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USE OF SILVER IN HUMAN HEALTH
The connection of silver as a purifying element dates back
5,000 years and records revealing the use of silver compounds in
medical treatments for various maladies is referred to dating from
the eighth century A.D. as referenced in the book “Antiseptics,
Disinfectants, Fungicides and Chemical and Physical Sterilization”
by I.B. Romans.
In more recent times silver has been applied to
health with the following developments:
- 1928 – G.A. Krause
introduced the principle of using silver in filtration systems for
domestic water.
- 1929 – Schweizer extended Krause’s work with the
testing of Katadyn Silver confirming that it killed pathogens,
including E.coli, without eliminating beneficial air and water
microbes.
- 1937 – Mallmann in research verified that Electro-Katadyn
Silver killed E.coli in swimming pools while having no adverse
reaction upon useful microbial life.
- 1943 – Goodman and Gill began
treatment of vaginitis with silver compound suppositories.
- 1957 –
Greenberg extended studies using silver nitrate solutions applied
to the eyes of newborn babies. As these studies and applications
progressed it was found that silver had an oligodynamic effect,
that small amounts had a dynamic benefit, and that silver
particles in an ionic structure had the most dynamic and
beneficial effect.
- 1978 - Science Digest: More than half of the world's airlines use silver treated water
as the method of choice for protecting airline passengers from
water-carried diseases such as dysentery. And the government
of Switzerland approved silver water filters for home and office
use throughout the country. Also, Science Digest reported
on the use of silver treated water versus chlorine treatment.
Fifty gallons of "raw" sewage were dumped into a swimming pool
and tested for E. coli, a dangerous pathogen found in the human
digestive track. Initially, the colony count was 7,000 E.
coli per milliliter of water. After three hours of pumping
raw sewage through silver electrodes, the water was retested and
found to be free of E. coli.
FORMS OF SILVER USED
The forms of silver used today can be classified into two
general groups:
1. Soluble silver salts such as nitrates and citrates. Included
in this category is a preparation known as sulfadiazine (silvadene)
often used in burn centers to control infections. Also in this
category is the 1% silver nitrate solution used to apply to the
eyes of newborn infants.
2. Silver proteinates and pure silver reduced to colloidal
size. None of these are water soluble but can exist in colloidal
suspension. Included in these are colloidal silver preparations
that use strong or mild silver proteins as their base. The
preparations using strong or mild silver proteins are still
associated with a nitric acid radical as part of the protein
molecule and can be very harmful if ingested internally. Other
technologies reduce the silver to a very small molecular or ionic
size capable of being suspended in water as a colloid. These
various silver colloids have very small quantities of silver in
their solutions, usually between 3-15 ppm.
A NEW REVOLUTIONARY FORM OF SILVER
A revolutionary extraction technique was developed capable of
isolating a very concentrated solution of the natural organic
mineral molecule found only in nature. This molecule is the
strongest natural chelating agent within living structures and is
so diverse that researchers have suggested that no two of these
molecules are exactly alike.
The organic mineral complex molecule
is a natural electrolyte and always totally dissolves in water. By
proprietary technology they have fortified these molecules with
silver ions. This provides a new and more efficient delivery
system to safely provide silver ions in higher amounts (over 25 ppm) without the danger of nitric acid radicals or without the
danger of building up excessive amounts of silver within body
tissues resulting in argyria.
It also provides the benefit of
providing delivery within the cells of the body where the benefits
of silver ions can be experienced in combating the threat of
viruses.
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