According to the established doctrine, if one knows the “Pathogens” then one only has to destroy these ”Pathogens” in order to cure the patient. This theory remains wishful thinking and leads dangerously down a blind alley, because natural biological laws speak clearly a different language, and as such, in following the measures of established doctrine will have devastating consequences over the course of time, as we are witnessing more and more. Never before in our history have there been so many chronically ill patients, among which are infants, as we have seen in the last few decades. Moreover, this tendency is increasing! Therefore, it is time for awareness and the presentation of a comprehensive – and understandable – education with regard to the nature of microbes. It is of imminent importance for everybody to know the facts about this topic. The knowledge of these connections allows one to judge things independently, even without a degree in medicine!

Let’s approach this topic systematically for a better understanding of these correlation’s in regard to microbes, which are demonized nowadays everywhere as the “bad pathogens”.

One of the most important laws which is also of interest for homeopathy is the law of the two phases of diseases (or biphasic). According to this biological law each disease is biphasic, beginning with the permanent sympatheticotonia, followed by the permanent vagotonia to return finally to normal health (Fig. 1).

As commonly known, an organism in the state of health oscillates between two states within the autonomous nervous system (ANS), a part of the nervous system, which is responsible for our autonomous functions (regulation of the unconscious and from the will independent inner processes of life and their adaptation to the requirements of our environment). The ANS consists of two parts: the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) – the stress-part – and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) or vagus – the regenerative part. The SNS dominates biological situations like fight, stress, flight and defense and mobilizes all strength to win the “fight” and to secure one’s “naked” skin (transferentially speaking), whereas the PNS is in charge of rest, recovery and regeneration. The digestive organs work predominately under dominant vagotonic innervation to assimilate vital nutrients from food and to deliver them into the cells so that the next day – in respect to needed power consumption – can be managed successfully.

Globally, one could consider this as the average biological day-night rhythm.

The healthy state, eutonia, means normal innervation and is characterized by a constant change between the sympathetic and parasympathetic parts of the autonomous nervous system.

This uniform sinus-like oscillation is disturbed abruptly in the case of disease. The organism changes to permanent sympatheticotonia, i.e. permanent stress dominates, and temporarily there is no vagotone phase of recovery. This autonomous permanent stress stage is often recognizable in such symptoms as cold hands and feet, lack of appetite, sleeplessness, imbalance, fussy children – you can’t please them – and much more. Everybody knows such situations, when the mother notices the changes in her child and says “I think our child is coming down with something”.

When the children are ill and bedridden (in the conventional sense) then they are, in reality, already in the second phase of disease – permanent vagotonia, which is often accompanied by fever and floppiness. This phase was seen as the actual disease until now. This phase, the permanent vagotonia, is determined by the vagotone (parasympathetic) innervation, the other part and functional condition of the autonomous nervous system. This phase may represent diseases such as bronchitis, pneumonia, scarlatina, but also bouts of neurodermatitis, epileptic seizures, acute rheumatic ailments and much more according to the old concept. But fundamentally it is about the healing phase of disease which had already begun much earlier and is always preceded by the phase of permanent sympatheticotonia. This can even take place while still in the mother’s womb.

Every disease, i.e. every little disease up through cancer, thus proceeds – when considered in the wider view – according to a definite pattern: biphasic, provided the disease achieves the second phase at all, and is regulated primarily by the “central computer”, our brain. First starts the stress stage, the permanent sympatheticotonia, in which the sympathetic part of the autonomous nervous system is dominant followed by the second phase, the real healing phase or permanent vagotonia. Only in this second phase of disease do the “Pathogens” appear in increased number, which are actually not the real initiators (originators) of the disease but at the most – their indicators.

Homeopaths have known this for a long time and even Hahnemann, who lived in the prebacteriological time, speaks of the morbid agent, where he does not mean microbes but rather an immaterial spirit-like agent! Also, John Henry Allen taught that microbes are not the cause of the disease conditions, but represent their consequences.

