One article i read has the silver reacting with sulpher in the skin, changing it into a light sensitive compound. [article was on an EPA site, I think] Ken
At 04:20 PM 12/12/00 -0800, you wrote: >> BUT DON'T FORGET THE EVILS OF AGYRIA!!!!!!!! >> [waving arms & panting!] --Russ > >Even drinking the largest-particle electro-colloidal >silver I could make (dark purple or brown), I would >still need to drink more each day than I am able to >drink, over an very extended period of time, before >argyria would reach the level of faint possibility. > >The discussions of argyria that have occured on this >list and elsewhere have demonstrated to me that nobody >even knows what causes argyria. > >The two schools of thought seem to be that, > >1. Argyria is caused by ingesting large amounts of a >silver salt (over an extended period of time), which >somehow photosynthesizes into silver metal (catalyzed >by light) which is trapped in the skin pigment. > >2. Consuming large amounts of silver or silver salts >in particularly large particle size (such as >mechanically ground up silver) for an extended time. > >Neither of these eventualities are related to the >consumption of electro-colloidal silver. Neither the >amount of silver nor the largest possible particle >size of electro-colloidal silver is remotely close to >any known intelligent theory of the cause of argyria >(excepting inane claims made by the FDA). > >The fact remains that, "We could not locate a single >case of orally consumed colloidal silver manufactured >in the last 25 years causing Argyria in our review of >the literature. Alexander G. Schauss, Ph.D. Director, >Life Sciences Division John Hopkins University. > >Terry Wayne > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. >http://shopping.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]> > >
