The history of the medical
and therapeutic use of silver is a fascinating one, going back many centuries.
Here’s a brief
overview taking you from 425 B.C. to the present day, and demonstrating
conclusively through historical documentation that colloidal silver is indeed
the world’s most effective natural infection-fighting agent…
Hi, Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...
The phenomenal healing and infection-fighting qualities of
silver have been known quite literally since before the time of Christ.
Indeed, according to the records of Herodotus, written in
425 B.C., ancient Persian kings such as Cyrus the Great insisted their water
was carried in silver vessels when going off to war, in order to prevent it
from becoming contaminated.
Of course, since this was long before the realization that
microbes are the cause of infection or contamination, the silver was being used
empirically. It was simply observed
that water did not become impure and make you sick when you drink it, if it was
stored in silver vessels.
In his study published in the journal Surgical Infections, J. Wesley Alexander writes:
“The ancient Phoenicians, Greeks,
Romans, Egyptians, and others also were recorded to have used silver in one
form or another to preserve food and water from spoiling.
The application of silver plates to
achieve better wound healing was used by the Macedonians, perhaps the first
attempt to prevent or treat surgical infections.
Hippocrates used silver
preparations for the treatment of ulcers and to promote
wound healing”
And in 78 A.D. Pliny the Elder wrote, “"[Slag of
silver] has healing properties as an ingredient in plasters, being extremely
effective in causing wounds to close up."
What’s more, it’s said that early American pioneers always
placed a silver dollar into buckets of milk in order to help keep the milk for
spoiling quickly. (You can see a short video demonstrating a modern-day version
of this phenomena, here.)
And for centuries, long before the advent of refrigeration, the
people of India have pounded silver into thin, delicate sheets called varakh, which are about one hundredth of
the thickness of a sheet of paper.
These sheets of silver are used to wrap candies and foods in
order to prevent them from spoiling in the country’s hot outdoor food bazaars.
Traditionally, the food is eaten foil and all, because of its ability to prevent stomach infections
that can be caused by eating the unrefrigerated foods.
The Advent of Colloidal
Silver
After Edison showed the world how to harness and utilize
electricity in 1879, scientists quickly discovered that they could suspend
silver rods in pure water, and sinter tiny silver particles off of them by
running electricity through them.
This became known as electrically-generated colloidal silver. Chemical processes were also invented for
making a variety of colloidal silver solutions.
And by the late 1930's – well before the advent of
prescription antibiotic drugs -- colloidal silver in its various forms had
become one of the most popular infection-fighting substances among doctors,
being sold under the names of Collargol, Protargol, Electrargol, Lunasol and
many others.
As Robert Bartholow wrote of silver’s 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 Dr. William Halstead, M.D., one of the founding
fathers of modern surgery, stated of silver 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. "
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."
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 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 National Druggist, Vol. 50, page 388, in August 1920:
"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."
The Rise and Fall of
Antibiotic Drugs
But after the advent of prescription antibiotic drugs in the
late 1930’s, colloidal silver usage gradually fell out of favor with doctors.
And antibiotic drugs were widely embraced in its stead.
However, by the 1970's -- less than 40 years after the
advent of prescription antibiotic drugs – the antibiotics were already losing
their luster, due to the ability of pathogens to mutate and adapt to them.
In other words, it was already being documented by medical
science that antibiotic drugs began to lose their effectiveness against
pathogens relatively rapidly, as the pathogens mutated in response to their
presence.
This lead researchers and cutting edge doctors to begin
looking for alternatives to prescription antibiotics.
Some doctors began researching the older medical literature,
asking themselves, "How did we treat infections prior to the advent of prescription antibiotic drugs?"
And as a result, interest in silver slowly began making a
comeback.
Dr. Robert O. Becker,
M.D.
By the mid-1970s, a surgeon named Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D.
began his groundbreaking research at Syracuse Medical University, which would
lead to the widespread re-discovery of silver as an effective antimicrobial
substance.
He had been attempting to demonstrate his theory that small
micro-currents of electricity could be used to make stubborn bone fractures
heal, if electrodes could be temporarily surgically implanted into the fractures.
During the course of his experiments, he began using silver
electrodes in order to take advantage of silver’s well-known propensity to
conduct electricity. But what he discovered in the process took him completely
by surprise.
You see, not only did the micro-currents of electricity
trigger the bone fractures to heal just as he had expected, but the tiny,
electrically generated silver particles that were driven into the bone and
surrounding tissue from the silver electrodes healed ALL nearby infections as
well.
