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</smaller></fontfamily><<<<<<<< another reply... >>>> <fontfamily><param>arial</param><smaller>Stephanie Erickson </smaller></fontfamily> Bear in mind that the FDA has totally ignored several double blind studies by MDs and thousands of testimonials as "insufficient evidence" that colloidal silver is safe and effective. Further, the FDA heads up their reports with the title words "Colloidal Silver" and proceed to discuss "silver compounds" at massive doses in every single cited instance, STILL fail to demonstrate a major health risk to the average person and never once specifically mention "colloidal" silver in the text. The FDA says, "Not recognized as safe and effective", but that's not the same as being unsafe and ineffective. "Not recognized" could just mean they didn't look very closely, but more likely means, they averted their eyes in the face of overwhelming evidence that , at least, serious testing should be done. If ten thousand eye witnesses said "He done it!", the courts would schedule a trial...not the FDA. [who, incidently, relies on the accused to run and pay for their own testing which is much like a criminal orchestrating his own trial] How many of these have come up as fraudulent? [a lot] Now, if silver is not an effective agent, why is it used in burn treatment centers? Why is it used in water purifiers and filters? Why are the Japanese inpregnating telephone and toy plastic with silver to prevent disease transmission? I have never found one single person who has claimed [true or not] to have been harmed by electro-colloidal silver. [NOT the same as mild silver protein, silver nitrates or any other silver compound] <<<<<<<< Electro colloidal silver has been home made and used, unregulated, for decades. Where are all the blue people? Folks just love to complain and the internet is a great place to vent...true or not. But after searching literally thousands of pages on the net, I have failed to find a single complaint [other than Rosemary Jacobs, who did NOT use "electro-colloidal" silver.] In fact, even she doesn't know what she used. If what she used was in common usage in her day, where are all the 'other' blue people? One case in , say, ten thousand, doesn't exactly consitute a threat. >>>> Electro-colloidal silver: Bredig sol, pure silver suspended in pure distilled water by elecrolytic process. By the EPAs own standards, one would drown or die of water toxic shock while drinking 10PPM electro-colloidal silver water before reaching a harmful level of silver. An FOIA request has revealed that the FDA has NO RECORDS of any person who has developed argyria from consuming elecro-colloidal silver in any amount or come to harm in any way. Even at massive doses of silver compounds and dust, inhaled and injected, researchers have had a difficult time inducing arygria. It is historically rare even with people who work in silver industries such as refining and mining. I personally know a person who overcame a life threatening lung infection that his doctor could not touch by inhaling colloidal silver mist . His doctor was clearly amazed. I also know, in a more roundabout manner, a person who ended years of repeated hospital care for chronic lung infection in the same manner. He is no longer wheelchair bound. [Unfortunately, I seem to have lost the letter of gratitude sent to me, unbidden, that describes the persons journey through the health system after I told him about colloidal silver] I myself have ended yearly dental cavity filling and have achieved a total lack of plaque and tarter by simply using electro colloidal silver as a mouth wash...and amazed my dentist. He just refuses understand what happened to make my checkups so different from past years. I had a bad sty dissappear in just two days using colloidal silver as eyedrops. I have seen people get only mildly ill from strep throat while their friends were bedridden for days. I have friends who expressed amazement at how fast their cold sores disappeared. on and on... While colloidal silver might not be a magic bullet in every single case, there is most certainly something to it that deserves unbiased attention. [something which the medical establishment has fallen far short of] BUT! There are several companies that are now receiving recogition for inventive uses of silver in bandages "Silverlon" [especially when the bandage has a miniscule electric current applied to it, ei: 'on site' production of electro-colloidal silver and silver ions] Ken Steckenrider, NC At 09:45 AM 10/21/01 -0500, you wrote: >>>> <excerpt><bigger>Listers: </bigger> This woman's e-mail address is at the bottom of the article. I sent her a message yesterday, and informed her that the mayor she quoted was 100 percent correct, and all the debunkers either didn't know what they were talking about or had ulterior motives (i.e., corporate greed) behind their words. Why don't you tell her too? The more we spread the word, the better. <excerpt> ----- Original Message ----- <bold>From:</bold> <<mailto:[email protected]>Black <bold>To:</bold> <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] <bold>Sent:</bold> Sunday, October 21, 2001 8:53 AM <bold>Subject:</bold> Re: CS>I'm from the IRS. I'm Here to Help...I'm from the FDA/FTC. I'mHere to Inform <smaller>Roger, </smaller> <smaller>I saw this article too (I live near Orlando) and I was so mad I could have