Rife Frequencies for Amoebas

In the 1920s an American named Royal Raymond Rife invented a powerful microscope that allowed him to see microbes, including protozoa, amoebas and bacteria. Rife said that he could classify the microbes by the characteristic frequencies of their natural vibrations. He believed that all disease is caused by microbes and that if these microbes were zapped with their characteristic frequencies it would cause them to explode.

Rife Frequency Generator

• Rife believed that cancer was caused by microbes. In addition to his microscope, he also developed the Rife Frequency Generator, or RFG, to generate radio waves with precisely the same frequencies at which he had seen microbes vibrating. Rife believed that being hit with their characteristic frequency causes bacteria to shatter in the same way that a high violin note can shatter a wineglass. The American Cancer Society looked at the microscope and RGF and praised the microscope, but said that the RFG did not have enough energy to destroy bacteria.

  News of Rife's machine came amid the ballyhoo of the Roaring '20s. Somehow this particular ballyhoo resonated with people, because Rife made millions selling RFGs and the machine is still available today. The early models needed the dial set to a particular frequency while the patient sets in the same room as the operating RFG. Later models transmitted on hundreds of channels. A personal version of the RFG has the user hold steel cylinders while radio frequency waves are supposed to explode unseen microbes in his body. The medical establishment regularly debunks Rife's work, but it remains influential with some people.

Frequencies

• All of Rife's work was on bacteria--he never published a frequency for amoebas. Followers of Rife published enormous lists of the frequencies needed to explode the microbes responsible for hundreds of diseases. The list started with cancers but expanded as time went on to include everything from epilepsy to mumps. The frequencies for amoebas came from later workers--often with the disclaimer that "these frequencies have worked for some people." Note that these frequencies are base frequencies, In practice the generators deliver harmonics (integer multiples) of the base frequency. If the list says 440, the generator may deliver 440 or 880 or 1320 hertz. Frequencies that are said to explode a few of the most common amoebas are 310, 333, 532, 732, 769, 827, 1522 hertz, while those amoebas that cause liver infections supposedly vibrate at 344, 510, 605 and 943 hertz. Amoebas that cause dysentery for travelers are listed as responding to frequencies of 148, 166, 308,393, 631 and 778 hertz.

Fraud

• In 1997, the State of Minnesota sued a Minnesota woman named Shelvie Rettmann to stop her from treating patients to cure their cancers. Ms. Rettmann had no official medical training and no certification. What she did have was an RFG. Several people who had left their physicians' care for treatment with the RFG died before the state of Minnesota finally found Ms. Rettman guilty of fraud in September 1998, forbade her to sell or promote the RFG, fined her $50,000, and ordered her to repay the people she had cheated.