Colloidal silver is a completely natural, liquid mineral supplement found in almost every health food store in North America.
It is much like mineral water, except that in this case, the only minerals in the water are tiny, sub-microscopic particles of pure silver.
Pure silver, by itself, has been known for thousands of years to have powerful, broad-spectrum infection-fighting qualities. So when the process for making colloidal silver was discovered in the late 1800’s, shortly after Edison harnessed electricity, it immediately became a popular natural infection-fighting agent, used both topically on cuts, burns and infections, and internally as a remedy for a wide variety of infectious diseases.
Numerous medical studies were conducted on colloidal silver throughout the early 1900’s, and the substance was used in hospitals and laboratories around the world, in a wide variety of forms, to help fight infection and disease. Studies documenting its phenomenal infection-fighting qualities were written up in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the British medical journal Lancet, and many others. Indeed, as far back as 1919, Alfred Searle, author of The Use of Colloids in Health and Disease, had written, “Applying colloidal silver to human subjects has been done in a large number of cases with astonishingly successful results…it has the advantage of being rapidly fatal to parasites
without toxic action on its host. It is quite stable. It protects rabbits from ten times the lethal dose of tetanus or diphtheria toxin.”
How Is It Made? – Colloidal silver is made through a simple electromagnetic process that pulls microscopic particles of silver from a larger piece of pure silver immersed in water. These tiny silver particles are held in suspension in the resulting solution by the electric charge on each atom. When ingested, these tiny particles of silver travel throughout your body like any other mineral before being excreted through your normal channels of elimination.
100 Year Medical History – The simple process for producing colloidal silver was developed shortly after Edison harnessed electricity in 1892. It was then used for decades by doctors, in a variety of forms and under a variety of brand names, as a natural infection-fighting agent. But it fell out of widespread usage after the advent of prescription antibiotics in the 1940’s.
How Does It Work? – Researchers say pure silver works in three powerful ways: First, it works as a catalyst, disabling the enzyme that single-celled bacteria, fungi and viruses use for respiration and metabolism. Second, much like iron, it is a powerful carrier of oxygen. When it comes into contact with an infectious microbe, it releases an oxygen “burst” which kills the pathogen in much the same manner as hydrogen peroxide. Third, brand new research published in the Journal of Nanobiotechnology has shown that when tiny silver particles were introduced into an in vitro solution containing active HIV-1 viruses, the silver particles were able to attach themselves to the DNA of the virus and thus prevent the virus from replicating. This holds tremendous implications for future HIV research, as the potential for being able to stop viral replication means that one day medical scientists may be able to use silver-based medicine to stop the spread of HIV infection altogether!
Resistant Strains? – Unlike antibiotics, resistant strains of pathogenic microorganisms have never been known to develop to silver. What’s more, recent in vitro research from Brigham Young University, published in the journal of Current Science, has shown that when colloidal silver is added to certain prescription antibiotic drugs, the infection-fighting qualities of the drugs are dramatically heightened against multiple drug resistant pathogens. This has led to speculation that silver will soon be added to antibiotic drugs in order to enhance their effectiveness when dealing with drug-resistant pathogens!
What Can Colloidal Silver Be Used On? – Here is a short list of diseases against which colloidal silver has historically been used, according to historical medical texts: acne, allergies, appendicitis, arthritis, bubonic plague, burns (topical silver is one of the few treatments that can keep severe burn patients alive), cancer, candida, cholera, chronic fatigue, colds and flu, Pink Eye, styes and other eye infections, diabetes, gonorrhea, hay fever, herpes, leprosy, leukemia, lupus, lymphangitis, Lyme disease, malaria, meningitis, pneumonia, rheumatism, ringworm, scarlet fever, infections of the ears, mouth and throat, shingles, skin cancer, staph infections, strep infections, syphilis, toxemia, trenchfoot, certain viruses, warts and stomach ulcers. (For additional comprehensive historical and current data on the uses of colloidal silver, see The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, 547-pages, Life & Health Research Group, LLC)
Is There Anything Colloidal Silver Does Not Work On? – Actually, by law colloidal silver cannot be claimed to “work” on anything in terms of its internal use in the human body. It is not a medicine, but instead, a simple, nutritional supplement. And it can only be sold and used as such. This does not stop many people from claiming that colloidal silver is “effective against every pathogenic microorganism known to man.” However, this assertion is flatly contradicted by a variety of medical studies on the infection-fighting properties of pure silver, which have shown that there are indeed some silver-resistant pathogens. In other words, for those who may be violating FDA guidelines and using colloidal silver as a natural, infection-fighting agent, it is important to understand that it will not “work” on everything.
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