David wrote: > I cut and pasted this from another group. As a > newbie to CS things like this really confuse me. I am > not sure what to believe: > > One problem with using electralysis[sp?] to create > "colloidal" silver, > is > that the solution tends to be ionic in nature.
This is a plus. The ionic portion is the only part that promotes healing by allowing injured tissues to revert back to stem cells. Thus with the particulate portion killing pathogens, and the ionic portion promoting healing, it has both of which are needed for healing. > > > Ionic silver is colorless. True. > > > It will combine with either HCl [hydrocloric acid] in > the stomach or if > it > makes it that far [by being absorbed in the GI tract > or being > administered > subcutaneously] to make it into the blood stream, it > will combine with > potassium chloride or sodium chloride to form silver > chloride. True. The route seems to be that the ionic portion becomes AgCl, and it slowly dissolves in the stomach acid and passes into the blood stream, where it becomes silver complexed with a protein. It stays in this form until expelled by the body. In that form it has some antibacterial properties, and can be argued that it also has the healing properties (see Robert Becker's and Bart Flick's work, where silver ions assist healing, even after being exposed to blood which should have cause them to immediately form silver chloride and complex with protein). The healing properties are most notable when applied externally though I believe. > > > It is as a true colloidal which is dark yellow in > color, that silver has the antibacterial/healing properties. > A true colloid can be any color from clear to yellow, gold, red and so forth. The best is the clear with the smallest particle size, next is yellow, next is gold, and red has particles much too large. > > Colloidal silver that has a high concentration of silver particles does > not > look like water because silver particles, even very small particles > block light from passing through, making the liquid appear darker. Actually the particles absorb light in a very narrow band, producing the opposite color. If it appears dark it must be very strong, or excessive in particle size. Silver scatters light in the other wavelengths producing the Tyndall effect. > > > http://www.silver-colloids.com/Reports/reports.html > > Simple way to demonstrate the presence of ionic silver > > Here is a simple way to demonstrate ionic silver content. All that is > required is that a chloride ion source to be added to a small amount of > ionic silver. Normal table salt is sodium chloride (NaCl). When table > salt > is dissolved in water it dissociates into sodium ions and chloride ions. > To > demonstrate: Place a small amount (1-2 ounces) of ionic silver in a clear > > glass. Add a few grains of table salt. Observe that as the salt dissolves > a > white cloud of silver chloride forms in the solution. > Eventually, the entire solution will turn cloudy. If more salt is added, > the > white silver chloride will become denser until all the silver ions have > combined with the available chlorine ions. If no silver ions are present > then no white cloud will form. True. > > > "Colloidal silver generators" sold to home hobbyists all produce ionic > silver solutions. Correct, which is good, especially if you are using it topically on injuries. Marshall > > > See also > > http://www.silver-colloids.com/Book/SilverColloids-s.pdf > > "Silver Colloids Do they Work?" by Ronald J Gibbs > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