Strictly speaking this means: microbes are the indicators of the second phase of disease because it is always preceded by a sympatheticotone stress stage! These microbes are seen as being conducted and activated centrally by our brain and have the duty of cleansing, which is prescribed by their respective dependence within their germ layer lineage. In this sense, each group of microbes “treats” a definite group of organs in which it belongs according to the same group of their germ layer lineage, being determined ontogenetically, i.e. by their history of their development (according to the onogenetic system’s law of microbes).

Viruses for example are always controlled by the cerebrum and belong to the ectoderm (external germ layer) whereas fungi are always conducted by the brain stem – the ontogenetically oldest part of our complex brain and belong to the endoderm (internal germ layer).

The cerebellum and white matter of the cerebrum are developed from the mesoderm (middle germ layer) which controls another group of microbes, such as bacteria. Each organ or part of an organ is innervated and controlled by one of these parts of the brain or special areas within those parts of the brain and, therefore, belong only to one germ layer, meaning that, at the same time, in each case of disease only a definite group of germs is expected. The task of viruses is to replenish tissues in the vagotone healing phase which were destroyed in the permanent sympatheticotone phase of disease in terms of microscopically small ulcera (ulcerative cavities). With fungi it is the other way around. Fungi ablate tissues which proliferated excessively during the first phase of disease.

Therefore, the microbes support the body in it’s recovery of health! But they can only conduct their work optimally at a definite working temperature – commonly called a fever. That is why it’s forbidden to combat any kind of fever. Also, the point of time when the microbes can start to “work” does not depend on external factors – as was erroneously thought until now – but which is rather determined exclusively by our central computer, the brain. The microbes as well as the fever each have their significant and physiological task. “And we always believed that the microbes ‘attacked’ or affected the organ!” says Dr. Hamer, the discoverer of these important connections.

Therefore, it is not the microbes which have to be eradicated, for these disappear automatically if they are not required anymore. The alleged defense, which one sees under the microscope, is not at all a real fight, but is at any one time only a different phenomenan of immunological processes at the later time of the healing phase. At first, the microbes are activated dependent on their germ layer lineage and respective organs by the responsible area of the brain in order to realize a definite cleansing work (the infection, according to the old perception), and when this work is completed extensively, the microbes are phased out again (approx. at time E, Fig. 1) by leukocytes, macrophages, antibodies etc., i.e. by the “staff” which is known commonly as our defense or immune system. But, this is hardly a purely real defense as there is – with few exceptions – no real external aggressor. The microbes come from inside and are activated centrally by our brain! Therefore, neither good nor bad, this is only another example of a snap-shot of natural, purely immunological, phenomena.

Therefore, the imagination that sees the immune system as a fight between good and bad cannot be held up completely anymore. The immune system in the alleged sense does not exist.

Only the facts remain, but not the alleged system. That does not mean that such reactions are completely harmless! On the contrary, they can be very violent and a great strain under certain circumstances and may lead to death in single cases (dependent on the intensity and duration of the preceding sympatheticotonia)! But basically, the appearance of microbes is a sign of the second phase of disease, the vagotone healing phase.

In other words, the “Pathogens” only occur in a definite terrain and under definite innervation, but never do they appear in the state of perfect health in which the sympathetic and vagotone part of the autonomous nervous system are balanced – in eutonia. Only the change of the terrain, the milieu – via a central controlling error (a kind of emergency or special program of nature) – favor the growth of and increase in microbes.

This also became clear to Pasteur, in the course of time, when he recognized in his later years the validity of the research work of his contemporary and opponent Bêchamp and admitted that the organism at first gets ill and in succession, bacteria and viruses can proliferate. Finally, Pastuer admitted: “La bactérie n’est rien, le terrain c’est tout.” – “The microbe is nothing. The terrain is everything.” At the end of his life the father of microbiology was convinced that microbes are only the indicator of disease, not at all the originators. Moreover, he (even as a non-homeopath) became aware of the phenomena of suppression: “If you think to destroy disease by merely suppression and killing bacteria then you can experience horrible wonders”.

