Interesting Dorothy,
This fits into the Ayurvedic model, as well as the Rife technology.
Royal Rife said that cancer is not cells gone awry (as Allopathics guess) but a virus. He was able to see the virus with the dark-field microscope that he developed and the FDA/AMA saw to the destruction of it.
http://www.cancer-cure-that-worked.com/ This microscope allowed seeing very small things without the strong heat produced by the light in microscopes of then and even up to now from what I am told.
The heat of the old style optical microscopes killed the virus, so naturally since they were killed, the biologists could see nothing move. Rife's microscopes used some sort of quartz lens which I cannot explain as I do not understand. I believe he dyed the virus to make them visible. He actually worked for a microscope manufacturer in Europe early in his career.
So he simply used a device that produced frequency, which he put through a bulb with gas in it that produced light when excited. (same way that modern lights work) Then he watched the virus as he methodically adjusted the frequencies till he found the frequencies that caused the virus to harmonize to the point of their destruction, in the same way that some opera singers can shatter glass.
The frequencies can be varied in the same way that musical frequencies can be in the sense of 3rds and fourths and octaves etc. It's all very fascinating and there is a large community of people in the world working on the technology expanding it's horizons.
The whole story of Royal Rife is similar in a lot of ways to what happened to the guy in the video that found another cure for cancer that a prior poster mentioned. They hounded him, took him to court frivolously, burnt down his lab, called him bad names in the press and set the FDA to call him a quack with no proof, then had the FDA destroy his equipment and take his records in the same way they did to the guy in the video.
There is way too much money in patent medicine.
Nowadays people are using his technology, calling it something else and basically stealing it to do the same thing and getting it 'approved' by the FDA, for very specific issues such as brain cancer and arthritis etc. and charging a ton of money for the devices, when in reality, there are some top-shelf, very well made, (600 USD to a few thousand USD) very effective devices that will 'cure' an unbelievable # of conditions that are basically viruses. The list is awesome.
It would essentially put most doctors and surgeons out of work. It is so hilarious reading about people getting 'experimental surgery' that is bleeding edge and may hold promise for a 'miracle cure'. Such a crock. Too much money is paid to surgeons. They should stick to setting bones.
Having said all this, diet, lifestyle and environment is the culprit at the bottom of all this disease stuff.
Check out the pic of Royal Rife. He has a ciggy in his pinkies. This was the 1930's.