Sunny, On the face of it, this would seem to be an easy question to answer but it is not. If I was asked that by someone my question back to them would be how long and how often do you intend to use it and what ppm is your CS? And what type of CS are you using? If they are using silver nitrate or a mild silver protein (MSP), I would advise them to not use any. If they are using what we call EIS, made by running a current between 2 silver electrodes in distilled water or a colloidal silver (CS) consisting of small silver particles suspended in water, I would give the following answer.
BTW, this is only my opinion and others may have different opinions. Much of my reasoning is based on my interpretation of the Altman Silver Excretion Study and my understanding of how silver is excreted from the body. There is no universal agreement in these areas, esp. in the interpretation of the Altman Silver Excretion Study. If you use it infrequently and for short periods you can take large quantities of either. But EIS is inherently more tolerant of excess silver. If it is short enough and infrequent enough it is almost a don't care. But there is no therapeutic value in taking large amounts in my opinion. If the person is going to take it daily for the rest of their life, I would recommend limiting it to 3.5 oz of 10 ppm EIS daily, or less. If the EIS is a higher or lower ppm, they should change the amount taken to account for the difference in ppm. For CS they should follow the manufactures recommendations but take no more than the amount you would use for EIS of the same ppm. For either EIS or CS, holding the silver in the mouth for 5 to 15 minutes before swallowing allows as much as 10% of the ionic silver to be absorbed through the mucosal tissues and those ions are the most effective. If someone wants to use more than 3.5 oz of 10 ppm EIS per day, I would recommend that the additional amounts only be held in the mouth for 10 to 15 minutes and then spit out the silver and not swallow it. [1] In my opinion, you should follow these recommendations for infrequent, short term use as well. I am not convinced that taking large amounts of CS or EIS even for a short periods is more effective than these lesser amounts, esp. when using EIS. There may possibly be some additional benefit to taking more CS, because the silver particles in CS may not be as effective as ionic silver, and perhaps that can be partially overcome by use of more CS. But again, the amount must always be within reason. The amounts I recommend for long term daily use equates to around 1 mg of silver per day and is the amount of ionic silver that the liver can process in a day. This ensures that there is no significant backlog of silver waiting to be eliminated from the body. EIS is somewhat unique in that excess amounts of EIS will also be eliminated through the kidney. To my knowledge, no other ionic silver has this property. This characteristic of EIS makes it very tolerant of taking too much EIS and makes it safer to take and not get argyria. But even EIS has limits. The one person I know of that got argyria from using EIS was taking daily amounts of EIS that were equivalent to over 10 times the amount I recommended above and even then it took 8 years for the argyria to appear. That person was taking amounts of silver that significantly exceeded the excretion capacity of both the liver and the kidney. [Note 1] Just for this list, I would also suggest that if one needs to use amounts of EIS in excess of 1 mg per day, that an effective method of doing so would be to take the first 1 mg as EIS and additional amounts of EIS should be taken with Gatorade or a citrus drink so that the additional ionic silver is silver citrate. Taking the Gatorade version would need to be offset in time from the EIS only to prevent conversion of the EIS only to silver citrate. This would increase the total ppm of ionic silver in the blood to higher levels than I believe can be achieved with EIS alone. - Steve N From: Sunwaterclear - Sunny [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>moon on fingernails? Agyria Hey, I posted on facebook about CS and someone mentioned the 'blue' thing. I have so many postings here, can't find it.. can anyone quickly answer this... HOW MUCH is TOO MUCH? thanks sunny x From: John E. Stevens <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, January 9, 2010 1:12:26 PM Subject: Re: CS>moon on fingernails? If it's ablue moon, too much colloidal silver water or contaminated colloidal silver salts may be being ingested. John On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Kathy Tankersley <[email protected]> wrote: Someone on this list recently commented on how his fingernails got a 'moon' on them when he increased his CS consumption. Can someone on this list tell me what this looks like? Thanks Kathy -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
