Virginia wrote: > > Has anyone out there used CS as a nasal spray for any length of time? > > (To be truthful, the account of the "blue lady" has caused me to > > question the wisdom of using the nasal spray approach).
Virginia, if you were using high concentration silver salts as nose drops, the way she probably was, *then* you'd have to worry. Since nobody was making electrolytic CS like ours back in the fifties when she was a young woman, one thing you can be sure of is that is *not* what turned her blue. There are two or three levels of defense against the argyria scare. The first argument is that the *total amount* of silver you'll consume in *gallons* of low concentration CS will not get you to the levels required to cause argyria, according to the few reports that bother to reveal the actual amount required. Second, the reported cases of argyria generally involve products in which the silver is in *much* different form -- coarsely powdered metal, silver salts, other silver compounds -- and *much* higher concentrations than you'll make on your kitchen table. Third, the colloid is readily transported in the blood and lymph, and removed by the liver to be excreted. Thus it doesn't just hang around and build up in the tissues, unlike the insoluble silver salts that actually precipitate particles in the skin and mucous membranes that are *too large* for the body to deal with. Okay, for some of the above I can't point to chapter and verse for every reference. Many of the argyria cites are not specific about the source and quantity of silver ingested. The matter of transport and excretion I've seen *reported* several places, but I haven't seen the original research reports yet. But the weakest argument above *still* suggests you'll be okay. This is the basis for my own decision to proceed with experimenting with CS. Each of us has to satisfy ourselves of it's safety. Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@mail.id.net ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@id.net>
