Many people have only recently begun to learn
about the astonishing healing and infection-fighting benefits of colloidal
silver.
But truth be told, colloidal
silver’s broad-spectrum antimicrobial qualities have been known since the late
1800s when the substance was first produced.
Here’s a quick overview of what medical and clinical research experts
were saying about colloidal silver over 100 years ago…
Hi, Steve Barwick
here, for TheSilverEdge.com…
Colloidal silver use
came into being shortly after Edison harnessed electricity in 1879 and
researchers learned how to drive tiny silver micro-particles from pure silver
rods suspended in water, by running electricity through them.
Chemical techniques
for producing colloidal silver were also invented. And soon, numerous forms of colloidal silver
were being used by doctors around the world, with names like Collargol,
Protargol, Electrargol, Lunasol and many others.
What made colloidal
silver so popular with doctors? In many cases, it was the vast panoply of
infectious disease conditions which colloidal silver rapidly and quite effectively
cured.
As Dr. Reynold Webb
Wilcox, M.D., stated in January 1900, in the New England Medical Monthly and Prescription, in an article titled
“Internal Antisepsis”:
“…colloidal
silver has a very beneficial influence and often effects a rapid cure in recent
and chronic sepsis and furunculosis, when secondary changes in the vital organs
have not occurred.
[Doctors]
have treated osteomyelitis, phlegmonous angina, furunculosis, erysipelas,
so-called gonorrheal and articular rheumatism, etc., by this method.
Various
reports, some very enthusiastic, have been presented; on puerperal fever
(Peters, Jones, Voorhees), cerebrospinal meningitis (Schirmer),acute mastitis
(Cumston), malignant scarlet fever (Crede), divers septic processes (Werler),
furunculosis (Wolfram), and finally in purpura in the horse (Dieckerhoff).
Wilcox's
own experience in septic phlebitis, of which an unusually large percentage has
occurred in his typhoid fever cases, has been most satisfactory… In one
instance of septic phlebitis following amoebic dysentery the results were
almost marvelous.”
In layman’s terms, colloidal silver cured infections of the
bloodstream, infected boils, infected bone, infection-induced fevers and just
about everything you could throw at it if an infectious condition was involved
in the disease process.
And as Robert Bartholow wrote of silver’s astonishing infection-fighting qualities in A Practical Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics, way back in 1908:
“As a
topical agent, silver may be used in surgical diseases, wounds, injuries, and
in cases of septic decomposition.
Wherever
diseases -- either pure or mixed infectious -- are caused by the
staphylococcus, the streptococcus, and other forms of low organisms, this
remedy is effective in a high degree.”
And as also reported
in 1908, in the journal Post-Graduate
(Vol. 23, #10, page 911), from the New York Medical School and Hospital:
“The properties of colloidal silver are,
therapeutically, the following: antiseptic,
inhibiting bacterial growth, inorganic ferment exercising catalytic action.
The drug is absolutely harmless and should be
used (1) when at the outset the infection assumes a serious aspect; (2) when an
infection, at first localized, tends to become generalized."
In other words, colloidal silver was used to stop infections
from becoming more serious, and to stop already-serious infections from
spreading.
And as Dr. William Halstead, M.D. (see image above), one of
the founding fathers of modern surgery, wrote of the infection-fighting
qualities of silver way back in 1913:
"We
may only have scratched the surface of silver’s medical brilliance! Already it is an amazing tool!
It
stimulates bone-forming cells, cures the most stubborn infections of all
kinds...and stimulates healing in skin and other soft tissues.
I
know of nothing which could quite take its place, nor, have I known anyone to
abandon it who had thoroughly familiarized himself with the technique of its
application. "
Unfortunately, it took until 1975, some 60 years later, for
medical science to finally accept silver’s role in stimulating bone-forming
cells, and curing stubborn tissue infections around bone breaks, thanks largely
to the remarkable clinical research of Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D. of
Syracuse Medical University.
