Make Your Own Colloidal Silver And Stay Healthy

Silver Bullets - Deadly Ammunition For Killing Bacteria

by Trevor Webster

Regardless of whether or not silver bullets kill vampires and werewolves (if they exist), they most certainly do kill bacteria and viruses. But these deadly colloidal silver bullets are microscopic in size and don't need a gun.

Writing in the medical journal, 'The Lancet' in 1914, Dr. Henry Crooks said that "silver in the colloidal state is highly germicidal, quite harmless to humans and absolutely non-toxic. Rather than in a chemical compound, silver in the colloidal state may be applied in a much more concentrated form, with correspondingly better results."

More recently, NASA researched 23 different methods of water purification and selected a silver system for the space shuttles.

Colloidal Silver is produced by passing a low voltage electric current between two silver electrodes in purified water; the resulting microscopic pure silver particles are suspended in the water. The colloidal liquid appears clear or light golden in colour.

Colloidal Silver:

• Soothes skin conditions
• Cleans and sterilises wounds thoroughly
• Maintains a healthy digestive system
• Cleans eyes and ears safely

A web site on keeping dogs healthy with Colloidal Silver, lists the following tips for both dogs and their humans:

• Spray pet bedding and let dry
• Dab on cuts, grazes, rashes, sunburn and razor nicks
• Mix a little into your pet's drinking water, birdbaths and cut flower vases
• Help reduce tooth decay, mouth sores and bad breath. Colloidal Silver is said to work by eliminating bacteria deep in the throat and on the back of the tongue. (Dental plaque bacteria too.)
• Add to human and/or pet shampoos to gain disinfectant benefits
• Add to suspect drinking water when travelling or camping
• Spray burns for rapid healing without scarring.
• Use to sterilise any household items like toothbrushes or washing up brushes
• Spray on rubbish to prevent decay odours
• Use on kitchen cloths and sponges to wipe down worktops and cutting boards
• Dab on acne spots
• Spray in shoes, between toes, on skin to relieve skin itches, athletes foot, fungi etc.
• Add to bath water, gargle and nasal spray.
• Aids recovery from colds, flu, pneumonia, respiratory infections and viruses
• Eye and ear infections, warts and some moles vanish (put on plaster and wear overnight each night until gone)
• Use with cotton buds on fingernail, toenail, and ear fungi
• Spray refrigerator, freezer and food storage bin interiors
• Use routinely in washing machine final rinse water
• Spray plant foliage to help prevent plant diseases like mould and rot
• Wipe telephone mouthpieces, pipe stems, headphones, hearing aids, spectacles frames, hairbrushes and combs
• Excellent for nappies and nappy rash.
• Wipe around toilet seats, bowls, tile floors, sinks, door knobs
• Kills persistent odours without introducing artificial alternatives
• Rinse invalid's pillowcases, sheets, towels and bedclothes

Colloidal Silver was widely used by the medical profession in the early 20th century. But silver's protection powers were known much earlier. The ancient Phoenicians used to carry wine and water in silver vessels on their long sea voyages, knowing the silver would keep the liquids fresh and untainted.

Today, silver is being brought into play against super bugs like MRSA. It kills bacteria, viruses, fungi and moulds. Not just the odd one or two bacteria as antibiotics do: colloidal silver is proven to kill some 650 different germs. It does this through a different process to antibiotics. Colloidal silver paralyses their breathing mechanisms. Starved of oxygen they die.

Bacteria never build a resistance to silver because of the way it works. So you don’t get super-bugs developing from its use.

You can buy colloidal silver from many suppliers, but it’s relatively expensive. A small dropper bottle containing 125ml, can cost you from £12.50 upwards: £18 - £20 for a similar or slightly larger amount from some suppliers.

Yet you can make your own colloidal silver for pennies. It’s just as good as any you buy. A colloidal silver generator kit costs around £50 from the Edgar Cayce Centre. The address is: The Edgar Cayce Centre, 13, Prospect Terrace, Durham, UK. DH9 7TR. Or phone: 01207 237696.

For your outlay, what you get looks primitive. But it’s all you need, apart from Purified Water, an ordinary drinking mug and a plastic bowl, to make your own colloidal silver.

For your money you get two 99.99% silver rods about 4 inches long and about 1/8 inch thick, a piece of plastic ruler with two holes drilled in it, and a 9 volt mains adaptor plug with insulated crocodile clips on the ends of the leads from it. The cost of the kit is governed by the price of silver. If you can get the silver rods elsewhere at lower cost, you can make up your own kit.

To make your colloidal silver you need purified water. This you can buy from chemists in 5 litre bottles. These normally cost between £2.85 - £4.00, depending where you buy them. It's worth shopping around. Odds are you’ll need to order it, because most don’t keep it in stock.

Be sure you use Purified water, NOT distilled water. The microscopic particles of silver form in the purified water, when an electric current passes through it between the two silver rods. Distilled water doesn’t conduct electricity. Nor should you use tap water or any other water. Potentially harmful salts can form through a chemical reaction with other substances in the water.

