Hi to Ted Windsor: I have seen postings before about how anything more than 20 ppm is a waste. It's a pretty subjective statement. It's really more helpful to say, "I use 20 ppm and it is effective for me!"
Many have felt that anything over 10-12 ppm is a waste. It really depends upon how one is using their CS and what one isusing it for - doesn't it? If one is using it topically or to sterilize countertops, spray salads, then the higher ppm is useful and so is the ionic content. There is a rationale here. Given equal particle size, if one is used to taking two ounces of 5 ppm per day (and they experience it's efficacy) , then if they were taking 20ppm they would only need to take 1/4 of this or if they were taking 30ppm then they would only have to take 1/6 of this. If they are purchasing their CS, then it does make a difference in cost. A teaspoon of 30ppm is equal to an ounce of 5 ppm. A 500 ml bottle of 30ppm would be equivalent to six 500ml bottles of 5 ppm. It doesn't take a whole lot longer to make 30ppm than it does to make 5 ppm and the price spread is not 6:1 at least from what I have seen out there. I know mine isn't - $20 vs $15 CDN. 80% of the success of any treatment whether it is within the medical model or a more natural model, is in the mind. If someone believes that taking 1 tsp of 30 ppm vs 1 teaspoon of 20ppm will help them more - it probably will and it is therefore not a waste. Making subjective negative statements to these folks about how they are wasteing their CS can have unintended detrimental effects. People like to believe that what they are doing is helpful. If they believe they are helping themselves, to some extent, they are - even if all they are doing is touching their toes. There are people out there who insist that you not have your head in bed lined up with any of the toilettes in the house - and if they can suck someone into that belief system and they don't move their bed, they can get sick. I've seen the promotional material on this. These people wouldn't have you move into a house on a cul de sac. But never the less, if you buy into a belief system like this, it will have it's effect on your health. I use 32 ppm, and I take about 1-2 tsp per day. When I get a sore throat, I gargle an ounce 2-3 times per day for two to three days - Is it a waste? I don't know - but it works fine thankyou and I'm not really going to listen to anyone telling me I've wasted it. If I even miss one day off work, it costs me about $400 - if I miss 5 days it's about $2000. My own subjective statement here: " If I can avoid a two thousand dollar sore throat and cold, no amount of CS that I took was a waste, whether it was 5 pm or 100 ppm. Postings on the list seem to indicate that members on the list use anything from one ppm up to 40 ppm (most at about 5-10 ppm) and find it useful and effective so I don't really understand why someone wants to create 100 to 500 or even 1000 ppm. except to demonstrate their technical expertise (lots of those folks here - nothing wrong with this) or to develop some sort of hype and proprietary edge for marketing by developing a method out of reach of most folks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Windsor" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 9:18 AM Subject: Re: CS>Re: 100-500 PPM CS and how it's made > More then 20 ppm is a waste, until someone can prove differently I will > continue to believe this. Besides if more was better everyone would be > making it. > Blessings > Ted -- 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]>
