Drinking Colloidal Silver: An Irreversible Danger - Argyria! Blue Man...

Remote Living

People in wilderness and other remote areas had to do what they could to maintain their health and treat their maladies. Herbs, roots, specific recipes and teas became the medications that were depended upon for healthful living.

Taking Advantage of People

Less than scrupulous persons would occasionally take advantage of such a situation, or attendant ignorance. Elixirs and quack instruments touted as having healing powers over all sorts of afflictions cost innocent victims their pocket money, while at best failing to provide anything more than a placebo effect.

In our more modern time, when many persons and not just a few are dishonest, more quacks and charlatans than ever can be expected to take advantage of those less fortunate. People are on edge because they realize someone may be trying to take advantage of them. Thus they may develop a measure of paranoia toward anyone in the public sector, including properly trained medical professionals. They may feel that at least some of such professionals will not want their patients to get well at all, so they can drain them of their financial resources.

To fill in the vacuum, such people look to others like themselves whom they trust. Hearing any sort of story that sounds like it proves others are "after them" serves to verify their unjust suspicions, reinforcing their intention not to trust the professionals.

Enter Colloidal Silver

What is colloidal silver, anyway? Without getting into the specifics, the word colloidal refers to an extremely finely divided solid suspended in a liquid so that the solid ordinarily does not separate itself by sinking to the bottom of the liquid phase. Thus colloidal silver is extremely small particles of silver metal that stay suspended in water. This enables the colloidal silver to be drunk, as one would drink a glass of water. The procedure frequently involves a process called electrolysis, hence it takes pure silver electrodes to make such colloidal silver. Another process involving silver salts and proteins is sometimes used.

Minor Beneficial Uses of Silver

One legitimate medical practice involving the use of silver was to treat babies' umbilical cords to prevent infection, however such use was stopped years ago when more effective methods of treatment were developed. Another valid use for silver is in the treatment of conjuctivitis. There are one or two other minor uses of silver-containing chemicals.

Enormous Claims Made

There are many health claims, as one would expect. What miracle cure would not treat, successfully, at least a hundred ailments, large and small? And the stories of the cures are as large as the ailments that are supposedly cured. Some of the ailments illegitimately claimed are cured by drinking colloidal silver, are: colds, diabetes, cancer, tuberculosis, and AIDS. While colloidal silver has never been shown to be effective against such ailments, it has been shown that colloidal silver can be harmful. One very serious affliction is argyria.

A Living Example of the Dangers of Colloidal Silver

In argyria, the victim can become a saturated shade of blue! Paul Karason suffers from argyria. Curiously, he still doesn't see anything wrong with ingesting colloidal silver. See a portion of Paul's interview with CNN and hosted on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahihGKZC5Kk

In Summary

While there may be situations necessitating self-medication, whether in the past or even in the present, it is always important to stick to accepted medical practice and to preserve one's sense of reason. Pursuing elixirs, cures, miracles, can rarely lead to anything better than disappointment, and may lead to far more tragic consequences.