How to make a Pocket Sized Colloidal Silver Generator.

First I would like to give a bit of material on colloidal silver, but due to the controversial nature of this substance, I am not allowed to state what is said about colloidal silver. Liability issues and the terms of service agreement. Thank You for pointing that out Kiteman.

The only personal claim I will make is that it works for me, and I feel the need to help others find it also.

I will say that, from the first comments, research it thoroughly, YOURSELF.

This is an Instructable on how to make a colloidal silver generator that can slip into your pocket and make your own colloidal silver on the run. Plus it is inexpensive, and gives a good product that is inexpensive.

I will suggest that anyone interested in using colloidal silver to research the topic thoroughly, consult a physician, and read all the good and bad things before you make up your own mind.

I have entered a couple of links here - they are not the end authorities on the subject. Their credabilities may be flawed, for some - but it is a start.

Use at your own risk and good health to you if you chosse it, or not.

http://www.all-natural.com/silver-1.html (Pro)

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/silverad.html (Con)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahihGKZC5Kk (Blueman - there do not seem to be many.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkCHrV6cCfw ( Part 1 of 13 - try to watch all if you can.)

Step 1 Gather the Parts.

The parts for this Instructable have to come from a few different sources.

What you will need:

Distilled water. ( Any water will do as long as it is at least filtered, but distilled is best.)

Fine silver wire. This has to be 99.9% or 99.99% pure silver wire. This is getting pretty hard to find, even on the Internet. I ordered mine out of Mexico. Make sure it is pure 'fine' silver - some 'silver' doesn't even contain silver. Ask before you buy and if you still don't trust their word take it to a jeweller you know and trust. They can run a couple of tests on it to make sure. NO STERLING - the alloy of sterling is copper or nickel and colloidal nickel is not good for you in any way, shape, or form
.
ONLY 99.9% PURE FINE SILVER. Further on I will bring this up again, and again.

Some sort of connection block. ( You can use tape if you like)

9V battery connection. ( Buy new or out of an old toy. (Recycle #1))

Good 9V battery.

Old personal size water bottle. (Recycle #2)

Comments

[christmasangel]

This comment is about Kiteman below seeing if we know what ozone generators do, as well, and implying that ozone is bad for you...as well as one other person stating they smoke and drink and are fine, so does that mean theyre both good for you.

A) Studies on SMOG which supposedly "proved" that ozone was bad, are simply WRONG. Ozone is a form of oxygen, and this same substance after it rains, is what keeps our planet sterile and not being overgrown with mold everytime it gets wet. OZONE in smog is one of a dozen different constituents, and to say because the toxins in smog make us ill, ozone must be the bad one of the bunch, is BUNK science. Ozone is medically proven to sterilize bacteria and our bodies use 4 lbs of oxygen versus 2 pounds of food per day; which is more important?

B) Alcohol kills many many germs. Alcohol in moderation is indeed, GOOD FOR YOU.

C) Studies on smoking, have included the 2000-3000 ADDITIVE chemicals that cigarettes are laden with - they are DIRTY TAINTED STUDIES.

D) Nicotine, when burned("oxidized"), is NO LONGER NICOTINE. It is NICOTINIC ACID, which is the pharmaceutical source of VITAMIN B. Nicotinic acid is GOOD FOR YOU. Nicotine levels, nicotine studies etc are therefore all BUNK as well -- it is not the nicotine but rather the 2000 EXTRA CHEMICALS which cause the ADDICTION. If you smoke ORGANIC ADDITIVE FREE cigs you will notice in one month that the awful craving has VANISHED. You must roll your own tho, as the most famous organic brand recently bought out by the virginia monopolies, now impregnates the PAPERS used in the pre-rolled versions, to "honestly" (not) state that the TOBACCO is additive free (whilst you smoke chemicals via the papers unbeknownst!)--

E) the nicotine studies only apply to people sucking, eating, or snuffing tobacco UNBURNT. Nicotine again, simply DOES NOT SURVIVE burning intact, and changes into NICOTINIC ACID, aka Vitamin B.

:) A Mensan Science Lover who doesnt watch Brainwash TV of any sort.

[Mach5]

The french did a study that concluded smoking pure tobacco wasn't so bad, it was the additives that kill you.

