Hi Tracy,
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:54:41 +1300, "Nick Grant" <nwgr...@inet.net.nz>
wrote:
>Question: has anyone got any RECENT documentation from medical sources that
>confirm that CS does indeed do what we say it does. I know that someone
>sent some material thru not so long ago, but some of the medical quotes were
>from 1912 (Lancet). I need more recent stuff for my sceptic friends who are
>medics.
Terry Wayne posted a bunch of message on the 3rd and 4th of this month
(October, 2000) containing lots of references and quotes about CS and
it's effectiveness. Some of the references are old, some are recent.
You can look them up in the archives for the silver-list. (Or, I
suppose I could send them to you -- it's about 4 thousand message
lines.) Ask.
Here are some articles from the first one:
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Listers,
I have collected a number of articles about the many
uses of CS worldwide, that I use in my business. I'd
thought of offering to send them to whoever asked for
them, in a zipped file, but after talking with Mike,
decided to just post them as a series of articles,
part one, part two, etc. Best idea is to highlight and
copy them to a word processor, then print the ones you
want to show to other people. Some you will have seen,
others not.
Terry Wayne
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Metabolic Solutions Info Report
Metabolic Solutions Institute
902-584-3810
Mr. Bela Berkes
P.O. Box 445
Solano Beach, CA 92075
Dear Mr. Berkes:
It is our understanding that some of your distributors
and customers have recently been asking questions
about the safety of silver in your product based on a
recent advance notice of proposed rule-making by the
Food and Drug Administration.
Recent comments contributed by this institute to the
FDA in response to its proposed rule-making point out
that silver is a dietary supplement under the meaning
of 21 U.S.C. Section 321 (ff), if it is labeled as a
dietary supplement and not labeled for therapeutic
use. Under this section of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic
Act, known as the dietary Supplement Health and
Education Act of 1994, a dietary supplement, including
a mineral, intended to supplement the diet, and
intended for ingestion, and labeled as a dietary
supplement may not be prohibited from being marketed
unless the product "presents a significant or
unreasonable risk of illness or injury" when consumed
in accordance with its recommended or suggested
labeling or under ordinary conditions of use.
In this regard, you should be advised that we recently
completed an extensive review of the scientific
literature on the safety of silver, especially as it
relates to its one known potential side effect,
namely, Argyria. Argyia is an irreversible
discoloration of the pigment (skin) caused by
excessive silver intake or chronic exposure to silver
by certain tissues. The amount of silver required to
develop Argyria is estimated to be 3.8 grams per day.
By comparison standard 10 ppm colloidal silver
contains silver in amounts equaling less than 1
milligram of silver (1,000 micrograms = 1 milligram;
1,000 milligrams - 1 gram), which therefore represents
an amount approximately 1/500th to 1/1000th of the
amount of silver considered to be a risk in the
development of Argyria.
Most cases of Argyria reported in the medical
literature over the last 100 years involved chronic
intravenous or intramuscular use of the silver
preparations, most often involving a silver drug
prescribed by physicians which in most cases contained
silver nitrate. Other cases of Argyria
reported in the medical literature
involve application of silver preparations used for
many months or years in the treatment of the eye or
vagina for certain diseases. We could not locate a
single case of orally consumed colloidal silver
manufactured in the last 25 years causing Argyria in
our review of the literature. This is probably due to
the low levels of silver contained in such
preparations, since only very small amounts of silver
are needed for its antiseptic effect.
Humans consume approximately 100 micrograms of silver
every day in the diet. Additional amounts within this
range would be considered safe by all reasonable
estimates, especially if the amount needed to develop
Argyria would be equivalent of 380,000 micrograms (or
3.8 grams) of silver a
day.
As for the efficacy of silver preparations, we found
considerable scientific evidence published over the
last 75 years that a number of silver compounds can be
effective germicidal (antiseptic) agents against
several hundred pathogenic organisms. However, silver
is not termed an antibiotic as some have claimed
because an antibiotic by definition is derived from a
living organism.
I hope this information is of assistance. We
appreciate the concerns expressed at this time by some
of your distributors and customers based on the recent
proposed rule-making of the FDA. However, that
rule-making seems directed at OTC drug-like silver
preparation, products that contain magnitudes of
silver greater than might be found in a normal
colloidal silver product.
Sincerely,
Alexander G. Schauss, Ph.D.
