elixsil...@citlink.net wrote: > I have been doing some reading on the silver websites lately and I see > someone saying that ionic silver crosses the cell wall. Is not that a > problem? I've always thought silver smothers anaerobically metabolizing > organisms from the outside thereby harming no aerobically metabolizing > organisms.
Nope, silver kills both quite effectively. Since many bacteria can switch from one to the other that is good. > If it crosses into the cell can it not then harm it somehow? Silver is non toxic to mammelian cells. > > Also, in my early experiments of '98 I found vit.C/ascorbic acid to work the > best as an electrolyte- virtually always bringing the ions to colloidal > size-thus the yellow coloration shows itself. Making yellow colloids is what > I learned from DR. Peter Reynolds and others. I do not understand ionic. It > seems to me it is just another way of saying molecular, which I equate with > bad. No ionic is atomic, with one or more extra or missing electrons. If you have a cation though, it can form a compound. > Who were the first one or two people to promote ionic and where is > their research to be found. I want to be able to debunk it properly or not > at all. Can anyone answer this. There has been a lot of discussion here on ionic vs colloidal. Since most LVDC CS is 90 to 95% ionic, there has been some speculation that ionic is taking part in the action. There is good evidence that silver kills pathogens both in metalic and ionic form. For instance, silver metal is used to sterlize water for airplanes, the shuttle, and many water filters. Silver nitrate, which has an ionic form of silver along with a nitrate radical has a long history of killing bacteria, and has been used, and still is, in newborn baby's eyes to kill gonneriah. It appears that both forms work. Which works better is still up for dispute. But there are other things to look at. 1. ionic form can cause blueing of the skin under some circumstances with high dosages. It is generally believed that colloid cannot do this. 2. ionic can penetrate into cells easier than colloid. This can possibly be good for topical applications trying to get to something under the skin. DMSO appears to be capable of carrying ionic silver deep into tissues easily. It is debatable whether DMSO can accomplish this with colloid. 3. colloid will not end up reacting with the HCl in the stomach and precipitating out like ionic would be expected to do. So the best guess I have is that ionic might be best for topical application, and colloidal for taking internally. Since most CS is a combination of the two, then it is very effective in all respects. Marshall -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org 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...@eskimo.com>