[lucek]

Sir they've done independent studies on Ozone. The fact is that it is highly oxidizing and can cause cellar death. The genetic fallacy you use is just wrong. Oxygen isn't automatically safe. further just because something has one good quality doesn't mean it is good for you. Molten iron protects us from the solar wind, doesn't mean you should take it internally.

[jestick]

It can be hard to get to the truth about these things. If you have done the research you know the truth. But when you are just starting out and you see an argument like this, it can be tough.

Here are some tips for getting to the truth. My answers are given as indications but you should seek your own.

1. Follow the money. Who gains/loses if you use colloidal silver

Big drug companies stand to lose out if the claims are true. Colloidal silver is superior to antibiotics since it kills fungus and viruses as well as bacterial, and it is not possible for them to become resistant.

2. Is the material in use in other products considered safe

Anti-microbial chopping boards, medical bandages, water purification systems. CDC does not list silver as toxic.

3. What do people who actually have argyria (blue skin) say

Interview on youtube the famous papa smurf still uses colloidal silver, and accepts he misused it to cause the problem. As stated elsewhere, use pure water and current limiting diode and this will never be a problem. IF you make it with tap water., use only for disinfection, not bodily use.

4. What risks are associated with short term use for experimentation

None recorded. Turning blue takes a long time even with the impure product. Trying some for a cold, burn or infection carries little or no risk.

5. Do you actually know someone who has used it.

Always good to connect with real people. The internet is OK, but the real world is well,... real.

[pwag1]

OK, I'll weigh in. To start, I've been studying and Using "colloidal silver" for about twelve years now. I just checked my "Silver" file on my computer. It is 98.5MB and holds 702 files. Most of those are medical reports on uses of silver. Stuff like these:

http://jrsm.rsmjournals.com/cgi/reprint/101/Supplement_1/51.pdf

http://www.wellnessresources.com/studies/entry/how_silver_kills_bacteria

http://www.jnanobiotechnology.com/content/3/1/6

And you especially might find this interesting:

http://www.burnsurgery.org/Modules/silver/index.htm

Silver kills most but not all pathogens. Period. Exactly "how" isn't really known for all pathogens and probably varies depending on the type and size of the silver particles. Here's a report where and how silver kills E-Coli:

http://aem.asm.org/cgi/reprint/71/11/7589.pdf

Contrary to what you see all over the internet and from hundreds of providers, most "colloidal silver" is actually ionic silver which is AG+ silver ions. True colloidal silver is very small AG particles. When AG+ silver mixes with bodily fluids most of it is fairly quickly turned into AgCl, silver chloride. However, silver salts are anti-pathogenic too. Silver nitrate (AgNO3) is still put it the eyes of almost all babies born in the USA. In many states its statutory law, although other antibiotics like erythromycin are now being used.

After 12 years, I can't say whether AG or AG+ silver works better. In almost all "colloidal silver" products you are getting both. The "ionic silver" is 95-98% ions with the balance being elemental silver and real colloidal silver is about the opposite. If it is worth anything, most medical products say that they are generating AG+ particles. I suspect that both kill pathogens but may be doing it in different ways. It also worth noting that almost all the medical reports don't actually say what type of silver is being used and especially what the particle size is either. I've even had some personal communications with a few of the authors and they still couldn't say. Additionally, most medical reports are using "in vitro" (petri dish) testing and don't really know what is happening "in vivo" (inside the body) or if the results are even applicable.

The FDA and all sorts of people always say if you use colloidal silver you will get Argyria. Possible but very rare. Contrary to a lot of posters AND medical reports, one gets Argyria by ingesting a lot of too large of silver particles. When the particle size is too much larger than a red blood cell (about 10 micron) the large particles get stuck in the small capillaries in the outer skin. There they interact with light and turn black which then causes the skin to take on a bluish-grey tint, depending one one's complexion.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2297471.stm
http://dermatology.cdlib.org/111/case_reports/argyria/wadhera.html

As far as I know, its irreversible, despite all the hocus-pocus "metal detoxification" claims but is fairly benign. For those into the Gothic scene it might even be desirable. However, keep the particle size small and you'll never get it regardless of how much colloidal silver you take as the stuf just passes through you. Most of the more recent cases are from people who were improperly home-brewing CS and then drinking a lot of sludge.

