AVRA / Jason wrote: > Greetings, all: I have received a bit more information on the "argyria > case" reported earlier. The amount of colloidal silver ingested on a > daily basis was either eight ounces or sixteen ounces, with no real > way to get an feasible average of daily intake. The individual used > the CS daily for five years. "I would use the generator to make it for > about 5-10 minutes with a couple drops of saline solution I made w/ > distilled water & salt." > > Ahh, that explains it. Then she was not taking CS, but a combination > of CS and silver chloride. It is known that silver chloride will cause > argyria! Silver chloride is what is used in most photographic > emulsions. > > I am not certain exactly what the quoted phrase actually means. > However, although I don't know exactly how to estimate the amount of > silver that would be deposited using this method, I'm quite certain > that the total concentration would be well over 10 PPM -- if I > interpret the sentence to mean that a few drops of saline solution > were added to eight ounces of distilled water, and the saline solution > initially was created by adding salt to distilled water. Although I > have asked for a description of the generator used, as well as > numerous other questions related to the condition, I have not received > a response. The individual is timid but sincere. I remember using a > real saline solution for the first twelve hours that I made colloidal > silver, before finding a greater understanding of the process. If > memory servers me correctly, even a few short minutes with two drops > of saline solution added to distilled water created a very cloudy and > concentrated substance. Anyone have an educated guess as to how much > silver might be in eight ounces of such a substance, created by > running say 27 volts for 10 minutes? While it is my current > understanding that silver chloride ingested orally is inert, I'm > certain that the afformentioned production process would deposit quite > a bit of metallic silver ( large particles ) into the sol.
Silver chloride is not totally inert. It is slightly soluble in water. Marshall
