95 Colloidal Silver Uses

Sir Malcom Morris reported in the British Medical Journal of May 12, 1917, even earlier that colloidal silver is free from the drawbacks of other preparations of silver, viz. the pain caused and the discoloration of the skin. Instead of producing irritation it has a distriinctly soothing effect. It rapidly subdues inflammation and promotes the healing of the lesions. 

 

Dr. Robert Becker mentioned the use of silver electrodes and silver ions in his book The Body Electric to cure a broken femur which was not healing because of an infection.

"In preliminary tests we found that silver electrodes, when made electrically positive, would kill all types of bacteria in a zone about a half inch in diameter, apparently because of positive silver ions driven into the culture by the applied voltage. This was an exciting discovery because no single antibiotic worked against all types of bacteria". (Becker 165)

During his experiments he tried silver, platinum, gold, stainless steel, and copper electrodes, using a wide range of currents, on four disparate kinds of bacteria, including Staphylococcus auerus, one of the commonest and most troublesome. (Becker 166)

Doctor Becker concludes saying that all the metals worked but silver was the best one of all, not causing any side effects nor damaging any living cells and only with a small electric current. (Becker 167)

In Sweden, Dr. Bjorn Nordenstrom had great success reducing the size of malignant tumors by passing an electric current through silver needles inserted into the malignant tumor.

 

In his second book, Cross Currents, Dr. Becker again mentions the use of silver with the following remarks:

The electrically generated silver ion was doing something more than killing bacteria--it was also causing major growth stimulation of tissues in the wound.

When we finally tracked down exactly what was happening, we found that as human fibroblast cells (which are common throughout the body) were exposed to the electrically generated silver ions, they dedifferentiated. They were then able to multiply at a great rate, producing large numbers of primitive, embryonic cells in the wound even in patients over fifty years of age. These "uncommitted" cells were then able to differentiate into whatever cell types were needed to heal the wound. So what we were in fact doing was turning on regeneration in human tissues, which I thought we would never be able to do.

In our previous studies of regeneration, we had found that in human beings only bone-marrow cells could dedifferentiate. Because there were so few such cells, we thought that any regeneration in human beings (other than fracture healing) was impossible. The dedifferentiation of the abundant fibroblast cells by electrically generated silver ions may provide us with the means to restore regeneration to human patients.