Colloidal Silver Benefits: The Truth About Colloidal Silver
Have you heard of a ‘miracle’ product known as colloidal silver? The basic reason for any colloidal silver efficacy and safety controversy is that the medical establishment (medical mafia) and the pharmaceutical industry (Big Pharma) see colloidal silver as a financial threat. While you may have been cautioned against using colloidal silver, know that colloidal silver benefits are tried and true.
Both the medical establishment and Big Pharma have put silver medical products to work in hospital equipment and medical tools as well as anti-infection burn remedies to prevent MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) infections, which are potentially lethal and have become antibiotic resistant.
Yet the medical establishment promotes fear mongering lies through various media outlets and threatens colloidal silver manufacturers through various federal, state, and local health agencies.
The difference between their medical products and colloidal silver is patent rights that yield royalties for several years. Colloidal silver can be made by anyone with inexpensive equipment and it can’t be patented.
As of January 2009, the EU has banned colloidal silver manufacturing in its European member nations. Whenever Codex Alimentarius gets “harmony” compliance from the USA, the same will happen here.
So now is the right time to stock up and try it yourself or buy a kit permitting you to make it yourself indefinitely.
How Colloidal Silver (CS)Works and Colloidal Silver Benefits
Many consider colloidal silver an antiseptic and not an antibiotic because it kills more than bacteria; it destroys viruses and eliminates fungal infections. So far, bacteria that are resistant to silver haven’t developed, while colloidal silver can destroy antibiotic-resistant pathogens, even the dreaded MRSA.
As a matter of fact, now the medical mafia has been covertly adding colloidal silver into antibiotics to conquer the super-bug strains that have developed immunity to those antibiotics. I say covertly because they aren’t talking too much about it!
Keep in mind that while antibiotics don’t touch viruses and fungus’s, colloidal silver eliminates them – making colloidal silver benefits incredibly useful. It eliminates anaerobic pathogens by destroying the enzymes that fend off oxygen molecules, thus oxidizing them to death.
Conversely, the silver nano-particles neutralize the minority of aerobic pathogens by disrupting their ability to use oxygen. This begs the question: will colloidal silver destroy friendly gut bacteria the way pharmaceutical antibiotics do?
Some colloidal silver advocates claim it is so readily assimilated into the blood through the stomach and gut linings before it can linger in the lower intestines where our friendly bacteria mostly reside. Therefore, it isn’t an issue.
Others consider electrical charge bonding as the main factor for eliminating pathogens while sparing gut friendly bacteria. Most friendly bacteria are not negatively charged, eliminating any attraction to the positively charged silver particles.
However, a couple of key colloidal advocates, one from whom I purchased my colloidal silver making machine, don’t think that the intestinal flora issue has been clearly established. They recommend the following:
- Have probiotic materials on hand and use them an hour or more after ingesting colloidal silver.
- Swish and hold a dose of colloidal silver in your mouth to absorb most of the particles sublingually into the bloodstream through the capillaries under and around your tongue as long as possible before swallowing.
- Nebulize the colloidal silver solution, making it go directly into your bloodstream via the lungs blood vessels.
As magnetic scavengers, they don’t have to collide into pathogens by chance the way antibiotics do. Because the tiny colloidal silver particles (colloids) have strong positive charges, they are attracted to or attract negatively charged microbes, including viruses.
How It’s Made
A colloidal silver solution is made from a small electrical current applied to silver strips placed in distilled water. After some time, the distilled water becomes flooded with tiny nanoparticles of silver.
The liquid itself should be clear, and it’s important that it be shielded from sunlight exposure. As the nanoparticles get oxidized from light exposure and they settle out of solution, coloration occurs.
Since colloidal silver may become banned someday, because it’s so effective and safe, it would be wise to purchase the apparatus for making your own to protect you from epidemics, whether incidental or created. Its cost makes future colloidal silver use very cost-effective.
Here a site I have personally used for reasonably priced silver or gold colloidal products and a silver colloidal machine.
Big Pharma’s Colloidal Silver Bad Press
The blue grandpa “smurf” photos of Paul Karason’s Argyria (an almost permanent blue skin disease) has made the mainstream media rounds for anti colloidal silver propagandists.
What isn’t mentioned is that Paul made his own crude large particle colloidal silver and drank at least a pint and up to quart a day for years! The normal dosage is a teaspoonful one to three times daily, depending on the severity of infection.
Another disinformation meme is that the silver accumulates in the kidneys and creates a toxic situation. This would only happen if the kidneys are already defective, and even then accumulation factor has not been actually established or proven.
I have been using colloidal silver for a few years, and it is miraculous. I've not had the nerve to ingest it due to my concern of turning gray or blue or whatever it is. When I mention it to my doctors, they all say they never heard of it.
I'm glad to find your site. I've been using colloidal silver for many years and I have my own machine. However I need to get some more diodes. Can you tell me where? Also I'm wondering if it can be made without electricity, just in case. Thanks
The website he mentioned in the article sells them.
