Millions of people use
colloidal silver orally to help prevent or heal infection and disease. It has
quite literally become known as “nature’s most powerful natural antibiotic.”
Millions more use it
topically, as well, to help heal cuts, scrapes and burns, and to help stop
active topical infections dead in their tracks.
But experienced
colloidal silver users have come up with some very unusual uses, as well. In my previous article on this topic, I
documented 12 of the most unusual uses I’d ever come across. In this article you’ll discover 12 more…
Hi, Steve Barwick here for TheSilverEdge.com...
In a previous article
titled “12 Most Unusual Uses for Colloidal Silver,” I documented a dozen
offbeat uses for colloidal silver that I’d either experienced myself, or that
readers had written in and tipped me off to.
In the following article, I’m going to document twelve more of these very unusual uses, in case
you might ever have need for them.
Indeed, I’m always researching new uses for colloidal
silver. So here’s some of the most
unusual uses that I’ve seen come across my desk in recent months:
·
CPAP
Machine Disinfectant – Colloidal silver user Sandie B., wrote, “I use colloidal silver in the distilled
water reservoir of my CPAP machine, to keep the water pure and to prevent
microbial growth.”
For those who don’t know, a CPAP machine (i.e., “Continuous
Positive Airway Pressure” machine) is a device that helps people with sleep
apnea (i.e., a condition in which breathing stops during sleep) breathe more
easily during sleep, and thus keep their body’s oxygen levels from getting too
low.
To do this, an air mask is worn at night, and the device
increases air pressure in the throat in order to keep the airway open and
oxygen flowing while the individual is sleeping.
However, to prevent the soft tissues in the throat and lungs
from drying out and cracking due to the added air pressure, a small amount of
distilled water is usually added to a water reservoir in the CPAP device, and
tiny amounts of this water are picked up by the air current which in turn helps
keep the soft tissues in the throat and lungs moist.
The problem is, sometimes the water in the CPAP machine, if
not changed frequently, can get contaminated with bacteria, and CPAP users can
end up with an upper respiratory infection or even pneumonia. So a lot of CPAP users add a teaspoonful or
so of 10 ppm colloidal silver to the distilled water in their CPAP reservoir,
in order to prevent this from happening.
C.M.W., of Ohio, is another colloidal silver user who puts
colloidal silver into her CPAP machine.
She states, “I have sleep apnea.
And when I go to sleep, I use a machine to help me breath thru the
night. I add colloidal silver to the water reservoir. Since I started using it
in the water my sinuses have cleared up. I sleep much better and do not
struggle to breath now.”
·
Glass
Cleaner – Colloidal silver user Jerry K. wrote to say, “I just discovered that colloidal silver is
also a very good glass cleaner. Makes the glass squeaky clean just like Windex,
but without nasty ammonia.”
That’s a wonderful discovery, of course, because ammonia has
numerous significant negative effects on the human body. It outgases, producing vapors and a pungent,
suffocating odor that can be caustic to soft tissues in the nose, eyes, and
especially the lungs. It’s corrosive, as
well. It produces rapid skin or eye
irritation upon contact. And swallowing
ammonia can result in corrosive damage to the mouth, throat and stomach.
What’s more, inhalation of ammonia can result in a variety
of respiratory ailments including bronchitis, asthma, coughing, and “farmer’s
lung.” And if ammonia is accidently and
inadvertently mixed with bleach in the home, it can release toxic chlorine gas,
which can be deadly.
So think about the potential detrimental effects of ammonia
when you go to clean your windows with a commercial glass cleaner. Consider using a pump spray bottle to simply
spray some safe, natural10 ppm colloidal silver onto the glass instead, and
clean as normal!
·
Make Your
Own Antimicrobial Silver Bandages – Colloidal silver user Don H., from Ohio,
recently wrote, “I buy gauze bandages,
and soak them in colloidal silver, then let them air dry. Anything I use them
for makes for quick healing with minimum scars. I do the same with new socks!”
Now that’s a novel idea.
