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Silver bullets that kill bacteria, not werewolves - Silver engages in a multi-pronged assault on bacteria.

Hat tip yefragetuwrabrumuy, but we can only link Ars Technica.

1 posted on 06/21/2013 9:02:11 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

If it aint your time to go, I dont care what the world or the devil throws...

“Science” means nothing to me.


2 posted on 06/21/2013 9:05:40 PM PDT by One Name (Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
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To: neverdem
Smurf in a bottle...


3 posted on 06/21/2013 9:08:27 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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4 posted on 06/21/2013 9:08:56 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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5 posted on 06/21/2013 9:11:22 PM PDT by Teacher317 (Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast)
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To: neverdem

colloidal silver..lol


6 posted on 06/21/2013 9:12:17 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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100 years from now it will be found that the silver resistant bacteria can only be stopped by the saliva of those afflicted with lycanthropy, but then it will be too late.

Freegards


8 posted on 06/21/2013 9:25:51 PM PDT by Ransomed
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I had a series of wicked spider bites, and after removing the necrotic tissue, they still felt like someone putting cigarettes out on my skin. Curad makes a silver chloride ointment which was the only thing which would stop the pain—an immediate cooling effect. The bites took three months to heal over, and that ointment was my main source of relief. I alternated the silver chloride ointment with triple antibiotic at dressing changes. They never became infected.


9 posted on 06/21/2013 9:40:50 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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I don't take colloidal silver; but, I do use bandages with silver, for small wounds. They are great! Wounds seem to heal more quickly, and there are never infections.


13 posted on 06/21/2013 10:07:42 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: neverdem

They still can’t get it right.

It is the impurities that cause the Argyria, and you have to consume mass quantities to cause it.

If you make your own. Use .9999 pure silver wire, attach the wires outside the glass, keep the voltage and amperage low(3-9V batteries) use only distiled water and filter the precipitates out before you take it. The smallest suspended particles are what you want.

I prefer to buy it in a lab produced, protein concentrate, that can be mixed into juice.

OK, now continue with the inevitable, ignorant, pictures of blue, gray, and green idiots that would OD on water if you told them to drink at least 4 glasses a day.


14 posted on 06/21/2013 10:27:21 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
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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).


22 posted on 06/22/2013 12:37:49 AM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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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.


25 posted on 06/22/2013 2:33:44 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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Like papa smurf here; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212557/Blue-man-Paul-Karason-blue-self-medicates-silver-skin-condition.html


29 posted on 06/22/2013 4:50:19 AM PDT by nomad
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Bkmk


35 posted on 06/22/2013 7:49:31 AM PDT by novemberslady
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BOOKbump


36 posted on 06/22/2013 10:16:50 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Nothing so vexes me as a thief above ground.ENFORCE THE BILL OF RIGHTS! It's the Law.)
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The precious metal has been used to fight infection for thousands of years — Hippocrates first described its antimicrobial properties in 400 bc — but how it works has been a mystery.

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?

38 posted on 06/24/2013 12:21:10 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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