LEARNING
CENTER
BANISHING DISEASE
WITH
THREE 9-VOLT BATTERIES
- PART
2 -
by Mark Metcalf
"We used to think, and
some still do, that life came from a chemical soup. Now we
know that unless there is an electrical charge there is no
life. Life, then, is electrical. And when electrical systems
go, although the chemistry is still there, the life does not
exist." --Dr. Valerie Hunt, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. of
Physiological Sciences, UCLA.
In a past issue I wrote of
a "hospital" that was safer than and in many ways
superior to all others in its ability to promote wellness.
This "hospital" was essentially cost free to operate,
and as portable as a deck of cards. The hospital I wrote of
was a colloidal silver generator. With it you can make virtually
unlimited amounts of the highest quality colloidal silver
for the price of water.
Currently, we the people of
the United States are spending $3,700 per person per year
to treat our diseases-the highest amount in the world. Ironically,
our health problems are getting worse. As absurd as it may
seem, the third leading cause of disease and death in the
United States is now infectious disease. These deaths are
completely preventable.
With the simple act of wiring
three 9-volt batteries together, something very profound begins
to happen. Ordinary people are not only able to heal themselves,
but now find themselves endowed with the power to heal others
and to protect the health of entire communities. These everyday
people find their newfound power even encompasses the ability
to heal animals, plants and trees. They're also able to grow
more nutritious food and they're able to store food for longer
periods of time. The multi-billion dollar managed care of
"incurable diseases" industry begins to crumble.
The deadly, mutagenic vaccine industry begins to crumble.
The cold and flu industry which buys all those prime time
TV ads begins to crumble. Don't expect these industries to
take their loss of power lying down.
These cartels will do their
best to frighten people away from making it themselves, sometimes
buying off colloidal silver manufacturers who will then act
as the cartel's agent. These cartels can also be expected
to aggressively market their own substitute products, just
as they did with antibiotics in the 1960's when colloidal
silver was originally suppressed.
One of the most effective flimflam
ploys is to trot out an "expert" who confirms that
the product he or she is selling is absolutely essential for
your well being. This "authority" will go on to
mention that in the course of their studies of competing products,
they discovered that these competing products will very likely
cause you harm. Actually, the expert is used as a shill to
usurp your freedom of choice and dictate what you should regard
as "health" and health-promoting practices. Similar
ploys have been used by colloidal silver manufacturers, which
has resulted in confusion and fear among those most interested
in using silver. We can best avoid manipulation by coming
to a deeper understanding about different types of colloidal
silver, production methods, issues of safety and usefulness.
First some basics. A colloid
consists of minute particles that float within a liquid despite
the pull of gravity. To stay in suspension for any length
of time, these particles must be smaller than one micron (1/1000
of an inch). When fresh produce is processed through a juicer,
a colloid results in the form of a glass of juice. Drinking
fresh juices makes it possible to consume far more nutrients
than by eating. Because juice is considered a pre-digested
food, the body can process large amounts with minimal effort
and correspondingly better health results. As a juice colloid
sits, the larger particles begin to fall out of suspension
and settle at the bottom of the container. To evenly distribute
the contents it is common to shake up a bottle of juice before
drinking.
In the case of colloidal silver,
silver particles are pulled off of a pure silver electrode
that is immersed in water by applying a low voltage electric
current, giving each particle an electric charge. This charge,
though long lasting, is not permanent, and both daylight and
time will cause a colloid to lose its charge. This loss is
referred to as "falling out," or "plating out."(1) Note, while colloidal silver is light sensitive,
it is not nearly so light sensitive as camera film. If taken
to the beach under mid-day California summer sun, colloidal
silver can be expected to oxidize in about ten minutes. Indoors,
under ambient and artificial light, colloidal silver will
oxidize in about three days. This only means that once made,
colloidal silver should be stored in tinted or opaque containers.
Many colloidal silver manufacturers
claim that if the silver particles are "too large,"
the resulting brew will prove injurious to the public health.