But actually, it’s very little different from purchasing
silver-impregnated bandages online, or even silver-impregnated stockings.
The only difference is that it’s the DIY (i.e.,
Do-It-Yourself) version.
So you save tons
of money over what you’d pay for the commercial products, and basically reap
the same healing and infection-fighting benefits. Bravo to Don for pointing this out!
·
Keep
Plant Cuttings from Rotting – Colloidal silver user Elizabeth B., recently
wrote, “I add about ½ ounce of colloidal
silver to the water when I’m rooting plant cuttings. No more stagnant water with rotted cuttings!”
Anyone who’s ever tried to root plant cuttings knows the
biggest problem is controlling the fungus, mold or bacteria that can grow in
the water and contaminate it, ultimately causing the cuttings to rot.
But adding a tiny bit of colloidal silver to the water seems
to solve the problem post-haste. And as
long as you don’t overdo it, there’s no harm to the root cuttings from the
silver.
While this is certainly an unusual use for colloidal silver,
it’s not really a surprising one. After
all, gardeners have known for a long time that colloidal silver kills plant
fungus. If you’re a gardener, you might
want to see my previous article,
“Colloidal Silver Kills Plant Fungus, Produces Larger and Healthier
Crops.”
·
Natural
Deodorant – Colloidal silver user Jill S., wrote, “Did you know that Colloidal Silver works great as a natural deodorant? No
aluminum!” And colloidal silver user
Bonita S. wrote, “Among a lot of uses, we
use colloidal silver as our exclusive deodorant! It works wonderfully…even working in the hot
sun in the South!”
She’s right, of course.
I haven’t purchased a commercial underarm deodorant spray or roll-on in
over 15 years. I simply use a pump spray
bottle to spray some 10 ppm colloidal silver under my arms each morning, and
nothing else.
Of course, colloidal silver doesn’t have the perfumed smell
to mask body odors like commercial deodorant products do. But I’ve always been a bit sensitive to such chemical-laden
perfumes and fragrances anyway. So I
don’t miss them at all.
And I certainly don’t miss sopping my skin with potentially
dangerous aluminum, which is a main ingredient in most underarm deodorants, and
which has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease, nervous system seizures, breast
cancer, kidney problems, bone formation disorders and more.
As Angela Kaelin writes in her great article titled “Make Your
Own Natural Health and Beauty Products Using Colloidal Silver,” if you prefer a
scented deodorant, it’s quite easy to make your own natural deodorant using
colloidal silver and other natural ingredients to add fragrance and to soothe
the skin. Here’s what she says:
“Many people are very
sensitive to the ingredients in commercial antiperspirants and deodorants. If
you're sensitive or just want an alternative to dangerous aluminum-containing
antiperspirants, try thoroughly mixing the following ingredients in an 8 to 12
oz. spray bottle:
2 - 3 ounces of colloidal silver
6 - 9 ounces of distilled water
8 to 10 drops of lavender oil
8 to 10 drops of rosemary oil
8 to 10 drops of sage oil
Sage has a light action as a natural antiperspirant. Perspiration odors on the skin are produced by bacteria. Colloidal silver works as an excellent antibacterial and is extremely beneficial to the skin as well.
Rosemary and lavender are not only aromatic, but they have profound soothing and healing properties, too.
Shake this mixture well before each application.”
2 - 3 ounces of colloidal silver
6 - 9 ounces of distilled water
8 to 10 drops of lavender oil
8 to 10 drops of rosemary oil
8 to 10 drops of sage oil
Sage has a light action as a natural antiperspirant. Perspiration odors on the skin are produced by bacteria. Colloidal silver works as an excellent antibacterial and is extremely beneficial to the skin as well.
Rosemary and lavender are not only aromatic, but they have profound soothing and healing properties, too.
Shake this mixture well before each application.”
·
Stop
Stinking Up the Bathroom – Colloidal silver user Rob G. wrote to say, “If I stink up the bathroom while doing a
number two, I use a pump spray bottle full of my homemade colloidal silver to
spray into the air afterwards. It
removes the odor quite rapidly.”