But let’s get back to the older medical quotes. As the British
Medical Journal stated in February 1917:
“Colloidal
silver has been used successfully in septic conditions of the mouth including
pyorrhea alveolysis, throat, ear, and in generalized septicemia, leucorrhea,
cystitis, whooping cough and shingles."
It seems there was hardly any kind of infection that
colloidal silver didn’t work for! As
Alfred E. Searle, author of Colloids in
Biology and Medicine wrote in 1919:
"Applying colloidal
silver to human subjects has been done in a large number of cases with
astonishingly successful results...it has the advantage of being rapidly fatal
to microbes without toxic action on its host. It is quite stable. It protects
rabbits from ten times the lethal dose of tetanus or diphtheria toxin.”
As researcher Fred
Wilbur Tanner, stated in the journal Bacteriology
and Mycology of Foods, in 1919:
"Biasiotti (1910) reported that
colloidal silver electrically prepared would kill Staphylococcus aureus, B.
typhi, and Bacterium diphtheria; in a few hours. The silver is probably united
to the protoplasm in some way because Gram positive bacteria are made Gram negative.”
As Dr. Henry Crooks, M.D. stated in 1921:
"I
know of no microbe that is not killed by silver in laboratory experiments in
six minutes."
And finally, according to the August, 1920 edition of The National Druggist, Vol. 50, page
388:
"Colloidal
silver is powerfully destructive of toxins of bacterial origin …Experiments on
rabbits show that colloidal silver renders subject 'immune' from the effects of
large quantities of tetanic or diphtheritic serum.
…colloidal
silver has proved its value in combating the following ailments among others --
tonsilitis, gonorrhoeal conjunctivitis, spring catarrh, pustular eczema of
scalp, septic ulcers of legs, boils, chronic cystiitis, ringwork, soft sores.
But
we must not prolong the list of the good works of colloidal silver. Suffice it
that at the present time it is the most extensively used in medicine of all the
sols."
In short, colloidal silver was the star infection-fighting
agent of the early 1900’s, before the advent of prescription antibiotic drugs
like sulfa and penicillin in the 1930’s and 40’s.
Silver’s Untimely Demise
and Much-Needed Resurrection
Once prescription drugs were developed and the modern pharmaceutical
industry began forming, colloidal silver usage by medical doctors gradually
fell out of favor.
But over the ensuing decades, as more and more bacteria began
developing resistance to prescription antibiotic drugs, cutting edge doctors
began looking back to the past to find out what was used before antibiotic
drugs were developed. And what they
found was, of course, colloidal silver.
As newer research was conducted in the 1970’s on silver as
an infection-fighting agent, the
interest in colloidal silver as a safe and powerful antimicrobial substance was
rapidly renewed.
And today, usage of safe, natural colloidal silver has
become popular with millions of Americans who have experienced its phenomenal
healing and infection-fighting benefits.
What’s more, many modern-day medical doctors and clinical
researchers are embracing colloidal silver usage, as well.
As Dr. Joseph Weissman, M.D. board certified immunologist
and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California Medical School
has stated:
"Today, many antibiotics
are losing the battle with germs. Fortunately, the best germ killer, which was
discovered over 2,000 years ago, is finally getting the proper attention from
medical science - natural silver.
I sincerely recommend that
everyone have electrically generated colloidal silver in their home as an
antiseptic, antibacterial and antifungal agent."
And as Dr. Ron Surowitz, D.O., M.D., former head of the
Florida Osteopathic Medical Association has stated:
"Sometimes a treatment can be worse than the illness, but
not in the case of Colloidal Silver.
I have my patients spray or swish Colloidal Silver in their mouths
from one to three times daily, depending on the severity of their condition…or,
in a dose of one quarter to one teaspoon, and even up to one tablespoon, one to
three times daily for situations that are more problematic.
I also have them use it in small amounts daily as a
preventative...It's interesting how many of my patients improve with the use of
Colloidal Silver. It enhances the immune system where other antibiotics cause
yeast overgrowth...
