Colloidal Silver

Man has used Silver for thousands of years, as an ornament, utensil, vessel, and tool. Science has known of the Antibiotic effect of Colloidal Silver, and has, and is still using colloidal silver to this day.
Newsweek, 3-28-1994 Featured a six page article. “Antibiotics, The end of the miracle drugs?” as a cover story. “ The rise of drug resistant germs is unparalleled in recorded history,” according to the article. “ Penicillin and tetracycline lost their power over staph back in the 1950s and 1960s. Another antibiotic, methicillin, provided a backup for awhile, but methicillin-resistant staph is now common in hospitals and nursing homes worldwide…trying to cripple bacteria’s defenses…will not do much more than buy us five to ten years…A better strategy might be to abandon antibiotics altogether in favor of different kinds of drugs.
Not a very good outlook for us.
Time Sept. 1995 “ Revenge of the Killer Microbes”. “Faced with AIDS, and with an ever increasing number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, doctors were forced to admit that the medical profession was actually retreating in the battle against germs. The question ceased to be, when will infectious diseases be wiped out? And became, Where will the next deadly new plague appear?…Humanity once had the notion it could control or conquer all these deadly microbes. But anyone who reads today’s headlines knows how vain that hope turned out to be. New scourges are emerging-AIDS is not the only one—older diseases like tuberculosis are rapidly evolving into forms that are resistant to antibiotics,.. In 1992, 13,300 hospital patients died of infections that resisted every drug doctors tried.
The basic problem is simply that bacteria have a tremendous ability to adapt to substances. They can and do mutate to over-come antibiotics. When the antibiotics destroy the bacteria which are susceptible to them, they only clear the way for the resistant bacteria to move uninhibited. Still another problem that has plagued the medical profession from the beginning with modern antibiotics has been the fact that throughout the body. Beneficial bacteria and organisms play various important, natural functions in the body. Antibiotics often play havoc with some of these necessary organisms, producing long lasting side effects that may be difficult to correct.
Science Digest suggested an answer back in March of 1978 in an article titled ‘ Our magnificent germ fighter.” This article by Jim Powell stated: Thanks to eye-opening research, silver is emerging as a wonder of modern medicine. An antibiotic kills perhaps a half-dozen different disease organisms, but silver kills some 650. Resistant strains fail to develop. Moreover , silver is virtually non-toxic.

In the 1970s Dr. Carl Moyer, chairman of Washington University’s Department of Surgery, received a grant to develop better burn treatments for burn victims. Dr. Harry Margraf worked with Dr. Moyer and other surgeons as chief biochemist on this project. They tested 22 antiseptic compounds and rejected all of them. The problem was that infections in burns often failed to respond to antibiotics. Most antiseptics actually destroyed the delicate tissues in severe burns and were very painful. The greatest problem was the bacterium Pseudomonas acruginose which is particularly infectious to burns and fails to respond to all common antiseptics and antibiotics.
In his research into medical history, Dr. Margraf found numerous references to silver as a anti-microbial agent. It was found that silver has been used for thousands of years in one form or another to treat infection and has well proven itself to be totally non-toxic at all concentrations. Bacteria have never developed an immunity to it. He found references to it as a catalyst that disables the enzymes anaroebic microorganisma depend on.
Silver has been known to be a bactericide for at least 1200 years. Even in ancient times, it was known to prevent disease and it was said that disease could not be transmitted by drinking from a silver cup. Silver coins were commonly used to prevent the spoilage of milk and other drink, and silver containers were used to prolong the freshness of foods in general Even today, we commonly call all tableware “silverware” although today its more apt to be made of stainless steel. Until about 1970 it was common usage for scientist to put a silver dime in a petri dish to sterilize the dish.
Silver was long used for plates for the surgical repair of bones. In the 1920s, 30s, and 40s silver was ground fine like flour and was used orally for many infections and disease conditions, topically on burns, and for fungal infections. Over 650 bacteria, virus, and fungi were considered treatable with this silver in 1938. With the development of the patented antibiotics, silver lost usage in the United States and most other places, although the antibiotics are only effective against bacteria. Not viruses, yeasts, and fungus, as is silver. Now, with the greatly improved colloids, the tables are turning and silver may be the most effective treatment.
All of this is happening at the same time that disease bacteria are developing immunity to modern antibiotics, Furthermore, the immunity of the antibiotics seems to be developing all over the world, even in isolated areas. The medical profession is alarmed. Can silver save us? Many authorities think so.
In “Use of Colloids in Health and disease”. Dr. Henry Crooks found that colloidal silver is highly germicidal. In laboratory tests he found that “ all fungus, virus, bacterium, streptococcus, staphylococcus, and other pathogenic organisms are killed in three or four minutes. In fact there is no microbe known that is not killed by colloidal silver in six minutes or less in a dilution of as little as five parts per million. Dr. Crooks found colloidal silver particularly effective in intestinal problems, and tells us there are no serious effects whatsoever from high concentrations.
In “ colloidal silver “ by the association for colloidal research, it is reported that: Medical journal reports are documented studies spanning 100 years indicate no known side effects from oral or I.V. administration for properly manufactured Colloidal Silver in animal or human testing.”.. There has never been a reported reaction with colloidal silver and any prescription medication…”
The Evidence appears to support the theory that colloidal silver is highly effective against all strains of pathogenic bacteria, while any one antibiotic is only effective against a few certain bacterial strains. Furthermore, antibiotics have never been effective against viruses, yeasts, or funguses. Yet, researchers are telling us that colloidal silver is highly effective against all of these things.
