There is an alternative to laser pointers for viewing the tyndall effect. It is
the high intensity lead emitting diode flashlight, such as PALights. One
vendor is http://www.wadwizard.com
A typical price is about nineteen dollars. Colors available include red,
white, blue and green. I find white an
I did have a problem with storing EIS in plastic jugs used
for vending DW. The silver precipitated out after several weeks. Since then I
have used a two-stage storage method.
The first stage is for stabilization and long-term bulk volume
without H2O2. The vessel is a 1-gallon tinted glass empty
w
The website of the Sam Houston Memorial Museum mentions that Houston
was successfully treated for malaria by Native American healers. (General
Houston had lived with Indian tribes as a youth and occasionally as an
adult. He had ran away from home at age 16, due to unhappy family
circumstances, and
The active ingredients of cansema are soluble in water.
Water is miscible with DMSO. DMSO is miscible in
at least some oils (e.g. jojoba.) Therefore the active
ingredients of cansema might be dissolved in VCNO using
DMSO as an intermediary solvent. The DMSO would
also act as a penetrant.
Has anybo
Hello,Members of the List,
The website http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/cayenne.html gives directions
for making
and using a home-made first-aid treatment for cardiovascular emergencies. It is
a tincture
made from vodka and dried hot peppers (habanero, african bird, serrano,
jalapeno.)
Has
Hi, Terry and Jason,
Thanks for the comments on nanosilver, Terry, and the
comments on the coinage of EIS, Jason.
On reflection, I suppose my preference for EIS is based
also on my preference for macroscopic operationalism
in the style of P.W. Bridgmann.
Thomas Graham gave an operational definit
I vote for EIS. It is not trademarked. It describes the
production process as well as the product. And the
process is very important in making it practical.
The letter E could be taken as either electrically or
electrolytically. (The latter tells more about the process.)
The letter I denotes isolat
Umeboshi plum is a misnomer. The term umeboshi means "dried ume," where ume is
usually
translated as plum. But it is not a plum. It is a species of apricot. It has
several organic acids
with medicinal effects, including the seemingly paradoxical effect of
alkalizing the body.
1. Umeboshi has a
The apparatus suggests a way to prevent run-away
without using a rheostat, ammeter or constant-current
circuitry.
Make two electrolysis cells, identical except that one
has silver electrodes and the other has copper electrodes.
Put them in series with a suitable voltage supply.
The cell with the s
Recently an acquaintance has promoted a medicinal fruit named Garcinia
Mangostana,
or mangosteen. Apparently it is very rich in xanthones, antioxidant phenols
with a broad
spectrum of health benefits. Some duplicate the benefits of CS/EIS but others
are claimed
that go possibly beyond those of C
Sodium chloride is not the only compound that can be
used to make the CS isotonic. A small amount of
bicarbonate of soda should work too. Sodium bicarbonate
will not precipitate the ionic fraction, Ag+, as much as
sodium chloride will.
There are herbal preparations specifically intended to guard
against metastasis. Hildegard von Bingen was inspired
to use violets and yarrow preparations to counteract
metastasis, did she not?
Alkalizing the body should not be overlooked. Look
into possible benefits of dilute hydrogen peroxide,
po
There seems to be a consensus that juiced whole
lemon diluted in DW will help alkalize the body and
so counteract cancer. Are there
any grain foodstuffs that would augment this? I am
wondering if hominy (corn treated with lye) would
would be such a food item. Does anybody have any
information or
The December 1990 edition of the Toxicological Profile For Silver, Agency for
Toxic Substances
And Disease Registry, US Public Health Service has this to say about cancer and
silver:
"2.2.2.8 Cancer
No studies were located regarding cancer in humans or animals after oral
exposure
to silver or
The Wikipedia online encyclopedia's article on Hydronium mentions also some
equivalents and near-equivalents for Hydronium recognized by the International
Union Of Pure And Applied Chemistry (IUPAC.) They are Oxonium,
Hydroxonium and Oxidanium. If ones goes back to the research done at the
Unkrain
It might be of interest to note that Cayce recommended
the use of lemon juice and lime juice for cancer in 1934.