Why do you want to have CS? The movie Contagion is out. Go see it. While fictional it is actually very possible. The viral community is scared shitless that someday H5N1,(Bird Flu) which is hard to catch but is still killing a bit over 50% of those that do catch it will recombine with a highly contagious flu like H1N1. If the resultant new flu strain contains H5N1's lethality and H1N1's contagiousness, then Contagion will be a reality.

Modern medicine as no cure for a virus. However, you might find this VERY INTERESTING:

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-143164504.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is_273/ai_n16118925/

We personally use colloidal silver and have for a long time bt take it only as needed. My wife is a teacher and catches every cold and flu running around. Unlike me who rarely gets either and then has few serious symptoms when I do, a cold would knock her out of work for 1-2 weeks. Now, taking CS, she doesn't miss work and is generally "cured" in 3-5 days. Our 24 year old son caught the nasty strain of E-COli. He was hospitalized and the doctors actually told us he would probably die but if he did survive he would probably lose his kidneys. We checked him out, took him home, and poured six bottles of CS into him. A week later he was completely cured with no side effects. The doctors were amazed. My oldest son caught some flu a few years back before the Swine Flu "scare" He had a 105F fever and was in bad shape. One 8oz bottle "cured' him completely in two days.

The stuff works great on diaper rashes and conjunctivitis too.

Anecdotal? Yes, but remember medicine has no cures for some pathogens. They just go through the motions so you think modern medicine is doing something but when you pin them to the wall they have to admit that they don't actually have a cure. They are basically doing things to help your body's defenses take care of the alien invaders.

BTW, if the scenario even 1/1000 like in Contagion happens, (Look up the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic) the hospitals will be overwhelmed and you are on your on. For such things you want to have some CS around (Also get real black licorice - it contains an anti-viral compound).

If you make your own (basic instructions are all over the internet) here are a few tips that are often left out:

1. Use as pure as water as possible. Tap water contains chlorine and other crap. If you don't have a water distiller, you'll have to buy some pure water. That is NOT the same as buying bottled water. Look for laboratory grade or deionized water. About $50/G. Or get a distiller, about $100 for a cheap one. This is the one I have and was the best price I found (a few years ago):

http://wholesalewaterdistillers.com/distiller-water/american-water-distillers/american-water-distiller.html

BTW, all the ones around at much higher prices that look like this one are this one. They all come out of the same Korean factory.

I double distill bottled water for having "relatively" pure water to make CS. You have to use some of your distilled water to clean out the water chamber of the distiller before the second distilling of the already distilled water. If you've never distilled water, you'll be surprised at the crud in the water.

2. Pure water won't conduct electricity. Add a little CS from a previous "brew" to the water so it will start conducting electricity for the electrolysis process. Do NOT add salt or anything besides other CS.

3. Use as pure of silver as you can get/afford for the electrodes. Remember, whatever is in the silver will end up in the water which will end up in your body. That includes lead and cadmium. Most people selling silver allegedly more than 99.99% pure (also referred to as ".9999" or "four nines") are probably lying through their teeth. Ask for a copy of the assay. Even then.... You can, however, get that pure of silver from the mint. A US Silver Eagle and a Canadian Silver Maple Leaf are 99.99% pure silver. If you can't believe the US government who can you believe? Well, accept for their lies on Social Security and a bunch of other things but that's another story. Use them as-is or cut into strips. BTW, you can also suck on a silver coin like a lozenge. The acid in your mouth leaches some of the silver off. Keep one around for emergencies.

Electrolysis of pure water with a silver electrode strips ions of silver from the POSITIVE electrode and places them in solution. Being positively charged, they are attracted to the cathode or NEGATIVE electrode. That one can be stainless steel instead of silver. Ideally most ions will remain in solution but some make it to the cathode, which must be cleaned after use, of the soft deposit of silver.

4. If you don't want to be making BIG silver particles, you have to limit the DC current. A smaller current over longer time is better. Track down about a 1mA current limiting diode (CLD), like a1N5296.
http://www.centralsemi.com/PDFs/products/1N5283-5314.pdf
Mouser Electronics carries them.

