Thank you for the explaination of terminology, Susan! On 4 Jan 98 at 16:54, Susan wrote:
> 1: Fungicidal: means it kills the fungus directly. Leaving it > dead and useless and as the body deals with it, leaves a toxin when > it dies which produces what we call a Jarisch Herxheimer reaction. > Conclusion: Colloidal Silver made with distilled water and taken > internally is not an antibiotic. It is an Antiseptic with the > property of being Bacteriostatic and/or fungistatic. (see above). I don't have a problem with the distinction of antibiotic vs. antiseptic or antibacterial. Antibiotic refers to drugs that kill/stop bacteria via a specific kind of mechanism that almost certainly is *not* the same as for colloidal silver. But, given the reports from people with Lyme having Herx's can you be sure that it isn't bacteriocidal/fungicidal, and therefore antibacterial? (And antifungal?) For one such account try Nancy Bernsten's page at: http://www.connix.com/~berntsen/bb-lyme/c-silver.htm You also said: > The safest CS for internal use is made with distilled water. It > is not a salt. Silver salts are caustic, and at best reserved for > external use The only time salt is used in preparing electrolytic CS is as an electrolyte to speed production *in some protocols.* For the protocols that use salt, the actual concentration is very low, eg. 3 drops of a nearly saturated solution in 8 ounces of water. The actual toxicity of the silver salt in that concentration is probably not too serious an issue. The effect it has on the electrochemistry and the *particle size* is of more concern. Lindemann talks about this in his article at: http://www.elixa.com/silver/lindmn.htm Now, there's probably no reason you couldn't add a concentrated CS preparation to regular saline solution for topical (external) use. > ... antibiotics. Many of which are becoming useless due to > microbial tolerance, mutation, and , yes, pleomorphism. Err, ahh... What's pleomorphism? <g> Very good article. Thank you! Mike Devour [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for himself... ]
