In a message dated 7/1/01 11:17:12 AM EST, [email protected] writes: << Subj: Re: CS>Angyia Date: 7/1/01 11:17:12 AM EST From: [email protected] (Nina Silver, Ph.D.) Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Ode Coyote <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 12:16 PM Subject: Re: CS>Angyia > And even then, turning blue [argyria] is very rare. > Something like one case in a thousand over threshold exposure. > Ken I write as someone who makes her own CS and is very committed to taking it, recognizing its benefits. Several years ago one of my dogs' paws became infected. I took a very long cleaned glass Sorrell Ridge jelly jar and filled it with warm water, Epsom salt (to draw out the pus and other impurities), about 3 ounces of colloidal silver, and about 1 ounce of 3% food grade hydrogen peroxide. I am giving you approximate measurements. I soaked her paw 2 to 3 times a day for about 15 to 20 minutes at a time. The infection cleared up nicely after about 3 days. However, I DID notice that beneath her fur, the skin had turned grey. I simply noted it. After about a month the grey color disappeared and returned to normal. I know that many people in the medical-pharmaceutical industries cite the grey color presumably caused by CS as "proof" that CS is harmful, not distinguishing the genuine silver colloid from compound silver--as in silver salts or silver proteins--that CAN cause the skin to turn grey. However, I know what I saw with my dog. The CS I make is pure colloid; and except one time when the electrodes were too close to the sides of the container which yielded flakes at the bottom of the glass container, I never had any problems with either the purity of the solution or the beneficial effects. Is it possible that the Epsom salt and/or hydrogen peroxide reacted with the silver? (If, however, they DID react and the silver changed into silver compound, I would think that my dog's paw wouldn't have healed as quickly as it did.) Would anyone know the reason for the TEMPORARY change in the color of my dog's skin? Thanks for your brainstorming here. Regards, Nina Silver, Ph.D. dedicated to world healing and social change visit my website http://www.Heart-of-Healing.com >>
Dear Nina: Let's take what you did one step at a time. First, you used "about 3 ounces of colloidal ... 2 to 3 times a day [and the] ... infection cleared up nicely after about 3 days". Let's say your CS prep was 15 PPM, at the most. Assuming the all the silver was transferred into your dogs skin during this 3 day period (a virtual impossibility, but let's work with the extreme case), the total amount of silver absorbed by the skin tissue would have been [15mg/L x 100ml x 3 x 3 = 13.5 mg] 13.5 mg at THE MOST. In all likelihood it was probably a small percentage of this amount, probably less than 1 mg. But let's stay with the 13.5 mg. figure. From the reports I have read, Argyria is caused by long term and repeated use of silver salts that result from the exposure to more than 1000 mgs. of silver, far from the level of your dogs exposure. How then can we explain the gray skin color? It's possible that the relatively impure CS that you produced had enough large silver particles to coat your dog's skin after the CS dried out. BTW, its disappearance after only a few days would be consistent with a "silver dust" that may have been on the skin surface, not unlike the "dust" found on your kitchen counter when your spill some of your CS brew and it's allowed to dry overnight. Roger -- 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]>