The CLD is installed reverse biased (backwards relative to a normal diode). If you don't know which way it is supposed to go, put a DC ammeter in series to measure the current flow with the anode and cathode leads connected to the silver rods shorted together. To do this, and check the proper functioning of the CLD, you need a meter that can measure at least down to 0.1mA (100uA) increments. Many low cost 3 ½ digit multimeters have a 200mA DC range which is adequate as they display 199.9 mA full scale. Since you may not know what you are doing, or for good general design principals, it is prudent to also put a 1000 ohm current limiting resistor (the wattage is basically irrelevant) in series with the CLD so that you don't accidentally burn out the CLD by forward biasing (i.e. installing it backwards) or blow the fuse in the multimeter when the leads are shorted. When the CS brew leads are shorted together, you will see the meter reading the approximate value of the CLD, +/-10%, if it is installed correctly. If it reads [[source voltage – 1.2]/ 1000] it is in backwards.

5. Use a glass jar (Pyrex!) to brew the CS in. And keep it covered so stuff in the air doesn't fall into the water. If you want to get real serious use a laboratory magnetic stirrer too. Check Ebay. I bought an old one for $40.

6. Knowing when the "brew" is ready is a bit tougher. If you are making really small particles forget the "Tyndal Effect" and it doesn't "tel" you concentration anyway. Correctly brewed, most of the particles should be smaller than the wavelength of the light and thus you will see nothing. The best way is to use a Pure Water Tester, such as the Hanna HI 98308, that will measure parts per million.


Hope this helps.

[jestick]

You HOPE this helps! Best posting I have ever read on practical colloidal silver making. Knew a lot of it, but never seen it all on one place. The current limiting diode was new to me.

I want to make a pocket maker for travel, the block plus current limiting diode will be perfect.

Just the thing for sterilizing a glass of local water in some part of the developing (or developed) world.

Excellent post.

[strmrnnr]

I took out the claims: The following is a partial list of the more than 650 diseases that colloidal silver has been reputed to be successful against: acne, AIDS, allergies, appendicitis, arthritis, athlete's foot, bladder inflammation, blood parasites, blood poisoning, boils, burns, cancer, candida, cholera, colitis, conjunctivitis, cystitis, dermatitis, diabetes, dysentery, eczema, fibrositis, gastritis, gonorrhea, hay fever, herpes, impetigo, indigestion, keratitis, leprosy, leukemia, lupus, lymphangitis, Lyme disease, malaria, meningitis, neurasthenia, parasitic infections: viral, fungal and bacterial pneumonia, pleurisy, prostate, pruritus ani, psoriasis, purulent opthalmia, rhinitis, rheumatism, ringworm, scarlet fever, septic conditions of the eyes, ears, mouth, and throat, seborrhea, septicemia, shingles, skin cancer, staphylococcus and streptococcus infections, stomach flu, syphilis, thyroid, tuberculosis, tonsillitis, toxemia, trachoma, all forms of virus, warts, whooping cough, yeast infection, stomach ulcer, canine parovirus and other veterinary uses, and fungal and viral attacks on plants. If you are still pessimistic about it, try it on an old plant that is diseased. Just don't buy it if you have the material to make it. It costs way to much money to buy it.

[Kiteman]

Two points:

> "reputed" is only close to "proof" if you rip a lot of pages out of the dictionary.

> testing it on a plant isn't even in the earliest stages of a medical trial - if you drink something because it's good for the roses, then there are miracle cures oozing out of compost heaps across the world.

[rosewood513]

Why not see what is said by the US Paternt Office who patented this device.
try reading this if you can: But first remember if it is stated as a cure they would take this off the market because your friend FDA will not be getting the billions of dollars they strive so hard to get by keeping us well..  Actually you are worth money sick than well so we are not allowed to get will or they will lose theri allowances.
Also the Doctors (and i worked for many) Want to keep us "managably ill"   If we get better they lose customers.
http://www.advancedsilversolution.com/US_Patent.html


As far as the blue thing, There are millions of people who take it in proper amounts and have only had good things happen, me included, I no longer have lupus.
Colloidal Silver is an antibiotic, if those people that turned blue abused the product, it is not supposed to be taken everyday for years.  That is what they said they did, and they rubbed it on the skin at the same time.

I wonder what would happen to you if you took a real antibiotic every day for ten or more years double and triple the dose ?  I think you probably die, I would rather be blue than DEAD.

[Kiteman]

The Patent Office will patent anything - it does not have to actually work (they patented a faster-than-light space ship powered by diodes for goodness' sake!)