I would think that you can create this without 110V, but you'd need DC in the form of batteries.
I was disappointed with CS when I used it on an infected place on my leg. I had had a mole removed which got infected so I started using the CS instead of going back to the doctor for an antibiotic cream. The infection steadily got worse and so after several days, I had to resort to an antibiotic cream which started working with one application. (My doctor laughed when I told her what I had used and chastised me big time which is typical.)
Years ago, babies were given a silver spoon and a silver cup at birth. Silverware was not just conspicuos consumption I suggest all of the above and/or sucking on a silver coin 30 minutes a day.
I have done some research on colloidal silver and while the benefits are real for 'nano-particles of silver', not so much for ion-particles. Most machines that use electricity are ion-generators. They make ionic silver particles. These are unstable as an electron is stripped off in the process. Upon ingesting, these particles will seek to stabilize by combining with other atoms, say a chlorine atom, which makes a silver chloride atom and is useless for medicinal purposes. I am not a chemist, but it appears that the silver ion-generators for sale are not the optimum way to get colloidal silver. Any comments or help out there?
So, true, big drug companies are putting out false info on colloidal silver, saying that it doesn’t work, or that you’ll turn gray or blue. Bologna, I’ve used it on and off for years and I’m still not blue. I think the best colloidal silver is from Advanced Silver company, but some other 10ppm ionic colloidal silvers are pretty good, too. According to Canadian health officials the ionic form is most effective, despite what the makers of higher PPM solutions claim. Stick with 10ppm and you’ll be fine.
When making CS, instead of using batteries, why not use a solar panel?
Also, what is the preferred voltage to use when making CS?
Would 250 volts work OK?
Thus the term biuebloods!
This article needs correction. Colloidal silver should not be clear, it should be light yellow. Let me explain here, colloidal silver is a metal colloid. This metal colloid has certain characteristics:
1. Size of the nanoparticles – properly manufactured colloidal silver should have nanoparticles which measure between 5 nm -100 nm.
2. Color – The color should be light yellow at a silver concentration of 15 ppm when the nanoparticles are at the lower side of the 5 nm-100 nm spectrum and the color changes to red when the nanoparticles either increase in size or in concentration. A 100 nm colloidal silver should look cloudy with some hint of red. A 20 nm colloidal silver should look cherry red at concentrations above 600 ppm.
3. Colloidal silver does not have the smallest nanoparticles of silver possible.
4. Home made colloidal silvers are partially colloidal because most of their nanoparticles of silver are either too small or too large. How can you tell? if the color and the ppm concentration does not fit the description I gave then they are not colloidal. Sorry but you are not making it colloidal, you are making nanosilver which has negative side effects. I explain more on point 5.
5. All colloidal silver is nano in size. the nano scale goes from 1 nm-1000 nm. So colloidal silver fits inside of it, but not all nanosilver products fit inside the colloidal scale of 5 nm-100 nm.
6. Smaller than 5 nm of nanosilver will cause problems in the long run, its called silver toxicity. Larger than 100 nm can cause Argyria, a permanent discoloration of the skin. Why are most people not having problems? because they are not using too much, but because there is a lack of scientific research on what happens after 10 or 20 years it is better to be safe than sorry.
7. Colloidal silver does not kill 650 different organisms, that attribute belongs to silver. NO, it is not the same, when we deal with nanomaterials, size matters and size affects the way the material behaves, so even if silver kills 650 different organisms, colloidal silver does not because its behavior is different than that of the bulk silver and it does not affect organisms the same way or at all for that matter.
8. Most manufacturers that sell their colloidal silver at natural stores and the internet Do Not Manufacture Colloidal Silver, they make nanosilver.
9. Colloidal silver is made of nanosized particles of silver which remain suspended because they all have the same charge and repel each other and that force is greater than gravity’s pull so they stay suspended. This also means that properly manufactured colloidal silver is in fact an ionic solution (see 10).
10. A silver ion is a cation. If colloidal silver has charged nanoparticles of silver then by definition it is ionic. So when marketers say their colloidal silver is ionic and not colloidal or particulate, they don’t know what they are saying and they are lying to you.
So, by now you are wondering what companies really make colloidal silver. Well, I know of 3, Nanocomposix, Sigma Aldrich and Silver Living Tech. There might be more but I am aware of only those. These companies all make laboratory grade colloidal silver but only the last one sells it as a mineral supplement besides selling it to laboratories.
We all want to blame Big Pharma for why colloidal silver lost its OTC status but it was partly Big Pharma’s fault and partly the manufacturers of colloidal silver playing scientist trying to make something without following any guidelines.
I am sure some of those manufacturers made it because they wanted to help give people a good product, but they did not know what they were making, and others probably just wanted to get rich.
So again, this article should include everything I have said here because it is lacking a lot of information.
That article is not about colloidal silver, it is about a nanosilver product which people call colloidal silver. Let me explain here, colloidal silver is a metal colloid. This metal colloid has certain characteristics:
1. Size of the nanoparticles – properly manufactured colloidal silver should have nanoparticles which measure between 5 nm -100 nm.