See readings 570-1 on 6/5/34, in Bolton's compilation
Edgar Cayce Speaks. Cayce also reported the alkalizing
effect of fresh lemon juice diluted in water. See reading
1709-10, 1943, ibid
Dear Marshall,
Thank you very much for starting this thread and
providing so much food for thought about the reactions
taking place with EIS + H2O2.
Matthew
I have seen no evidence that CS poses any threat to
babies. But suppose, for the sake of hypothesis, that
a certain risk was a possibility because it had not yet been
ruled out. What would be the preferred alternative to
EIS(CS)? Freshly ozonated milk? If I am not mistaken,
the active ingredient of
I bought a gardening product at a close-out sale called
Hot Pepper Wax Insect Repellant. The active ingredient
is Capsaicin (3%) and the inert ingredient is 97% but
unidentified. The capsaicin is made from hot cayenne
peppers. It is intended for use on fruit, vegetables and
ornamentals against inse
Yes, it is very interesting that Viadent and escharotic salves
share the chief active ingredients. I didn't think they
targeted the same pathogens, or did they? I used Viadent
in the early '90s to get rid of gum inflammation, before I
learned about CS. My dentist was astonished about how
fast and t
Original formula Viadent toothpaste is no longer on the
market, if I am not mistaken. It might be of interest to record
its ingredients. Here they are:
Active ingredients: Sodium Monofluorophosphate
(for fluoridation.)
Other ingredients: Sanguinaria extract (bloodroot),
Zinc chloride, Sorbitol, Wa
What would be the most useful item to send to folks
caught in a disaster like Katrina? Don't overlook the
stungun. A stungun is sure to become a very scarce
item in a panic, useful as a substitute for antivenin as
well as nonlethal self-defense.
Hi, Jason,
Yes, such a project would be great. But the workload
would be immense. Thanks for offering to pitch in. I
wonder if anybody else wants to get involved in such
an project? And, more importantly, what does Mike
Devour think about it? (And how many megabytes are
we talking about?)
I'll be
Reproducing the archives' search capabilities would
be an arduous undertaking. Maybe a solution would
be to decentralize the task by do-it-yourself archive
searches. If I am not mistaken, the unix shell utilities
awk (or gawk) can do this. More powerful string handling
can be done with spitbol. Cat
The review text Argyria And The Pharmacology Of Silver by Hill and Pillsbury
(1939) mentions the chief studies of bioaccumulation of silver in children,
infants
and fetuses as being that of J.H. Sheldon and H. Ramage in 1933. See
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 113:308. See also
The report of a naturopath regarding possible bioaccumulation of silver
crossing the BBB in infants and children does raise a question
about what alternatives
may be available. If I am not mistaken, Naturopathy historically has
relied on ozone protocols. Does the naturopath recommend the use
of o
The difference between EIS and CS is that CS is a
component of EIS, not vice versa.
We might regard EIS as silver particulates suspended in
an aqueous solution of a soluble silver compound, probably
silver hydroxide.
Hi, Marmar 845,
The easiest way to demonstrate that EIS(CS) destroys
bacteria is to point out that it is used to sterilize water
on passenger aircraft, space shuttles and the space
station. EIS(CS) sterilizes water in vitro, not in vivo, in these
instances. No other biosystems (e.g. cells, cell nu
The X-CAD giveaway to the first 100,000 registrants
has surpassed its goal several days early. Another
mind-blowing CAD system is eMachineShop:
http://www.emachineshop.com
It is the world's first online machineshop
service -- mechanical design, analysis, feasibility,
pricing, and shop commiss
Hello, Jonathan,
Thanks for the link to the essay on David Bohm.
An important experimental effect he co-discovered was
the Aharonov-Bohm effect, which showed the need to
extend the fields of electromagnetism beyond those
given in the Heaviside formulation of Maxwell's equations.
The implications a
Tetrasil ointment might help with an infection like one
behind the ear. This ointment is tetrasilver tetroxide
suspended in a vehicle of jojoba oil. Tetrasil can be
bought without a prescription.
Hi, Ode,
Thanks for sharing about your iontophoresis. Fascinating.
EIS works well as the electrolyte.