How long did you have to take the silver before the lupus cleared up?

What other treatments were you also taking?

The comment about "managably ill" clearly shows where you are coming from here - I dare say your CS materials are filed next to the documentation for the 300mpg carburettor and the HHO Overunity generator...

[rosewood513]

Why do you care or are you just someone that likes to argue.  This conversation is over. I will ignore any further replies from you.
Thanks you

[Kiteman]

I assume you'll read this: Since you asked questions, I presume you want answers.

I care because I object to people being taken in by woowoo.  Must be something to do with me being a science teacher.

[strmrnnr]

If you are  science teacher you should have the facility and equipment to test this on your own. And i say on your own because if you tell your co workers they will likely try to stop you, as you are me.

Take the time and try it in a petri dish and prove without a doubt to yourself. Also, remember to try and not sub-consciously sabotage your own experiments. Give it an honest go. Please.

[Kiteman]

Please pay attention:

I have never stated that this method will not work to produce colloidal silver.

What I have been doing is pointing out the established facts: colloidal silver has no medical benefits, and instead causes cumulative, irreparable damage.

I also have particular problems with the wording of the last main paragraph of your write-up; you tell people to research the subject before putting their health at risk, then you tell them not to trust the people who know (and have properly checked) the facts of the matter.

The colloidal silver nonsense is a prime example of one of the more physically dangerous conspiracy myths.   I'll bet you have a Hulda zapper and an ozone generator as well...

[Tim Temple]

Do you have any curiosity as to whether it actually kills bacteria and viruses? And does so safely? Obviously you like to experiment....

Here's a website to show CS's safety: http://www.silverfacts.com/safety.html

[Kiteman]

Oh, I know that silver kills bacteria and viruses, but its on direct contact with the micro-organism.

Drinking a suspension of the colloidal form will, at best, harm a small proportion of your natural intestinal fauna. It will have absolutely no effect on infections in any other part of the body.

The many claims of its effectiveness against diseases are only verifiable in vitro, when the microbes can be forced into direct physical contact with the particles of silver, much as they are in open wounds covered by silver-impregnated band-aids, or sweaty skin dressed in silver-impregnated clothing.

As for your quoted website, it represents a body with no official recognition that I can find, and the way it deals with dose-levels is highly suspect, swapping around between milligrams, ppm and "drops" willy-nilly, attempting to gloss over the fact that, if you stick with the original EPA-defined RfD of 5E-3 mg/kg/day means that any dose over half a milligram is considered unsafe for consumption by an average-sized human.

It also [falsely] implies that there is no "cut-and-dried" upper level at which silver ingestion becomes toxic, when in fact the data says there is no lower limit, meaning that there is, according to the EPA, no safe dose of metallic colloidal silver.

[strmrnnr]

Then there is no problem. This is not for you. Don't drink it and let others make up their own minds.

[Kiteman]

As long as they don't have to wait until they have turned irreversibly blue to decide it doesn't work. And please, don't make an ozone-generator your next project.

[rosewood513]

I hope you get to read this, There is oine in a million chance to turn blue, and that is if you drink gallons of this stuff. and no one does.

[Kiteman]

Check proper medical websites (as well as chemical hazard websites).

Argyria is a very real, cumulative, irreversible hazard of consuming colloidal silver.

There is no peer-reviewed evidence for medical benefits from drinking colloidal silver.

[lemonie]

You haven't supported these claims, rather acknowledged that they have been made (by colloidal-silver quacks selling this stuff). While you perceive a personal benefit, you've not said "it cured-" "my () has gone" or similar. What you did do was also list reputed / reported detrimental effects to balance this, and you still advise seeking the opinion of a medical professional.

For some gullible people who will hand over money for any "miracle cure" finding "collodial-silver" here will at least give them a reasonably balanced view.

But all that aside, the Instructable is about making colloidal-silver, swigging it isn't the only use and the actual make should be appraised rather than your reasons for doing so.

