I’ve run across a number of articles on the web that have thoroughly investigated original studies on the subject of silver.

I’m quite jealous. We can no longer afford to peruse original studies. However, aside from that, we’ve talked about silver in the past, we’ve told you how the FDA’s own website talks about silver, and we’ve pointed to articles published at NASA’s website on silver. The articles I found are just frosting on the cake.

What we’re going to do here is summarize the medicinal properties of silver for you from the articles found, and then, at the end of the article, point to those articles in case you would like to go read them yourself.

First let us make this claim, and we’ll back it up as we go along: Silver is antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and anti-yeast.

Newborns today get silver nitrate in their eyes right after birth. This process has saved millions from early blindness.

We have discussed colloidal silver and covalent silver solution at this site. I’ve just learned that there is another; it is a form of colloidal silver that uses particles of silver that are very, very small; so small, that the papers refer to these particles with the term “nanotechnology.”

This silver is referred to as UPOSH, or Uniform Picoscalar Oligodynamic Silver Hydrosol.

Picoscalar is a very weird word. You won’t find it in many dictionaries, or even one, for that matter. Pico means very small, or on trillionth (ten to the minus 12^th). The authors of these pieces made up the word. A “scaler” is a physical quantity. Therefore a picoscalar is a very small physical quantity. In other words, they’ve made up a word for something much smaller than what the average person would call “very small.”

Oligodynamic is a $2.00 adjective for “active in very small quantities.”

Hydrosol is simply another term for a colloidal solution, or particles suspended in water.

The real question is: is this a silver in colloidal form or is this a silver covalently bonded to oxygen?

The question is moot, because the description UPOSH can apply to both as long as the colloidal form uses silver particles so small that they are near atoms of silver.

What is important here is that the silver particles are so small that they are easily and quickly absorbed into the blood stream and small enough to enter bacteria and viruses disrupting their genetic material leading to their demise.

Regular colloidal silver is not absorbed in the stomach and does not travel through the bloodstream. Since they are absorbed in the lower intestines, and silver is a full spectrum antibiotic, your good bacteria takes a hit from this type of silver. In other words, one of the side effects of standard antibiotics is also a side effect of colloidal silver.

Silver in any quantity is not harmful to humans. However, in large quantities it can turn you blue, a harmless condition known as argyria.

UPOSH, on the other hand, since it contains no silver “compounds” cannot turn anyone blue, And even though many salts containing silver can be toxic, according to the CRC’s Handbook of Chemistry and physics: Silver has germicidal effects and kills many lower organisms effectively without harm to higher animals.” [http://www.imref.org/articles/pdfs/SilverBullet.pdf]

It has been known for years that silver kills pathogens. In 1989 it was discovered that silver kills pathogens both inside and outside of human cells. This paper goes onto say that once HIV invades a white blood cell, “it becomes more difficult for drugs to attack the infection without becoming toxic to those cells.”

Papers abound on silver’s ability to attack pathogens, as mentioned above, but it wasn’t until 2000 that a Chinese researcher by the name of Feng discovered precisely how silver attacks infections.

Feng found three pathways it attacks a target. Antibiotics work on only one of these pathways, and thus a pathogen can fortify this pathway and build resistance to antibiotics. Pathogens cannot build resistance to silver because of its three pronged attack:

1.     the germ’s outer membrane

2.     the germs internal components

3.     the germs delicate gene pool

In 1997 MS Antelman applied for a patent using silver bonded with oxygen (Covalent silver is bonded with oxygen) to cure AIDS. Apparently he found out that the silver/oxygen combination actually electrocuted the HIV virus.

Antibiotics work apart from the immune system. Silver, on the other hand, works with your immune system. Take a look at number 1 above. Silver attacks the germ’s outer membrane. When this occurs, your immune system is triggered to send soldiers to attack the germs. Phagocytes eat germs. The rate at which they eat germs is called the Phagocyte Index. As far back as 1909, JAMA pointed out that silver stimulated the Phagocyte Index.

The action of lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) also seems to be affected by silver. Lymphocytes become excited when cells begin to die off and they secrete inflammatory chemicals to clean up the debris created by germs dying off. The lymphocytes too die in this process (and become puss).

It is suspected that this is the reason for, what scientists call the Jarisch-Herxheimer Effects (and lay persons just call the Herxheimer effect). This effect can be seen after taking antibiotics. The rapid die off of the germs signals the inflammatory response and you feel really sick.

However, when taking silver, this same effect occurs, but because silver seems to decrease the Herxheimer effect because once the initial cells begin to die, the resulting toxins given off are also attacked by the silver reducing the inflammatory response while speeding up the inflammatory response at the same time.

When you add all this up, we suddenly realize that we’ve got one powerful anti-pathogen that doesn’t seem to care if the germ is drug resistant. No pathogen has yet to be found that is resistant to silver. [http://www.imref.org/articles/pdfs/SilverBullet.pdf]

There really isn’t much more to add. There are papers and papers and papers on silver and how it attacks pathogens without building resistance. What you do need to know, however, is how to take it.

When using covalent silver solution at full strength (one ounce to a gallon of filtered water), double strength, or triple strength, it is best to take it first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. Do not just chug a full eleven ounces. Pour yourself eleven ounces in a glass, sit down, and sip. This will insure that the silver will be absorbed quickly from the stomach.

And please write us of your experiences. We need to let people know what works and what doesn’t.

References and further reading:

Nano Technology―The Full Story

http://www.imref.org/articles/pdfs/Microbial_Multi-Drug_Resistance_(MDR)_And_Oligodynamic_Silver.pdf

www.imref.org/articles/pdfs/Safety_of_Oligodynamic_Silver_Hydrosols.pdf

www.imref.org/articles/pdfs/Townsend_III.pdf

www.imref.org/articles/pdfs/Hospital_Infections_and_Silver.pdf

www.imref.org/articles/pdfs/Breathe_Easier_on_Airliners_with_Oligodynamic_Silver.pdf

www.imref.org/articles/pdfs/Townsend_II.pdf

www.imref.org/articles/pdfs/TerminologiesofSilver.pdf

www.imref.org/articles/pdfs/Townsend_I.pdf

Uses of Covalent Silver Solution

Covalent Silver Solution ―a little history

The Discovery of Covalent Silver Solution