It may be possible to improve on it, though, with some
addition of DMSO. The DMSO molecule is highly
polar, like H2O, but carries the Ag+ into the tissue even
better than EIS alone.
Best regards,
y hour, 24 hours a day
and 7 days a week, for ten months (& no vacations.)
- Original Message -
From: Ed Kasper
To: Matthew McCann
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 1:00 PM
Subject: RE: CS>silver toxicity
gee, that's only one silver coin every other month.
My wife an
Hi, Michael,
Two hundred grams. Hmmm. That is equivalent to about
six and a half 1-oz (~31g) bullion coins ingested in less
than one year.
Odd.
Matthew
Hi, Bernie,
Yes, the 450ppm does seem more like mild silver protein.
If that was the case, then the hyperlink citation was
incorrect about its manufacture, i.e. home made.
Still odd.
Matthew
Hello, Maz,
A lot depends on whether the EIS generator is
commercially manufactured (e.g. by Ode, Trem et al)
or home made.
I personally use a homemade generator with a
current limiting rheostat to prevent runaway, and a
3-inch separation of bullion coin electrodes. For such
a setup, a multimeter
The use of a multimeter raises a long-standing issue.
Should we measure conductance (in units of
microsiemens, uS) or conductivity (in units of microsiemens
per centimeter, uS/cm)? The probes' spacing and length must
be known and fixed if we want to relate conductance and
conductivity by a proport
Hello, Michael,
The link below mentions a case of argyria. It followed the
use of a "simple battery operated chamber" taken from
plans on the internet.
http://dermatology.cdlib.org/111/case_reports/argyria/wadhera.html
The dosage was 450ml of 450ppm CS taken 3 times a day
for 10 months.
Th
Silver citrate was mentioned in the 1916 Materia Medica
For Nurses, A.S. Blumgarten MD, McMillan as an
injectable antiseptic. Its brand name was Itrol, and its use
was known to have hazards even in 1916.
(This Blumgarted citation was posted to SilverList by
Susan Yentsen on 9 March 1998.)
Matthew
A number of ways have been proposed for increasing
the ppm of EIS. Re-electrolysis following a stabilization
period (of about a day or so) seems to be a well-established
method now.
Removal of water has been proposed, but there are
drawbacks to this. Evaporation at high temperature,
i.e. above ab
Hello, Angel,
I have not been able to find anything more on the 1987
report by Rosenman et al on the www. Perhaps the
U.S. Public Health Service's 1990 critique put an end
to the discussion.
The renal effect noticed by Rosenman seems to have
been mild. I have no expertise in this, but I wonder if
The report of the U.S. Public Health Service does give
more detail on page 14 regarding the 1987 Rosenman
et al. article. It states in the section on renal effects:
"Occupational exposure to silver metal dust has been
associated with increased excretion of a particular renal
enzyme (N-acetyl-beta-
If indeed the 1987 article is the source of the report of renal
damage by silver, perhaps it can be disregarded. Refer to
the December 1990 report Toxicological Profile For Silver,
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry,
United States Public Health Service, Chapter 1, Section 4,
"How Can
- Original Message -
From: Matthew McCann
To: M. G. Devour
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 9:45 PM
Subject: Source of report of renal damage by silver?
"...Renal damage and metal fume fever have been have
been reported with high silver exposures..."
"...The unreferenced
Hi, Judith,
CS works very well even in the absence of an immune system.
Henry Crooks discovered around 1900 that colloidal silver (nontoxic
to higher life forms) was the equal of corrosive sublimate
(toxic to all life forms) in its ability to kill bacteria cultures
in vitro, and therefore in the a
The young lady returned to high school in March as a part-time student. She was
able to go to classes in advanced
algebra and spanish. She was in a wheelchair and showed
the signs more typically associated with effects following
severe encephalitis, but is making steady progress in
recovering the
Below is another report on the case, published by the
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
http://www.co.cowlitz.wa.us/health/Current%20Web%20Pages%20&%20Documents/Health%20Department%20webpages/communityhealth/cd/Rabies.pdf
Hi, jr,
I will try to get an update. In the meantime, below is a link
to the report published on December 24, 2004, in the
Mortality and Morbidity Report of the Center for Disease
Control regarding the case.