L

[___]

this time i agree with lemonie

[Tim Temple]

The way to be safe is just stick with distilled water and pure silver. Here's a site to show how to be safe:
http://www.silverfacts.com/safety.html

[pwag1]

In addition to my previous comments, somebody took issue with something I had to say over on a somewhat related thread. I posted a lengthy rebuttal which readers of this thread might find informative or at least interesting. See:

http://www.instructables.com/id/15-Unusual-Uses-for-Cheap-Vodka/step4/Mouthwash/?comments=all#CKER368GSLJR98R

[pwag1]

I should have added, if you brew your own CS, and want to be absolutely sure you aren't making big particles that could give you Argryia, filter the brewed results through a maximum 1 - 10 micron absolute filter.

Use a gravity filter. Check:

http://www.premium-water-filters.com/

http://www.sawyerpointonefilters.com/

[misry]

Hi ,

I am really concerned about colloidal silver , i had found this blog

http://www.colloidal-silver-uses.com/blog

what is your opinion ?

Thanks

[lucek]

It's a marketing page. Look for actual work on the chemical. There is little to no benefit(that is no well controlled study has ever found a difference from controls), and there is risk.

[christmasangel]

This is a really good page showing the horrors of colloidal silver:. :


http://www.quantumbalancing.com/news/cs_banishing.htm

Your directions are very, very good. You NEVER want to add salt of any sort to form silver chloride, and your directions are ace. You also dont want to be misled by "longer/bigger is better" - when the colloidal particles get too big, thats when argyria can happen, because theyre too big to be of any use in the body. The timing is important and many people give simple ways of testing "finishedness" like using a regular bulb flashlight and seeing if the beam thru the jar of colloid now forms a pointed end (conical) at the far end; another way is to buy a simple laser (pen) from radio shack,and keep looking thru the jar periodically at the beam (beam across, you perpendicular) until the beam goes from very faint to very defined; the particles in the water at right concentration will make either "light" beam more visible and signal that the mixture is done. A third good indicator is a slightly yellow tint to the water - but never milky, black, or gray - those should be tossed and start over.

[christmasangel]

The "in vivo" medical studies and chemistry speculation, that because silver ions meet chlorides in the body and therefore become "silver chloride", are done on paper and not in the real world. (User of same, feel great and have chronic infection - no evidence like using it). They have failed to add in the fact that all chronic infections cause a state of abnormal acidity in the body , and are assuming the prototype of "a healthy body, ph 7" in their speculations.

We have a lot to learn of WHY this works (if we need to know at all)...and the simple fact that it does, and has been known of for thousands of years, cannot be defeated by a greedy bunch of information-hogging jerks out to make bucks.

GOOD FOR YOU for sharing this page with those who havent found this yet. We only get one life, and that is a sacred thing to preserve for us who are not bacterially well. (comments - mercury?some people just like to argue and even a monkey can do that with a blue poker chip and a vending machine-see chimpanzee studies of the 1960s.).

[christmasangel]

I think that your comments belonged and this is our country with freedom of speech.Opinions are to be cherished and too bad for the doctors who dont want you to know about something that will cure you. Right on for the crisp non-brainwashed perception that managably ill is the way some folks prefer you. The sicker you are and the less you heal means more income for those 2% tops smarts of americans who pursue a md degree. Why on earth fix someone when they wont be a lifetime customer?
Kiteman sounds like hes miffed if you teach something omitted from a public school textbook. I think its great that the comments are viewable of what he/she said and how you were harassed into shutting up without free speech. You may not SELL and make claims, is the law. And, FDA has no jurisdiction over silver AT ALL as its pre 1938 and falls under the grandfather clause.
So...the ancient greeks were listening to woo woo.....how rich! And I suppose all those blue bloods hogging the secret of silver improving health, eating off their silverware as they still do today, were also listening to woo woo.....hmm.

Mensa says Einstein's stool of logic is missing two legs....I guess Kiteman doesnt like that either. Physics makes no sense, because as a science, its based on a faulty foundation...all science teachers hate to hear that, but its true. Lack of "studies" is negative evidence, akin to saying that because there has been no "accredited" study done, it is not yet proven that shutting the faucet stops waterflow, it may not be claimed. Ha! I can be really careful to and avoid doing a study on something if I know the truth will hurt my business. But that is garbage proof,kind of like garbage science.

It is doctors who are causing the collapses of entire states by vampiring the medicaid and medicare insurance coffers, prescribing garbage that doesnt cure on purpose. Interesting how the focus is off them completely.

