This afternoon I found an article which doesn't read as a promotion for the use of EIS. Other articles on the website somehow indicate he isn't quite in favor of alternative healing modalities.
Hanneke
http://www.pathguy.com/altermed.htm
Silver Colloid
I would be remiss if I did not warn visitors about this insidious health fraud.
Silver-based preparations are a mainstay of burn care. It is quite possible that ingested silver has some effect against minor infections. A few years ago, the mayor of a Florida town tried to distribute it widely as part of a campagin against HIV infection.
If you use these remedies, which are still available over-the-counter, you will accumulate silver in your body. There will be no way to get rid of it. There are two serious complications.
- Argyria, and
- Massive brain damage.
In the present political climate, it is unlikely that colloidal silver will be banned in the United States. Still, the FDA emphasizes that isn't a shred of non-anecdotal evidence that it works (J. Tox. 34: 119, 1996; Federal Register 64: 44653, 1999).
Argyria turns the skin permanently gray-blue, causing serious disfigurement. Websites promise this won't happen, but it's a lie. I have had three correpondents with argyria write me asking for help. I could offer none. In one case, I offered to help DFS take a kid out of a home where he was being given colloidal silver. You can read about argyria in Cutis 66: 373, 2000; Clin. Exp. Derm. 28: 254, 2003; Int. J. Derm. 42: 549, 2003.
The neurology team at Western Ontario published (Neurology 62: 1408, 2004) an account of a colloidal silver enthusiast who over the course of four months brought his levels tremendously high. He developed myoclonic status epilepticus (i.e., uncontrollable, never-ending jerking of his body), and progressed into coma. He went into a persistent vegetative state and was allowed to die 5.5 months later.
I urge you in the strongest terms not to use colloidal silver. Call me unspiritual if you want.
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