The truth can be found in many science text books. When applying
current to silver in solution, metallic silver will always
break off at the same size, 1.26 angstroms (.0001 microns).(2)
This particle is so small that the next stop on the road to
smallness is the atom itself.
Colloids are by nature the
smallest particles matter can be divided into while still
retaining individual characteristics. Reducing a piece of
metallic silver into a cloud of microscopic particles greatly
extends its total surface area, and so its healing properties,
while deepening its penetration into the body.
Because the silver particles
are charged, they strive to combine with other elements in
the solution. Trace elements exist even in distilled water,
and when the charged silver particles combine with a specific
trace element, the solution will turn one of a number of colors
like gray, yellow, green or brown. Whatever element the silver
chooses is largely irrelevant: Once in the body, the silver
releases its bond in search of stronger attachments in an
effort to stabilize its charge. Therefore, once the silver
colloid has entered the body, the original silver particles
measuring 1.26 angstroms (about the size of fifteen atoms)
quickly pass through the stomach lining and into the blood
stream, where they circulate for about a week before elimination.
Yellow Colloidal Silver
The real reason yellow colored
colloidal silver is favored by most manufacturers is not because
it is more effective than other types, but because it has
a longer shelf life before falling out of solution. This stability
in solution doesn't automatically translate into a smaller
combined particle size between the silver ion and the trace
element which it has attached itself to. It may simply be
that the trace element which the silver has combined with
is more water soluble. In either case it's a moot point. Simply
put, the most effective colloidal silver is not a question
of color, but of freshness and highest concentration density.(3)
A disadvantage of the yellow
colloidal silver is its bitter taste-unlike the silver colored
colloid. Also, the yellow solution is more difficult to make.
When using a 27-volt generator, it is helpful to reduce the
water volume to mitigate the much longer activation time that
the yellow solution requires. I couldn't find any medical
evidence that the yellow colloid is more effective than the
silver colored colloid. People can always create and compare
the effects of the yellow and silver solutions for themselves.
To make the yellow solution,
use a tall narrow glass with six to eight ounces of distilled
water. Use no saline solution. The water will not gain conductivity
as it does when saline is added, so the process will take
about forty-five minutes. It will produce a concentration
of around 10 parts per million (ppm). Be sure to keep an eye
on the color of your solution or it will eventually turn a
murky brown and then black. If this happens, just throw it
out and start over.
Making High Concentrations
of Colloidal Silver
Extending the process time
to make higher concentrations of colloidal silver can be both
inefficient and costly for replacing batteries. A smart chemist
knows you should always heat the water first to create high
concentrations. With this in mind, fifteen minutes of process
time should be sufficient to create any desired potency.
For every 10 degrees that the
water is heated above room temperature (72 degrees), the parts
per million (ppm) will be doubled. Therefore, if 5 ppm resulted
after seven minutes of activation with sixteen ounces of water
at 72 degrees, then 82 degrees would yield 10 ppm, and 92
degrees would deliver 20 ppm, etc. There is no need to boil
the water as there is ample leeway between 72 degrees and
212 degrees (boiling). For heating purposes, do not use a
tea pot because of the pot's calcification. Use something
cleaner, like a stainless steel cooking pot before pouring
water into a glass.
The body's ability to process
the tiny atoms of colloidal silver makes silver build-up in
the body impossible. The Environmental Protection Agency's
Poison Control Center reports a No Toxicity listing for colloidal
silver. In fact, it appears that harmlessness is one of the
attributes of the colloid physiology, regardless of content.
For example, when examining a bottle of colloidal minerals
from the local health food store I noticed arsenic, nickel
and lead among the sixty-five trace minerals listed in the
contents.(4) In other words,
if the particles are small enough, you can even drink arsenic.
Since the body is known to have a vital need for silver to
maintain both the immune system and the production of new
healthy cells, and due to the harmonious nature of colloids
entering the body (our blood is also a colloid), it stands
within reason that colloidal silver may literally be the safest
medicine on earth.