chewed Silver Dollars!! The saddest part is that most sheeple will believe it. </smaller> <smaller>Nancy... </smaller> <excerpt> ----- Original Message ----- <bold>From:</bold> <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] <bold>To:</bold> <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] <bold>Sent:</bold> Saturday, October 20, 2001 4:35 PM <bold>Subject:</bold> CS>I'm from the IRS. I'm Here to Help...I'm from the FDA/FTC. I'm Here to Inform <fontfamily><param>arial</param> <center><smaller>Howey Pushes Silver as Anthrax 'Remedy' </smaller></center><smaller> By Stephanie Erickson Sentinel Staff Writer October 19, 2001 HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS -- The magical elixir is supposed to cure all sorts of ailments: gonorrhea, leukemia, sleepwalking, AIDS, arthritis, athlete's foot -- even anthrax. And now, thanks to Howey-in-the-Hills Mayor Greg Bittner and the Town Council, colloidal silver is the officially endorsed "simple solution" for anthrax or any other malady that might strike the 950 residents of the quiet Lake County village. Bittner, definitely not taking his cue from medical science, told a council meeting last week: "This is the greatest medicinal item that has ever come along. It wipes out virtually every virus." Wishful thinking. Federal health officials in 1999 prohibited the marketing of colloidal silver as a remedy for any disease because it turns human skin blue and gray -- permanently. And they say the fluid -- actually, tiny particles of silver suspended in distilled water -- doesn't cure a thing. Officials at the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission were horrified to learn that any government would promote what they consider a scam. Said FDA spokeswoman Laura Bradbard, "That's absolutely amazing." Added senior attorney Rich Cleland of the FTC: "There is no scientific evidence that suggests it will be effective against any bacteria." And Dr. Stephen Barrett, vice president of the National Council Against Health Fraud and head of a Web site called Quackwatch.com, all but laughed out loud when told of Bittner's endorsement. "Is he going to be re-elected as buffoon of the year?" Barrett said. But the 67-year-old mayor, who researched colloidal silver on the Internet, where it's described as "nature's most powerful antibiotic," predicted it could "sweep the country." Bittner brought colloidal silver to the attention of the Town Council on Oct. 8, just as an anthrax case in South Florida was beginning to generate talk of bioterrorism. Just in case, Bittner said, the town should spend $100 to buy a colloidal-silver "generator" that produces a gallon of the stuff for about a nickel. That way, he said, residents will have enough for their families, and "you can take care of your neighbors, too." Council member Joanna Gaskill was the only one to question whether there is any medical proof that the silver solution works. "I just don't want a Howey medicine show," she said. Regardless, the latest edition of Council Talk, the town newsletter that arrived in mailboxes this week, told residents of the "simple solution" to fight anthrax and provided police Chief Curtis Robbins' number as a contact for more information. The chief has said a friend of his with cancer was helped by the stuff. Colloidal silver actually is nothing new. Silver was, indeed, used through the 1930s as a preservative, especially in milk, and it was routinely added to nose drops for allergies through the 1950s. That's when doctors began to notice that people using silver for a long period were turning ashen-gray or blue, a condition called argyria. So manufacturers stopped using silver in the mixtures. As diseases became more resistant to antibiotics, however, some alternative-medicine advocates began encouraging use of colloidal silver and selling generators to make it. The devices use silver rods as electrodes, which are inserted into a container of water. When the electrodes are hooked to batteries or an electrical transformer, electrolysis causes tiny particles of silver to become suspended in the fluid. The amount of time the generator runs determines the strength of the silver in the mixture. By the mid-1990s, the FDA had begun warning colloidal-silver marketers to stop selling it as a medicine; last year, at least 18 Web-based marketers got such warnings. Also last year, as part of "Operation Cure.All," the FTC charged a Central Florida company, Palm Bay-based Aaron Co., with fraudulent marketing of the stuff on the Internet. Without admitting it violated any law, the company paid fines and refunded money to customers. Still, sales of colloidal silver are rising. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, business is up 10 percent, said Yvonne Hengst, who sells it from Delaware via her Web site. Indeed, since the terrorist acts, she herself has been drinking a half-ounce a day of the elixir. "This is something that people really need and use, especially now with the anthrax scare," Hengst said. "You're crazy not to." What does the FDA say? Colloidal silver can't be considered safe. Stephanie Erickson can be reached at [email protected] or 352-742-5921. Copyright (c) 2001, Orlando Sentinel Visit OrlandoSentinel.com </smaller></fontfamily></excerpt></excerpt> </excerpt><<<<<<<< </x-rich> -- 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. 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