by Agnes Itara

In the form of a highly pure colloidal solution, silver is a very effective and simple natural remedy against many ailments, especially infections. It was used for this purpose long before penicillin and sulphur-based medicines, which only appeared during the Second World War.

One of the most remarkable things about colloidal silver is that it has an extremely broad spectrum of applications and uses. The reason? Unlike synthetic drugs, its biological action is targeted at the cellular structure level.

The therapeutic and disinfectant virtues of silver have been known since antiquity, and it was highly prized in ancient Egypt and Babylon. In turn, the famous physician and alchemist Paracelsus used it as a secret ingredient in remedies against infections.

It is also a known fact that in the Middle Ages, when Europe was ravaged by plague epidemics, these ravaged mainly the peasantry and impoverished townspeople, while the nobility and aristocracy remained untouched. For a long time it was thought that the latter enjoyed special protection, when in fact it was silver that kept them safe from the terrible disease. This is because the aristocrats’ water and wine were kept in silver vessels, and they routinely used silver plates, cutlery and glasses.

During the last century, American pioneers used to put a silver dollar in a bucket of fresh milk to slow down its souring process.

Nowadays, silver’s disinfectant properties are used in unexpected areas: silver filters can be found in the water supplies of airplanes and spacecraft to guarantee germ-free water. On the Mir space station, silver is used to sterilise recycled water. Silver is also used to replace chlorine in swimming pools because it has a stronger germicidal action than chlorine and does not have the odour and other unpleasant effects of chlorine.

Despite years of research to find a superior pharmaceutical product, colloidal silver is still considered the most effective way to fight germs and heal severe burns quickly.

While a conventional pharmaceutical antibiotic is effective against six or seven types of germs and totally ineffective against viruses, most often causing unwanted side effects, silver is lethal to more than 650 types of bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, but is not toxic to the human body. Laboratory tests have shown that colloidal silver kills most bacteria, fungi, parasites and viruses within 2-6 minutes of contact.

Colloidal state, a natural state

Colloidal silver can be defined as a solution of extremely fine particles (0.01 micron) of pure silver suspended in water, which makes it very easy for the body to assimilate.

The colloidal state is not an unusual, artificial physico-chemical state, but is as natural and natural as possible. Our blood is in a colloidal state. All minerals in fresh fruit and vegetables are in a colloidal state. In order for the body to be able to absorb and use minerals and nutrients, they must be in a colloidal state.

Most synthetic drugs are in an inorganic, crystallised state, specific to inert, dead matter. Once in the body, they need to be brought into a colloidal state before they can be used, a process that requires additional energy and leaves residues that need to be removed. Colloidal silver has the advantage that it is assimilated directly by the body and is used in its entirety, leaving no residues.

What is electrocolloidal ionic silver?

Electrocolloidal ionic silver is an entirely natural substance, being pure elemental silver in its atomic state, suspended in water. It is obtained by a special electrical process, quite different from the usual hydrolysis process, high voltage arcing (which ‘breaks up’ small slivers of metal in a very short time but does not colloidise it) or chemical methods using silver salts or other chemical compounds. Colloidal ionic silver uses extremely low and gentle voltage current, whichextracts silver ions from a fine silver electrode, 99.99% pure, into a liquid, the most suitable being pure distilled water. So electrocolloidal silver is both colloidal and ionic.

The submicroscopic size of silver ions – they are thousands of times smaller than a human blood cell – allows them to easily enter and exit cells, promoting germicidal action. This action is also favoured by the ionic properties of colloidal silver, as suggested by numerous biological studies. Silver ions have a positive electrical charge, and their electrical charge is very important for their action in the human body, which is bioelectric by nature.

How does colloidal ionic silver work?

To understand how electrocolloidal silver works, we need to understand the disease state. The human body encounters pathogens and other foreign entities all the time. When the body is healthy, it maintains an optimal pH level and an oxygen-rich environment. The pH inside cells is normally alkaline, 7.2 – 7.4. However, when a being does not maintain a healthy environment in the body, the intracellular pH begins to drop. This lowers the cell’s electrical potential, and in response, oxygen levels drop. Pathogens in the body will attack the weakened cells and take up residence there. Disease-inducing organisms that attack these weakened cells can no longer survive in healthy cells that recover and have an intracellular fluid pH above 6.9 again. Positive electrical charge plays an important role in the pH recovery process.

When they reach areas of infection, the trillions of silver ions in an electrocolloidal state, each with a positive electrical charge, alter the electromagnetic environment and correct the cellular electrical potential.
By the electricity it brings into the body, electrocolloidal silver is also a key catalyst in the production of oxygen and other nutrients needed by cells. Disease-inducing organisms cannot survive in an oxygen-rich environment, so they simply die and are then eliminated.

Thus, the therapeutic action of positive silver ions is not narrowly targeted, being valid only in certain diseases, as is the case with most synthetic drugs, but is a universal action, specific to the cellular structure. This explains why electrocolloidal silver has such a broad spectrum of action.

Scientific research has shown that when positively charged silver ions are present, electromagnetic energy is created in and around cells. Pathogens are thus ‘deactivated’ and a remarkable rejuvenation of tissues occurs. Silver balances the complex molecular life of the body’s various systems and helps to heal quickly, whenever needed.