Matthew
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5350.pdf
Hi, Members of the List,
A physician with social ties to the young lady who
survived unvaccinated rabies told me a few details about
how it was accomplished.
The rabies virus has the strange ability to move in a
nerve fibers oppositely to the action potential (nerve impulse)
that moves unidirect
Hello, Members of the List,
Those annoying email scams that ask you to 'verify'
your account may pose serious long-term hazards.
Look at the following webpage.
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/internet.asp
Scann
"I'm sorry, but it is a meaningless statement. To state
that something could be formed merely means it is
hypothetically possible."
Actually it goes beyond. Hill and Pillsbury wrote on p.13:
"It has been assumed that a free silver ion entering the
blood stream forms a soluble with the plasma pro
Silver citrate solution was marketed as Itrol and is listed in
the U.S. Dispensatory, 1937, J.B. Lippincott Co. Phila.
and would be included in Hill & Pillsbury reference to
argyria being associated with every silver compound in
clinical use in 1939, except silver oxide.
Incidentally, Hill and Pil
Hi, Terry,
My reference to the 0.1 M solution of silver nitrate was to
give evidence that silver nitrate is a colorless solution, even
at concentrations far beyond that used for medicinals.
The American Chemical Society webpage illustrates a
chemical lab experiment, not a clinical experiment.
If
A solution of 0.1 M silver nitrate will put 0.1 moles of
Ag+ ions into solution for each liter of water. The atomic weight of silver is
107.87 grams per mole.
So the concentration of Ag+ will be 10.787 grams per
kilogram of water, or 10787 milligrams of silver per
million milligrams of water. This
Silver does accumulate in the body. It can be detected
and measured in tissues and body fluids by chemical,
histological and spectrographic means. Early 20th
Century researches on silver accumulation used:
1. Chemical Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis. See:
Blyth, Poisons, Their Effects A
Here is a link from a NASA webpage mentioning NASA's
R&D spinoff of water purification by silver ion generation
at the ppb-level of silver concentration in water.
The Water Filter/Conditioner section mentions
50-100 ppb. The Pool Purification section mentions
100-300 ppb.
Matthew
http://vesuviu
Here is a link to a webpage of the American Chemical
Society. It shows a 0.1 M solution of silver nitrate and
describes it as a colorless solution.
Matthew
http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/CCA1/R1MAIN/CD1R2290.HTM
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Hi, Terry,
I think I can get some citations from the scientific
literature when my library re-opens on Monday, from
particularly from Pillsbury and Hill's Argyria And The
Pharmacology Of Silver (1939) and National Academy
of Science's Spacecraft Water Exposure Guidelines.
In the meantime, I wil
Hello, Terry,
Are you saying that argyria is caused by the large particles?
Dissolved silver salts such as silver nitrate and silver
citrate can and do result in argyria, even though there are
no elemental silver particulates in the solution. The Ag+ ions
are as small as particles of silver ever
Hello, Faith,
Is it correct to say you are making EIS without using
distilled water? If so, you are taking unnecessary
risks. You can mix mineral water with EIS after it's
been brewed, I suppose. But the vast majority of EIS
brewers use the purest distilled water they can get
their hands on.
Bes
For ppm levels of several thousands, a gravimetric assay
should be sensitive enough a method. Just take gross and
tare weights before and after evaporation of the water from
the microdyn. The evaporation can be done without
heating. Just let the microdyn sample sit at room
temperature in an open be
http://www.ratlovers.org
The colloid mill was invented by Veimarn in 1906, though
many improvements have been made since then.
Mexico may have expropriated exclusive rights to itself
to mill CS, without fussing with issues of who invented
what. Kind of like minting coinage.
Matthew
Hello, Dan,
Conductivity is defined differently in Millman and Halkias'
Electronic Devices And Circuits. (Cf. 1967 edition, page
54.)
Equation 3-3:
(sigma) equals (n) x (e) x (mu)
where:
n is the concentration of mobile charges,
which are free electrons in metals in the Millman and
Halkias' d
This may be pedantic, but is not conductivity measured
in units with dimension of conductance per length? For EIS
the convenient unit of conductance is microsiemens, uS,
and the convenient unit of conductivity is microsiemens
per centimeter, uS/cm.
