JD
Well, like I said, my approach was unscientific. I winged it. After
reading the various papers, it seemed that the procedure was as simple
as adding the herb which I believe could be plain water extract, i.e.
tea. I happened to have witch hazel made with only water and alcohol.
Make damn sure it isnt methanol or isopropyl or some mixture of toxic
noxious stuff. Make sure its suitable for oral consumption! Im not
recommending anything here, just mentioning what I did which seemed to
produce a stable product, which I then used without bad effects. I
urge further and in- depth research. Im not an expert or guide on
this. I just read some papers and had a go of it.
What follows is philosophy, read or dont waste your time;
I think the safest bet would be to brew your own herb. You can see in
the literature a wide variety has been used. Consider perhaps regular
green tea, or curcumin, rosemary, or any herb that seems to fit the
condition you are trying to treat. In one of the papers they noted the
resulting product was quite dark in color. A good approach might be to
try three or four strengths or ratios of tea to colloidal silver. Let
these sit for a while and you might get a feel for how strong you can
make the mix. It may not be very critical, as long as there is enough
herbal material to coat the silver. The ionic portion will be
compounded into nanoparticles. The silver particles will be 'capped' as
they say. I know there is a general belief here that the ions are
working great, and the colloids are working great, but the size and the
charge and the coatings will all make a biological difference, perhaps
in many ways that have yet to be realized.
Im particularly interested in the radical peroxynitrite. Free radicals
have both positive and negative effects. We have no choice but to live
with them, and we need them. But peroxynitrite is implicated in a lot
of deleterious conditions and something we can reduce, it appears.
Herbs have been tested and rosemary and witch hazel are among the most
potent scavengers. You can read up and find peroxnitrite has a role in
the pathology of so many chronic and acute diseases, including covid.
So this is one reason I went with witch hazel.
Perhaps an entire silver-herbology will open up. Nano particles are a
delivery system. The body shuttles things around in amazing ways. Its
an intelligent universe in there. I have seen amazing things with
arnica, such that Im inclined to think the 'living world' of plant
medicinals is more than the sum of chemical reactions. In the sense
perhaps that a Van Gogh is more to our being than the same paints
rearranged or extracted out and put back into tubes. In this view of
'information theory' or 'energy field medicine', the silver and herb
combinations may have synergy that would bring more healing than our
usual concept of silver as an antibiotic. Antibiotic is kind of an
antiquated idea in all but acute infections, and the holism of being a
teeming bucket of microbes is the better paradigm. Usually we need more
microbial diversity, not less. Just a thought. It reminds me certain
herbal concoctions in India are traditionally prepared in copper pots.
Copper, silver, iron or wood utensils and containers confer different
flavors which can be the difference between a cheap or rare and
expensive wine, perfume or something.
When moving toward health and those healthy paradigms, I think its good
to go for the exquisite. Rather than silver being a handy flame
thrower scorching the bad bugs out of existence, it would be better to
'tune in' and have the medicinal experience be inclusive of all the
senses and states of mind and body....an idea not foreign to anybody
here Im sure. For example, silver water has a taste, kind of metallic
or dusty. If one were to add peppermint, or green tea, the experience
would be totally different, starting with nose and mouth. An important
consideration when making a nasal spray, skin spray or mouthwash....
Thanks
Max
On 5/12/2021 7:10 PM, JD wrote:
Hi Max,
OK, I guess I'm confused. what is aquious/alcohol extract? When do you
add witch hazel? I live in USA, witch hazel here is a little bottle
that looks like a bottle of rubbing alcohol
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-Witch-Hazel-Astringent-USP-16-fl-oz/920436056
Is this what you are referring to? If so, do you just add 5 tablespoons
of this to a quart?
Thanks
JD
On 5/11/2021 1:21 PM, Max wrote:
How I complexed silver with witch hazel. Not very scientifically! I
chose witch hazel because it has one of the highest scores at reducing
peroxynitrite, one of the worst free radicals. I arbitrarily added
about five tablespoons of aquious/alcohol extract to a quart of my
home brewed colloidal/ionic silver. I let this sit for six months
and observed that it seemed stable and nothing fell out of
suspension. There was a slight haze. I dont know if complexing
silver with herb extract will make it better or less toxic, but the
literature seems to point in that direction.
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