Does colloidal silver destroy the friendly organisms? How can it differentiate between friendly and unfriendly organisms? This seems a little uncertain at the time. However, it seems that most friendly organisms are aroebic, whereas unfriendly organisms are anaroebic. Silver attacks the anaroebic.
How does colloidal silver do all of this? Researchers tell us that the silver ion, of very minute size and having a positive charge, attaches itself electrically to certain enzymes needed by anaroebic bacteria, viruses, yeasts, and fungus and destroys these enzymes, It is said that these organisms require these particular enzymes for their sustenance. The silver acts as a catalyst and is not consumed in the process. It is possible that the reason these bacteria cannot develop a resistance to silver, as they do to antibiotics, is because silver does not attack them directly, but rather destroys the enzymes they depend on.
“A speeding car overturned and burst into flames. The 18-year old driver suffered over his face, neck, arms, hands, back, stomach, and legs---burns covered more than 80% of his body. Until recently, this would have been a death sentence. Doctors knew how to restore vital body fluids and salts, but had no way to fight infection, the primary cause of death in burn cases. Fortunately for this youth, a new silver compound killed the deadly bacteria and enabled him to heal. He was out of the hospital within four month.”
UCLA ran some tests on colloidal silver and their report states: “The silver solutions were antibacterial for concentrations of five parts per million, shown to be effective for Stretococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Neisseria gonorrhea, Gardnerella Vaginalis, Salmonella Typhi, and other enteric pathogens, and fungicidal for Candida Albacans, Candida Globata, and M. furfur.”
If it is so effective, this safe, and has so many advantages, why have we not been using it? What makes researchers now believe that it is so effective? What has led to this change in thinking?
One line of research that has led to this change is described in this best seller, THE BODY ELECRTIC, in which Robert O. Becker, leading research scientist in the field of bone regeneration, states on page 167: “ Of course, the germ-killing action of silver had been known for some time…the Soviets use silver ions to sterilize recycled water aboard their space station…it kills even antibiotic-resistant strains, and also works on fungus infections.”
On page 175 he says: “ It stimulates bone-forming cells, cures the most stubborn infections, of all kinds of bacteria, and stimulates healing in skin and other soft tissue.”
Certainly that is a broad statement! Dr. Becker further relates a fascinating story which would seem to substantiate his statement. A man’s broken right tibia and fibula refused to bond and the skin refused to heal over a large area of the leg for a year and a half. The leg was infected with five kinds of bacteria, all of which refused to respond to antibiotics. As a last resort before amputation, Dr. Becker treated the condition with a silver filament charged with a low D.C. electrical current. This produced silver ions in the bone area and at the surface area…” I debrided the wound, removing the dead tissue and all grossly infected or dead bone. There wasn’t much left afterwards. It was an enormous excavation running almost from his knee to his ankle. In the operating room we soaked a big piece of silver nylon in saline solution and laid it over the wound… We packed the fabric in place with saline-soaked-gauze, wrapped the leg, and connected the battery unit. About a week and a half later, Dr. Becker tells us: “all of our bacterial cultures were sterile-all five kinds had been killed, the soft healing tissue, called granulation tissue, was spreading out and covering the bone. In two weeks, the whole base of the wound, which had been over eight square inches of raw bone, was covered with this friendly pink carpet. The skin was beginning to grow in too, so we can forget about the skin grafts that we thought we would have to do.
“I decided to take an x-ray to see how much bone he’d lost. “[he was expecting the bone to start withdrawing before the knitting process began] “I could hardly believe the picture. There was clearly some bone growth!….I removed the cast , felt the leg, and found that the pieces were all stuck together. John watched, and when I was done he lifted his leg into the air triumphantly.”
When Dr. Becker placed the silver coated nylon in the wound and connected the electrode at each end, he then produced silver ions,”colloidal silver”. This alone cannot be credited with the rapid healing of the bone however, as his research proved that the small electrical current was effective in the bone growth all by itself. However, the silver electrodes proved much more effective and this would seem to lead to the supposition that the silver ions are effective in stimulating healing of the bone when in direct contact.
Colloidal silver may be an entirely natural healing agent. Some theorize that years ago we normally had much higher levels of silver in our bodies. They claim that our bodies are depleted of silver because our soils have been depleted and had a much higher levels of silver content a hundred years or so ago. Therefore silver was present in much higher concentrations in our foods at that time. It is theorized that by hauling our foods from our farm land to the cities, consuming the foods and dumping our sewage into the rivers and oceans, we are depleting the soil of the silver along with all the other natural minerals, while replacing only the potassium and phosphorous. Thus, now our immune systems are depleted, while the loads on them are increased by many factors in our modern life style.
It seems that the final word is not in on the effects of colloidal silver in the case of cancer. However, the silver appears o be more promising against AIDS, because there seems to be no doubt but that the silver supplements and supports the T-cells in their fight against foreign organisms in the blood. It is strongly suggested by research scientist such as Dr. Gary Smith and others that silver ions are essential to the immune system.