Even rare and potentially deadly bone infections such
as osteomyelitis were rapidly healed! Dr. Becker later
concluded in his best-selling book The Body Electric:
“What we have done was
rediscover the fact that silver kills bacteria, a fact which had actually been
known for centuries ...
…All of the organisms we tested
were sensitive to the electrically generated silver ion, including some
that were resistant to all known antibiotics...In no case were any
undesirable side effects of the silver treatment apparent.”
Yes, indeed. Dr. Becker had re-discovered a fact that
medical researchers of old had once known, but that had become lost to medicine
ever since the age of prescription antibiotic drugs had been ushered in by the
global pharmaceutical conglomerates during the 1940’s.
He had re-discovered the fact that silver – one of the
world’s oldest and most powerful natural antibiotic substances – could kill
just about any pathogen exposed to it. Even the most virulent of pathogens
succumb to it with ease!
Since that time, colloidal silver has once again become the
world's most popular and effective natural antibiotic substance.
As Harvard educated Dr. Jonathan Wright, M.D., of the famous
Tahoma Clinic in Washington State has written:
"Silver
attacks all three of the germ's vulnerable targets at once.
First,
the silver ions easily rupture a germ's outer membrane when present in the
right amounts, causing the germ's vital internal components to be exposed in
the bloodstream to our white blood cells.
While
the white blood cells attack the internal components, the micro-particulate
silver continues to destroy these vital internal components by cutting up vital
enzymes.
The
silver ions then easily attack the germ's third vulnerable target: its delicate
gene pool.
Silver
ions have the ability to reach into the nucleus of the germ, where its gene
pool is located. Once they combine with the genes, the genes become paralyzed,
and the germ cannot replicate itself.”
As Dr. Herbert Slavin, M.D., founder and director of the
Institute for Advanced Medicine in Lauderhill, Florida has stated:
"...Colloidal
silver is emerging as the new antimicrobial wonder in dealing with bacterial as
well as, yes, viral conditions too, both in medicine and in industry...
Colloidal
silver was actually a commonly-used antimicrobial 100 years ago, before the
advent of modern antibiotics, which only address bacteria and are becoming
largely obsolete while posing risks related to resistant super-germs.
Colloidal
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.”
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 biochemist James South, MA has written:
“...Electrically-generated
colloidal silver [Ag(e)] has been shown to kill dozens of bacteria, including
Providencia stuartii, a germ already resistant in the 1970's to all antibiotics
except amikacin, as well as two strains of antibiotic-resistant Enterobacter
cloacae that were isolated from burn patients...
…
It has also proved adept at killing various yeast/fungus species at very low
silver concentrations, including Candida albicans, C. parapsilosis, C.
tropicalis, C. pseudotropicalis, Torulopsis glabrata and Aspergillus
niger.
Electrically-generated
colloidal silver has also been shown to kill cysts of the common water-borne
protozoal parasite Entamoeba histolytica.
It has also killed the protozoa Paramecium when exposed to 2.2 ppm
silver, as well as the protozoa Varicella at 5.9 ppm.
…The
most amazing case of colloidal silver usage which I’ve had personal knowledge
involved an 83 year old woman who was suffering severe septicemia (infectious
blood poisoning).
Her
doctors were unable to control the raging infection and had sent her home,
expecting her death in 48-72 hours.
Her
husband contacted an intermediary, through whom I recommended trying colloidal
silver. The woman was immediately put on one tablespoon of 5 ppm colloidal
silver three times daily.
Within
24 hours her septicemia began to disappear, and within 48 hours her septicemic
crisis was over, and she did not die as expected."
Where to Get
Colloidal Silver
Electrically generated colloidal silver can be purchased today
in nearly any well-stocked health food store.
But costs can be a bit on the exorbitant side – as much as
$20 to $30 for a tiny four-ounce bottle of this safe, natural, healing and
infection-fighting substance.
Thankfully, you don’t have to pay those exorbitant health
food store prices. Indeed, you can make your
own high-quality electrically-generated colloidal silver, quickly and easily,
with a simple device called a Micro-Particle
Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge.
The low-voltage
Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator is based on the ground-breaking work
of Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D.
And it allows you to
make your own high-quality colloidal silver in the comfort and privacy of your
own home, and for less than 36 cents a
quart!
Learn more about making your own high-quality colloidal silver with a brand new
Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, by clicking the
link in this sentence.
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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