Director, Life Sciences Division
John Hopkins University
Dr. Alexander Schauss, Ph.D.
Alexander G. Schauss, Ph.D., is the Director of the
Life Sciences Division of the American Institute for
Biosocial Research, Inc. in Tacoma, WA. He is a member
of the Government's Commission on Dietary Supplements.
He holds joint faculty positions as Associate
Professor of Research and Senior Director of Research
and Development at the Southwest College of
Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, in Tempe,
AZ. And, as Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences
at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in
Portland, OR.
Dr. Schauss is an Emeritus Member of the New York
Academy of Sciences, former Chairman of the Food
Policy Council of the National Council for Public
Health Policy, Founding Member of the British Society
of Nutritional Medicine, Emeritus Executive Director
of the American Preventive Medical Association,
Emeritus Executive Director and current President of
Citizens for Health, and a member of the American
Public Health Association and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science.
He is an accomplished author and lecturer, and has
appeared on almost every major radio and television
talk show in the United States. His most recent book,
"MINERALS, TRACE ELEMENTS AND HUMAN HEALTH" has become
a national best seller.
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Metabolic Solutions Info Report
Metabolic Solutions Institute
902-584-3810
BYU study shows colloidal silver is as good as
penicillin
By Lois M. Collins Deseret, News staff writer
Tests of a colloidal silver solution have concluded
that it provides an alternative to antibiotics.
Researchers in Brigham Young University's department
of microbiology were asked to test the antimicrobial
activity of Colloidal Silver. Silver is "colloidal"
when it is suspended in small amounts in liquid.
Silver in various forms has been used for centuries as
an antimicrobial agent. In the 1800s and early 1900s,
people put silver coins in their water barrels to kill
microbes and make the water potable. A silver nitrate
ointment is applied to the eyes of newborn babies to
prevent certain eye problems. And silver sulphadiazine
is regularly used to treat burn wounds.
Use of Colloidal Silver, once common, faded with the
advent of antibiotics. Recently, though, concerns
about overuse of antibiotics and the development of
antibiotic-resistant microbes has lead to a resurgence
of silver's popularity.
And with good reason, according to the study,
conducted by BYU's David A. Revelli, microbiologist,
and Ron W. Leavitt. The study compared Colloidal
Silver to five classes of antibiotics: the
tetracyclines, fluorinated quinolones (Ofloxacin), the
penicillins, the cephalosporins (Cefaperazone) and the
macrolides (Erythromycin).
Both the silver and antibiotics were tested on a
variety of microorganisms, including streptococcuses,
pneumonia, E. coli, salmonella, shigella and others.
According to the study, silver "exhibits an equal or
broader spectrum of activity than any one antibiotic
tested." Where each antibiotic was effective against
specific susceptible organisms, silver "is equally
effective" against both gram positive and gram
negative organisms.
"The data suggests that with the absence of toxicity
associated with Colloidal Silver, in general, and the
broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity of Colloidal
Silver, it may be effectively used as an alternative
to antibiotics," Revelli and Leavitt wrote.
Dr. Dianne Farley-Jones, a family practitioner,
recommends Colloidal Silver to her patients for
external problems. She hasn't used it internally much,
though she said it works quite well for ear
infections. "With any kind of abrasion or skin
problem, it works really well and really fast. And it
seems to have an anti-inflammatory effect, though that
hasn't been proven."
Colloidal Silver also seems to have an antiviral
effect, Farley-Jones said. She's used it at different
times but hadn't recommended it until she saw the BYU
research data. Now she encourages patients to use it
as a nasal rinse for sinus infection or to spray their
throats if they feel like they're getting a viral sore
throat.
Metabolic Solutions Info Report
Metabolic Solutions Institute
902-584-3810
Can Silver Treat AIDS?
by Nancy Robey
m...@primenet.com ; www.colloidal-silver.com
Is there a simple, inexpensive treatment for AIDS?
Perhaps so. An obscure but crucial discovery was made
at the Biochemsitry Unit of Upjohn Laboratories in
1991: "Among a number of metal ions tested, Zn2+
(zinc), Cn2+ (copper), and Ag1+ (silver) were found to
be the most effective inhibitors of renin and the HIV
protease (data not shown). Kenectic analysis revealed
that inhibition of renin by Ag1+ (silver) is basically
identical with that seen with Zn2+ (zinc), i.e.,
concompetitive, first order with respect to the
metal." Biochemistry, September 10, 1991.
