Some folks were not surprised when the media (Wall Street Journal) announced that Ebola victims would be receiving colloidal silver water treatments to mitigate the effects of the rampant Ebola outbreak in Nigeria.
Since the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has announced that there is no known Ebola vaccine, treatment or cure for the Ebola virus the World Health Organization authorized the use of alternative and/or experimental methods to intervene in the treatment of the Ebola disease.
Immediately thereafter, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advised against the use of any unauthorized natural solutions for the treatment of Ebola and in one case warned against colloidal silver water snake-oil sales organizations even though US Government disclosed research indicating that colloidal silver water is bioactive and in sufficient concentration readily kills bacteria in vitro and would likely be an effective treatment of viruses like Ebola.
Conspiracy theorists expected to find that shipments of colloidal silver water would be intercepted by the World Health Organization. Yes, the same organization that welcomed the colloidal silver water was now preventing it from entering Africa, causing many victims to suffer needlessly; leaving some to expect influence by the FDA as the cause.
Colloidal silver water was used by ancient civilizations and doctors to treat a wide variety of maladies up until the 1940s when the FDA endorsed antibiotics that were considered more effective and, “safer,” than colloidal silver water.
Silver occurs naturally in our environment. Silver oxide is prevalent in the air that we breathe, infuses our ecosphere through storms and ionic radiation as well as being the most conductive known metal.
While the health benefits of colloidal silver water were generally ignored by the mainstream and the medical community at large for years, it began to make a comeback as a natural alternative to drug therapies in the 1990’s and has continued to grow in popularity as home remedies, homeopathic therapies and as a dietary supplement around the globe.
How to Make Colloidal Silver
Colloidal silver water is usually made in one of three ways.
1. Silver wires put in water that salt has been added to, and charged with a low electric current. This produces “Silver Chloride”, or a type of silver mineral salt. Drawbacks: questionable quality and purity of both silver wires and water, as well as production of large silver “flakes”. These flakes can then be deposited, accumulated, and stored in the body – rather than moving about freely, (i.e. “Blue Man”, as seen on Oprah).
2. Silver added to gelatin, or other proteins. Drawbacks: This is actually “Silver Protein”, and not true colloidal silver in water. This type is used mainly for research, and generally not (or readily) available to the public.
3. Pure water in a silver vessel and struck by lightning. Ancients used pure water – not tap, bottled, etc., – in a silver vessel/bowl, set out in a storm and let lightning strike it. The result was/is “Ionic Colloidal Silver Water”, as in ionic silver mineral particles in the water. (9 Billion electrically-charged anti-microbial particles per oz.) Advantages: 1000’s, Drawbacks: none known – zero drawbacks!