there had been no arguments. I then went on to ask about her mother. She had died five years ago. It turned out that the anniversary of her death was during the holiday and the first blisters appeared the day after. The patient then described that she had remembered her mother on vacation and had mourned her passing.
Grief is a painful and dangerous thought because it makes you ill. Grief proves that you still want something from the other person. But this person has died and is no longer there. If you thought only about the deceased person without seeing it as a great loss for you, your body would not produce a virus at the command of your mind. In reality, however, everyone feels sorry for themselves because they no longer have their mother or another person in their lives. This is why people feel bad and see themselves as victims of the death of their loved ones. This kind of thinking prevents people from processing the event properly and leads to illness. Whether or not microorganisms are involved in disease is irrelevant to wrong thinking as the actual cause. Microorganisms can be reduced with treatment, but this does not eliminate the cause.
There are fundamental relationships in nature that cannot be changed. According to these, a macroorganism always dominates a microorganism. This is true without exception. However, the opposite is told and taught. It follows then, that nature with its obvious processes should be taken as the standard and not the statements of so-called experts. Germs that live on putrefaction, for example, are always present everywhere. Obviously, when an apple rots, whether on the tree or after harvest, is not dependent on the germs that subsequently break it down.
Higher organisms always dominate lower life forms. If it were otherwise, there could be no higher organisms, and therefore no humans. We have more germs in our intestines and on our skin than cells in our entire body. In terms of numbers, they should easily be able to "eat us up". Obviously, however, they cannot and do not, because they live together with us.
In summary, germs (be they viruses, bacteria or fungi) cannot be the actual cause of our illnesses. The spirit, which is superior to matter, controls the body, including the effect of germs. It is therefore crucial that we have a precise understanding of the structure and function of the human body and its needs.