Further testing at Upjohn, including a clinical trial,
revealed that zinc was toxic in effective dosages.
This was the first report that silver is a highly
effective protease inhibitor. Over the following
years, this same discovery would be made several
times. The following article is from the Orem Herald
of Provo, Utah, February 13, 1992, on page D1:
The small glass vial is filled with clear liquid
resembling water. But an Orem resident is convinced it
contains the cure for AIDS. "I don't have a doubt in
my mind. It's what eats me alive at night," says
Daryle Tichy. Suspended in the liquid, which is mostly
distilled water, are ultrafine particles of positively
charged silver. By researching within several
different sciences, Tichy has determined that the
solution will kill the AIDS virus without harming the
human body.
Tichy, a full time member of the administrative staff
at Brigham Young University's physical plant, said he
considers himself a searcher, not a researcher. He
looks for patterns and answers to problems by crossing
the boundaries of different disciplines such as
physics and medicine... Tichy said he had the material
tested at two different labs; results showed the
solution killed a variety of pathogens, including the
HIV virus.
A year later, this same discovery was made at the
University Medical Center in Geneva, Switzerland:
"Metal-binding proteins are important components of
retroviruses such as human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV). Therefore, metals could be used as antiviral
agents...silver is a highly active bactericidal metal
with little toxicity for humans. Silver has also been
shown to be a potent inhibitor of HIV protease."
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications,
December 30, 1992. Three years later, Temple
University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, made
this same discovery apparently independently: "We
tested the ability of biotic silver protein to inhibit
human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)
replication in the human T cell line, SupT 1, as
measured by syncytia formation. We found that pure
silver protein inhibited HIV-1 replication in SupT 1
cells as measured by a reduction in the appearance
syncytia in cell culture. There appeared to be little
if any acute toxicity associated with the dose of
biotic silver protein which inhibited HIV-1
replication...These results are very encouraging and
suggest additional experiments that could be done..."
Earl E. Henderson, Ph.D. Professor.
The following March 20, 1995, Professor Earl E.
Henderson released the findings of another experiment
at Temple University: "My laboratory has studied
the effects of special formulation of biotic silver
protein on human immunodeficiency virus Type 1 (HIV-1)
survival and on latency reactivation of HIV-1 in the
human lymphoblastoid B cell line, M57-3...The results
of the...experiment show that exposure of HIV-1 to
1000 ppm of special formulation of silver protein for
one hour at 37 degrees Centigrade completely
eliminates infectious HIV-1 as measured by syncytia
formation on SupT 1 cells..."
This is what an AIDS patient says about silver
therapy: "I was infected with HIV through a forced
infection in 1991. I tested positive for the HIV
antibody November 18, 1991; of course, the same day as
my birthday. From that day forward, my life became
something totally beyond anything I could have
expected...It has been rough, though. HIV has helped
me so, so much. The experience has given me access to
my own soul again, to a living, breathing relationship
with Spirit; regardless, I have literally gone to hell
for much of it...While I had plenty of good days, I
was getting more and more bad days... "The 106 degree
fevers began to return, the intense body pain, the
harsh, long-lasting chills... I began to make my own
immediate funeral arrangements....and then this voice
popped into my head and told me to get the hell on
colloidal silver RIGHT NOW! Sure enough, within a week
I had begun to gain the weight I had lost back, and in
two weeks, I had gone back to mountain climbing. Wow!
I still feel absolutely incredible. I have symptoms of
nothing and I am back to my hyperactive self. This new
dosing of silver seems to be taking care of my oral
thrush problem and is keeping the MAC at bay...I'd
like to think I could be cured of this disease...I
feel so good that, if I was to start getting sick
again and move closer to death, I would be so thankful
for this period of absolute health that it would be
okay. I do not know how long I am to live, nor do I
know how my death will come." T. W.
Metabolic Solutions Info Report
Metabolic Solutions Institute
902-584-3810
Colloidal Silver F.A.Q.
1. Q. What does "Colloidal" mean? A. The word
"Colloidal" refers to something which has such a small
particle size that when it is suspended (not
dissolved) in a liquid medium (such as water) the
particles neither sink to the bottom nor float to the
top. The particles are also "ionic", which means that
all the particles have the same molecular charge, so
they repel each other. In the case of Colloidal Silver
(CS), the particles are as small as 1/7,000th the size
of a red blood cell, which makes them very easy to
assimilate.
