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#1 ·
Like anything there's two sides to it.

The first side are the people that say it's harmful for you and has no good uses.

Then the other side says it's the best and safest antibiotic around, and the drug companies don't like it because there's no money in it for them, which is easily plausible.

Of course there's the whole issue of it turning your skin a blue color, but from what I've read that can only happen from improper use/making of it, and you would have to be taking it for quite a long time.

So what's your guys opinions? I don't want to see what you find on Google, this is beyond a google search. I want to know if anyone here has taken it before and what your experience was with it.
 
#2 · (Edited)
the only thing you can find is it might maybe turn your skin blue if you take too much inferior product. the main guy they keep pointing to, used salt to bring up initial conductivity. when you add salt you make different compounds, not pure colloidal silver. you make closer to a silver chloride compound with the salts chemical reaction.

1-2 ozs of pure silver will last your lifetime and most likely your kids life time in making colloidal silver which is known to kill all single cell micro organisms, even the drug resistant mrsa. it kills all single cell micro organisms by suffocation. they metabolize air through their skin and the silver plugs up the holes in the skin that make it possible to metabolize the air.

under patent information dr beck took burned skin and used silver and mild electric current and healed the burned skin with no scar tissue. the combo of silver and mild electricity had the ability to revert the cells back to the embriotic state to heal without the scar tissue.

my experience, ive used in eyes, nose, internal, and externally. it helped with allergy/itchy eyes. ive put it on cuts, used it for mouth wash, used it on dogs, chickens, my child has used it. ive nebulized it for lung infection. i use it as a cleaning agent to help disinfect the house.
nasa, lg company, grocery manufactures starting to use, medical drs use, water filter companies use, and many others are starting to manufacture products with silver in it for the cleaning/killing disease.
 
#3 ·
I've had my generater for over 4 years and used the cs for everything Cheys Daddy said. The healing that impressed me most was when my roommate had a staff infection on his leg. It was a deep bloody hole that kept growing. His GP told him to go to a specialist but we kept a gauze pad damp with cs and it cleared up completely with just a light brown scar. No prescription meds. He also has toenail fungus and he was using cs. It took a while but it started to clear up. Too bad he got lazy and stopped doing it. We also take it internally and neither one of us is blue. We use it in our cats drinking water and cuts. You can use it in plants too. When tshtf and there are no drugstores I'll be happy I have my generater and won't worry about turning blue. Big pharma doesn't want people to know about this because it cuts into their profits. That's why the stories about the blue people. And yes they did use salts. We make ours pure with just distilled water and 99.999 pure silver. I also like the fact that mine is battery powered. There are some expensive ones out there that run on electricity but what about when the power grid goes down?
 
#6 ·
Thanks for the feedback, good to know. thinking about trying it for a UTI since I get them so often.

I wouldn't feel comfortable making it myself yet though. I'll probably pick some up today, and see if it works and I'll update the thread if it does or doesn't for anyone that might be interested.
 
#7 ·
We havent tried the colloidal forms. Would like to. Instead we have been using one called silversol. It is a different form and I felt comfortable it is safe. I well not be without the silversol gel. It is a miracle when it comes to burns, rashes, and even the face. I keep a supply at all times. My youngest has many issues with iliostomy and rashes from that and surgeries. I have used it on his after surgery yeast/bacteria flares(they load him with antibiotics). Without going into to much detail his can be severe. While at hospitals and this happens they tell us to use the scripts they give. Doesnt do much and takes for ever. As soon as we get home I use the silver and same day clear ups. Us older family members well put on our face like you would with lotions. Id swear it reduces the wrinkles etc. It is amazing. I would used on face daily at how good it is but to costly so I save for son. We take an occasional swig of the liquid form also. Not frequent as same issue, cost. But I can validate 100% it works topically. I consider it the miracle gel. Its anti bacterial, anti viral, and anti fungal. It is considered pure mineral form in metallic silver.
 
#17 ·
You're probably right.

Not really any improvements on my end for the first day, but I wouldn't expect much after 1 day.

I believe in the topical healing properties of it, and throat,nasal,ear problems, but I don't think it'll do much else. We'll see though.

Anyone have any recommended dosage for it for an infection such as a UTI? I don't think little teaspoons are going to cut it, but I don't know how much is too much either.
 
#23 ·
I agree. I contracted MRSA in the hospital. The doctor's didn't diagnosis it as MRSA for 10 days. I was at home when my incision ruptured. My temp at the time was 104. I am a fire fighter/ first responder so I knew something was wrong. I had colloidal silver here at the house. My grandmother swore by silver. She would put a silver coin in our fresh milk to keep it from going bad. It worked. Anyway back to MRSA and the use of silver. I applied colloidal silver into the incision which the doctor had cut back open and left it to drain. My incision was the size of a dollar bill. 6x2. I packed it with clean gauze and kept it dry. I couldn't get a doctor to clean it out or sew my incision shut for 18 months. I finally went to another state and got it closed. If you have the misfortune to come into contact with MRSA, I highly recommend the use of colloidal silver. When made right it is safe to use. I am American Indian not a smurf. Hope this helps y'all. Paula
 
#25 ·
The stuff runs out so damn quick. Very expensive. Ordered some mesosilver, probably should have ordered stuff to just make it myself instead, but I feel a lot more comfortable doing it this way for now.

