I have emphysema and here is an email I saved for times like this. I use a homemade nebulizer occasionally and also use 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide...about 4 drops per day and that is subject to change. I hope this might help.
Dick T. Hi, I hope this letter is received in the spirit in which it is meant. I want to tell you a bit about my husband's experience with colloidal silver. First, let me say that I am an R.N. and have been working closely with our internist in my husband's treatment. And I would like to add that I sell no health products whatsoever. My husband has had emphysema with bronchiectasis for a number of years. He began to go downhill badly in Jan. of 2000. He developed pneumonia which was resistant to treatment. He was hospitalized for the pneumonia, but failed to recover completely from it. By May, he was much worse. He was on oxygen continuously and was very weak. By June, 2000, I was convinced he was dying. The simple act of brushing his teeth was exhausting, and he was unable to get up from a chair without help. I had to use a wheelchair just to take him to the doctor's office. Further, he was completely withdrawn. We had spent over $2000. on antibiotics to no avail. After short-lived improvement of a few days, he would relapse again. He was virtually drowning---coughing up copious greenish-brown secretions. Every breath was a gasp. I could hear the fluid moving in his lungs from across the room. He had lost twenty pounds and was beginning to go into heart failure. He had grossly swollen feet and was retaining a lot of fluid. He had lost twenty pounds, which he could ill afford. During this time he was under the care of our internist as well as a lung specialist in another city. He was on all of the standard emphysema medications. Finally, a friend, another RN, told me about colloidal silver. I was extremely skeptical. However, what did we have to lose? I researched it on the internet and bought several booklets about it. Then I spoke to our doctor about it. I gave her the materials I had found and we talked. The only side-effect that the literature turned up was an extremely rare cosmetic skin condition called argeria in which the skin can turn permanently bluish or gray. As far as I can tell, argeria has occurred in no more than thirty persons world wide, and is most probably caused not by colloidal silver, but rather by silver salts and compounds such as silver nitrate. Finally, our doctor said, "Go for it." I have always felt that if the concommitant infection that is part and parcel of emphysema could be controlled that it would be 90% of the battle. But the antibiotics had failed. He had mixed infection and while one broad spectrum would attack one major invader, the other bacteria took advantage of the attack and proliferated. He began to drink 3 ounces/day of colloidal silver...which I generated at home...on June 2, 2000. He also used the CS in his nebulizer which is the only way to deliver the silver directly to the site. When lungs are full of infected fluid, the oral route into the bloodstream is not sufficient to penetrate this large focus of infection. He also began taking MSM (methylsulfonilmethane) and Coenzyme Q 10. We also instituted a passive-aerobic exercise plan, using a machine called the Swing Master. Silver was used for its antibacterial effects by medical science in the 30s and early 40s, but was largely abandoned due to the discovery of antibiotics. As you are probably aware, bacteria are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics and are rapidly failing in effectiveness. Colloidal silver, per se, was not used in the 30s and 40s because the technique of electrically generating the liquid was not known at that time. Instead, silver was 'shaved' and suspended in various liquids. The treatment was quite expensive...about $200/treatment, and so it was understandably abandoned in favor of the new penicillin...and all the other antibiotics since. Colloidal silver has not only an antibacterial effect, but is also effective against many virus and fungus infections. To date there is no known resistance by these organisms to it. This is because of the way CS works. Instead of attacking the organism directly, colloidal silver incapacitates an enzyme required by one-celled pathogens while the cell is dividing. CS prevents cellular respiration in the organism, in effect smothering the pathogen at a critical state in its proliferation. So why haven't we heard about this, you might ask, if it is so effective? For the simple reason that antibiotics are a multi-billion dollar business for pharmaceutical companies. Silver colloid cannot be patented. There is not only no money in it for the pharmaceutical companies, but it represents a huge threat to their income if it becomes widely known how effective it is. Within three weeks of beginning the silver, my husband was much improved. Still weak, but able to leave off the oxygen for part of the day. He began to gain weight and strength. Within six weeks, his lungs were clear and it was no longer necessary to use postural drainage to help him breathe. Something odd happened at two months into this regimen. Although he felt better than he had felt in years, he began to cough up incredibly dark green sputum. I talked with our internist about this and we agreed that the silver had probably controlled the basic infection and inflammation to such an extent that old pockets of hidden infection were opening up and now draining. This proved to be the case. Within a few weeks the dark green sputum ceased. We now feel that he is completely free of infection. Since then, my husband has been off oxygen entirely. His previous medications have been reduced by 80%. He feels good and looks good and is back at work. His color is good. He feels strong and healthy. The silver has not affected the underlying condition and he still needs to use bronchiodilators; however, it was the infection that goes along with emphysema which was killing him. I want to emphasize that I am in no way suggesting that CS will cure the underlying emphysema; however, it has been incredibly effective at controlling my husband's lung infection. And...as a nice adjunct...it cleared up a gum abscess within two days of beginning the treatment. Further, he has had a toenail fungus infection for years which the $800 treatment failed to touch. The fungus infection began to respond to the silver and now all new growth on his toenails is free of fungus. Our doctor refers to my husband now as her "star patient" and has recently asked me to give colloidal silver information to another emphysema patient of hers. He is also doing well. If you are interested in looking further into colloidal silver, be advised that if you purchase it ready made from a health food, or other, store, it is not only very expensive, but you will have no way of knowing how it was made or whether or not it is effective. >From the beginning, I made my own at home. It's a simple process and you can >make it for pennies a day using only a generator with 99.999 pure silver >electrodes and steam distilled water. To date, I have purchased two >generators...from different manufacturers. I would recommend either of them. >The reason I purchased the second is because I wanted to be able to generate a >larger quantity of silver at a time. Here are the URLs for the two silver generators I own. The first that I bought: http://www.silverpuppy.com/ The second: http://www.silvergen.com/ Sharon [email protected] www.fractalus.com/sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: Carl George To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 6:07 PM Subject: CS>Can CS help emphysema? Hi, Listers, I have a friend who has emphysema, which he says was caused by contact with asbestos when he was in the Army-Air Force (early part of WW II). He has to take breathing treatments, which leaves him very nervous and shaky. Does anyone out there have any information as to whether CS would help him? Especially a nebulizer, using CS. Again, thanking you in advance. Carl George