Just to prove a point to myself,
I made a sixteen-ounce solution of well over 250 ppm and drank
it. I repeated this procedure every day for four days in a
row. I easily drank the equivalent of fifty sixteen-ounce
glasses of 5 ppm colloidal silver every day! I did not eat
yogurt, acidophilus, or compensate for friendly bacteria loss
in any way. The only side effect was that I just seemed to
feel better. This makes sense according to Capitol Drugs pharmacist
Ron Barnes, R.Ph.; "Many strains of pathogenic microbes-viruses,
fungi, bacteria or any other single-celled pathogen-resistant
to other antibiotics are killed on contact by colloidal silver,
and are unable to mutate. However, it does not harm tissue-cell
enzymes and friendly bacteria."
My next experiment was a little
different. I cut two flowers in the back yard and left one
on a shelf without water for twenty-four hours. When I picked
it up the next day it was completely limp. I made a fresh
cut at the bottom of the stem and placed it in a glass of
high concentrate colloidal silver. Each day it got better.
On the third day, the stem had become firm again, as if it
had just been cut. Not a single petal was lost. The second
flower that was cut had been placed immediately in ordinary
water. Many of its petals had already fallen. Though the flower
was in water from the start, it was already dying.
It's as if there is something
in silver that is tied to the very core of the life process
itself. The noted bio-medical researcher from Syracuse University,
and author of The Body Electric and Cross Currents, Dr. Robert
O. Becker, MD, agrees. Writing about his experience with older
patients, Dr. Becker wrote, "Silver did more than kill
disease causing organisms. It promoted major growth of bone,
and accelerated the healing of injured tissues by over 50%."
He also discovered that silver: "profoundly stimulates
healing in skin and other soft tissues in a way unlike any
known natural process..."
Dr. Becker discovered that
the silver was promoting a new kind of cell growth which looked
like the cells of children! "These cells grew fast,"
he wrote, "producing a diverse and surprising assortment
of primitive cell forms able to multiply at a great rate,
then differentiate into the specific cells of an organ or
tissue that had been injured, even in patients over fifty
years old."(5)
The healing properties of silver
are so all-encompassing that we see researchers expressing
amazement time and time again. Alfred Searle, founder of the
pharmaceutical conglomerate, wrote in 1919 that "applying
colloidal silver to human subjects has been done in a large
number of cases with astonishingly successful results. For
internal administration, orally or hypodermically it has the
advantage of being rapidly fatal to parasites without toxic
action on its host. It is quite stable. It protects rabbits
from ten times the lethal dose of tetanus or diphtheria toxin."(6)
I received a call from a man
with a Ph.D. in computer science who, after reading my original
article, made colloidal silver and applied it with an eye
dropper to a chronic eye infection. He said the infection
went away almost immediately. In the course of our conversation
he mentioned in passing that colloidal silver also got rid
of the plaque on his teeth. I had been wondering what happened
to the plaque on my own teeth, but had not put the two together.
The power of silver still reigns
over the world in many modern-day applications. Physicians
use silver compounds in seventy percent of all the burn centers
in the United States. British Airways, Swissair, Scandinavian
Airlines, Lufthansa, Olympic, Air France, Canadian Pacific
Airlines, AlItalia, KLM, Japan Airlines and Pan Am all use
silver water filters to curtail waterborne diseases. In fact,
NASA uses a silver water purification system for the space
shuttle and so do the Soviets. Japanese firms even remove
cyanide and nitric oxide from the air with silver.
So how do you frighten people
away from the safest and most powerful medicine on earth?
You tell them that the bogey man will get them. If they're
too sophisticated for that, tell them they'll get a strange,
archaic disease like argyria. Actually, there is no record
of anyone ever contracting argyria from colloidal silver made
by the electrolytic method.(7)
(Argyria is a harmless and
infrequent cosmetic condition where some parts of the body
take on a slight bluish cast due to ingesting chemical compounds
of which silver is only one component. Argyria did not seem
to bother the royal "blue blood" families of Europe,
who stayed healthy throughout the plagues of the middle ages
by ingesting large amounts of silver.)