[UltraMagnus]

just to point out now, that the is absolutely no medical evidence that this will do anything other than turn your skin blue-grey permanently (a condition known as Argyria to which the is no known cure)

[wsecomp]

Like the author, we have been using CS for several years, cured infections, used it to help get rid of colds, heal wounds quicker (including on animals). I can say from PERSONAL EXPERIENCE that CS does what it was intended to do.

Argyria IS curable. A person with the condition can do what's called a "heavy metal detox", which rids the body of a large quantity of metal buildup in the organs (incl. skin). It takes quite a while...after all, the buildup didn't happen over night...but it works.

Now...the people with this condition also used and made CS incorrectly. They were drinking QUARTS of it a day, every day. They were rubbing it on their skin, on top of that amount. They were also making it, out of ignorance, with particles MUCH larger than they were supposed, and at a concentration of (I'm guessing, judging by the photos I've seen of what they made) 10,000ppm, and not the correct concentration of 5-10ppm.

I say this with all due respect...instead of going off of many ignorant sites on the internet, or not doing any decent research into the subject, speak with those of us who have personal experience with using it before making absolute statements.

[strmrnnr]

http://www.naturalnews.com/022728.html

[UltraMagnus]

of course, that source looks really unbiased.

[strmrnnr]

Of course. The Pharmacy company is going to be unbiased also. They do not care about the money they are going to lose. All they care about is healing the people of the World. Look at all the people they are saving around the World, giving drugs out for next to nothing so even the poor can afford them. Have you heard of codex alimentarius. It is a very interesting topic.

[makgalleries]

Unbiased Parma company? hahaha yea and George Bush was just trying to save the world.
I have used this collodial silver generator for years. Not a single negative health issue. I also use it in the kitchen, laundry, garden and many other places. Silver is one of the best antibiotics on the planet. I am not blue from usage and love that I am never sick, my foods last longer, and my garden is free of bugs and disease. Do the research, you'll see it the best for you.

[UltraMagnus]

and alternative therapists are incapable of organising double blind studies? I usually like to be open minded with these sort of things, and have used herbal remedies to some effect myself. Silver is a good germicide in vitro, and silver containers and silver nitrate/Silver sulfadiazine have been proven to limit infection outside the body. but the is no evidence that the tiny amount of silver present in colloidal silver have any effects in vivo

[maxbrainspace]

A few points.
Agyria is not caused by colloidal silver but by silver salts - nitrates, chlorides etc. No new cases of agyria have showed up since the lady that is all over the internet as the great agyriad one. Her doctor prescribed ground up silver salts.
I have been using colloidal silver for over 10 years now. Cured cold sores, helped heal stitched wound in Golden Staph infected hospital (doctor couldn't believe the healing rate) Stopped food poisoning event (drank about 500ml in 3 lots over a few hours after symptom appeared) Cured mumps in 3 days recently (again copious consumption) Great for tinea. Snort it up your nose to cure sore throat (the usual indicator of a coming cold or flu) - gets the liquid to the source of the infection - can't get to the infection point through the mouth.
I use 2mm wire I bought from a jewelry supply company. Use 30V limited to 7ma with a current limiting ic. Use an old electric frypan as a double boiler to heat the distilled water and run it for an hour. Electrodes are now around 1.2 to 1.5mm diameter after 10 years. Very cost effective.
I even found Beiersdorf have produced a silver bandaid that I found in our local Franklins supermarket.
If you are concerned about consuming 5-10ppm colloidal silver for goodness sake don't ever drink tap water.
Good luck. If the colloidal silver won't kill you life will.

[tmn8tr]

You don't want anything marked .925, 92.5. this is sterling silver and is an alloy of 92.5% silver, the rest copper. The difference being, without the copper, the silver stays very soft, and since there is no copper it doesn't tarnish as easily (over time, even fine will dull.) I am a goldsmith by trade, and when I was in school we used fine silver for our reppousse' projects because it was far more forgiving, and didn't need annealing (heating, and cooling to realign the metal molecules, making it soft again.) At the time, I purchased my fine silver from Rio Grande, in New Mexico. As for coin silver, it is not quite fine, but it might be high enough in content for colloid.

[eljohn3]

Drinking silver is a known cause of the disease Argyria, a disease that makes you look like the tinman from the wizard of oz.  Have a look, googles got a few good pictures of the afflicted.