What Impact does Geopathic Stress Have on Health and Well-being? Part I of II

© Copyright 2003 by Foreign Correspondent Dr. med. Ulrike Banis, M.D., N.D.; Austria
(Explore Issue: Volume 12, Number 5)

Geopathic Stress – an Unknown Factor in Conventional Medicine

Geopathic stress is widely unknown as far as medical education in universities is concerned. There are dowsers worldwide who focus on this issue, like finding water in regions where wells are about to be drilled, where oil companies are about to search for crude-oil, or where humans are planning to build a house or move into new rooms.

Are these people practicing quackery? Are they eccentric, or is there solid knowledge of any factors deriving from the earth that could interfere with human health and well-being?

Before I give you the answers I know of, let me explain my background, and how I came to focus my attention on geopathic stress.

Like all other medical professionals, I attended university studies and learned a lot about diagnosing, treatments and remedies. This knowledge helped me a lot while I was working in hospitals where the patients’ complaints fitted well to what I had learned about diseases.

But as soon as I left there to head for my own private practice, the picture changed. Suddenly I saw patients who complained about “not feeling well” or had symptoms like “chronic fatigue”, “sleeping disorders”, “painful menstruation”, “constant headaches in the early morning hours” and others, and all my diagnosis couldn’t find any physical cause for the complaints.

I tried the entire range of what I had learned in the field of holistic healing to help these patients – and to increase my reputation, too.

I did neural therapy, acupuncture, chirotherapy, food supplements, chelation, but nothing could help these patients in the long run – after some time their complaints kept coming back.

Geopathic Stress in History

Ten years ago I started to look for new ways and to improve my knowledge, because I was dissatisfied with people who wouldn’t be better, no matter what I tried.

When I studied the literature that was available, I found out that the phenomenon of geopathic stress zones had been well known over ages.

In Ancient China there was a law that forbid building a house on a spot where a “bad earth demon” was living – in other words, where geopathic stress was present.

Some of this thinking is still alive in Thailand, where people build small spirit houses for their house spirits. The house spirits are said to protect the inhabitants from all evil and disease if treated with respect and decency.

The 20th century brought about a large quantity of research work concerning geopathic stress; especially the names Freiherr von Pohl, Drs. Aschoff, Bergsmann, Hartmann and Prof. Gockel need mentioning. Even Prof. Sauerbruch, the famous surgeon working at Berlin’s Charite hospital, is quoted as telling his patients that after his surgery of cancer they shouldn’t return to the bed where they had become ill – in other words, he was convinced that cancer had to do with the existence of geopathic stress.