Surviving With Colloidal
Silver
Were I to end up in the midst
of calamity, I would need only water to have one of the most
powerful medical resources in the world at my disposal. (Technically,
colloidal silver can be made in a variety of common liquids,
including beer or soup, but I'm not recommending anyone do
this in the normal course of events.) In a remarkable clinic
trial with fourteen elderly patients, Dr. Robert O. Becker
inserted silver electrode wire directly into wounds, using
the body's own juices for the liquid solution while applying
current from the external ends.(5)
(The voltage used for colloidal silver production is too low
to cause sensation.) With this technique, Dr. Becker was able
to heal infections inside broken bones-one of the worst kinds
of infections to control-as well as heal actual bone fractures
and breaks which had previously failed to heal.(8)
In some cases he left silver surgically implanted in the body.
In others, he sewed the wound up around the protruding silver
electrode wire. Once the wound had healed, "The implanted
silver wire was easily withdrawn from the wound manually without
the need for surgery or anesthesia."
Regarding the innate ability
of metallic silver to control infection, Dr. Becker said,
"All of the organisms that we tested were sensitive to
the electrically generated silver ion, including some that
were resistant to all known antibiotics." Regarding the
safety of pure silver being inserted into the body, Dr. Becker
said, "In no case were any undesirable side effects of
the silver treatment apparent."
Under emergency conditions,
it would be good to remember that silver coins from 1964 or
earlier contain 90 percent silver, 9 percent copper and one
percent zinc, all of which are known to have beneficial properties
if used in a colloidal state. The coins would have to be scoured
until they were clean and shiny before using. This is mentioned
purely as an intellectual consideration and is not a recommendation
that anyone undertake any such action under normal conditions.
Silver electrode wire is much easier to use.
So what doesn't colloidal
silver do?
It doesn't interact with any
other medications. It doesn't upset the stomach, and, in fact,
is a digestion aid. It does not sting in the eyes. Medical
journal reports and documented studies spanning the past 100
years indicate no known side effects from oral or I.V. administration
of colloidal silver in animal or human testing. Colloidal
silver has been used with good results under the most demanding
health care circumstances.(9)
Without overstating the case, it may be time to recognize
colloidal silver as not only the safest medicine on Earth,
but also the most powerful!
Copyright 1996 Mark Metcalf.
All rights reserved.
References:
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Plating out is when the metallic
particles of a colloid fall out of suspension by either
attaching themselves to the sides of the storage container
or simply by settling to the bottom. This creates two
problems. (1) When ingesting colloidal silver, less silver
will enter the body because it's attached to the sides
of the container. (2) Silver particles that enter the
body without their electrical charge will have more difficulty
in penetrating the stomach wall or in attaching themselves
to the cells of the body. Plastic containers build up
electrical charge which can cause plating out, therefore,
either non-reactive plastic containers such as hydrogen
peroxide bottles or tinted glass bottles should be used
for storage.
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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and
Physics, 56th edition, 1975-76, page F209.
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"Use of Colloids in Health
and Disease." Dr. Henry Crooks found that silver
in the colloidal state is highly germicidal, quite harmless
to humans and absolutely nontoxic. Rather than in a chemical
compound, silver in the colloidal state may be applied
in a much more concentrated form with correspondingly
better results.
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Ameriflax (brand) "minerALL
72" colloidal minerals product contains 7 major
and 65 trace minerals including arsenic, nickel, lead
and iodine.
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Treatment of Orthopedic Infections
with Electrically Generated Silver Ions. The Journal
of Bone and Joint Surgery, American Volume, October, 1978.
Vol. 60-A, No.7.
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"Colloidal Preparations
of Silver in Pharmacy" British Medical Journal,
1919.
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After extensive studies Sir
Malcolm Morris concluded, "Colloidal silver is
free from the drawbacks of other preparations of silver,
viz. the pain caused and the discoloration of the skin;
indeed, instead of producing irritation it has a distinctly
soothing effect."
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Becker, op cit.: "To qualify
for this study, patients had to have a long-standing
infection involving bone and to have had standard treatment
with antibiotics and wound care without success."
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"Silver aids the developing
fetus in growth, health, and eases the delivery and
recovery". - "Report: Colloidal Silver",
Health Consciousness, Vol.15, No.4.
