First, is there an archive site where I can find the answers to all the questions I am about to ask, which undoubtably you have seen several times before?
My name, well on the internet at least, is Corvus. I am 31, both on the internet and here in Hamilton Ohio. I have a wife and two sons. I also have a cat named Dusty Argentum. We have never given her a bath. I have lots of interests, but it was my interest in precious metals that brought me here. I found a website from a website called Sharefins Links while searching for information about colloidal silver, which I heard about on a precious metals forum called Kitco. I have made what I suppose is colloidal silver. I took a canning jar, punched two holes in the lid pushed two alligator clips through, attached two Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coins (.9999 fine Ag) and wired the works up to three 9v batteries in series. Gap between the coins on the first batch was about an eight of an inch and the arcing in the distilled water looked like cold fusion or something. Made lots of Silver oxide for a few seconds while I readjusted the coin spacing. Dumped the first batch. Second batch had coin spacing at around an inch, but after a short time I began to see pretty little lines of browish orange reaching between the two coins and alot of the yellowish material drifting down to the bottom. Still a bit of white haze on the negative coin. Suspect that is bad. The time it takes for activity to appear seems very short compared to the times I see mentioned on some of the do-it-yourself webpages. I suspect the distilled water I purchsed isn't and that there is already something in the water to act as a conductor. I intend to drop the voltage a bit, and add some sort of currant regulation, and distill some water. But I have now about a pint of transparent liquid that looks alot like urine. Havn't tested for tyndall effect, batteries on my flashlight are about gone, I was using the light to watch the activity in my crude CS generator. I've tasted this, Coke and Pepsi got nothing to worry about. So, I think I can make the stuff. But now I need to know if I should. I have read lots of web pages about this. I'm not impressed. Most of the pages almost say I can live forever if I drink this stuff, specificly THEIR stuff which is somehow better than the stuff sold at the last web page I looked at. Other web pages seem sincere, and are non-comercial. They seem to want to share information about something they believe is very helpful. Unfortuantly they usually appear to be kooks to me. I'm sorry, I don't want to be judgemental, but this is something I am contemplating takeing internally and in some quantity larger than a taste. And I don't believe in most of what the authors of some of these websites seem to believe in. And finally I have been to the OTHER websites, the FDA, a lady named Rebecca Jones or something who has argyria. These don't tell me much either. The FDA apparently has banned CS. (really that is what their website says) But I don't have much faith in the FDA. What little faith I had was shattered when they say that no silver compound has been shown to be effective and that no salt of silver or colloidal silver has been approved for use. Problem with that is that I think it is a lie. I know that when my sons were born they had a salve smeared in their eyes. I asked what it was because due to my interest in silver, I suspected it was a silver compound. The nurse confirmed that it was. So, it looks to me like the FDA lied. At Rebecca Jones's site, she says that her complexion can't be covered over with makeup. Her coloring is really unfortunate, but I suspect makeup can cover over just about anything. Also, the silver that caused her argyria was from nose drops, and I think that was some sort of compound of silver. I am uncomfortable with saying that she is misleading because her case is very unfortunate, but in my mind she has about as much credibility as the kooky websites that promote CS even though they don't sell it. So, I am looking for unbiased information about colloidal silver. Is there an anti.colloidal.silver list? I want to hear their side too. I have tons of questions: If a positively charged silver ion enters my stomach won't it form an ionic compound with the very first chemical that can provide an electron to share? Will it not immediatly become a salt of silver? Salts of Silver are BAD arn't they? the FDA or Rebecca or someone claims that silver once in the body is permanent and is never excreated. ahh.... even lead is excreated slowly I think, but can anyone confirm or deny with evidence that once silver is ingested it's there for life? not just CS but any compund of silver. I mean, I think all kinds of heavy metals can be removed from the body even if rather slowly. I don't remember the term, but what is the margin between what is considered a theraputic dose of CS and a harmful dose. Both in official medical community and in the opinion of this list? The US is not the only country in the world, and the FDA is not the only regulatory agency in the world. What is the regulatory status of CS in countries such as Germany, Japan, UK, Canada, France and Austrailia? Look, I want to believe, but I must have more inforation. I am dismissing anecdotal evidence because I am already biased. I very much dislike the medical/insurance/phamacutical industry. But this dislike is not helpful to me in making decisions. I have a tendancy to believe anything that conflicts with their interests, and that is what I must guard against. If you tell me that drums and colored feathers can cure a cold but the pharmacutical industry dosn't want me to know that, I will want to give you more credibility than you deserve. This is what I am fighting in my desire to understand. I want to know if colloidal silver is safe. We can talk about effectiveness later. I am profoundly skeptical, yet I have a pint of the stuff and some of it has already passed my lips. Is there a devils advocate on the list? Speak up, convince me this stuff is poison. But make it a good case, I will unfortuantly and unfairly hold you to a higher standard of evidence than your peers on the list. I should mention that neither I nor anyone in my family has any serious illness other than asthma. I believe that within my lifetime effective conventional antibiotics will be unavailable, for one or more of several reasons that are almost certainly off topic for the list. I hope you will all be patient with me, I'm learning and that sometimes gets messy. -- 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. 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