Best regards,
Matthew
Many a sixteen-year old adolescent has benefited from Vision Quest, a
wagon-train journey for character
formation. Remember the TV series "Wagon Train"
starring Ward Bond as the wise old trainmaster?
A Vision Quest is like that.
Best regards,
Matthew
Hello, members of the List,
A number of posts have indicated that calcium ascorbate
can be expensive. I put a Vitamin C tablet next to a
calcium carbonate antacid tablet in drinking glass, added
enough distilled water to cover them, watched the reaction
awhile, pulverized the tablets, stirred the
Hi, Oldglory,
I have been able to attain higher ppm readings for EIS by
letting the brew stabilize for a day, filtering, and then
re-brewing. I conjecture that dissolved silver recrystallizes
into particulate silver during the stabilization period,
allowing further electrolysis of the silver elect
Hello, Marshall,
I think tetrasilver tetroxide is soluble in water. I got a
one pint bottle of SilSpa, the hot tub disinfectant, and
found it to be (probably) a saturated aqueous solution
of Ag4o4. The label describes it as 1.0% Silver Oxide II
and 99.0% other ingredients (which may be just water,
Hi, Sharie,
A friend of mine used Tetrasil successfully to get rid of a
skin tumor. But it took 3 to 4 applications each day for
about 3 weeks to get noticeable results.
It might be a gentle alternative to zinc chloride-based
black salve. Also, it would be an interesting experiment
to compare Tet
Dear Richard,
Thank you very much for your summary of your
'best practices' for your preparation of CS. It's great
to see such a report based on much experience.
Best regards,
Matthew
Hello, Members of the List,
Back in September, there was some discussion of the
Watercone solar water distiller, now available in the US.
Its price of about $125 seemed too high. But on second
thought, maybe not. The watercone produces 1.0 to 1.4
liters per day, and has a life-expectancy of about
Dear Marshall,
Thank you very much for a magnificent synthesis.
Matthew
Mike,
At least one human study, and many animal studies, have
tracked the fate of silver in vivo. It was done by tracking a
radioactive silver isotope, using the ordinary methods of
tracing radioisotopes e.g. photography.
The one human study occurred in the 1950s following the
accidental inhalatio
A salt test using crystalline salt is only qualitative. It
can be made quantitative by using a (very) dilute saline
solution instead of solid salt. It is just a matter of
dissolving a known mass of NaCl in DW (it's best to
use the same batch of DW as is used to make the EIS)
and diluting it in stag
There is a way to compare Hanna meters with household
equipment, without using AA.
Use dilute hydrochloric acid as the titrate and EIS as the
titrant. Add a sequence of known volumes of EIS (of
unknown millimolarity) to a known volume of dilute HCl
(of known millimolarity.) The titration can be do
This coulommetry calculation does give an upper limit to the concentration of
silver in the EIS. We still need a direct,
empirical method to measure Ag+ concentration, though.
This might be done by titrating EIS with dilute HCl
(e.g. 1 to 10 millimoles per liter) and using the
extremum value of co
Dr Robert Beck's protocol does not just rely on CS.
The magpulser and ozonated water are included in
his 'first aid kit of the future.' Investing in these
alternate technologies should not be overlooked.
Matthew
If a 10ppm batch of EIS is made from a 0. silver
anode, the 0.0001 fraction of impurity would amount
to 1 part per billion (ppb) in the batch. Does any
impurity element have a noticeable clinical effect,
toxic or nontoxic, at a level of 1 ppb?
Matthew
If an electrode is taken as a circuit node, Kirchhoff's
Current Law applies to that node, as it would to
any other node. In which case, current enters and exits
the node in equal amounts. So the current is zero.
"Laboratory analysis has shown that the amounts of silver in supplements vary
greatly, which can pose risks to the consumer."
There is a certain amount of truth to what the NIH states here. But it makes it
all the more important that consumers migrate eventually to D-I-Y EIS.
Incidentally, I prefe
Oops. Correcting that subject line/thread:
Condensed milk or evaporated milk reconstituted
with EIS instead of tapwater might be good.