Okay, that’s a weird one.
But I’ve tried it, and it actually works!
Let’s face it.
Everybody stinks up the bathroom from time to time. The old trick was to keep a pack of matches
in the bathroom, and if you stunk it up big time, then light a match or two and
let them burn for a few seconds before snuffing out the flames and allowing the
sulfur-laden smoke to rise from the quenched matches.
But this was just a cover-up for the smell, which burning
sulfur from the matches helps mask. But
spraying 10 ppm colloidal silver high into the air in the bathroom after a
“stinky episode” and allowing it to drift down naturally throughout the room,
seems to actually neutralize the
smell.
My thought on this is that the billions of tiny droplets of
silver water sprayed high into the air in the bathroom actually absorb the
smell into the silver as they drift slowly to the floor, much as charcoal
absorbs odor.
It seems to take about five minutes, in my experience, for
the smell to subside after the colloidal silver has been thoroughly sprayed into
the air throughout the bathroom. But in
the few times I’ve tried it after receiving the above tip, it’s worked for me!
·
Eliminate
Mildew Odor in Wet Clothes – Colloidal silver user Kathleen S. recently
wrote, “If you should have a basket of
washed clothes that didn't get dried for a day or two and has developed a
musky/mildew odor, just put the clothes in the dryer and add a wash cloth
saturated with colloidal silver. Dry as usual. Odor gone!”
Wow…I don’t know how many times during my bachelor years I forgot
to take the wet clothes out of the washer and dry them, only to find them
smelling like mildew the next day.
So I sure wish I’d have known about this nifty little trick
back then. My wife does the laundry now.
And she’s pretty consistent about drying the clothes directly after
they’re washed. But I’m passing this
handy tip along to her, just in case!
·
Hot Tub
Replacement for Chlorine/Bromine – Colloidal silver user Nancy S. from
Topeka wrote, “We have a hot tub. The
water is treated with chemicals to keep it clean and sanitary. I always hated
the smell and wondered what those chemicals were doing to my body. And if I had
forgotten to treat my hot tub for a week or so it would start turning green and
smell bad. Then I’d have to ‘shock’ the tub with extra chemicals. So I thought,
if colloidal silver kills bad bacteria, then why not try it in the hot tub?”
Great
thought! Nancy S. went on to write: “So a
year ago, we drained the hot tub, refilled it and poured in a quart of 10 ppm colloidal
silver. I doubted that it would work due to the fact that the tub is full of
water from the hose with plenty of minerals in it.
But I’m quite amazed! My hot tub has
remained pH balanced and clear as can be for the past year. No green slime, no smell and best of all no
chemicals. And my husband and I have noticed that we have not had any skin
irritations.
One quart a week is all it takes. And it’s much cheaper than those chemicals
because we make our own silver water with your Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver
Generator!”
Folks, this is something I’ve tried myself, in my own hot
tub. And it worked like a charm for
me. I had a hot tub for ten years, and
after the first year I never again used chemicals like chlorine or bromine in
it. Just colloidal silver. And my results were the same as Nancy’s
above.
If you have a hot tub, and you’re concerned about the
potentially toxic chemicals you’re always soaking in, you might want to try
this, instead.
- Prevent
Fleas on Both Dogs and Cats –
Colloidal silver user Carol B., wrote, “I started putting a small amount of
colloidal silver into the water bowl my dog and cat drink out of. Funny
thing happened. They don't have fleas! I would normally be forced to use the
strong, spot-on flea pesticides early in the spring but I haven't used any
at all this year. It's almost unbelievable, but it works!
If you’re a pet lover, like me, you’ll have to admit that’s certainly
a very interesting use for colloidal
silver.
Several years ago, my Chow, Red Dog, got fleas, and they
were making him quite miserable. Because
he had such thick hair, the traditional flea collar didn’t work at all. I could forcibly separate the hair on his
back or mane with my fingers and see the fleas crawling around on his skin in
droves.