Also, Virchow, the founder of cellular pathology remarked “The disease is in the cells”, recognizing at the end of his life, the vital force, and thereby the central pillar of Homeopathy.

“However the established medicinal doctrine maintains unaffected to Virchows and Pasteurs ‘sins of youth’ until now.” states Dr. Otto Eichelberger, a famous homeopath of our time.

According to these correlations, each disease has a biphasic process, provided the disease achieves the second phase at all, and is controlled primarily by our “control center”, the brain what can be made visible by means of modern technology (computer tomography of the brain, CCTs, without contrast medium), i.e. can be made visible and proven and is “scientifically” reproducible. The microbes cannot be real agents and triggers of disease because they only appear in the second phase of disease. Therefore, even the term “Pathogen” is held in error (and written in quotation marks here). In principle, these microbes are, at best, indicators of the second phase of disease, the actual healing phase! There always precedes a permanent stress stage of the ANS (see Fig. 1). They only appear within a certain terrain and with a definite innervation, in fact, the permanent vagotonia. This emergency or special program of nature favors the systematic growth and increase in the form of definite microbes, depending on the location, i.e. the organ or type of tissue. Thus they are conducted consciously, even volitionally, and have their physiological cleansing function in dependence of their belonging to the germ layer lineage, determined ontogenetically: either to replace tissue under discharge of mucous which was destroyed during the stress phase of the disease, or to ablate tissue which has proliferated before. And when there is no need for them anymore they are phased out (which, when one is unaware of the connections, looks to be an acute defense under the microscope).

Thus, the imagination that sees the immune system as a fight between good and bad with its related antigen-antibody theory, when looked at in terms of the central pillar of immunological response is to be seen as antiquated.

Therefore, it can not be a matter of habit which provides immunity and much less, that the forced inoculation with microbes, as in vaccination, which – if everything flows smoothly –causes the production of certain antibodies. The inoculation with microbes in a healthy organism for the purpose of “training” the immune system, which is not in the vagotone phase – for vaccinations are mostly done in eutonia [Fig. 1] – will have inevitable consequences. The organism is in no way prepared for the invasion of such microorganisms during eutonia, and least of all for such different microbes that do not occur in nature! There is no child who comes down with diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, meningitis and polio simultaneously!

Thus, vaccinations cannot be a systematically active training of the immune system but are the cause for a totally confused immune system!

A doctrine of established medicine is to combat constantly the occurrence of microbes, without being aware that the healing phase of disease is thereby directly wiped out. The natural balance in the organism is confused by crude therapeutic measures, without actually touching the cause of disease. This is clearly evident when antibiotics and cortisone are given. Cortisone, a stress hormone, which affects the brain directly (mainly the cerebrum) by suppressing the healing stage (permanent vagatonia) of disease and brings the patient back to the permanent sympatheticotonia (stress stage) [Fig. 1]. This is clearly evident in case of neurodermatitis.

This seems to be cured by cortisone initially due to the disappearance of symptoms but is brought “back to the beginning” in reality, with regard to time, (to the permanent sympatheticotonia or stress stage of disease), which means that the skin eruption in a new effort to elicit cure has to appear again (passing through the vagotone healing phase again) and in most cases this reappearance is worse than before. But the absence of the reappearance of the skin eruption does not mean a “real“ cure because we normally can find other health disturbances afterwards, in terms of substitutive processes such as: Bronchial asthma, spastic bronchitis, epileptic seizures and much more, depending on the weak point of the organism and ones miasmatic predisposition. The phenomena – no rarity nowadays – is called suppression: a disease disappears only to be displaced by another disease which is often much worse (see above).