2. Color – The color should be light yellow at a silver concentration of 15 ppm when the nanoparticles are at the lower side of the 5 nm-100 nm spectrum and the color changes to red when the nanoparticles either increase in size or in concentration. A 100 nm colloidal silver should look cloudy with some hint of red. A 20 nm colloidal silver should look cherry red at concentrations above 600 ppm.
3. Colloidal silver does not have the smallest nanoparticles of silver possible.
4. Home made colloidal silvers are partially colloidal because most of their nanoparticles of silver are either too small or too large. How can you tell? if the color and the ppm concentration does not fit the description I gave then they are not colloidal. Sorry but you are not making it colloidal, you are making nanosilver which has negative side effects. I explain more on point 5.
5. All colloidal silver is nano in size. the nano scale goes from 1 nm-1000 nm. So colloidal silver fits inside of it, but not all nanosilver products fit inside the colloidal scale of 5 nm-100 nm.
6. Smaller than 5 nm of nanosilver will cause problems in the long run, its called silver toxicity. Larger than 100 nm can cause Argyria, a permanent discoloration of the skin. Why are most people not having problems? because they are not using too much, but because there is a lack of scientific research on what happens after 10 or 20 years it is better to be safe than sorry.
7. Colloidal silver does not kill 650 different organisms, that attribute belongs to silver. NO, it is not the same, when we deal with nanomaterials, size matters and size affects the way the material behaves, so even if silver kills 650 different organisms, colloidal silver does not because its behavior is different than that of the bulk silver and it does not affect organisms the same way or at all for that matter.
8. Most manufacturers that sell their colloidal silver at natural stores and the internet Do Not Manufacture Colloidal Silver, they make nanosilver.
9. Colloidal silver is made of nanosized particles of silver which remain suspended because they all have the same charge and repel each other and that force is greater than gravity’s pull so they stay suspended. This also means that properly manufactured colloidal silver is in fact an ionic solution (see 10).
10. A silver ion is a cation. If colloidal silver has charged nanoparticles of silver then by definition it is ionic. So when marketers say their colloidal silver is ionic and not colloidal or particulate, they don’t know what they are saying and they are lying to you.
So, by now you are wondering what companies really make colloidal silver. Well, I know of 3, Nanocomposix, Sigma Aldrich and Silver Living Tech. There might be more but I am aware of only those. These companies all make laboratory grade colloidal silver but only the last one sells it as a mineral supplement besides selling it to laboratories.
Hi Rene, have you heard of Utopia brand?
It is not the nano silver particles that cause problems, as those are the ones that easily pass easiest through the body. The guy that turned blue actually applied Silver Chloride in a lotion to his face, in addition to drinking gallons of it every week. I believe there are about 5 people in the world who have turned blue – probably because they used salt to speed up the process. Compare that to deaths from pharmaceuticals and it is a joke to use this as a reason not to make your own silver. One important thing to consider when making your own is you ***MUST*** stir your mixture, either with a fish tank pump (using the bubbles to stir), a coffee pot heater, or find a way to use a small motor. I tore a motor out of a CD player and make a prop from a zip tie and small ‘glue tube needle’ but a bent piece of small diameter hose or wire insulator would probably work fine. I use a 1.5 volt battery to power it. I use a 9 volt DC generator for the silver generation part on two halves of a .999 silver wafer, spaced about 1 inch apart. Silver wire is nice, but most places charge over inflated prices for it. NEVER use salt to prime the process – use an ounce of old colloidal silver, or you can use a teaspoon of lemon juice. If it turns slightly yellow you probably cooked it too long, so adjust cooking time for next batch. You can still use it, but ideally it should be clear. You can test for the presence of nano silver by placing a laser through the mixture you should see what is called a Tyndall effect – meaning you should see a faint laser trace in the solution (you don’t need to do this if you don’t have a laser pointer). 9 -10 volts should take about 10 hours to cook one pint/liter depending on water temp as general rule. Since taking about a tablespoon once a day (or less, since i forget some days) i have not had a cold or flu in over 3 years – that is not normal for me. It also speeds healing on cuts I’ve used it on, including nearly taking the tip of my finger off with a potato peeler – i can’t even see a scar now. It is totally non-toxic, so start making your own.
9999 purity UL-certified silver rods are available. I personally use 2 eight-inch 7-gauge rods, which are rather thick.
This is supposed to be a good thing?? Governments and biotech companies taking natural elements, patenting them and after awhile essentially limiting anyone’s ability to cure their own disease via some chemistry knowledge?? They will bottle it up and sell for 10k a treatment!!! YAaaaaa human progress!!!
This appeal to authority that most Americans have is absurd. Wherein only when corrupt, bureaucratic government agencies, bought off scientists, and paid up media tells them nature cures and heals us, they become true believers!!
The same scientists who shut down free energey, the same bureaucratic system that harasses anyone outside of Big Pharma. Stockholm syndrome.
So where can we purchase this unit…?