After 2 full days of taking it I can say I noticed improvements in bladder inflammation ever since the beginning of the 2nd day, but I wouldn't say with confidence that it was the silver. Infection is definitely still there. But it's enough improvement to keep going as I know it can take a week or more.
 
#31 ·
Can you please provide the research to which you refer? I would be interested in reading it. I use CS when needed and as far as I can tell from the results, it does a fair job. If I'm wasting my time and am basically experiencing a placebo effect, I'd like to know. You may think CS proponents are delusional, but this one is a realist. If it's proven not to be what I believe it is, I won't bother with it anymore.
 
#35 ·
After a week of colloidal silver I can say it has been ineffective at treating a UTI.

Could be just a coincidence, but it seemed like infection got worse after switching from the colloidal silver I bought at the store to mesosilver, despite increasing my dosage pretty significantly. I suspect mesosilver isn't very good.

Kind of bummed I'll have to get on antibiotics, but I still think CS could be good at treating other things, mainly topically, just not this.
 
#40 ·
Alternative remedies are not held to the same standards as Pharma-con.
Many have however withstood the test of time, continuing to be used from generation to generation. Simply if they did not work they would no longer be around.
Pharma-con time tested methods have proven more often than not that the so called "cure" is worse than the malady being treated. Far and away many times worse than anything natural.
Any drug commercial will prove that...
I believe there are just as many snake oil salesmen in Pharma-con if not more than in the Alternative remedies field. We almost all have run afoul of some doctor merely pushing pill....
If thousands or more people have experience that it works yet Pharma-con says otherwise, whom should one believe?
 
#43 ·
Quick google check:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15114827 - a study showing that silver had no effect on microbial organisms growth (aka, not only did it not kill germs, it didn't even slow their growth down).

Here, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has a fact sheet about colloidal silver, which includes USDA and FDA opinions on colloidal silver uses.
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/silver/

Argyria cases:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317564,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2297471.stm Stan Jones, a politician who recommends using colloidal silver


Seems like the silver has been shown to not work on germs, and can turn you blue..... so why would you take it? Other than dating someone with a serious Smurf Fetish, I don't see the appeal.....
 
#46 ·
Quick google check:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15114827 - a study showing that silver had no effect on microbial organisms growth (aka, not only did it not kill germs, it didn't even slow their growth down).

Here, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has a fact sheet about colloidal silver, which includes USDA and FDA opinions on colloidal silver uses.
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/silver/

Argyria cases:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317564,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2297471.stm Stan Jones, a politician who recommends using colloidal silver




Seems like the silver has been shown to not work on germs, and can turn you blue..... so why would you take it? Other than dating someone with a serious Smurf Fetish, I don't see the appeal.....
The NASA.gov Web Site Documents the Fact that NASA
Developed a Silver-Based Water Purification for Use in the Space Program

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20020083175_2002135781.pdf

http://colloidalsilversecrets.blogspot.com/2010/03/have-nasa-or-russian-space-program-ever.html

And it seems the FDA is good with Curad and it's claim of "Silver inhibits the growth of bacteria"

Don't believe, don't use it ....
 
#44 ·
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21756192

heres one stating colloidal silver nanoparticles are fungicidal against all strains tested at very low concentrations (0.4-3.3 μg ml(-1). tested against candida

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17651227

heres 2 studies showing silver is antimicrobal



and again Paul Karason, the blue man was taking SILVER CHLORIDE, not colloidal silver. get the info right if you blame something
 
#47 ·
Study one is done in vitro, not in vivo. I could kill stuff in a petri dish, using enough bleach - doesn't mean that you should be taking it. And it has been shown mildly effective as antimicrobial for dressings and stuff. but that doesn't mean that you should be ingesting it.....

All the evidence for actually using it seems to be very much based on people's subjective opinion.... (as an ingested preventative/microbicide)
 
#45 ·
I know the stuff works. I also know that it's not something people should ingest daily as a preventative. Proper diet is the best immune system booster. But, things like stress and not getting enough sleep can take a toll on our immune system, so that we can become susceptible to infections sometimes. For me, those are the times to get some CS into me.

When I first heard about CS, in the early 90's ( I think) I went out and bought a bottle when I was diagnosed with a bladder infection. But before I felt comfortable using it, I wanted to experiment to see if the claims I'd read had any real truth to them. So, I decided to experiment a bit before trying it internally.

The infection was severe enough that my urine was a bit cloudy. I went to the store and bought 3 BALL jars and lids. I boiled all three together in a pot and let them dry upside down on a thick mat of paper towels. I also boiled two paper towels for about a minute.