Where the bioelectric flow has been altered due to various toxins, restoring a normal electrical flow allows the body to detoxify and the body’s electromagnetic field is restored. The DNA in each cell is restored to an optimal functioning state by the flow of electromagnetic energy, which has a profound regenerative effect on the tissues.

Pain and disease result from a disruption of the biocurrent that normally flows through the body at a voltage of 50 to 70 millivolts. Silver ions act as a superconductor that bridges electrical ‘holes’ and restores electrical potential at the cellular level, allowing healthy current flow to exist. When the electromagnetic body is restored, it allows oxygen and essential nutrients to enter cells and support normal cellular life.

We can say that colloidal silver is a kind of independent mobile battery, whose particles move through the body, restoring the life force everywhere they go.

In a sip of water energised with colloidal ionic silver, there are trillions of silver ions. Following ingestion, there is an overall increase in the body’s positive electrical energy, allowing oxygen and other nutrients to more easily enter cells, where they optimise cell functions and trigger detoxification processes. Research by American doctor Robert Becker has also shown that silver has the effect of restoring negatively charged cancer cells to their normal state of healthy cells.

Therapeutic value of colloidal silver

Scientific research has shown that colloidal silver is effective and active in treating many important diseases: microbial, fungal, parasitic and viral infections of the skin, sensory organs, digestive, respiratory and urinary tracts, autoimmune diseases, burns, wounds, ulcers and even cancer.

In some medical research centres it has been prescribed as an adjuvant in the treatment of diseases of the female reproductive and circulatory systems, as well as for the effective treatment of infectious complications caused by the HIV virus. It has also been used as a treatment for thyroid disorders, childhood diseases, sleepwalking and anorexia nervosa.

All of which prompted Dr. Bob Beck to make the following statement, “Without exaggeration, perhaps it’s time to recognize that colloidal silver is not only the safest medicine on earth, but also the most powerful!”

How can colloidal silver water be used?

Colloidal silver solution can be used in several ways, depending on the location of the condition to be treated: orally (ingested or drunk); inhaled as a very fine vapour; as an enema; vaginally, sprayed topically or added to enemas; as drops in the eyes, ears and nose or applied topically to the skin (with a spray bottle or solution-soaked bandages).

The dose also depends on the intended purpose. For general health maintenance as well as for strengthening the immune system, 3 tablespoons per day is sufficient, which is considered a “nutritious” dose. Colloidal silver can also be used successfully as a general cleansing and detoxifying cure.

In the case of severe conditions and chronic diseases, the dose should be adjusted according to the body’s reaction, under the guidance of a competent doctor. In general, anything over 5 tablespoons per day is considered a ‘therapeutic’ dose.

There are no side effects of colloidal silver therapy because it is not toxic and does not affect the liver, kidneys or any other organ of the body. Colloidal silver does not interact with any other medicines or remedies.

Because it does not work as a classical antibiotic, silver does not affect the beneficial flora in the digestive tract. Like any other natural product such as garlic or ginger, silver actually aids the digestive process. So no “probiotic” supplements are needed when it is used. There is also no danger of silver accumulating in the body as it is naturally eliminated within three days, as expert tests show. Due to the fact that the silver particle in colloidal ionic silver is nano-sized, it is impossible for it to be filtered and retained by the body.

What does allopathic medicine say?

In 1999, the FDA banned silver-based drugs due to strange side effects caused by over-consumption of silver salts or nitrates, a disease called Argyria, as Fuchs called it in 1840. It consists of the skin turning a bluish-grey colour due to silver deposits (silver nitrate was used in cases of epilepsy and tabes doeralis, imbalances of the nervous system). In view of this fact, the spokesmen of allopathic medicine have publicly condemned colloidal silver preparations, claiming that colloidal silver has this side effect.

To shed light on the case, the Metabolic Solutions Institute writes a report on excessive silver consumption and colloidal silver: “Argyria is a pigment discoloration that occurs with excessive silver consumption. The estimated amount needed to develop this disease is 3.8 grams per day. As for electrocolloidal silver, measuring the quality considered to be standard, 10ppm, the amount of silver is less than one milligram.” Dr Alexander G. Schnauss, Director of Life Division, John Hopkins University, author of the best-selling book “MINERALS, TRACE ELEMENTS AND HUMAN HEALTH”

Also although it is claimed that the FDA has banned silver and colloidal silver drugs together, in a letter published on 3 November 1999 the FDA says that the AERS (Adverse Event Reporting System) has no record of any adverse reactions to colloidal silver, which has been reported to the Center for Drug Evaluation and Testing.

In the meantime, testimonies about the surprising effects, often considered miraculous, of colloidal silver are growing. Even though this product is most often distributed as a “food nutrient”, some official organisations of several governments (Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Israel) have given their consent to the use of colloidal silver (Ag) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as a water disinfectant in amounts prescribed by the World Health Organisation (MLC – maximum content up to 80ppb-100ppb), according to the study by Stuart Thomson, director of the Gaia Research Institute.

In summary, colloidal silver is a powerful immune system supporter and strengthener, and its power lies in giving the body what it needs to heal itself!