So I made a quart batch of colloidal silver stronger than
I’d normally use (i.e., about 30 ppm) and put it into a pump spray bottle and
began spraying it topically on him, while rubbing it into his fur and
skin. I did this three times a day, for
three days. And by the third day, the fleas
were gone.
Now, if I even suspect
there might be fleas, I start giving my dogs an extra dose of colloidal silver,
orally. And so far, the fleas have left
them alone. If they ever do come back, I’ll
simply apply the colloidal silver topically, as described above.
So there just might be something to Carol’s discovery. I’d love to hear from other dog and cat
owners on this particular use for colloidal silver. Have you
ever given your pets colloidal silver and noticed a corresponding decrease in
fleas?
·
Relieve the
Pain and Inflammation of Insect Bites – Colloidal silver user Kathyn,
from Singapore, recently wrote, “I’d
like to share with you a recent successful experience a friend of mine had
using colloidal silver to heal red, swollen hands and arms from sand fly
bites.”
Kathyn went on to write, “Eddy, a friend, came over one evening. He was in considerable distress with bites from sand flies to his hands and arms.
He
had been out the evening before doing some photography on the beach. His arms
and hands were red and swollen from the bites. Apparently the bites are worse
than bee stings and can take a couple of weeks to recover from!
I
immediately soaked some ‘cotton wool’ with the colloidal silver made with my Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver
Generator from The Silver Edge, and applied it to the red areas.
After
a short time the stinging sensation subsided. I gave him some more colloidal
silver to take home. He applied cotton
wool soaked in the colloidal silver to the bites, using surgical tape to adhere
it overnight.
In
the morning the swollen areas had subsided and the redness and swelling was
gone. He was truly impressed and very grateful for the immense relief.
This
may be one more application that colloidal silver can help, in terms of
relieving great discomfort and suffering.”
Well, I’ve never experienced sand fly bites. But this does remind me of a trip to St.
John’s Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands my wife and I took over 10 years ago,
to attend our daughter’s wedding.
We ended up in a hotel room that was just a tad overrun with tiny spiders that were so small, you didn’t even know they were there until they bit you. By the time I woke up after our first night there, my legs were full of painful spider bites, each of which were swollen and felt like hot needles in my skin.
I immediately began spraying 10 ppm colloidal silver over
the affected areas of my skin, and allowing it to air dry. And within 20 to 30 minutes the pain began to
subside as well as the inflammation around the bites.
I had to spray the bites five or six times the first day to
keep the pain away. But by the second
day, I only had to spray them two or three times for relief. Thanks to colloidal silver, I could travel
with the family and take the island tours without too much discomfort.
I can only wonder at this point how much better it might
have been if I’d have thought to soak some cotton or wool fiber cloth with
colloidal silver and simply wrapped it around the areas of my legs where the
bites were most prominent.
Kathyn’s idea above, which worked for the painful sand fly
bites, might have provided even more relief had I known about it. But I’m not complaining. Colloidal silver truly did save the day for me, just as it did for Kathyn’s friend!
·
Relieve
Poison Ivy Symptoms and Promote Healing – Colloidal silver user Glenn
G., from Georgia, wrote in to say, “Colloidal Silver saved my wife’s arm from a
bad case of Poison Ivy.”
Glenn further stated, “We
thought for sure there would be ugly scarring on her arm, the poison ivy was so
bad. Doctor’s drugs were not working. Her arm was looking like a bad
burn. Thanks to Colloidal Silver she healed rapidly and no scars were
left on her arm.”
Once again, while this use for colloidal silver is quite
unusual, it’s not at all surprising that it would work.
After all, several different studies have demonstrated the
ability of colloidal silver to relieve inflammation by modulating excessive
cytokine expression (see “Does Colloidal Silver Boost Immunity?” at this
link for documentation.) And of course, the massive skin inflammation
caused by contact with Poison Ivy is a result of excessive cytokine release in
the body.
