Mike Devour said,
"If you can't get something that says "Steam
distilled" or "steam distillation," don't sweat it, as
long as it is "distilled." Just give it a try and see
what happens. At most it sets you back a day and a
dollar. It won't create anything so dangerous you
should be fearful. If it came down to an emergency
situation, I'd even use non-distilled water. It would
not be good for the long term, but in a critical need
it'd be more important to have something that worked
than something that was perfect. In that situation,
you'd just have to know to only brew for a few minutes
instead of a few hours. The reaction happens
that much faster because of the impurities in the
water."
The word *distilled* is sometimes used to refer to
other types of water treatments, such as reverse
osmosis or even some filtering. I don't think the word
should be used for anything but steam distillation,
but, as Mike said, there is no uniform usage of the
word.
Considering the fact that missionaries and some
medical folks are making CS with river water in places
like India, and having wonderful results with it, I
would have no problem with using any other type of
treated water. It just wouldn't likely make clear CS
if it's not steam-distilled. As long as you don't make
coffee-colored CS, some color is fine. I can't even
estimate how many gallons of yellow and gold CS I have
drunk over the past few years. (I'm still not blue!)
The folks who claim that CS will stop being effective
if you expose it to sunlight, or magnetism or even
freezing are missing the boat. The Royalty in Europe
used to mechanically grind silver up into powder and
stir it into water or wine and drink it and found it
to be effective. How much bigger would the smallest
mechanically-ground up particle be than the largest
electrically-produced silver particle? A thousand
times bigger? 10,000 times bigger? A million time
bigger? The fact is that silver in nearly any form is
fatal to most pathogens. We avoid particularly large
silver particles (coffee-colored CS) because of our
conviction that silver particles that are bigger than
a certain size MAY contribute to argyria, if consumed
in large enough quantities. So, whatever water you
use, just don't brew it past yellow or light gold.
Even freezing CS and then drinking it would be fine.
It would just mean that the silver particles had
fallen out of suspension, not that they had lost their
effect on pathogens. So make sure to shake before
ingesting.
Geez, you don't need to be careful and paranoid about
this stuff.
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