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-----Original Message----- From: alchemySA [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 9:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: CS>The National Uncomplementary Centre for Alternative Medicine Hello all. When anyone does a Google seach for colloidal silver here in Australia one of the first sites they see is the US National Centre for Complementary And Alternative Medicine. I'm sure you've all seen it too and would agree that it's a pretty effective party pooper for anyone thinking about using colloidal silver. So to amuse myself on a wet windy day I've written a little rejoinder. I hope this appears in a reasonably readable format. For some reason my subject titles don't usually appear so here it is just in case. "The National Uncomplementary Centre for Alternative Medicine" David ----------------------- The National Centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM) a US Government watchdog, makes the following claim - "Colloidal silver can cause serious side effects. One is argyria, a bluish-gray discoloration of the body." This is misleading. Argyria isn't one side effect, its the ONLY known side effect from the excessive ingestion of colloidal silver. Once you overcome the fear of argyria and understand how rare it is, and how easily it's avoided, then the benefits of colloidal silver can be yours. The NCCAM goes on to make the following statement - "Other side effects from using colloidal silver products may include neurologic problems (such as seizures), fatigue, headaches, kidney failure, skin irritation and stomach distress". Note they use the word MAY. But in fact they KNOW (or should know) these possible side effects in humans are speculative and entirely unproven. There are NO medical reports connecting human neurological problems with silver of any kind, let alone colloidal silver of the type made by 'home brewers'. The fear that colloidal silver might cause neurological problems and fatigue probably comes from experiments on rather unfortunate rats and mice. (Rungby and Danscher 1984 for example). In these experiments, the animals were given large daily doses of silver nitrate in their drinking water. Whilst abnormal behaviour (sluggishness) was eventually and deliberately induced, these experiments had little relevence to humans because the amounts ingested were vastly in excess of any likely human consumption. The rats intake of 18 mg/per kg/per day for 125 days is roughly the equivalent of an adult human drinking 180 litres of 10ppm colloidal silver PER DAY for 125 days straight. (It should also be noted that the rats were given silver nitrate which is known to be much more 'toxic' than pure silver. Home-made colloidal silver contains no silver nitrate) The "kidney failure" claim has no clear reference but it appears to be related to an easily researched Indian case of "Fatal renal and hepatic failure following silver nitrate instillation for treatment of chyluria". Put simply this means the unfortunate victim, I mean patient, died after an operation to inject silver nitrate directly into the centre of his kidney went horribly wrong. Apparently this is usually quite a common and successful procedure (in India) but it has nothing at all to do with drinking colloidal silver and the NCCAM should know it. I can't find any authorative information about colloidal silver causing "skin irritation" so I can only assume they are confusing colloidal silver with silver jewellery. This is an understandable mistake. Now, "stomach distress". Have you ever heard that term before? (What a give-away that is!) But they might be on a winner here. I've read thousands of testimonials and letters from regular users of home-made colloidal silver and I must admit the occasional complaint of an upset tummy does come up. So, accepting that colloidal silver MAY cause the odd belly ache, the hysterical (and I don't mean funny) raving of the NCCAM still seems hugely at odds with the stance of such organisations at the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Agency for Toxic Substances. Both these latter organisations have much more to lose if they 'get it wrong' but they both take seem to take a pretty casual attitide to the dangers of silver toxicity. Isn't that funny? The organisation that's supposed to be providing alternative medicine information is the one that's most opposed to alternative medicine! Regards David http://www.colloidalsilver.com.au/ http://nccam.nih.gov/health/alerts/silver/index.htm (The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp146.html (The Agency for Toxic Substances. 150 page silver toxicity report here) http://www.epa.gov/iris/subst/0099.htm (The Environmental Protection agency) ------------------------------------------------------------------- P.S. Similar experiments that attempted to use silver to induce cancer in animals eventually concluded that cancer was non-carcogenic. The following quotes come from the US Enviromental Protection Agency 'Risk information System.' "No evidence of cancer in humans has been reported despite frequent therapeutic use of the compound over the years."... "They concluded that finely divided silver powder injected i.m. does not induce cancer."... "Further support for the lack of silver's ability to induce or promote cancer stems from the finding that, despite long standing and frequent therapeutic usage in humans, there are no reports of cancer associated with silver."... "Silver nitrate was considered nonmutagenic in this assay."... " Silver chloride was considered nonmutagenic in this assay." "... Silver was not included as a metal of carcinogenic concern.". Maybe even the NCCAM got the message about that one. --------------------------------------------------------- -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
