Ode, Marshall,
Please comment.
Jim
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Norton, Steve <[email protected]>wrote:
> I came across this at the Earth Clinic site and thought it might be of
> interest.
>
> - Steve N
>
>
> http://www.earthclinic.com/Supplements/colloidal_silver_questions.html
>
> "Ted from Bangkok, Thailand replies: "Agyria is a common problem with
> using a straight batch of colloidal silver, often the skin is not really
> blue, it is closer to gray color. The problem occurs when a free silver
> ions react with the sulfur in your body to from AgS, or silver sulfide.
> Most colloidal silver produced are actually either a nonreactive Ag or a
> reactive Ag with a charge, then it reacts with the body's available
> sulfur to cause a "blue skin", more more accurately is "gray skin".
>
> This problem can be prevented, which I solved over a decade ago, which
> required that a couple of drops of hydrogen peroxide is added to a liter
> of colloidal silver. The peroxide, reacts with the FREE silver ions to
> form Silver Oxide. When I first add this, I get a cloudly solution, and
> after three days, this cloudy solution becomes a clear white transparent
> water. However, an unreacted Ag or Silver in a solution will show itself
> is a faint yellow transparent solution. So this ia an easy way to tell.
> If you add a drop of H2O2 into this it becomes cloudy. However, if the
> solution is Silver oxide, it won't become cloudy as there is no longer
> any "free" silver ions. When they are no longer free, it won't react
> with the body's sulfur to form silver oxide. Hence, if a hydrogen
> peroxide, at least, is added to the colloidal silver you buy, the silver
> is no longer free, and the condition of blue skin or gray skin or agyria
> is prevented.
>
> However, there is ANOTHER way, that DOES NOT REQUIRE you to wait for
> three days to fully digest the free Silver. When I make a batch of
> colloidal silver, using the silver wire or silver rods as an electrode
> using any D.C. adapter, the BEGINNING solution is distilled water with a
> 0.5% H2O2 concentration, which is 1/2 percent H2O2 concentration, or
> approximate amount such as one tablespoon (plastic spoons!) of 3% H2O2
> in a 1 or 1.5 liter of colloidal silver is generally sufficient, to
> prevent any free metal silver form occuring.
>
> It should be noted that a silver oxide may have a better antibacterial
> properties and less staining problems then the use of pure silver. So in
> practice, the use of COLLOIDAL SILVER OXIDE, is the one I actually use
> and relatively problem free. For example, if a free silver has too much
> charges, I have noted that constipation occurs if taken too much of
> colloidal silver with FREE SILVER, but this doesn't happen (within
> reason such as NOT DRINKING liters of it!) if a COLLOIDAL silver oxide
> is prepared."
>
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