Kirsteen said, >Nope - believe me I'm quite happy to take advice - will keep looking for distilled water if it's necesary. BTW What happens if you just use filtered or purified water. I'm curious to know what I would end up with.<
I think it is important to renew the point - CS can be made with ANY water and it will be effective. Many people all over the world make CS with non-distilled water - spring, tap, reverse osmosis, filtered, even water from the Ganges River in India (which was reported to be very effective against Malaria, and nobody turned blue). If you brew CS with water that has any *stuff* in it - minerals, etc., it will not likely be clear, but will be milky and hazy. This doesn't mean it is bad or toxic, it just means the silver particles are joining themselves to the other minerals in the water. Not a worry. I never throw away CS, I drink it all. Twice I forgot about the brew (before I bought a digital timer) and ended up with 10 gallons of blackish, coffee-colored CS. I drank it all anyway. I'm still not blue! Most water treatment methods don't remove ALL the minerals from water. Steam distillation removes all the minerals, but if it doesn't have a charcoal filter there are modern chemicals that evaporate with the water and can make it through. Reverse Osmosis is capable of removing all the minerals, but is not usually run at the level where it does (too expensive and too much trouble). Deionization can also remove all the minerals. The term "distilled" can legally refer to water that has been treated in almost any way whatsoever (including filtering and even just boiling it). The words "STEAM DISTILLED" is supposed to be used only for steam distilled water. My philosophy is: Use steam distilled water if I can. If it is not available, I would use the next best thing. I would freely drink cloudy, murky CS made from tap water rather than not have CS. There is virtually no evidence to support the near-paranoia folks have about using non-distilled water. I have drunk many, many gallons of yellow to gold (or even brown) CS over the past 7 years. I am not blue. If you can't obtain genuine steam distilled water, use what you can get and, if you're nervous, take a Vit E capsule and a selenium tablet each day (or even a couple times per week). If yellow/gold/cloudy CS was even 1/10th as risky as you get the idea it is from comments made on the internet, there'd be thousands of blue folks all over the place. (And remember, the faint possibility of some blue gills is the only possible risk from ingesting generous quantities of home-made CS.) Let's keep level heads about this, it isn't dangerous stuff we're making here. It's safe, easy, effective, wonderful. Terry Chamberlin __________________________________________________ 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>
