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Colloidal Silver is an Antibacterial, Antifungal and Antiviral Miracle

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 by: Ethan Huff, citizen journalist

(NaturalNews)

The element silver has long been recognized as a precious metal of

significant value. In fact, prior to the early '60s, silver was used to

make quarters and dimes because it held its value in weight. Silver is

also utilized in a variety of industrial uses including imaging and

photography, electronics, water purification, as well as various

catalytic uses. It is a highly conductive metal that does not corrode

so it works effectively in various chemical processes. Many people,

however, remain unaware of the health-promoting benefits of silver.

 

In the early days of human civilization, it was discovered that silver helped keep things like water,

milk, and vinegar pure for long periods of time. Since there was no

refrigeration at the time, silver vessels were often used to preserve

various foods

and drinks during travel. One of the primary reasons why many ancient

civilizations used silver eating utensils was due to the fact that

silver prevented the growth of disease-causing pathogens. Silver's

preservative, medical, germicidal, and antibacterial uses can be traced

as far back as during the ancient Greek and Roman empires.

 

Western Medicine Discovers Silver

It wasn't until the late 1800s that western science began to rediscover

the ancient truths about silver. One of the early documented uses of

silver as a bactericide was in 1884 by a German obstetrician named Carl

Crede. He effectively administered a 1% silver nitrate solution into

the eyes of newborn infants in order to prevent the incidence of

gonococcal opthalmia, a disease that causes blindness in newborns. Prior to the introduction of modern antibiotics, silver was used widely in hospitals and by doctors to combat infection and to dress wounds.

 

As scientific understanding progressed, silver compounds and colloids

were developed and became widely used medicinally to treat all sorts of

infectious diseases. In fact, by 1940, there were roughly four dozen

different silver compound products on the market to treat every known infectious disease,

available orally, topically, or by injection. It was generally

recognized not only as safe when properly prepared, but tremendously

effective.

 

Western Medicine Abandons Silver

With the advent of synthetic, patented drugs and antibiotics in the

1930s, there came the gradual abandonment of silver by mainstream medicine,

at least for the most part. Since resistant strains of disease

organisms had not yet surfaced at that time, there was newfangled

fervor towards the new treatments as superior and

technologically-advanced. Most of silver's uses lost favor with the

exception of it being used as a water purifying agent and as a wound

dressing.

 

Western Medicine Discovers Silver, Again

It wasn't until the 1970s that silver began to reemerge medicinally,

thanks to research by Dr. Carl Moyer, then chairman of Washington

University's Department of Surgery. With the help of Dr. Margraf, the

department's chief biochemist, research into a viable antiseptic that

was safe to use on burn victims over large areas of their body led to a

silver solution as the top choice. What had quickly become a remnant of

history was being resurrected from the grave of antiquated medical

literature as a powerful disease fighter.

 

It recent years, silver has garnered some attention from medical

experts who recognize that it is a highly powerful germicidal,

antibacterial, and antifungal, while also entirely non-toxic to humans

when prepared correctly.

 

Despite some negative press about argyria, a condition that results

when a person perpetually ingests improperly-formulated silver

solutions that have been prepared with silver salts and consequently

receives a blue pigmentation in the skin, the truth remains that

properly prepared silver solutions made by electrically-generated ions

is an extremely potent disease preventative as well as treatment.

 

A 1988 laboratory test at the UCLA School of Medicine verified that bacteria, viruses, and fungal organisms are killed within minutes of being exposed to colloidal silver

solutions. Dr. Robert Becker of Syracuse University also noted that in

a study conducted at his school all the organisms tested were

eliminated by the silver, including ones that were resistant to known

antibiotics.

 

 

Properly-prepared silver treatments have no negative side effects and

do not harm the good intestinal bacteria that are otherwise destroyed

by conventional antibiotics when treating bacterial infections. It is

precisely because silver cannot be patented that it has been mostly

shrouded by the mainstream healthcare

system. If it cannot be patented, it cannot make money and is thus a

threat to the pharmaceutical monopoly on healthcare. While their

antibiotics attempt to attack a few very specific strains of bacteria,

constantly-mutating super bugs develop a resistance to this form of

treatment. Contrarily, silver attacks the bacterial food source making even mutated forms defenseless against silver's powerful defense abilities.

 

Many medical professionals are catching on to silver's incredible

qualities, however, and researchers continue to study it for its

amazing antiviral, antifungal, and antibacterial characteristics. It is

incredibly effective and extremely inexpensive, especially when

prepared at home. The process is simple and safe and involves no salt

compounds; just silver, water, and electricity. Several producers

construct and sell quality colloidal silver generators that allow one

to make colloidal silver at home for as much as it costs to purchase

distilled water. Colloidal silver solutions can also be purchased at

most health food stores.

 

Sources:

 

A Brief History of The Health Support Uses of Silver

 

History of Colloidal Silver

 

Colloidal Silver Science Research & Scientific Studies