Re: OT - Colloidal silver question

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Hi Duncan,

About your chemistry: Colloids are funny things. They have

a huge reactive surface so even alledgedly inert substances

suddenly become reactive. If you're unsure about the reactivity

of colloidal silver and stomach HCl, why haven't you tested

that? Better safe than sorry! Pour some highly concentrated

colloidal silver into a glass of HCl and see if it becomes

slightly milky. If yes, the consumers are digesting silver

chloride. If you manufacture it by electrolysis, you'll know

that even the slightest amount of salt in the (tap) water will

contaminate the colloidal silver with silver chloride.

I live in Europe and the American FDA has nothing to say here.

But whether we like the FDA and its methods or not, they are

serious about safety. This year they took a major product by

Bayer off the market because some people died. That cost

Bayer quite a few billions and if it weren't for the September

11 incident and the subsequent Anthrax attacks (Cipro!) the

company would be in deep financial trouble.

The people shown here on TV were grey as a coin and claimed

they used colloidal silver. The concentrations weren't mentioned,

of course, I suspect they didn't even know. They were young,

in their thirties, and went for homeopathic medicine out of

fear/suspicion/dislike of regular medicine. Now they're maimed

for life. I wouldn't call then Blue Show Ponies, they are just

poor buggers who believed what was written on the bottle.

They had no way of distinguishing between a serious product

and a scam precisely BECAUSE the stuff isn't regulated.

I'm certainly not against homeopathy (my dad, a doctor, makes

a living doing it and I wouldn' t call him a fool) but I do believe

there's something to say for government regulation of these

products.

Just my two Eurocents worth...

Arthur Hoornweg

[ ] Re: Re: OT - Colloidal silver question

> Hi Arthur;

>

> They're fooling with us on the argyria issue.

>

> What Rosemary s - the FDA's blue Show Pony - does not come out and

say

> is that she never even used colloidal silver. That's right, Rose and the

> rest have fallen victim to FDA-approved high-potency silver compounds,

which

> are known to cause problems.

>

> Then with typical FDA finesse, they carefully condemn all silver

compounds,

> and colloidal silver as well, which is neither a compound nor nearly the

> potency the compounds were. This kind of disinformation is a clever part

of

> the FDA push for drugs and against what they have labelled 'alternative'

> therapies, which they're trying their damndest to sweep under the rug,

even

> if they have to lie.

>

> Really, when you think about it, allopathic medicine IS the alternative.

The

> REAL orthodox and natural methods however have been used for centuries, or

> in the case of silver, millenia, to good effect.

>

> The new medical paradigm is approaching quickly. It will incorporate all

> that works of allopathic medicine, which is about 1/10 of the drugs and

> perhaps most of the diagnostics, and all that works in natural medicine,

> which is about 7/8 of it, and nearly ALL the preventive methods and

> substances. There are no viable options, and resistance is futile. Fact is

> that in 70 years Pharma Medicine has failed to improve on what we already

> had.

>

> OK, back to colloidal silver : Colloidal silver in common use is 12-15 PPM

> (parts per million). The stuff I make, use, and give way is about 35 PPM.

> The silver compounds that people are having problems with are 1300

PPM-3500

> PPM.

>

> Because a person has to accumulate several GRAMS of silver under their

skin

> before the beginning effects of argyria occur, and because silver is

> excreted, primarily in the feces, with very little remaining, in about 3

> days, you can see that you'd be drinking 100-200 GALLONS a day to be

> remotely in danger.

>

> More info on the silver list.

> http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html

> This has been discussed at length. Searchable archive.

>

>

> Duncan Crow

>

>

>

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