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Drinking colloidal silver killed my amoebic dysentery - a rather horrible strain from drinking Egyptian water - within a day. That was after a week of very expe

Drinking colloidal silver killed my amoebic dysentery - a rather horrible strain from drinking Egyptian water - within a day. That was after a week of very expensive treatment had done nothing - if anything I was getting worse. Three or four glasses of 30ppm silver in water over the course of 24 hours and I quickly recovered. It is very effective in vivo for some things. Is there peer reviewed research behind this? Probably not. But after reading Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma, I'm of the opinion that my anecdote carries as much weight as the industry's research.

davidw 13y ago
Given how doctors recommend sinus rinses these days, I wonder if adding some silver to it might be effective against ongoing sinus infections, especially since the rinse actually goes in and out, so you're not actually taking in much of it. It's impossible to find serious information on it though because of all the quackery. I'd love to not need antibiotics for those things, but they are often very effective: I stop being sick from one day to the next.
- camperman 13y ago
  Give it a try. I make my own solution from a battery, a resistor, distilled water and some 9999 grade silver wire but your local store should have it. I've got BMW silver-impregnated socks and they just never smell even after a full day in boots. My wife has used colloidal silver gel on burns (she's a nurse) and it's an incredible anti-bacterial agent. Silver, like ozone, needs to be treated with respect for medical purposes and you're sadly right that there's a good deal of nonsense out there but it does work.
  - sethrin 13y ago
    The last guy that I met that talked like you had blue-gray skin. This isn't silly like arguing against thermodynamics, but it is an extraordinary claim and anecdotes are just not going to cut it. This isn't quite 'Nobel Prize' territory but it would be a sea change in the scientific literature and it goes without saying that we can always use a new antibiotic. If anecdote is all you have to offer, however, please refrain from troubling us with reading it. On topic, didn't we see some similar claims a few years back about sugar increasing the effectiveness of antibiotics greatly? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110511134215.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110511134215.ht... [original paper] http://www.bu.edu/abl/files/nature_allison_letter.pdf http://www.bu.edu/abl/files/nature_allison_letter.pdf
    - camperman 13y ago
      The last guy that I met that talked like you had blue-gray skin. Well then he's an idiot and has been drinking it every day ignoring the MASSIVE ALL CAPS WARNINGS not to. I've used colloidal silver internally maybe three times in the last five years. This isn't silly like arguing against thermodynamics, but it is an extraordinary claim and anecdotes are just not going to cut it. It's not an extraordinary claim at all: silver in small concentrations is well known to be an anti-bacterial agent. I've used it against dysentery. It worked. In gel form it heals burns and keeps them sterile with nary a gauze in sight. Motorcycle manufacturers churn out pairs of socks by the million which are polyester impregnated with silver. They stay fresh. This isn't quite 'Nobel Prize' territory but it would be a sea change in the scientific literature and it goes without saying that we can always use a new antibiotic. If you think that the scientific literature about pharmaceuticals is this wonderfully neutral repository of human knowledge, untrammeled by commercial interest, bad science, junk test results and plain old fraud, then be my guest. If anecdote is all you have to offer, however, please refrain from troubling us with reading it. Naah, I'm just getting warmed up. How about good old oxygen? I have first hand experience of people with full blown AIDS going into full remission after ozone therapy. It's almost trivial to do too: get the patient's blood - if you can call the horrible black sludge that someone with a CD-4 count of 20 has blood, but never mind - ozonate it until it's cherry red, and stick it back in him. Lather, rinse, repeat. No anti-retrovirals or hellishly expensive treatements, just oxygen. Unpatentable and of course not profitable. And therein lies the heart of our problem with modern medicine.
- pvaldes 13y ago
  mmmh... sinus infections plus silver The Rosemary Jacobs history reloaded: http://www.rosemaryjacobs.com/rose1.html http://www.rosemaryjacobs.com/rose1.html
  - davidw 13y ago
    That's just another anecdote, though. Also, a few nose drops seems to be at odds with how much of that stuff that some people seem to quaff prior to turning blue. Who knows... I wish someone would do some actual science. I don't want to randomly ingest stuff, myself, so I'll stick to antibiotics for the time being, but the idea seemed interesting to me. For that matter, I'm curious why topical delivery of antibiotics via a sinus rinse isn't used either. Maybe it's just not an effective way of delivering them. I don't know, I'm not a doctor.