Energetically it is still the same disease, the only difference is that it has changed its place of events. Normally the superficial disease is driven to a deeper level and gets aggravated or complicated. The same – mutatis mutandis – is valid for many contagious diseases (so-called infectious diseases), which are treated by antibiotics or other immune suppressive medicines as is seen in today’s often occurring scarlatina relapse. I have known many children in my practice who have gotten ill of scarlatina 8-10 times! Scarlatina is basically a quite harmless children’s disease and only when it is constantly suppressed by heroic medicines, so that the curative skin eruption, in terms of a cleansing process does not appear, the disease can take a dangerous course and lead to later complications.

A lunacy beyond comparison, especially with regard to the miasms which are aggravated exorbitantly by these types of measures! “Quite soon we will be able to vaccine against each disease. And the number of possible combinations is almost unlimited”, states Dr. Klaus Gritz (former president of the “Berufsverband der Kinder- und Jugendärzte” and member of the “Ständige Impfkommission [STIKO]”). This is an undertaking that is doomed to failure, right from the beginning, because of the natural laws. On the other hand, the way seems to be paved and preassigned to cause much more chronic diseases – already we are seeing this in early childhood. Infants already suffer from Bronchial asthma, colitis ulcerosa (a chronic inflammatory intestinal disease), epilepsy and other diseases which are incurable according to orthodox medical practice, and the number is constantly increasing! If the above prescribed “program” becomes reality then the curve of chronic diseases in the early childhood will change progressively. Public health – good bye!

By equating immunity with the existence of specific antibodies in the blood as is done by orthodox medicine, the approach is reduced to a mere materialistic aspect, which implicates the specific artificial buildup of antibodies and constant combating of microbes in acute cases.

But our immune system is much more complex! It can never be reduced to a mere materialistic component like the existence of this or that concentration of antibodies. This proves to be too simple and moreover false! Let’s remember the homeopathic idea of the vital force in this connection, the immaterial, energetic controlling center of the organism, which facilitates all chemical and immunological reactions. Thus, the antigen-antibody-theory as the supporting pillar of immunity should be disproved definitely and belong to the past. Already Pasteur seems to have guessed this, because he “deceived” the public consciously at the time and committed scientific fraud several times by “sugarcoating” the, in reality, less convincing results of his studies. But this could only be discovered in 1993 – after more than 20 years of scientific triage and study of Pasteur’s private records of his laboratory work (approx. 10.000 pages) by Dr. Gerald L. Geison from the Institute of History of the University Princeton (USA). Also, charts and graphical illustrations about the course of plagues of the last 150 years take the same line and show consistently that vaccinated people get more often and more violently ill than non-vaccinated people. This is not astonishing, considering that their immune system was destroyed “systematically”.

References

1. Grätz, J.-F., “Sanfte Medizin – Die Heilkunst des Wassermannzeitalters”, 2007, Tisani Verlag, Oberhausen i. Obb., Germany

2. Grätz, J.-F., “Klassische Homöopathie für die jungen Familie – Kinderwunsch, Schwangerschaftsbegleitung und Geburt, Kleinkindbetreuung, Entwicklungsstörungen und Behinderungen, natürliche Entwicklung”, 2. Auflage 2001, 2 Bände, Tisani Verlag, Oberhausen i. Obb., Germany

3. Grätz, J.-F., “Sind Impfungen sinnvoll? – Ein Ratgeber aus der homöopathischen Praxis”, 8. Auflage 2005, Verlag Müller & Steinicke, München, Germany

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Dr. Joachim-F. Grätz is an internationally known homeopath in the German-speaking area.

Dr. Joachim-F. Grätz has written further books like: “Sind Impfungen sinnvoll – Ein Ratgeber aus der homöopathischen Praxis” (8 editions), “Klassische Homöopathie für die junge Familie” [2 volumes] (2 editions), “Die homöopathischen Potenzen – Ein Ratgeber aus der Praxis”, and “Sanfte Medizin – Die Heilkunst des Wassermannzeitalters”.