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Colloidal silver enthusiasts have been preaching the alleged health benefits of colloidal silver for some time now. Some swear that colloidal silver – tiny silver particles suspended in water – has cured people of everything from the black plague to Lyme disease to dandruff.
Meanwhile rumours have circulated among the silver community that ‘Big Pharma’ has conspired against the precious metal’s healing capacities because colloidal silver wouldn’t be profitable to market.
The US Food and Drug Administration says the metal is unsafe and ineffective at curing health problems.
However, silver is used for medicinal purposes including antiseptics, solutions in bandages, eyedrops for newborns and as coating for water filters, as outlined in a recent article by The AWL.
Whatever the case may be, the fact is that colloidal silver is used in some very strange ways for some very ambitious purposes. Here is a collection of weird stories, surprising and scary facts about the metal.
One man boasts that his ‘precious metals nano water’ is capable of curing arthritis, colitis, hepatitis, the flu – including H1N1 swine flu virus – and bacteria of every kind. Inventor Bruce McBernie says the product is perfectly safe. McBernie is so convinced that his silver-water works that he’s selling it for $18 per bottle. The company needed a little help so he took it to the Canadian television show Dragon’s Den in hopes of getting some investment cash. The Dragons were not impressed. Things got uncomfortable fairly quickly:
A former US Senate hopeful Stan Jones literally became blue after years of drinking colloidal silver over fears that the millennium bug may wreak havoc on antibiotic supplies. The electorate found it hard to focus on anything other than his jarring blue pigment and the Libertarian politician was unsuccessful in all election attempts. Jones developed an irreversible skin condition called Argyria from consuming too much silver.
And Jones is not the only one: Paul Karason applied colloidal silver directly on his face and took it as a beverage in an attempt to cure a different skin condition. Now he permanently sports a dark, gray shade of blue. In 2009 he told USA Today that he continues to use the ointment, saying his arthritis and acid reflux disappeared.
One man, Steve Barwick, says the precious metal has been a “Godsend” to himself and his cats, dogs and especially his pet turtle. Barwick’s adult desert tortoise King Tut suffered from a respiratory infection. After eating bits of colloidal silver each day King Tut was cured and the owners were spared hundreds of dollars in vet bills. Other animals that stand to benefit according to Barwick include Parakeets, Cockatiels, cows and pigs.
But not every silver treatment is a harmless experiment. Most recently an iridologist faced a criminal tribunal after treating a woman with a cancerous legion. The woman died from improper medical treatment which included applying colloidal silver to the lesion
4 Comments
David R.(Canada)
There is a lot of evidence to support the use of colloidal silver.
Drug companies will do anything, including presenting articles like this, in an attempt to discredit it.
Rosemary Jacobs
Do you have references? I have had argyria for over 50 years and been researching silver for decades. I have never found any objective evidence that can be verified that shows that ingesting silver in any form or amount offers benefits but a lot of evidence that it can causes harm. It causes argyria. If drug companies had evidence that silver offered benefits that outweighed the risks of consuming it, they’d sell silver supplements and get in on the gravy train.
precicio
Now prior to the
1940’s Colloidal Silver was heavily prescribed by doctors. With only a couple
of people in 100 years with Argyria and an Fraud who admitted that he
purposefully wanted to turn blue there are very little chances of getting
Argyria. Then you have to consider that that ABC News reported that the
“Fugates of Kentucky” are naturally genetically BLUE. These rare
cases of of legitimate Argyria (again only two or 3 in 100 years) are most
likely caused by being genetically inclined to being blue.
“The US Food and Drug Administration says the metal is unsafe and
ineffective at curing health problems.” The US Food and Drug
Administration has also approved hundreds of drugs that left people dead,
invalid, or physically damaged for the rest of their lives. You have to
understand that the FDA does not do clinical research that is left up to the Pharmaceuticals;
the FDA only gets involved when the drugs they approve start killing people.
Another thing to
consider that Paul Karason admitted to making silver nitrates (photosensitive
chemicals) and drinking and applying them to his skin and then going under a
tanning bed to intensify the blue color, he literally wanted to be a smurf.
This whole Blue
Man Campaign is designed to scare the public, silver is safe especially when
there are chemical free versions out there like gold2live.com who make 3000 PPM
to 18000 PPM of colloidal silver atoms with no chemicals before or after the
production process.
Strepnomore
This article seems to be missing something. This part goes to the person with Argyria, I am sorry, I have read there are some herbs that help rid the tissue in your body of the silver accumulation, and thank you for bringing it out that that can happen to anyone, thus why I am posting what I have found. I like to buy my colloidal silver from Silver Living Tech because it is what laboratories work with, I like to read about nanoparticles of silver which are the same as colloidal silver and I have found much information and I am including 2 links in here which hopefully will stay (I am not sure if I can share them or not, but please let them stay because it is precious information I found).
I have used it for throat infections including strep (thus my name) eye infections, allergy relief and everytime it works, even my wife uses it but she was skeptical at first so I went ahead, did my homework and researched it and here it is:
Go to Nanocomposix, Silverlivingtech or any other laboratory or manufacturer who actually makes it like them and you will see that not all colloidal silver is made the same.
I know most people don’t care to read or do their homework and go find the correct info, so let me share a bit here.
Colloidal silver is not natural it is made in a few different ways to achieve the nanoparticles’ size.
Colloidal silver does work on bacteria, virus and other organisms but it does not cure 650 different things and it is not a cure all treatment.
Colloidal silver has charged nanoparticles of silver which are actually ions because charged particles are called ions and in the case of metals they are called cations.
I said it is not natural and its because in order for the nanoparticles to stay suspended in the water they need an electrical charge which if it happens in nature it would be very rare, otherwise we find it in nature.
Colloidal silver has a color (this one is a bit more technical so look for those companies I mentioned for the explanation) the summary version is light hits the nanoparticles and we get their color and the color changes with the concentration of silver and the size of the nanoparticles.
Size of the particles is important because different sizes act differently.
and the list goes on.
I do have Searle book and a few other books, you can google them and read them too, but if you don’t have the time or don’t want to, read what laboratory colloidal silver is and then make a smart decision about which one you are getting, otherwise you might end up like papa smurf who made it at home with his make-at-home kit.
Best wishes to all!
I don’t know if I am supposed to include the links, so just in case, here they are if I do:
http://nanocomposix.com/collections/silver-spheres
http://www.silverlivingtech.com/#!characteristics/c104h