I've been using colloidal silver for around 30 years, I always buy the.high quality brands that reduce the silver particles to nano size. The people who become ill from silver are the idiots who put two silver rods into water connected to a battery stripping off visibly large particles and then ingesting the silver water. A basic rule of thumb regarding colloidal silver is that if you can see the silver in the water its way too much to ingest. Proper silver solution is made in laboratories equipped to produce nano sized silver particles suspended in purified water not in somebody's basement with two silver rods connected to a battery in a fish tank of tap water. Silver has been used to prevent bacterial infections for millennia, its how the practice of throwing coins into water wells began, silver coins were used to purify water. The water recycling apparatus in the international space station and shuttle crafts use silver water filters. Tableware is made from silver because of it's antibacterial properties. Only use the highest quality laboratory produced nano sized silver in moderate quantity and you're good to go. If you use the low grade silver solution made with a 12 volt battery, two silver rods and a fish tank of water you are asking to be poisoned. You have to be brain dead to drink so much silver your skin turns blue, too much of any good thing goes bad at some point.
Maternity ward doctors flush the eyes of newborn infants with colloidal silver solution to prevent blindness caused by potential venereal diseases carried by the mother.
Thank you for the beautiful and informative pesentation. It adds a depth of understanding to the past and present usage of one of many natural healing modalities.
It is especially interesting in the sense that it was used since antiquity but in a crude way, unmeasured and lacking knowledge of the consequences of overdose. And, according to your report, it is in common daily usage by the accepted standards of the medical professions that prevail at this time, namely infant eye washes. And, one might wonder why in today's world of highly complex drugs and pharmaceuticals, they choose to fall back on an old standard. The reason simply is that it works quite efficiently with no side effects, especially on an organism so sensitive as a newborn child.
It is worth noting that many ot today's drugs have their origin in crude and primitive ancestral remedies. How our ancestors even understood their healing capacities is a testament to their innate wisdom, understanding and intuition.
It is worth noting that many drugs have their source in plant-based, mineral and animal origins. To name a few:
Paclitaxel (drug used in lung and breast cancer, stops cell division and cancer cell growth. Derived from the yew tree)
Morphine (derived from the poppy of the papaver somniferum plant -- obvious mandatory pain killer used in surgery and for severe pain)
Artemisinin (a modern maleria drug used by Chinese medicine 2000 years ago and far more effective and having now replaced the drug Chloroquinine, in most cases)
Metformin (derived from iliac, used by millions for diabetes)
Aspirin (derived from the willow tree, the compound salicin, for pain and inflammation)
Digitalis (derived from the foxgloves plants, strengthens contractions of the heart)