Colloidal Silver Benefits: The Truth About Colloidal Silver
Food as Medicine
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.
Agreed, colloidal silver is completely safe.
To see colloidal silver in action, go to YouTube, search for “colloidal silver milk test”.
Video shows the major difference between effectiveness of solid silver and colloidal silver.
And its true, Silver is so safe that newborn babies are traditionally given silver spoons and cups, just like wealthy families traditionally use silver ware, it all started for a reason, reducing number of microbes with silver ions. Carter is correct, Advanced Silver Company is a great one.
I’m not going to knock anyones silver products, but I will tell you the truth about my experiments….I have made pretty good looking “Ionic Silver” and I feel that it contains some levels of Silver Particles in addition to the normal Ionic Silver as produced with home made generators…….here why…..3 tbls of fresh milk, into four individual glass containers then added 1 tsp to three of them, leaving one with fresh milk only. Plus I added the same amount 1 tsp of my products to Commercial Meso, 1 tsp to Asap10 silver purchased on the internet, and finally 1 tsp of my home made silver to the last container of milk. Results: The “Meso milk” with my home made silver in it, expired (curdled) in 2 days, the Commercial grade Asap10 “Silver milk” with my silver product expired (curdled) in 3 days,..Test after test, proved the following: my first batches of Ionic Silver lasted 10 days before expiring, second batch test under same condition lasted 14 days and the last batch tested under same conditions, lasted a full 18 days before the millk finally curdled..The controlled experiment was set in “covered “glass containers sealed from the atmosphere to prevent contamination, thoroughly washed and finally flushed with distilled water before filling, and left in dark area of a room inside the house where temperatures never varied more that a few degree day or night. I was
able to conduct some of the local tests that were mentioned, and the following is the results: For what its worth, I did the salt crystals test where small crystals of salt are dropped into about an ounce of each product after it had been allowed to settle for about 2 days, Then I conducted a test on all three finished products using this method to test for presents of “silver particles” in each finished batch. All three batches produce excellent curls of smoke with only a few crystal of table salt, which in time completely clouded the products. Next, I performed the Colloidal (Tyndall) light test on each, and all three samples had “strong searchlight quality Tyndall effects”. Finally, I performed the Red Laser light beam test on all three, 1st one @ 18ppm (with darkened but clear color) has a very thick and bright trace with no sparklers….the 2nd one (even darker but still very clear color) has a moderately thick and equally bright trace with no sparklers, and the last product tested was “pure” crystal clear and has a very light thin trace with no sparklers, the first two showed a “darkish but very clear effect” yet were very clear, while the last one was pure water color clear and 25 ppm, after products left sitting in a dark corner for about 2 days, 1st one settled out at 18 ppm, second one 23 ppm & last clearest one read 25 ppm. …Note: All three of my home made Ionic silver solutions out performed the two “commercial grade” silver products ……..by Days.
Take it for what its worth…if you want to know my method and systems for developing these silver samples…it was while using an ac/dc 12v power supply, keeping a “constant low amps” and not allowing the solution to exceed 14-20 Watts of power. It mattered not about the voltage, but the Low current flow and keeping the Wattage between 14-20 watts produced all three samples, some ran longer than other, but all seem to support an excellent product of Ionic Silver w/a small amount of Metallic Silver particles. …My guess is that the Ionic solutions run between 5nm – 50nm? I would love to get these samples tested by Colloidal Science Laboratory Inc. any questions?
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Hello and thank you for your experiments. I recently bought a kit to make my own silver product with distilled water. I read that many of the kits you buy online do not produce a true colloidal silver. The product it produces is ionic and the ionic is not as good as the true. I just would like to know if what I am making is a useful product for my family. I am not trying to sell it to make money. I have done some research and it just gets more and more confusing. It seems some of the products I bought before making my own are horrible. Some don’t even contain silver or are made by mixing water with a silver protein. I got the machine sold on eBay that has the 2 silver rods and it plugs in. I filter it out and store it in the amber glass that the kit came with. Do you think I am on the right track.
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.
Just get 2 .9999 percent silver pieces from a place that sells precious metals.
Get a glass of deonized water and insert the two pieces in opposite sides of the glass. Shape the pieces like a candy cane, J shape, so that they can hang on the glass and stick into the water. Get a 9 volt battery and get two pieces of wire hooked to alligator clips.
Clip one side + to one silver wire and the other – side to the other wire. The attraction of negative to positive will put colloidal silver into the water.
The best way is to put silver into the soil where you grow your home grown food. The plants will absorb the silver mineral. You eat the food and the silver will gradient into the stomach.
That is the way it is supose to be, but our soils are so depleted of minerals we do not get all the nutrients we need.
9999 purity UL-certified silver rods are available. I personally use 2 eight-inch 7-gauge rods, which are rather thick.
The reasons that colloidal silver is not being used in vaccines is because it will cure lots of health problems.
Beside the government needs to get rid of their mercury waste and they do not care who they hurt.
Once the populace finds out how effective colloidal silver is, it would become the front runner in American health care. Big pharma cannot afford to let this information get well known, for it would put them out of business.
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.
A small Utah biotech company created a very different type of silver colloid almost 20 years ago. Instead of ionic silver in suspension, their very high voltage process (80,000 volts AC) bonds pure elemental silver nanoparticles to the water molecules. They are extremely stable and will never settle out. This also is far more bioavailable than conventional silver colloids. The process now has two US Patents, and the actual silver particle now has its own US Patent.
This is the only silver colloid manufacturer that has performed extensive safety and effectivity studies. There are now over 300 university, government/military and independent laboratory and clinical research documents demonstrating its safety and effectiveness. Some of those peer reviewed and published documents can be read here http://www.lifesilver.com/v1/studies.htm . Pretty impressive stuff. Two to three times more effective than conventional low voltage produced ionic colloids.
Viridis BioPharma, in Mumbai , India, discovered, in human testing, that these products also do not harm intestinal probiotics, so no probiotic supplementation is necessary (see the published study at above link). Poorly made, larger particle ionic colloids will indeed enter the lower gastrointestinal tract and wreck havoc on the natural gut flora.
Properly made low voltage ionic silver preparations are better than no silver, but nano-catalytic silver hydrosols are head and shoulders superior. Nano-catalytic silver hydrosol is the name that the Penn State University Materials Science lab team gave this new solution during their 4 year study of it. That peer reviewed and published study is also available at the above link.
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?
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…?
I just started making my own Colloidal silver. A 9volt battery works well and I read that the designer of NASA s water purification for the ISS felt as low as 0.9volts could be used also. So, I took some of the 5ppm Cs that I had made with a 9volt and put it my system again only powered it with a 1.2volt Lithium cell this time . He was right!!!!! It took about 30 hours but I was able to upgrade the 5ppm Colloidal silver to 20ppm .
2 Troy ounces of .999 Fine Silver will make about 1500 gallons @ 10 ppm as far as I know . 473ml sells for around $38 in my area so one bottle covers the cost of the 2 oz of silver
My daughter contracted molluscum from dirty gym mats when she was 5. The Dr said it will take 7+ years for it to play-out and go away. We purchased a CS Generator and dabbed Silver on the lesions, within 2 months all signs and lesions of the Molluscum where gone.
Thus the term biuebloods!
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?
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.
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?
Could not find the machine that you said that you purchased.
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 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.)
That's what happens when you go to a female doctor, never ever would I have a female doctor.
Men doctors are Just as Stupid!
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 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.