davidw 13y ago

Given how doctors recommend sinus rinses these days, I wonder if adding some silver to it might be effective against ongoing sinus infections, especially since the rinse actually goes in and out, so you're not actually taking in much of it. It's impossible to find serious information on it though because of all the quackery. I'd love to not need antibiotics for those things, but they are often very effective: I stop being sick from one day to the next.

camperman 13y ago
Give it a try. I make my own solution from a battery, a resistor, distilled water and some 9999 grade silver wire but your local store should have it. I've got BMW silver-impregnated socks and they just never smell even after a full day in boots. My wife has used colloidal silver gel on burns (she's a nurse) and it's an incredible anti-bacterial agent. Silver, like ozone, needs to be treated with respect for medical purposes and you're sadly right that there's a good deal of nonsense out there but it does work.
- sethrin 13y ago
  The last guy that I met that talked like you had blue-gray skin. This isn't silly like arguing against thermodynamics, but it is an extraordinary claim and anecdotes are just not going to cut it. This isn't quite 'Nobel Prize' territory but it would be a sea change in the scientific literature and it goes without saying that we can always use a new antibiotic. If anecdote is all you have to offer, however, please refrain from troubling us with reading it. On topic, didn't we see some similar claims a few years back about sugar increasing the effectiveness of antibiotics greatly? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110511134215.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110511134215.ht... [original paper] http://www.bu.edu/abl/files/nature_allison_letter.pdf http://www.bu.edu/abl/files/nature_allison_letter.pdf
  - camperman 13y ago
    The last guy that I met that talked like you had blue-gray skin. Well then he's an idiot and has been drinking it every day ignoring the MASSIVE ALL CAPS WARNINGS not to. I've used colloidal silver internally maybe three times in the last five years. This isn't silly like arguing against thermodynamics, but it is an extraordinary claim and anecdotes are just not going to cut it. It's not an extraordinary claim at all: silver in small concentrations is well known to be an anti-bacterial agent. I've used it against dysentery. It worked. In gel form it heals burns and keeps them sterile with nary a gauze in sight. Motorcycle manufacturers churn out pairs of socks by the million which are polyester impregnated with silver. They stay fresh. This isn't quite 'Nobel Prize' territory but it would be a sea change in the scientific literature and it goes without saying that we can always use a new antibiotic. If you think that the scientific literature about pharmaceuticals is this wonderfully neutral repository of human knowledge, untrammeled by commercial interest, bad science, junk test results and plain old fraud, then be my guest. If anecdote is all you have to offer, however, please refrain from troubling us with reading it. Naah, I'm just getting warmed up. How about good old oxygen? I have first hand experience of people with full blown AIDS going into full remission after ozone therapy. It's almost trivial to do too: get the patient's blood - if you can call the horrible black sludge that someone with a CD-4 count of 20 has blood, but never mind - ozonate it until it's cherry red, and stick it back in him. Lather, rinse, repeat. No anti-retrovirals or hellishly expensive treatements, just oxygen. Unpatentable and of course not profitable. And therein lies the heart of our problem with modern medicine.
pvaldes 13y ago
mmmh... sinus infections plus silver The Rosemary Jacobs history reloaded: http://www.rosemaryjacobs.com/rose1.html http://www.rosemaryjacobs.com/rose1.html
- davidw 13y ago
  That's just another anecdote, though. Also, a few nose drops seems to be at odds with how much of that stuff that some people seem to quaff prior to turning blue. Who knows... I wish someone would do some actual science. I don't want to randomly ingest stuff, myself, so I'll stick to antibiotics for the time being, but the idea seemed interesting to me. For that matter, I'm curious why topical delivery of antibiotics via a sinus rinse isn't used either. Maybe it's just not an effective way of delivering them. I don't know, I'm not a doctor.