Silver Kills Bacteria, Fungus, Viruses

Documented scientific and specific use of  silver began in the late 1800’s and continued extensively through the 1920’s. Prior to 1938, colloidal silver was considered to be one of the mainstays of antibiotic treatment.

The March 1978 issue of Science Digest, in an article, “Our Mightiest Germ Fighter,” reported: “Thanks to eye-opening research, silver is emerging as a wonder of modern medicine. An antibiotic kills perhaps a half-dozen different disease organisms, but silver kills some 650. Resistant strains fail to develop. Moreover, silver is virtually non-toxic.” The article ended with a quote by Dr. Harry Margraf, a biochemist and pioneering silver researcher who worked with the late Carl Moyer, M.D., chairman of Washington University’s Department of Surgery in the 1970s: “Silver is the best all-around germ fighter we have.”

Silver has long been recognized in recorded history (as early as 69 B.C.) as having germicidal properties. In the days before refrigeration, farmers tossed a silver coin in a bucket of milk to preserve it. Chemists put silver dimes in Petri dishes to sterilize them. For many years, it was common practice to place silver wires and threads around infected wounds that refused to heal.

The return of silver in medicine began in the 1970s. While studying regeneration of limbs, spinal cords and organs, Robert O. Becker, M.D., author of The Body Electric, discovered that silver ions promote bone growth and kill surrounding bacteria.

Also in the 70s, Dr. Carl Moyer, chairman of Washington University’s Department of Surgery, received a grant to develop better treatment for burn victims. His team worked to find a strong antibiotic that would be safe enough to use over large areas of the body. Reviewing medical literature, they found repeated references to silver. It was described as being a catalyst that disabled the enzymes which microorganisms depended on to “breathe”, consequently, the microorganisms died. Dr. Moyer’s team diluted silver nitrate and found that it killed the pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria and allowed wounds to heal. Resistant strains did not appear. But this silver nitrate dilution was far from ideal so they kept looking into other preparations of silver. As a result of this and other researchers’ efforts, hundreds of important new medical uses for silver were found.

The presence of colloidal silver near a virus, fungus, bacterium or any other single celled pathogen disables its oxygen metabolism enzyme. Within a few minutes, the pathogen suffocates and dies, and is cleared out of the body by the immune, lymphatic and elimination systems. Unlike pharmaceutical antibiotics, which destroy beneficial enzymes, colloidal silver leaves these tissue-cell enzymes intact, as they are radically different from the enzymes of primitive single-celled life.

Coloidal silver is mostly fine particles of silver, whereas ionic silver is predominantly silver ions with a small amount of silver particles. You can make your own ionic silver at home using silver rods and a few batteries, or you can buy a colloidal silver maker which is basically the same thing.

There have been a few cases of argyria reported by people using extreme amounts of silver, this is a condition that causes the skin to turn blue.
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