The mechanism for the darkening of tissue by silver is as follows: Silver chloride is photo-reduced by UV light to metallic silver and is then reoxidised to black silver sulphide and bound to the tissue. If a high concentration of selenium is present the silver sulphide will be converted to silver selenide, which may result in higher deposition than with silver sulphide. (1)
ATSDR (1990) reports that the deposition of silver in tissues is the result of the precipitation of insoluble silver salts, such as silver chloride and silver phosphate. These insoluble silver salts are then transformed into soluble silver sulfide albuminates, to bind or to form complexes with amino or carboxyl groups in RNA, DNA, and proteins, or to be reduced by ascorbic acid or catechol-amines. The skin discoloration of humans with argyria may be caused by a photo-reduc-tion of silver chloride to metallic silver. The metallic silver is then oxidized by tissue, sub-sequently forming black silver sulfide. (2) Colloidal silver is in fact oxidised and therefore an oxidising agent which partly explains its biological action. I am coming to the opinion that as silver must be ionic in form to be biologically active, the only value in CS over soluble silver salts is that one does not need to ingest the anion part (negative part of a silver salt, eg NO3-) which may be toxic. As it is likely that the silver ion will form a bond with the first available anion (Cl- ?), and does so in the stomach or blood, it is just as well that the Chloride anion is readily exchanged for Sulphide etc. and so the silver is able to perform its actions in bonding to and disrupting cell walls, and so on. Metallic silver, which is not readily dissolved by HCl, but will release some ions over time, is unlikely to be absorbed by the stomach but may be absorbed in the small intestine. It is mildly antiseptic and will find its way to the liver just as any reduced silver not bound in the tissue will. It is the ionic silver which will find itself attached to body tissue and it may be wise to take small doses through out the day rather than large single doses to limit this occurrence. Thoughts any one? Ivan. ----- Original Message ----- From: Marshall Dudley <mdud...@execonn.com> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Thursday, 2 December 1999 05:18 Subject: Re: CS>alittle gray > Normally graying is caused by silver compounds. The process is exactly the same > as photo developing. When light strikes a silver compound it disassociates, > producing a small particle of silver metal. This particle will be produced > where light can reach the compound, ie. the skin. Then if additional silver > compounds are present, and the ph of the blood is correct and there is a > developer present, additional silver will dissociate at the sites where a silver > atom is present, causing the atom to grow into a clump. > > Many compounds are developers, such as caffine and tannin, both of which are in > tea. http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-coffee.html > > Since colloidal silver is already reduced, this should never happen with pure > colloidal silver. If indeed this is what is happening then it sounds like you > are getting some silver compounds in your colloid. Are you using pure distilled > water without adding any salt or anything? If you have a TDS meter, check the > distilled water for purity, they may be putting in filtered municipal water. If > you don't have a TDS meter, boil down 8 oz of supposedly distilled water in a > clean pyrex container, and see if you get any residue left. > > Marshall > > donna2...@aol.com wrote: > > > James, > > Could this gray be a build of of silver in my blood maybe? I am really > > reaching for straws here. If it is from the CS then everytime I go into the > > sun it will get darker......is this what you are saying? > > > > Donna Earnest > > > > -- > > 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 > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@id.net> > > >
