No worries Ruth. There's alot of research still to be done and I've read of university studies that have been halted due to lack of funds. Pity because there's some interesting information on colloidal silver and cancer, however you need additional medical agents to 'open' the cancer cell and allow the colloidal silver in. Similar scenario with other diseases but I guess we'll have to wait and see if further research can be done to prove/disprove it's viability.
Quote:Questionable Motives: Mainstream Medicine Attacks Colloidal Silver
Prior to the advent of patentable and more profitable antibiotics , medicines containing silver were the most widely prescribed infection fighters by doctors. Now, after the elimination of silver products in the mainstream, colloidal silver proponents claim that it is safer and dramatically more effective than any pharmaceutical currently available . At the same time, however, it has become the subject of increasing attacks by mainstream medicine and pharmaceutical corporations which label colloidal silver as a scam, quackery with no proven value.
Colloidal and nano-silver are used by NASA and major hospital burn, pediatric and oncology units, and is used to purify well water in third world countries.
One of the most widely publicized (erroneous) warnings is that colloidal silver causes people to turn blue due to a skin condition known as argyria.
The body does not store unused silver particles so it's impossible for it to build up to toxic levels. Furthermore, the bluest of the blue people, "Papa Smurf " Paul Karason was given a clean bill of health at Mount Sinai Hospital. Karason did not actually take colloidal silver. Instead, he took large quantities of home-made ionic silver made with tap water and silver salts for a prolonged period of time.
In the journal "Use of Colloids in Health and Disease ", author Dr. Henry Crooks says colloidal silver is highly anti-viral. In laboratory tests he found that "all fungus, virii, bacterium, streptococcus, staphylococcus, and other pathogenic organisms are killed in three or four minutes. In fact, there is no microbe known that is not killed by colloidal silver in six minutes or less in a dilution as little as five parts per million. "
Scientists at Brigham Young University successfully showed a colloidal silver solution killed a variety of pathogens, including the HIV virus. " Daryl Tichy and Dr Gary Smith, part of the research team have not been able to obtain funds to continue their research. And if you scan the scientific journals for the last few decades you will see dozens of researchers experiencing the same lack of funding.
This should not be a surprise. There is much more evidence to support Tichy and Smith's conclusion. Extensive evidence points to the fact that colloidal silver destroys all types of virii, bacteria and fungi and greatly enhances the immune system in general.
In a study at Washington University School of Medicine researchers infected a group of mice with the bacteria Pseudomona aeroginosa (bacterial pneumonia in humans).
Once infected, half the mice then inhaled aerosolized nano-silver once per day. Significantly, none of the mice exposed to nano-silver died, while all mice in the control group did.
Meanwhile millions of people around the world are taking colloidal silver and reporting cures of pneumonia, staph, candida, MRSA, Chrohns, Lyme, the H1N1 flu, and much more. And it is physically impossible for virii, bacteria and fungi to become resistant to silver.
It is criminal that the benefits of this easily available and scientifically studied remedy has been corrupted.