Milk is itself a colloid, and colloids tend to
protect other colloids..
Matthew
Condensed milk or evaporated milk reconstituted
with EIS instead of tapwater might be good.
Milk is itself a colloid, and colloids tend to
protect other colloids..
Matthew
Re-invigorating "old" EIS is definitely possible. I prefer old,
filtered EIS to pure distilled water - the whole is batch is
pre-starter - provided the old EIS has not been treated
with h2o2 before this reinvigoration.
As a working hypothesis now, I assume that EIS generation
and potency follows t
Has anyone tried electrolyzing silver in Gatorade?
(A current-limiting resistor may be necessary.)
Matthew
Hello Del,
Did you add h2o2 to the brew while it was still in the
reaction vessel? If so, this can cause problems with
later electrolysis. The solution to this problem is always to
empty the brew into a separate container before
adding h2o2.
Best regards,
Matthew
Hello, Marshall,
Do you know if the magnetic demineralizer really works?
And if so, what is the principle on which it works?
Thank you.
Best regards,
Matthew
http://www.camd.lsu.edu/msds/z/zinc_chloride.htm
Please be cautious about the recipe given previously in
this thread. The MSDS citation given above indicates that
zinc chloride is quite dangerous. I don't recommend it
be used.
Matthew
This citation was forwarded to me regarding the
dangers of zinc chloride.
http://www.camd.lsu.edu/msds/z/zinc_chloride.htm
Best regards,
Matthew
Zinc oxide is used as sunscreen.
Zinc chloride is very irritating to the skin and other
tissues.
Hello, Marshall,
Wow! Thanks for your splendid research.
Matthew
Hi, Tony,
Can you collect rainwater on a clean plastic surface
(e.g. nylon umbrella, inverted, or plastic tarpaulin)?
If I were in a remote location without a source of steam-
distilled water, I would use rainwater (filtered through a
coffee filter and boiled) before I would use springwater,
well
Hi, Ode,
Thanks for focusing in on the stabilization period. A lot
of information may be lurking in these phenomena that
can be measured without additional instrumentation.
I'm thinking especially of the 1/e time constant of the
stabilization process. It could be measured with just a
record of con
Tetrasil might not be the optimal form of tetrasilver tetroxide
for treating fungal toenail. There is an water-soluble
variety of Ag4o4 used for disinfecting hot-tubs. It is now
called Silspa. It also costs a lot less than the oil-based
ointment.
Matthew
Hi, Mike,
Yes, the examples are only examples. They just
demonstrate possibility, not actuality. IMHO, the
conclusive evidence would be what happens when
the brew saturates (if it does) and what then
precipitates.
My posts come up normally in the Digest version,
but not the Archive version.
Best
Hi, Mike,
Thanks for your thoughtful remarks.
True, silver is insoluble in DW. But that doesn't prevent
silver from dispering into the DW as a non-sedimenting
particulate. A good example of this Carey Lea silver,
the very first form of colloidal silver ever discovered.
Dmitri Mendeleyev describe
It is commonly accepted that the silver that goes into
aqueous suspension/solution we call EIS comes from
the anode, i.e. the positively charged electrode.
To test this, I replaced the silver anode with a strip of
titanium and kept a silver Maple Leaf as the cathode
(the negatively charged electrod
Hi, AlchemySA,
Contaminated water is not a suitable medium for the
electrolysis of silver into CS/EIS. An EIS generator
needs distilled water, which is obviously already
decontaminated. The essential issue is availability and
cost of distilled water. I pay $1.50 for a gallon of
DW at the drugstore
Hi, AlchemySA,
Welcome aboard!
In North America, water purification by colloidal silver is
routinely accomplished in Mexico using a high-ppm CS
manufactured by the mill method. If I am not mistaken,
its manufacture is a monopoly of the Mexican government.
The name of the product is 'Microdyn." Yo
I read recently that the last surviving son of Nelson Mandela,
former president of South Africa, just passed away from
Aids. This epidemic is also turning many African children
into orphans.
I have a question about the concern mentioned in the
Antelman patent for Ag4o4 as a treatment for Aids.
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