I drank a bunch of water over a couple of hours. When I had to relieve myself, I took one of the jars and collected the urine. I poured it as equally as possible into the other jars. To one of them, I added 2 drops of the 550ppm colloidal silver I'd bought (the only concentration that the health food store had). To the other, I added nothing. I put a folded boiled towel on top of each jar and screwed on the lid. Then I set them in my mud room, which gets a lot of sun and is always warm. It was summer.

i checked them about an hour later and the jar with the silver was clearer, with a small layer of sediment on the bottom. The other jar was still cloudy. In 3 hours, the silver jar was clear - with more sediment. The other jar seemed cloudier. By the next morning, the untreated jar was opaque and smelly. Treated, clear and no odor at all.

I had to dump the untreated by noon, because it was starting to grow tentacles (kidding), it was growing something ugly for certain. I left the other jar there for days, just to see what would happen - I'd started taking the silver before I dumped the ugly one - and after a week it was too boring and rather silly to keep around. Still clear, still no odor. And my bladder infection was cleared up, as well.
 
#48 ·
I have had nothing but positive results using colloidial silver ,home made .
On my self and family ,internally and externally. On my animals internally and externally.
On plants and in my drinking water . No one and nothing has had any after effects other than healing very quickly and in some cases with out scar.
I burned my hand with gasoline fire ,and treated it with colloidial silver , only by careful examination can you find the evidence of any burn at all.
Dad's dog got hit by a car and removed about a 5" patch from his rump ,road rash.
I sprayed CS on it once , only , and it healed up and the fir returned as well.
Had a kitten given to me that had distemper, put CS in the eyes and in her drinkng water, healed up emediately , fisty little bugger.
All the years I have been using it Have never been dissappointed .
and it is all the stuf I make at home .
Ps no one has turned blue yet .
 
#49 ·
I know many people here on the boards swear by colloidal silver but I would recommend being careful and doing your homework before deciding to add a controversial product (i.e. colloidal silver) to your preparation list. Just adding my two cents, I have no real intention of discrediting and/or debating proponents of colloidal silver for internal use just forwarding what I found in my research.

Let my start by saying I realize that there are many legitimate uses of silver products, typically external uses, such as wound dressings containing silver sulfadiazine or silver nano-materials embedded in water filters or sports fabrics such as sleeping bags and hiking socks. I simply believe that when we have other effective antimicrobials and antibiotics there is no need for the ingestion of colloidal silver preparations, because of their lack of scientifically proven effectiveness and because of the risk of adverse side effects.

I say this because I have read several studies of colloidal silver solutions marketed on the Internet for internal consumption that showed no such anti-bacterial effects. For example, “Over-the-counter Ag (I) health food supplements are probably not effective and are frequently mislabeled.” (US Federal Register, 15 Oct. 1996, 16 (200), 53685–53688; FDA Health Fraud Bulletin #19, Colloidal Silver, Oct. 7, 1994; “Colloidal silver as an antimicrobial agent: fact or fiction?” Journal of Wound Care. 2004 Apr; 13(4):154-5).

Also in August 1999, the FDA banned sellers of colloidal silver from claiming any therapeutic or preventive benefits, noting that it was being marketed for numerous diseases without evidence of safety or effectiveness. However, in general, I am referring to the marketing/description of colloidal silver as an alternative medicine/folk remedy/homeopathic cure-all, which amounts to little more than selling the proverbial snake oil.

Even some pro-silver sites like www.silverfacts.org admit that silver's efficacy is a complicated area of science, “Therefore, there are a great many conflicting claims being made that have very little scientific data to back them up—whether in favor of one silver product over another, and whether touting or denigrating silver in general.”

Once again, you don’t have to agree with these sources or conclusions I am just suggesting you do your homework before deciding to use colloidal silver preparations especially internally. As with any homemade medication be careful with preparation and dosage as well as possible side effects. Below are a couple additional online sources I have referenced in the past, the top being the one I found most useful.

Here is an in depth article that discusses many of the pros and cons of the issue. FEMS Microbiology Reviews Volume 27, Issue 2-3, pages 341–353, June 2003. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1016/S0168-6445(03)00047-0/full

Here is some information from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in their integrative medicine section titled, “About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products.” www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/69189.cfm

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine http://nccam.nih.gov/health/silver

Anyway, have fun with the debate and Happy Prepping!
 
#55 ·
Withholding any opinion as to whether or not silver works as described, you may want to consider the source of many articles and reports that say CS does not work. The FDA is in the business of promoting manufactured medicines. Natural cures and cures that you can do at home all by yourself take away from their profit margin.

Don't you find it odd that many people personally say that "xyz" process/medicine/supplement/etc works perfectly, but big companies and government agencies say they are snake oil? Does the fact that these places effectively lose money every time you don't buy meds from them help that decision any?


http://www.infowars.com/fda-unleash...ll-dietary-supplements-formulated-after-1994/
 
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