Colloidal Silver Uses
According to past and modern research colloidal silver, also known as charged nanoparticles of silver or silver ions, have multiple uses. Colloidal silver is an excellent germicidal agent and an excellent cellular-regeneration promoter. There are more than 95 documented different uses for colloidal silver. Before 1938, colloidal silver was considered the best silver base germicide available. With the discovery of antibiotics (which were cheaper to produce) and other world events, colloidal silver became forgotten. In the last 20 years it has made a come back, but there are too many manufacturers making incorrect claims, making the wrong product.
Silver is a powerful antibiotic because it acts as a catalyst, disabling the particular enzyme that many bacteria, fungus, and viruses use for their metabolism. The disease causing organism either starve or suffocate, for many others their internal protoplast collapse if their bodily charge is opposite to the silver particles, and still others are unable to reproduce themselves. Yet the silver particles, if kept withing the colloidal limits, do not harm the human or animal host.
Super Tyndall Effect colloidal silver is virtually tasteless and does not sting sensitive tissues, infacts included, and does not upset the stomach. Super Tyndall Effect contains no stabilizer, no other detectable minerals, is not a compound, but consists ONLY of silver ion particles (5 nm - 100 nm negatively charged) and injectable quality distilled-purified water. Super Tyndall Effect colloidal silver is manufactured in the original Pre-1938 process, yet at a fraction of the cost of the time. Pre-1938 potency standard listed colloidal silver as high as 500 part per million; but scientist of that period still diluted the product 10, 20, even 50 times in order to gain the optimum level. The very best or optimum level of a colloid of silver appeared to be yellow or a light golden color.
The following information explains how colloidal silver charged nanoparticles act as an antiviral, bactericide and how they promote cellular regeneration.
Antiviral
In viruses nanoparticles of colloidal silver are size dependant. One way silver nanoparticles might work as antiviral agents is by inhibiting the binding of the virus to the host cells such as is the case of HIV-1 (Click here for study).
It has been noted silver ions rendering dysfunctional certain actuator molecules. An example that is fairly easy to explain is the following: When silver ions catalyze a phosphate 'b' actuator molecule, (an organic actuator molecule that normally opens and closes a virus' orifice through which it injects an RNA strand into a host organism, causing the host to produce a new generation of viruses) the actuator becomes dysfunctional and will not open the orifice, making it impossible for the virus to inject the RNA strand into the host. The reproductive cycle of the virus is broken because it cannot induce the host to produce new offspring.
Bactericide
Colloidal silver shows highly potent antibacterial activity toward both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. This condition may be due to its accumulation in the bacterial membrane.
Colloidal Silver ions interact with both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria in the following ways:
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The colloidal silver ions interact with sulfhydryl (-SH) groups of proteins which inhibit bacterial respiration.
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The colloidal silver ions interact with bases of DNA. This interactions leads to the inhibition of DNA unwinding.
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The colloidal silver ions act inhibiting cell division and cause damage to bacterial cell envelopes.
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The colloidal silver ions interact with hydrogen bonding processes in the bacteria.
Cellular Regeneration
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 distinctly 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.