First thing is, there is no such thing as good bacteria and bad bacteria. The closest you can come is gram positive and gram negative, or aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. Bacteria have no morals, they simply do what they do, which is attempt to live and multiply in whatever environment they are in. Salmonellia are a necessary part of nature in breaking down food and thus normally perform a good function, but they can produce toxins that can cause a person a lot of distress as well. E Coli are absolutely essential for proper disgestion in the intestines, but if they end up in the blood stream or vagina can wreck havoc. Yeast is useful for making bread, wine and beer, but you don't want it growing in a vagina. Usually the difference between "good" bacteria and "bad" bacteria is not the bacteria itself, but rather where they are living. "Good" bacteria are "bad" if in the wrong place. Now in many cases bacteria that aerobic are preforming a good function, yet under conditions of restricted oxygen will switch to anaerobic, and when they do that they produce toxins. Once again, they are the same bacteria, but whether they are good or bad depends on you definition of those terms and their environment.
So the killing power needs to not depend on the actual bacteria, but on the environment they are in. That is exactly what CS does, it is very effective if it has mobility, IE in the blood stream, stomach and mouth, but almost completely ineffective if in a gel or solid matrix where it has no mobility, like in a healthy intestine. Only if one has the runs would it be effective, and in that case you want it to kill what is in the intestines anyway, you can always repopulate it later when you have cured the runs. This is not to say that CS is not useful topically, while it is wet it has mobility, and when it dries, it is typically deposited onto the surface of the skin or wound where it is needed. Marshall Betsy Coffey wrote: > I am confused again. If CS kills good bacteria as well > as bad, then, why is it prescribed for treating candida? > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > 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 > > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > > The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> >