As science writer Stephanie Wilson points out, “A substance
from Poison Ivy called urushiol makes
its way down through the skin where it’s metabolized. Immune cells called T-cells recognize the
urushiol metabolites as foreign substances.
They send out inflammatory signals called cytokines, which bring in
white blood cells that become macrophages.
Macrophages eat foreign substances in the body, but in doing so they
also damage normal tissue, resulting in the oftentimes serious skin
inflammation that occurs with Poison Ivy.”
According to journalist Francis Sedgemore, ““Silver has
for centuries been used to treat and prevent infection, and its wound-healing
properties are well known…But the new research...indicates that silver goes
further than this and modifies cytokines, leading to reduced inflammation
and an increased rate of healing.”
So the ability of colloidal silver to relieve the pain of Poison
Ivy and to stimulate skin healing should not come as a surprise to us. And of course, for those who might live in an
area where Poison Ivy is prevalent, it’s sure great to know that this actually
works!
·
Cures
Mange on Pets -- Colloidal silver user M.S.,
from Oklahoma City writes, “We brought
the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge along with
us when we visited our son, daughter-in-law and two grandsons this
summer. I was shocked when I saw their dear dog, Pepper, who had the
worst case of mange I’ve ever seen. Big areas of skin were bare, scabbed
and flaky and she would rub up against the house to scratch her sides from the
tortuous itch.”
She continues, “Our
son told us of all the trips to the vet for different remedies that didn't
work. Well, I got some canning jars and distilled water and made
some micro-particle colloidal silver that day.
I told our son to get a spray bottle to spray her down that
evening. He did.
The next morning there
was a noticeable difference in her skin - almost no flakiness and she looked a
lot less miserable. Each day we saw improvement and hair growth. By
the end of the week she looked happier and wasn't scratching. Now her
coat is perfect and glossy - back to her lovely self.”
This is unusual, of course, because colloidal silver is best
known for killing infectious microorganisms like bacteria, fungus and even some
viruses.
But mange on pets is a skin disease caused by parasitic mites, known commonly as “mange
mites.” When an animal’s immunity is
low, these mites can embed themselves in huge numbers in the animal’s skin,
resulting in the loss of large patches of hair.
Mange mites come in two basic varieties. One variety, called Demodex canis, severely damages the skin of the animal by burrowing
into the hair follicles and sweat glands to such an extent that infectious
microbes such as Staphylococcus
epidermidis can colonize the skin and spread, causing skin infection and
hair loss.
And the other variety, called Sarcoptes scabiei canis, burrows into the animal’s skin
causing a severe allergic reaction, resulting in intense itching, crusting of
the skin and hair loss.
It would be interesting to know which variety of mange mite was
afflicting the dog described above. But
the most important thing is that colloidal silver appears to not only relieve
the intense itching and inflammation, but apparently also gets rid of the mites
allowing the hair to grow back.
As I explained in my previous
article, “12 Most Unusual Uses for Colloidal Silver,” many insects (such as
roaches, aphids, termites, fungus gnats, fruit flies and others) simply don’t
like being around colloidal silver because their very lives depend upon tiny
microbes they live in symbiotic relationship with.
The silver, being highly antimicrobial, apparently threatens
this symbiotic relationship between the microbes and the insects. So when their “symbiots” are threatened, the
insects leave the area out of self-preservation.
Could this be the case, too, with the mange mites? I don’t know, for sure. But for the sake of the dogs and cats that end
up with this insidious condition, I’m certainly glad to know colloidal silver
will help resolve it!
Learn More…
To learn more about making and using colloidal silver, be
sure to visit The Silver Edge website
and watch the “how to” videos…or
read the in-depth articles on
colloidal silver and its usage.
Or, just peruse the literally hundreds of in-depth testimonials from
real-life people explaining how they use colloidal silver to keep their
families healthy and infection-free!
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What’s more, you can learn how to make your own high-quality colloidal silver for less than 36 cents a quart, with a brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge -- just click the link in this sentence to learn more!
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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