You’ll need a bowl of ordinary warm water, and a drinking mug holding about 250 ml of purified water. The exact amount isn't critical. Just fill your mug to about a 1/2 inch from the top. The depth of of warm water in the bowl, needs to be about the same level on the outside of the mug.

From there it’s easy...

Lay the piece of ruler across the top of your mug and stick the silver rods through the holes. Attach the crocodile clips to the rods, at such a distance from the top ends that the rods are held clear of the bottom of the mug.

Plug in the mains adaptor and switch on. 1½ hours later you’ll have 250ml of colloidal silver that would cost you about £25 at a much advertised health food chain-store. Only yours will be 15 parts per million silver in suspension, while theirs is only 3 ppm. Which means that yours contains five times more bacteria-killing silver bullets.

You need to ensure the silver rods are near parallel in the mug. Using a piece of strong cardboard cut to a similar size as the piece of ruler, mark through the holes in the ruler, then use the silver rods themselves to push holes through the cardboard. This ensures the card's holes grip the rods tightly. Lay the card on top of the ruler with the rods sticking through both, and you have better control over their positioning.

After you’ve made your colloidal silver, you’ll need to clean the rods. Don’t use harsh abrasive. The rods need not be shiny bright. Usually you can clean them adequately by wiping away any deposits that form, using a paper kitchen towel. Occasionally use a fine nylon scouring pad. But not too often… you don’t want to wear away that valuable silver.

So from about £3 worth of purified water, you can make the equivalent of forty 125 ml bottles of colloidal silver that retail at around £12.50 each. That’s £500 worth: the cost of ten colloidal silver generator kits.

Your colloidal silver is best stored in brown glass bottles with non-metallic tops. Silver tarnishes in light, hence the brown glass. A brown glass demijohn normally used for winemaking will hold a gallon (4.5 litres). You can often pick these up at car boot sales for around 50p - £1.00. At winemaking shops you can get rubber bungs to fit. Alternatively you may be able to get 250ml brown glass medicine bottles from the chemist where you buy your purified water.

Never store the colloidal silver in containers with metal caps, or the electrical charge keeping the silver in suspension will discharge to the metal.

Many people have found Colloidal Silver effective against:

• Acne
• Athlete's Foot
• Bacterial Infections
• Thrush
• Candida
• Cystitis
• Eczema
• Ulcers
• Sores
• Warts
• Yeast Infections
• Fungal Infections
• Tonsillitis
• Haemorrhoids (piles)
• Herpes
• Psoriasis

You can also use it as a mouthwash after cleaning your teeth. Then swallow it. Since it kills most bacteria, it kills plaque-causing bacteria too. It’s one of the many minerals we need but don’t get enough of from our diet. So by swallowing it after the mouthwash it provides a silver supplement.

Since it also kills viruses, use it as protection against bird flu should it ever develop. It has to be more effective than the Tamiflu antiviral drug. Of those bird flu victims in Asia treated with Tamiflu, the death rate was exactly the same as those not treated.

On the subject of influenza, avian or otherwise, don’t forget, elderberries kill flu viruses too.

Click the link for more in-depth information on Colloidal Silver

Make Your Own Colloidal Silver Generator Unit

Using a nylon/plastic electrical socket or light switch box and a blanking plate for it, plus a 30 amp connector strip, you can make the Edgar Cayce kit into a simple unit. You should get all you need at any DIY outlet like B&Q or Wickes.

The box should have knockout holes in the sides. If you can, buy a coupling and bush made from the same plastic/nylon as the box. Knockout a hole in one side, stick the bush through the hole, and screw the coupling onto it. This will give you a short tunnel for the electrical flex to enter the box through.

From the connector strip (of about 10 or 12) cut a smaller strip of 3 connectors. Loosen the screws right off in the two end connectors. Position the connectors on the underside of the box where you would like the silver rods to stick through. With a thin screwdriver or something similar, mark the underside of the box for the holes - through the end connectors. This ensures you get the right spacing. Drill two holes through the marks, using a drill that is marginally thicker than your silver rods.

Stick the ends of your silver rods into the connector strip's 2 end connectors. Remove the crocodile clips from the ends of the mains adaptor flex, and strip the insulation back about an inch.

Twist the wire ends up tight, fold the end in half, and thread them through into the box through the coupling/bush. Insert the wires into the same connectors as the silver rods. Then tighten the screws up and check they've trapped the wires tightly by tugging on the wires.

Almost there: push your silver rods through the holes you drilled in the underside of the box. The connectors will hold the rods inside the box. Then simply attach the blanking plate using the two screws that should come with it, and you're finished.

Equipped with such a unit you can make colloidal silver as and when you wish and afford to use it copiously. Don't forget, 5 litres is about £500 worth colloidal silver at retail prices. And it only costs you around £3 for the purified water, once you have your kit.

If you don't want to make a unit like that illustrated, the basic kit as it comes from the Edgar Cayce Centre, will produce your colloidal silver just as well.

"Hi-yo Silver!"

If making your own colloidal silver seems too much hassle, we recommend that available at Good Health Naturally over any you might buy at ordinary retail outlets.

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