...[As an example] one patient had persistent yeast infections.
Having had no success with both prescription and non-prescription treatments,
she called me, at her wit's end.
I suggested that she try a douche of two teaspoons of Colloidal
Silver in a quart of water. Three days later she was evaluated in my office.
The symptoms of her yeast infection had vanished, and there was no visible sign
of infection."
And as Herbert
Slavin, M.D., founder and director of the Institute of Advanced Medicine,
Lauderhill, Florida has stated:
"...Ionic silver is increasingly being recognized for its
broad-spectrum antimicrobial qualities and the fact that it presents virtually
none of the side-effects related to antibiotics.
Ionic silver is entirely non-toxic to the body...Reports of any
pathogens developing resistance to ionic silver are rare. Some reports indicate
it even kills drug-resistant strains of germs.
Ionic silver is also a powerful tissue-healing agent, so much so
that it has been used topically for decades in burn centers and currently
represents one of the fastest growing sectors – if not the fastest growing
sector – in wound care today.
The fact that ionic silver is effective against a very broad range
of bacteria is well established and, due to recent advances in the delivery of
ionic silver together with the problems associated with antibiotics, it is
being used in a rapidly growing range of dietary-supplement, medical, and
industrial products.
...A study at the University of Arizona recently showed ionic
silver to be effective against the coronavirus that researchers use as the
surrogate for SARS."
And as board certified Clinical Nutritionist Byron J.
Richards, CCN, has stated;
"…The high efficacy in the use of silver to kill bacteria
and fungus is not in question by anyone. This does not mean it kills every type
of bacteria or fungus. And in the ones it does kill it does not mean it kills
all of them.
It simply means that the antibiotic properties of silver are quite
potent – and the risk to human health in terms of toxicity is negligible. This is a far better risk/benefit profile
than commonly used antibiotics."
Finally, as Dr. Jonathan Wright, M.D., of the famous Tahoma
Clinic in Washington State has written:
"Colloidal silver just might be the next germ-fighting
wonder drug. And not just for the serious threats making headlines: It's also effective against bacterial
infections like strep throat, viruses like the flu, and fungal infections like
Candida.
No matter how much a germ mutates, it can't change enough to
escape the damaging effects of colloidal silver. And in the process, the silver
doesn't harm human tissue or kill off the good bacteria in the intestine the
way antibiotics and other medications do…
…Beginning in the 1970s, several independent researchers found that
silver ions easily destroy Candida and other fungi. But it wasn't until a pilot
study during the mid- 1990s that included human patients suffering from
terminal AIDS that medical researchers established solid evidence showing just
how quick and effective silver ions can be in the treatment of Candida as well
as HIV.
In this study, nine individuals who were near death were divided
into two subgroups. One group suffered from HIV and a terrible Candida
infection. The other group suffered from both HIV and an extreme form of
malnutrition (known as Wasting Syndrome).
The researchers found that in both groups the colloidal silver was
capable of killing pathogens and purging the bloodstream of germ defenses in
order to restore the immune system."
In short, we have come back full circle to nature’s wonder
cure for infection and disease: colloidal silver.
What worked in the beginning against infection and disease continues
to work today, even as prescription antibiotic drugs continue to fall to the wayside,
thanks largely to the crisis of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
And yes, colloidal silver even kills the superbugs, as
thoroughly documented with numerous clinical studies in my previous article, “Colloidal
Silver versus the Superbugs”.
Learn More About
Colloidal Silver…
If you’d like to learn more about colloidal silver and its
astonishing array of infection-fighting benefits, one of the easiest ways is to
read through the real-life success stories of literally hundreds of experienced
colloidal silver users at this
link.
Another way to learn more about colloidal silver is to watch
some of the short “how to” videos on using colloidal silver, at this link.
And even another great way to learn more is to scroll
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page.
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Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another great article
on colloidal silver…
Yours for the safe, sane and responsible
use of colloidal silver,
Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
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