Posted on 06/21/2013 9:02:11 PM PDT by neverdem
the effect is permanent...
Same can be said about that “death” thingie..
Choose your poison!
Old idea. 40 years ago we used to use silver nitrate on burns: but it did make a mess (turned everything black). Now we use Silvadene instead.
The problem is that you can’t just drink it and expect it to work.
And if you take too much of it, your skin turns grey (not dangerous, but ugly).
You would think FReepers would be smarter to read the true story behind that guy instead of buying into the headline.
Colloidal silver is great to use on pets too. It saved my cat’s life a few years ago. He was most likely a day from death. We put some on his wound and dropped some into his mouth. We did this every 2 hours or so and the next morning he was drinking and eating again.
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I have 1% silver sulfadiazine cream (Silvadene) that I was prescribed when I was in the hospital for cellulitis. I asked if silver would help heal it, the doctor said it couldn’t hurt. I made sure my doctor keeps it in my list of medicine I use so I can get refills.
I use it on my feet when they crack open - how I got cellulitis both times- on my many cysts and boils, burns and any other wounds like when I fell or the damn crazy cat - not the above cat- scratched the hell out of my leg.
I prefer to think of it as God blessed the Doctors with knowledge and skill. And God tends to calls those that won’t take advantage of doctors home a little earlier than he calls those that do take advantage of them.
It’s not just silver. Certainly gold, but it’s cost prohibitive. Even copper to an extent. The known antimicrobial benefit of certain metals is more often environmental or topical rather than internal (via ingestion), though.
There are all manner of natural antimicrobials. Salt is a great one. Most of your typical kitchen spice rack. Vinegar. Sugar. Honey. Top of the organic heap would be garlic in various forms, fresh and especially oils.
Then there are various other essential oils used topically. Oil of oregano is powerful. So is melaleuca oil, otherwise known as tea tree oil.
Good old chlorine bleach is greatly underrated as an environmental antimicrobial also.
You’ve got them at your disposal, it’s just that few have been taught to view them in that manner let alone use them for this purpose. The time may be coming that they’re all you have.
You owe me another monitor and a cup of coffee! :)
Premature delivery once used to be a death sentence - they used to not see life outside the womb, at all. We are slowly progressing to the point where soon an artificial womb will first allow better intensive care to those born prematurely, and after that, to produce humans without a natural womb.
You may feel free to pigeon-hole reality however you want in your mind, but the fact is, humans have altered lifespans across countries, across cultures, with the only commonality being the increased application of science, a lot of it developed on the borders of ethics as well. Many vaccines, for example, use products derived from cell lines extracted from human embryos.
The dosage required to give an adult argyria is magnitudes higher than the dosage that is adequate for medical purposes.
from: Silver Toxicity - How much is harmful?
One tsp. contains 5 ml. of liquid
One ppm concentration is the same as 1 milligram (mg.) per liter
(Example: 10 PPM colloidal silver contains 10 mg of silver in one liter of liquid)
(Example: One tsp. of 10 PPM colloidal silver contains 50 micrograms of silver)
The EPA reference dose for a 160 pound adult (the average amount consumed per day in food and water): 364 micrograms per day.
The EPA critical dose for a 160 pound adult (the amount that should not be exceeded in daily consumption): 1.09 milligrams per day
The EPA proposed limit for silver in drinking water is: 0.1 mg per liter ( 0.1 PPM)
The average person consumes approximately 90 mcg. of silver/day in their food
The estimated dosage of silver required to trigger an anti-infection response (based on anecdotal reports and other data); is believed to be approximately 1 milligram of silver
References (8) and ( 70) state that the estimated total dosage of silver required to treat serious infections such as LYME disease is: Approximately 18 to 90 milligrams of silver over the period of one month.
The estimated accumulated dosage required to produce argyria is: Approximately one to six grams of silver, depending on the reference cited. Some references state as high as 50 grams.(1)(62)
The estimated single dose lethal quantity of silver is: Approximately ten grams of silver (56)
http://www.info-archive.com/colsil%20silvertox.htm
Like papa smurf here; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212557/Blue-man-Paul-Karason-blue-self-medicates-silver-skin-condition.html
I’ve heard a lot of good things about the curing aspects of silver. I’ve even heard about it getting rid of tumours and such.
A couple of debrieding/irrigation sessions later, the mess had stabilized, with the largest bite (open wound) about 5/8-3/4 inch across. they still burned, off and on, and the closest I can describe that is someone putting a cigarette out on the skin. The last of them scabbed over 3 months later--(I went through a LOT of band-aids--a tube of the silver chloride ointment, and a tube of basic triple antibiotic, and every dressing change I irrigated the wound sites with peroxide.
When I finally made it in to see a doctor, he said "I have never seen anything like that". (big help, that)
I did some research on my own and found out about spider bites. Considering, a limited venom load, some bites not festering, multiple bites all seem to point to a hatch in the bedding of the location housing I was staying in. I bagged up the linnens, put them outside (winter), and did not sleep in the bunk for the duration of the job. No new bites.
Next well, I had a different housing unit.
The last and largest to heal scabbed over after roughly 3 months, now it looks like I got hit with a shotgun (both feet, one shin).
Wasn’t it during the Civil War that the first battlefield photographers discovered that silver nitrate used for fixing negative plates also served as an antiseptic to treat wounds?
That condition was genetic, not due to silver consumption.
Yeah, I know. Did you read my link? I remember when that was in “Science 82”.
Bkmk
BOOKbump
Wikipedia suggests that it was used in the days of Hippocrates.
The southern doctors did all sorts of stuff to try to keep their patients alive. Check this article.link from the Va medical society
And a manual on civil war medicine can be read here if you are interested in the subject.
Makes me wonder what miraculous healing effects gold can have on the human body. There's a reason gold has been so valued for thousands of years. What could be more valuable than a fountain of youth, or a cure for everything?
I got a minor spider bite 5 or 6 weeks ago - and it hasn't gone away yet - still itches... I'll try the Curad.
I could make a horror movie out of that story. People wouldn’t sleep well ever again.
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