While it is the ionic form that can cause argyria, there is a minimum amount of silver necessary. According to I believe it is, the EPA website, one would have to drink so much 5 ppm CS 90% ion they would die from water poisoning first.
It helps to understand what is going on here. 1. Silver ions will combine with the hcl in the stomach and mostly precipitate out as silver chloride. Thus they never make it to the blood stream. 2. In the body, silver ions can precipitate out onto silver particles when a developer such as caffine is present. When taking silver salts, there are no particles, but particles are formed when the salts are exposed to light. Thus when taking silver salts, the initial particles will always occur in skin exposed to light. At that point, the ions in the salts can precipitate out onto the particles and thus make them grow until they become bound in the tissue making what is basically a tatoo. 3. Silver salts must be present in a large enough quantity so that particles grow rapidly enough to become lodged before being flushed out. This requires a fairly high concentration of silver ions in the blood. So we have 3 reasons why normal CS should not be a problem. Most of the ions combine with chlorine and precipitate out, those that do make it to the blood stream will bind with silver particles throughout the body, instead of just in the skin, the concentration of ions will be too low to cause significant particle size increase and lodging. Marshall Bobbye Stegen wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a novice in the world of colloidal silver. I have attempted to read up > on using the product, asking questions, etc. I've read the Purest Colloids > web site which holds the patent on the process of a higher % of colloidal > particulate matter. The web site is impressive but alas, the product is > very expensive. > > I have read many of your messages discussing making your own CS and on other > boards/lists. > Now as I understand it, the CS you make at home has a high percentage of > silver ions Now if I understand it correctly, it is the ionic silver that > can cause the blue discoloration. > > At this point, I don't want to even attempt to make my own CS as I want to > experiment to see if CS works for me and my family as many of you have > attested to. > > My question is, if ionic silver can cause a problem no matter how small a > chance, why would you take a chance making your own? This is not a > challenging question but request for information only. > > CS costing $61 a bottle is still much much cheaper and better for the > body....especially if one does not use allopathic medicines unless it is a > matter of life and death. > > I've looked at the health food stores and find 10ppm and 30ppm on the > shelves. Now is this ionic silver? If you were going to buy CS, would you > risk buying anyother on the market other than the Purest Colloids? Have any > of you tried Purest Colloids? > > Again, this is not to start a debate but just asking for honest opinions. > > Thanks, > > Bobbye > > -- > 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]>
