[email protected] wrote:

> In a message dated 5/16/99 11:20:27 AM EST, [email protected] writes:
>
> << 2. CS cures I have read are all anecdote. There is zero medical evidence
>  that CS at 30 ppm say can cure anything or have any antiseptic effect.
>  About the only orally ingested drug which can (and does) have an effect
>  at these low levels is LSD. >>
>
>     It's not all anecdotal.  Read below.
>
>
>
> Colloidal silver was tested at the UCLA Medical
> Labs. Its Report states that " The silver
> solutions were antibacterial for concentrations of
> 1 million organisms per ml of Streptococcus

Ionic silver is a mild antiseptic. No concentratiuon given.




>
>
> Dr Robert Becker,M.D., author of 'The Body
> Electric' and 'Crosscurrents", found that silver
> caused cells to dedifferentiate and
> re-differentiate in the process of regenerative
> healing. " what we had actually done was
> rediscover the fact that silver killed bacteria,
> which had been known for centuries...when
> antibiotics were discovered, clinical uses for
> silver as an antibiotic were discarded" Becker
> said in a 1995 interview with Bio/Tech News.
>

It was discarded before antibiotics in fact because better antiseptics were
available. See JAMA 90(11), march 17, 1928, 849-851.





> Extensive research into the curative properties of
> silver has been conducted for many years at the
> Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse University,
> Syracuse, N.Y. under the direction of Dr. Becker.
> The experiments concluded that silver works on a
> wide range of bacteria, without any known side
> effects or damage to the cells of the body. Becker
> discovered that the silver was doing something
> more than just killing disease causing organisms;
> It was also causing major growth stimulation of
> injured tissues. Dr. Becker concludes that the
> presence of the silver ion may help to regenerate
> tissue, eliminate old or cancerous cells, and any
> other diseased or abnormal tissue condition.
>

no reference or date or anything!



> Dr. Henry Crooks (author, 'Use of colloidals in
> Health-Diseases) found that silver in the
> colloidal state is highly germicidal, quite
> harmless to humans and absolutely non-toxic. From
> his bacteriological experiments with silver he
> concluded, " I know of no microbe that is not
> killed in laboratory experiments in six minutes."
>

same a Dettol, Clorox bleach, .......



> Dr. Bjorn Nordenstrom, of the Larolinska
> Institute, Sweden, has successfully used silver as
> a component in his cancer treatments for many
> years. Dr. Leonard Keene Hirschberg, A.M., M.D.
> (John Hopkins) states, "Speaking generally, the

I have done alot of reading on alt-med cancer cures and I have never come
across this. Reference?




>
>
> Finally, Peter Lindemann reports in his 1997
> article,'Colloidal Silver, A Closer Look' that a
> study conducted in part by the Institute of
> Microbiology in Rome, Italy and published in
> 'Applied Environmental Microbiology (Dec. 1992),
> stated that "Pure electro-colloidal silver
> outperformed silver nitrate, silver chloride, and
> silver sulfadiazine as a broad spectrum germicide.
> For all classes of bacteria, fungus, and mold
> sample tested, pure electro-colloidal silver
> worked better, and at much lower concentrations.
> They concluded that any additives reduced the
> effectiveness of the pure silver ion; the silver
> salts being as much as 100 times less effective."
>

I will try to look this up.

peter crowcroft
Cancer & Tumor Information Site
http://kitsrus.com/pheo.html



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