In a message dated 9/30/2001 7:02:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:


> Subj:CS>Re: temperature
> Date:9/30/2001 7:02:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time
> From:    [email protected] (Reid Harvey)
> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</A>
> To:    [email protected] (silver digest)
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> 
> CSEnthusiasts,
> It would seem to me, given the fact most here agree that there is no
> excess dosage of CS, that using heated water and other techniques
> implicit is a very prudent, cost effective way of getting the material
> to more of the many people who need it.  It would be a great luxury for
> a lot of poor, far beyond their means, to imagine they could make their
> own, somewaht more effective, 10ppm CS.
> 
> The only real disadvantage I can see is that the slightly larger CS
> coming from the concentrated material may not get to all the places in
> the body that the smaller material will go. Maybe the larger stuff will
> go to only 90 to 95% of what the smaller will do? Otherwise it is absurd
> to think that the real advantage is that one would be drinking, say
> 100ml. of smaller particle CS, vs. 200ml or the larger, for example.
> 
> It is very tempting to think that it's yet another 'pissing contest,'
> somebody feeling economically threatened. Let's think about those who
> would not otherwise get the CS. If I appear to be posturing for this
> goal it is because I'm already committed to CS saturated water purifiers
> for the poor. After all, the world is more desperate than ever for real
> solutions to the many problems.
> Reid
> 
Reid: It is going to take some time before we will be able to show that one 
form of CS is better that another and even then such information may be for a 
specific illness. In the meantime, use the KISS principle, but stay away from 
salt since that compound will drastically lower the ionic portion of the 
total "CS".
Roger