Colloidal silver! miracle or myth?

Question

I'm trying to determine how to judge the parts per million(ppm) using time, voltage, surface area of the silver rods and the amount of water

Answer 1

Colloidal silver is a colloid of silver particles in water. It has antimicrobial properties and is used on external wounds and burns to prevent infection. It is also claimed by some to be a beneficial nutritional supplement and to be a powerful antibiotic. The ingestion of colloidal silver in large quantities or over a long period of time carries a high risk of argyria, a condition in which the skin turns permanently blue-gray

Colloidal silver can be used to keep drinkable water potable over a long period. It is also used externally for health benefits.

Silver has been used as a topical antiseptic for minor burns for more than 100 years High concentrations of colloidal silver kill bacteria and the topical, or external, use of colloidal silver to kill microbes is well established. Though colloidal silver was a prescribed treatment in the U.S. Navy's corpsman's manual until 1973, the use of colloidal silver as an ingested medication remains controversial.

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Answer 2

DISASTER.

Do NOT take colloidal silver. The origin of the myth that it will help you lies in Magical Theory; the concept is the Silver is supposed to be the ultimate in magically pure metals, and so it will supposedly magically cure you of anything that is wrong with you.

WRONG. Your body does not have any need for silver; no bodily process uses it, no biological molecule or enzyme or protein needs it, and the body does not know how to excrete it, so it winds up in your internal organs and skin. At best repeated use will turn your skin gray for the rest of your life. At worst the impurities in the shoddy products contaminated with other metals and toxins will poison you to death.

The skin condition is known as Argyria:

http://homepages.together.net/~rjstan/

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/silverad.html

http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic595.htm

Throw away the machinery, cash in the sliver bar for money, go to a real doctor.

(For your use, I am a Pagan, so if anyone were likely to believe in the possibility of magic it would be someone like me. BUT, I am also am rationalist, and someone who knows how to do her research, and who keeps her mind open but not so open that her brains fall out. I pay attention when something is judged dangerous, instead of proceeding onward with wishful thinking. Think for yourself, and live!)