My Top 3 Uses for Colloidal Silver – Antibacterial, Acne, Sore Throats

Hi Kelly,
Mike and I both take use CS as a nasal spray once a week during cold season, and daily when a cold or sinus irritation sets in. Over and over we believe it has helped us to stay healthy or knock out a virus before it can really take hold.

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Liz, thanks for sharing! Merry Christmas!

Shauna, you reminded me, docs DO still use silver – for burn treatment, I’d forgotten that.

About the blue guy, yeah, he shows up whenever you do a Google search on silver, but from my understanding he took a TON of it, and over a LONG period of time.

Kelly

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Kelly – I wonder if you’ve seen the collodial silver at http://www.midwivesconnection.com. They have a great price and check out the other items on their site – especially in the “specials” section. I always cringe when the mailman hands me the package, hoping that he didn’t read the “midwives” part – who know what he would think!

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Oh, good topic, Kelly!

I researched colloidal silver last winter after having a friend recommend it for a natural germ fighter. This is what I remember, although I confess it was over a year ago and so I don’t still have the links I found most informative; nor can I guarantee no fallacies in my memory. After doing the readings, these were my concerns and I have not yet had time to do more research or come to any final decision.

1) It is not just the one guy who is blue. Up until the 1930s or so, silver (probably various forms, but I’m not sure) was routinely used to fight various infections. But occasionally people would turn blue. Because there seemed to be no consistency in who turned blue and who did not, and with the introduction of immunizations and antibiotics, and other medical “breakthroughs” the use of silver gradually diminished. One condition for which it was still used up until about the 70s was for sinus congestion/ infections. This came in a spray and was inhaled. Still periodically someone would turn blue. Again, there seemed to be a wide variety of dosages that led to this condition. Because the medical professionals could not determine a safe dose, its use was mostly discontinued. The use of silver as a germ killer (I think broad spectrum- viral, bacterial, fungal…) has a long respected tradition. But there was just this periodic blue thing that they could never predict.

2) Some methods of preparing the colloidal silver are better than others. It has to do with the kind of suspension the silver hangs in or something. Or what kind of reactor is used on the silver to suspend it. The less good methods are thought to be much more likely to produce this blue condition (again, I can’t remember details, it all seemed too complicated to me at the time, so I left it drop).

Like everything else in the alternative health field the production and marketing is unregulated, so it is buyer beware. There are many solutions you can buy called colloidal silver. There are various machines and agents you can purchase to make your own. But, again, all these things need to be researched and each person needs to make their own decisions. I know several people who swear by a small daily dose to avoid all the little runny noses, cold sores, impetigo, flus, etc that my family seems to be constantly plagued with.

I would love to hear from someone who has all the facts and info in a “lay person” format. Because of all the variables I’ve been apprehensive to start. I’d hate to turn one of my beautiful children blue because of buying the wrong thing. But, yet, I am drawn to the idea of fewer bugs.

Thanks for bringing this up.

Mary

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We have used CS for nearly 10 years and is a standard in our household. Our daughter had pink eye and within 15 hours COMPLETELY gone. Silver has been used for hundreds of years. The term blue blood comes from royalty using silver utensils and silver being accidently ingested through the use. Making CS is the only way. You can make CS for pennies versus spending way too much from the store.

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My husband cut his leg with a chain saw a few years ago. Thankfully he was with someone and they helped him walk up to the house. I poured colloidal silver on it. I continued that several times a day for about a week until it was scabbed and clean looking. It cleared up with no expensive visit to the ER and no infection! The kids were looking at his knee the other day and had a hard time even finding the scar! This makes it sound like it wasn’t a bad cut, but trust me, it was. It was all I could do to keep from passing out. CS is a staple in our house and not just for chain saw accidents.

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Just be cautious if you have allergies with silver. I tried this on a horrid sunburn and while I’m sure it’s a wonderful treatment it just made my sunburn rashy and itchy. However the vinegar worked great! >.>

I didn’t know it was a silver allergy until then. I figured it was just the other metals from my jewelry that caused problems. I have similar problems even with gold.

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I used cs for an ear infection and any time i felt one coming on i used cs straight away and it did the job. Recently my daughter had a sore throat and swollen tonsils that looked badly infected once i remembered to use cs her throat cleared up in less than 24hrs.

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Hi All.
The condition that turns people blue is called argyria and although quite dramatic in appearence is quite rare. I have seen it suggested that the pharmacuetical companies have blown it out of proportion as widespread acceptance of colloidal silver will obviously damage their profits. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.

Argyria is not just caused by the quantity of of CS consumed, it is caused by the size of the silver particle. Relatively large particles get trapped under the skin and reacte with sunlight, turning blue or grey. Apart from that (medically speaking) argyria is harmless, though of course it will cause social problems.

Nearly all cases of argyria are associated with home made CS using your own generator. Now there are some very good generators out there, but some do make the larger particle size which get trapped under the skin.

Modern Colloidal Silvers usually use tiny nano-particles which are small enough to enter red blood cells and travel anywhere that the blood travels and will always pass out out body. According the US Evironmental Protection Agency, most silver will pass through the body within 24 hours. It does not accumulate in the body like other metals causing health problems (except for argyria if the particles are large). You can find out more about it at: http://blog.advancedsilversolution.com/2008/05/20/cutting-through-the-crap-on-colloidal-silver/

My partner suffered from cancer and the tumours had burst through the side of her body. It was terrible. The tumours emitted a thick yellowish smelly discharge which was full of bacteria. We sprayed it direct with CS and she took it orally too. The controlled the smell and discharge was not so thick and was more managable.

In the interest of being open with you all, I’m going to tell that I do actually market an advanced form of Colloial Silver. I tell you this, so you can take it into account as obviously somebody that markets it will be pro CS, so you can take it into account when reading my comments.

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I hear a lot of the same statements too, I find it interesting that there is such a division on this topic. Personally, I think silver is a beneficial supplement. I take it three times a week to help my immune system and have used it to help with sickness and infections. Thanks for sharing all this great info on this subject.

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I make my own from this website’s instructions:
http://www.quantumbalancing.com/makeyourowncs.htm
I used the first method,with the aquarium bubbler. I don’t really trust it enough to drink it, but for use it for external use. I tested it by putting a plant in a cup of solution and a plant in regular water. After a few weeks, the silver plant hadn’t changed at all – no crud in the water and no growth on the plant. The control plant had sprouted roots and gathered algae and crud in the water. This convinced me that I had colloidal silver – and never to pour it down the drain for fear of ruining my septic tank. After a year I tested it again and it didn’t work – I guess all the silver fell out of solution.

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