Hi Bill, I'm curious about your - and your wife's - experiences with CS for UTI's. I've had inconsistent results using it as a topical bladder irrigant. I've considered using DMSO mixed with the CS, but have held off since my skin seems to be much more sensitive to DMSO than most people's.

I think the progress of ionic silver through the stomach, etc., is a more complex subject than the usual analogy of silver chloride can account for, and arguments to "particular" superiority I've seen here ignore the effects of HCl and other stomach contents on metallic silver particles.
How could particulate silver make it through the kidney anyway, though?

Aren't there studies of blood concentrations of dissolved - ionic? covalent?? - silver, post-ingestion, or post-injection? What about excretion, isn't that about 85% through the urine, what form is it in then, or does this all differ between mostly particulate vs. mostly ionic CS?

You said: " ...[E]lemental silver which produces ions at the site of infection.", but why does it? Dr. Becker measured DC nano-currents at the site of limb amputations, then later discovered that the current direction, which seemed to govern appropriate re-generation of limbs for salamanders, was largely (surprisingly) immaterial in the regeneration of bone and tissue when healing recalcitrant fractures in humans. The presence of silver ions was both necessary and sufficient, though. So what, in a wound or insult, provokes the silver to ionize??

I guess we're lucky that corpora-gova-mega-mint-funded research hasn't appropriated CS and all its mysterious puzzles right out of our grasp for the 'Public' good . . . yet, anyway. By all means, please dig!

Take care,  Malcolm

At 06:56 AM 6/15/04 -0500, you wrote:

Some types of cs don't get to the urethras, ureters and to the "faucets" Ole Coyote so deftly refers to . . . HCl in the stomach turns the ionic portion of it to silver chloride which is not as effective as elemental silver which produces ions at the site of infection. When I have time, I will dig up the science
 a tsp or 2 daily of our 20 ppm, small particle (under 2 nm), low ionic CS

Bill
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