My grandmother had crippling arthritis since she was in her 20s and my grandparents spent 50 years trying every cureall that came down the road. I well remember cases of alfalfa capsules... Actually gold shots were the only one of those quack cures that accomplished anything and they did giver noticeable relief for a year or so.
The amount of gold used thusly is miniscule, of course. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Both metals are amazing when you think about it. Gold with it's non-corrosive properties, and silver solutions dropped into the eyes of newborns to sanitize them as two examples. About the only thing that interacts with gold is cyanide, and what destroys cyanide?...Sunlight. Amazing combination of symbology and science. Like the amazing coincidence that the disk of the golden sun and the disk of the silver moon are exactly the same size looking into the sky. The odds of this coincidence are astronomical.