Colloidal Silver -Part One- Originally published in Perceptions Magazine, Nov./Dec., 1995. "We now know what 'wealth' is. Wealth is the ability to regenerate forward life. How many people can you take care of for how many days?" -Buckminster Fuller ________________________________________

IMAGINE having your own hospital. Not just any hospital either. After all, the mortality rate generally drops when hospitals go on strike. Death due to toxic drugs, unnecessary treatment, rampant ignorance, and a sea of antibiotic resistant bacteria make most hospitals the Devil's own playground. No, I'm talking about a hospital that makes people well again. Now, imagine that your new hospital is essentially cost free, works anywhere and is the size of a transistor radio, neatly fitting in your shirt pocket. Impossible? Not at all. The only thing that is unbelievable about it is that every American doesn't already have one.      The "hospital" I am talking about is a Colloidal Silver generator. Silver is a powerful, natural prophylactic/anitibiotic, used for thousands of years. Ancient Greeks lined their eating and drinking vessels with silver, as did many other cultures throughout the world. Pioneers of the American West would put a silver dollar in a jug of milk to keep it fresh without refrigeration. Did you ever wonder why silverware was made from silver? One of the properties of silver is that it kills bacteria on contact in six minutes or less. It may be that gold and silver were first used as valued currency because of their medical properties.

Dr. Robert O. Becker, author of The Body Electric, recognized a correlation between low silver levels and sickness. He said silver deficiency was responsible for the improper functioning of the immune system. Dr. Beckers experiments conclude that silver works on the full spectrum of pathogens without any side effects or damage to the body. He also states that silver does more than kill disease-causing organisms. It also causes major growth stimulation of injured tissues. Burn patients and even elderly patients notice more rapid healing. And he discovered that all cancer cells can change back to normal cells. All strains of pathogens resistant to other antibiotics are killed by silver.

What is Colloidal Silver?      Colloidal Silver is the result of an electromagnetic process that pulls microscopic particles from a larger piece of silver into a liquid, such as water. These microscopic particles can more easily penetrate and travel throughout the body. Colloidal Silver works as a catalyst, disabling the enzyme that all one-celled bacteria, fungi and viruses use for their oxygen metabolism. In short, the bad guys suffocate. Unlike with antibiotics, resistant strains have never been known to develope. In fact, antibiotics are effective only against perhaps a dozen forms of bacteria and fungi, but never viruses. Because no known disease-causing organism can live in the presence of even minute traces of the chemical element metallic silver, Colloidal Silver is effective against more than 650 different disease-causing pathongens.

Just to name a few!      Since there is not enough room to list all the diseases against which colloidal silver has been used successfully, here is a tiny sample: blood parasites, bubonic plague, burns (colloidal silver is one of the few treatments that can keep burn patients alive), cancer cholera, conjunctivitis, diabetes, gonorrhea, hay fever, herpes, leprosy, leukemia, lupus, lymphangitis, Lyme disease, malaria, meningitis, parasytic infections both viral and fungal, pneumonia, rheumatism, ringworm, scarlet fever, septic conditions of the eyes, ears, mouth, and throat, shingles, skin cancer, staph infections, strep infections, syphilis, toxemia, trench foot, all forms of viurses, including warts and stomach ulcers. In addtion it also has veterinary uses, such as for canine parvo virus. You'll also find colloidal silver very handy in the garden since it can be used against bacterial, fungal and viral attacks on plants. Simply spray diluted colloidal silver on the leaves, and add to soil water.      It would appear highly unlikely that even germ warfare agents could survive an encounter with colloidal silver, since viruses like Ebola and Hanta, or even the dreaded "flesh-eating bacteria" are, in the end, merely hapless viruses and bacteria. To top it off, colloidal silver is nontoxic, making it safe for both children, adults, and pets. In short, anything bigger than a one-cell animal seems to like it.      Nor does one have to worry about that Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fox being put in charge of this home remedy hen house. Colloidal Silver is a pre-1938 healing modality, making it exempt from FDA jurisiction under the grandfather clause.

So why haven't you heard of it?      I suspect the user friendly economics of colloidal silver may have something to do with its low profile in the media. Colloidal silver can't help but shine a spotlight on the expensive and deadly nature of our pharmaceutical industries, who are bigger than the Pentagon economically. For example, the pharmaceutical cartel's relentless promotion of dangerous vaccines for humans and animals through government programs have now been linked to everything from increasing crib deaths in infants (who in many documented cases scream for hours before dying), to the increasingly common disease, feline luekemia, in house cats. Colloidal silver, on the other hand, is a safe and reliable alternative to expensive pharmaceuticals.      It is possible that consuming large amounts over long periods of time may kill some friendly bacteria in your intestines. If taking large amounts, you should supplement your diet with yogurt and/or acidophilus, or compensate for possible bacteria loss in some other way. However, this is not a serious problem and unlike antibiotics, colloidal silver does not weaken the immune system, creating a shield against diseases of all kinds.