2. Q. What about purity? How long does Colloidal
Silver last? A. Colloidal Silver doesn't "spoil" like
most other supplements do. Since no organisms can live
in CS, nothing can make it "spoil". When CS is made
using the low-voltage method, over a period of time
some of the silver ions lose their charge and are
attracted to other nearby ions, where they clump or
"aggregate" together. When this happens, the CS begins
to change color as the silver particles become large
enough to refract light. Depending upon the batch -
how long it was "brewed", what kind of "starter" was
used, what level voltage and current was used, what
type of purified water was used, etc. - the CS may
acquire a color ranging from light yellow to dark
gold, or even a grayish cloudiness. None of this
effects the efficacy of CS. Even were the CS to reach
a color of dark brown or purple, it would not be
toxic, though it is believed by many that it is less
assimilable. When using the high-voltage method to
make CS, the CS solution becomes very stable, and this
"aggregation" is much less likely to occur, causing
the CS to have a very long "shelf-life".
3. Q. So CS is never toxic or dangerous? A. CS must be
made using water which is free from all minerals or
contaminants; otherwise, while it is being made, the
silver ions may join with other minerals in the water
to form various silver salts, or compounds (like
silver-nitrate, or silver-chloride). Some of these
compounds are thought to be toxic to the human body.
Generally, the best form of water is steam distilled
or de-ionized water.
4. Q. What about Argyria, the "blue skin" disease? A.
The reality is that there is not a single recorded
case anywhere of anyone developing Argyria from the
use of Colloidal Silver. What few cases are on record
involve the extended use over long periods of time of
enormous quantities of silver salts, meaning silver
joined with other, sometimes toxic, substances (like
silver-nitrate). No amount of Colloidal Silver has
ever been shown to cause Argyria.
5. Q. What is the best ppm to use? How much CS is
needed? A. The letters, ppm, stand for Parts Per
Million. Based upon reports from Health Professionals
all over the world, the presence of silver ions in
almost any ppm is beneficial to the human body. In
1996, Dr. I. H. Tipton reported in the journal,
"Health Physics", that the ideal daily intake of
silver was 50-100 mcg. He believes silver to be an
important trace mineral used by the body like chromium
and selenium. Dr. Paul Farber reported, "Information
about how much silver may have been in our ancestors
diet is speculative; however, given the authoritative
report by our own government some 60 years ago there
is reason to believe that supplementing the body's
intake of silver makes sense. One tsp of 10 PPM
colloidal silver .001 to .004 particle size contains
approximately 50 mcg (millionths of a gram). Therefore
two teaspoons would contain an equivalent level to
that found in the USA food supply of more than 60
years ago. It could be argued that the amount taken to
reach a level equal to our pre-industrialized
ancestors could even be more than double that figure."
Remarkable results have been reported with ppm levels
as low as .3 ppm. That's one third of 1 ppm! Some CS
producers claim to make their product as high as 1000
ppm, using 10,000 volts of electricity. But the
beneficial effect appears to be consistently positive,
whatever the ppm or quantities of CS consumed. Some
people experience benefits ingesting as little as 1/4
teaspoon per day, while others settle on 1 to 2 ounces
or more per day.
6. Q. What happens if I take too much? Can I overdose?
A. The only negative effect reported by CS users is a
phenomenon called the "Herxheimer effect", named after
doctor Karl Herxheimer (who identified this
phenomenon). Sometimes, when a person starts off for
the first time ingesting a large amount of CS, the CS
is so efficient at killing pathogens in the body that
the body cannot adequately dispose of the dead
pathogens through the normal eliminative organs, and
it resorts to the secondary ones, the lungs, sinuses
and skin. Or the CS user may experience diarrhea, as
the body tries to flush itself out. In that case, one
merely needs to reduce or temporarily stop the CS
until the healing crisis is over, and then start
taking smaller amounts of CS. A new European Union
Drinking Water Standard in draft form has removed any
limitations on silver in drinking water following the
World Health Organization's "Guidelines for Drinking
Water Quality" which states, "It is unnecessary to
recommend any health-based guidelines for silver as it
is not hazardous to human health." According to the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Poison
Control Center, CS is considered harmless. Dr. Samuel
Etris, a senior consultant at the Silver Institute,
says there has never been any allergenic, toxic or
carcinogenic reactions to CS. The U.S. Government's
Center for Disease Control confirmed that fact in
1995.
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