Hang on gang, there's more to go!
Terry Wayne
Metabolic Solutions Info Series
Metabolic Solutions Institute
902-584-3810
"Healing Skin & Other Soft Tissues"
by Marvin Robey
In the 1970's, Dr. Carl Moyer, Chairman of Washington
University's Department of Surgery, received a grant
to develop better treatments for burn victims. Dr.
Harry Margraf worked with Dr. Moyer and other surgeons
as chief biochemist on this project. They tested 22
antiseptic compounds and rejected all of them. The
problem was that infections in burns often failed to
respond to antibiotics. Most antiseptics actually
destroyed the delicate healing tissues in severe burns
and were very painful. The greatest problem was the
bacterium Pseudomonas acruginose, which is
particularly infectious to burns and fails to respond
to all common antiseptics and antibiotics.
In his research into medical history, Dr. Margraf
found numerous references to silver as an
antimicrobial agent. It was found that silver has been
used for hundreds of years in one form or another to
treat infection and has well proven itself to be
totally nontoxic at all concentrations. Bacteria have
never developed an immunity to it. He found references
to it as a catalyst that disables the enzymes
anaerobic microorganisms depend on. Dr. Margraf
therefore tried silver nitrate, the same solution used
in newborn babies' eyes at birth. It worked! However,
he found it disturbed the balance of body salts,
stained everything it touched and in high
concentrations was corrosive and painful. After
further study he found that all of these problems were
solved by colloidal silver. With colloidal silver as
the base, he then developed a salve, marketed as
"silver suladiazine" that has been extremely effective
in treating the infections and promoting the healing
in serious burns. It is now routinely used for severe
burn victims, resulting in a large reduction of
scarring and a heavy reduction of deaths for extensive
severe burns.
The article in Science Digest, March 1978, relates: "A
speeding car overturned and burst into flames. The
18-year-old driver suffered burns all over his face,
neck, arms, hands, back, stomach, and legs --- burns
covered more than 80 percent of his body. Until
recently, this would have been a death sentence.
Doctors knew how to restore vital body fluids and
salts, but had no way to fight infection, the primary
cause of death in burn cases. Fortunately, for this
youth, a new silver compound killed deadly bacteria
and enabled him to heal. He was out of the hospital
within four months."
UCLA ran some tests on colloidal silver and their
report states: "The silver solutions were
antibacterial for concentrations of 10 organisms per
ml of Streptococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus,
Neisseria gonorrhea, Gardnerella Vaginalis, Salmonella
Typhi, and other enteric pathogens, and fungicidal for
Candida albicans, Candida globata, and M. furfur."
Another line of research that has led to this change
of thinking is described in the best seller, "The Body
Electric", in which Robert O. Becker, leading research
scientist in the field of bone regeneration, states on
pg. 167: "Of course, the germ-killing action of silver
has been known for some time...the Soviets use silver
ions to sterilize recycled water aboard their space
stations...It kills even antibiotic- resistant
strains, and also works on fungus infections." On pg.
175 he says: "It stimulates bone-forming cells, cures
the most common stubborn infections of all kinds of
bacteria, and stimulates healing in the skin and other
soft tissues."
Certainly that is a broad statement! But Dr. Becker
further relates a fascinating story which would seem
to substantiate his belief. A man's broken right tibia
and fibula refused to bond and the skin refused to
heal over a large area of the leg for a year and a
half. The leg was infected with five kinds of
bacteria, all of which refused to respond to
antibiotics. As a last resort before amputation, Dr.
Becker treated the condition with silver charged with
a very minute electrical current. This produced silver
ions in the bone area and at the surface area. "...I
debrided the wound, removing the dead tissue and all
grossly infected or dead bone. There wasn't much left
afterward. It was an enormous excavation running
almost from his knee to his ankle. In the operating
room, we soaked a big piece of silver nylon in saline
solution and laid it over the wound. ...We packed the
fabric in place with saline-soaked gauze, wrapped the
leg, and connected the battery unit."
About two weeks later, Dr. Becker tells us: "all of
our bacterial cultures were sterile -- all five kinds
had been killed. The soft healing tissue, called
granulation tissue, was spreading out and covering the
bone. In two weeks, the whole base of the wound, which
had been over eight square inches of raw bone, was
covered with this friendly pink carpet. The skin was
beginning to grow in, too, so we could forget about
the grafts we thought we'd need to do. I decided to
take an X-ray to see how much bone he'd lost." [he was
expecting the bone to start withdrawing before the
knitting process began] "I could hardly believe the
picture. There was clearly some bone growth! I removed
the cast, felt the leg, and found that the pieces were
all stuck together. John watched, and when I was done,
he lifted his leg into the air triumphantly." After
extensive experiments along these lines, Dr. Becker
concluded: "They (cells exposed to positive silver
ions)...profoundly stimulate healing...in a way unlike
any known natural process...Whatever its precise mode
of action may be, the electrically generated silver
ion can produce enough cells for blastemas; it has
restored my belief that full regeneration of limbs,
and other body parts, can be accomplished in humans."
When Dr. Becker placed the silver-coated nylon in the
wound and connected an electrode at each end, he
produced silver ions: "Colloidal Silver." This cannot
be entirely credited with the rapid healing of the
bone, as his research proved that the small electrical
current was effective in the bone growth all by
itself. However, the silver electrodes proved much
more effective than any other metal and this would
seem to lead to supposition that the silver ions are
effective in stimulating the healing of the bone when
in direct contact. His continuing experiments left no
doubt of this.
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free!
http://photos.yahoo.com/
--
The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver.
To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to:
[email protected] -or- [email protected]
with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line.
To post, address your message to: [email protected]
Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html
List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
