It seems appropiate to throw in some feedback here. I am from the Cancer Information and Support Society in Sydney, Australia. We have been investigating the use of CS on behalf of our members.
I have been making the 30v electrocolloidal units and one of these units was given to Professor Ray Kearney (of Diernal fasting fame) at the University of Sydney. He did some in vitro (petri dish) tests on a large number of organisms to test colloidal silver's efficacy. He did the tests using a number of electrolytes including salt and NaoH etc. He used a concentration of 12 pmm for his tests. His apologetic conclusion was *it didnt work*. He reported that he couldnt kill anything with CS. I believe him as he is a honerable man. His research into diet/fasting and DHEA levels in the body is well known. After hearing of this results I did some intensive online patent research to gather more information about the use of silver in medicine. I dug up a lot of stuff on killing bugs in water cooling towers! The result of my investigations seems to indicate that silver requires the presence of an oxidising agent for it to be effective against pathogens. I reasoned that Prof Kearneys tests failed because, apart from the ambient oxygen present in the air of the petri dishes, there is no oxidising agent present with the CS and this could be one reason why the tests failed. I also reasoned that there IS oxidising agents present in the bloodstream of the human body which may account for CS's positive action in the body. Also the silver has to be in contact with the organisms food which may have been another factort in the failure of the petri dish experiments. Our conclusion was: *yes* it problably does work (based on some feedback from our members) but a much higher dose is required. Also we feel that the colloidal silver should be prepared using NO electrolyte if a pure colloid of silver is to be obtained of finest particle size (clear solution). Any electrolyte will produce suspensions of the oxide or chloride, according to the type of electrolyte used, of inferior particle size. even with this particular attention to particle size I personally feel that, in the end, it is the concentration of silver ions that has the ultimate effect on organisms since silver salts can form readily in the presence of an acid or base (HCL in stomach for instance). I personally concluded that, although there are some exotic patented silver molecular 'magic bullet' devices with claimed electrical and semiconductor activity (eg Ag4O4) that will literally electrocute an organism on contact, there is also evidence, particularly historical/anecdotal, to suggest that any type of silver will also work: ion, metal, or oxides - particulary in the presence of an oxidising agent (H2O2) (Silver dollar in the milk churn - Swallow silver dollar to ward of disease - The use of silver ions in cooling towers). We are currently taking the preferred path of recommending a Swiss preparation (180ppm) principally because it has been independently tested and verified in university tests, while we wait for more coroborative evidence to support the use of electrocolloidal silver generators. Keep on researching, Maxwell. http://triode.net.au/~max/ciss.html
