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This may be old and you all may have seen it before. It is part of a longer document. If anyone wants to see the whole document (doesn't have to do with lyme) let me know. Could they be speaking of Mild Silver Protein? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 18. With the help of a renowned scientist from the National Institute of Health ("NIH"), Dr. Willie Burgdorfer, and the use of the NIH's sophisticated equipment, a unique form of a mineral was developed by DEDI. Once later perfected, this specifically engineered mineral was encircled by a protein which proved to be lethal against all viruses, bacteria and fungi tested against it, to include full blown AIDS. Without the direct assistance of Dr. Willie Burgdorfer from the Rocky Mountain division of the NIH, the specific engineered mineral would never have been developed to its highest potency.
The original version of this mineral product, along with the perfected version under the NIH, has never been produced by anyone to date. Over the years with all the testing and human trials conducted, this single product, and versions of it produced by DEDI, revealed staggering results.
The testing, trials and human use of varying potencies of DEDI's mineral product had not only revealed its lethal powers by killing the AIDS virus, it additionally inhibited or killed the spirochetes in Lyme disease, viruses and bacteria attributed to Hepatitis C, along with staph infections. It was effective in treating flesh eating staph. It was reported by one doctor using the product in patients at the final stages of leukemia that it normalized the white/red blood cells. Leukemia symptoms disappeared, meaning the leukemia wasn't a cancer at all, it was caused by some unknown virus. Another doctor reported it had been effective in some of his patients afflicted with Alzheimer's disease reflecting that at least some forms of Alzheimer's are viral or bacterial related.
Tests revealed it killed the staph bacteria known as staphylococcus aureus, which are staph infections that are resistant to known antibiotics. These resistant strains of bacteria are also known as MRSA. In less potent forms, DEDI's mineral product was exceedingly effective in treating sinus infections, ear infections in children, gum infections, fungi infections under the nail in rapid order. Usually in one day of administration. Taken daily, the product appeared to help prevent colds and viral infections; however, it was not immediately effective with regard to a common cold
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Who is DEDI, and has Dr. Burgdorfer given permission for the use of his name in this way?
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i vaguely recall having read this c. 1998-99, in connection with a silver-product advertisement on a site selling silver. this passage itself reads like an extended info-advertisement.
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actually it's from John C. Hammell who is President of International Advocates for Health Freedom. It looks like his website is http://www.iahf.com .....which I will check out. The rest of the document had to do with imprisoning certain people who had found cures for diseases and how it is unamerican and criminal
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Then think about WHY these antibacterial compounds had to be invented.
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That was mild silver protein, and it's not all that effective. DEDI sold it for a while.
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in vitro, msp is effective, an excellent tool for the research purposes its used.
however,hypothetically,when taken orally and/or parenterally,there are myriad intervening physiological pathways of the body between ingestion, by any method, and the target pathogenic organsim(s) that preclude any conlusion on its therapeutic efficacy w/rt the targeted pathogenic organism; if one traces the metabolic routes through which it is processed, prior to reaching its target microbe, i'd assume too much gets 'tied-up' in other physiological processes of the body, and as a result, too little does the intended job.
topical application is closest to in vitro use in the lab. so, i'd trust topical application in the case of silver-impregnated bandaids, and not oral and parenteral uses. the less the number of metabolic and other pathways through which silver must travel, the more likely the result claimed is true; e.g., silvadene.
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It's a mild silver protein as Oxygenbabe stated. The science of silver has kinda left it in the dust. MSP is silver atoms (not ions). My experience is that is does work better than homebrew ionic silver. What is needed is a silver molecule that has a tight enough bond to stay together in the host but also be able to have its silver break apart as it comes into contact with a pathogens. That silver ions attach themselves to pathogens and kill them is beyond dispute. (in vitro and in vivo)
Currently the chinese have Conval PAg-40TM: a silver-bearing antibiotic made of silver zircon phosphate which the chinese gov't has approved of. Invision has a product of silver complexed with citrate and potassium, which the FDA of course has done nothing except state it's not proven safe or effective.
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quote:Originally posted by daystar1952: It looks like his website is http://www.iahf.com .....which I will check out. The rest of the document had to do with imprisoning certain people who had found cures for diseases and how it is unamerican and criminal
Codex Alimentarius Commission: A threat to mankind by Dr. Matthias Rath, M.D. There is an entire industry with an innate economic interest to obstruct, suppress and discredit any information about the eradication of diseases. The pharmaceutical industry makes over one trillion dollars from selling drugs for ongoing diseases. These drugs may relieve symptoms, but they do not cure. We have to realize that the mission of this industry is to make money from ongoing diseases. The cure or eradication of a disease leads to the collapse of a multi-billion dollar market of pharmaceuticals. The natural purpose and driving force of the pharmaceutical industry is to increase sales of pharmaceutical drugs for ongoing diseases and to find new diseases to market existing drugs. By this very nature, the pharmaceutical industry has no interest in curing diseases. The eradication of any disease inevitably destroys a multi-billion dollar market of prescription drugs as a source of revenues. Therefore, pharmaceutical drugs are primarily developed to relieve symptoms, but not to cure. If eradication therapies for diseases are discovered and developed, the pharmaceutical industry has an inherent interest to suppress, discredit and obstruct these medical breakthroughs in order to make sure that diseases continue as the very basis for a lucrative prescription drug market. The economic interest of the pharmaceutical industry itself is the main reason why no medical breakthrough has been made for the control of the most common diseases such as cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, heart failure, Diabetes, cancer, and osteoporosis, and why these diseases continue like epidemics on a worldwide scale. For the same economic reasons, the pharmaceutical industry has now formed an international cartel by the code name "Codex Alimentarius" with the aim to outlaw any health information in connection with vitamins and to limit free access to natural therapies on a worldwide scale. At the same time, the pharmaceutical companies withhold public information about the effects and risks of prescription drugs and life- threatening side effects are omitted or openly denied. In order to assure the status quo of this deceptive scheme, a legion of pharmaceutical lobbyists is employed to influence legislation, control regulatory agencies (e.g. FDA), and manipulate medical research and education. Expensive advertising campaigns and PR agencies are used to deceive the public. Millions of people and patients around the world are defrauded twice: A major portion of their income is used up to finance the exploding profits of the pharmaceutical industry. In return, they are offered a medicine that does not even cure. Make health a human right. To learn more about Codex Alimentarius and the conspiracy to destroy our health freedom, visit Dr. Rath's Website: http://www.rath.nl/Posts: 731 | From Humble,TX | Registered: Feb 2005
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Clinical Use Report Of MSP Dr. Joseph Cardot from Colorado
Researchers have been warning the medical establishment for years that the indiscriminate use of antibiotics could spawn, they warned, would create a "post antibiotic world" where common, as well as uncommon, infections would quickly escalate into fatal illnesses. The warning have been ignored; the result is that we are - right now - facing a major threat to human life from formerly treatable infectious conditions.
A friend of mine, Dr. Richard Callahan, York, NE, in a recent phone conversation remarked that, in his opinion, mutated pneumoccus bacteria and viral pneumonia will be killing thousands of Americans annually within five years. Bad news indeed.
The good news is that Mild Silver Protein (MSP) may be an answer to the dilemma we are facing. I have operated a family practice for 37 years where I have treated all types of infections in patients varying in ages from infants to over ninety.
Before prescribing any treatment I believe a doctor should determine if the patient might suffer harmful effects from the treatment. "First Do No Harm." The treatment should also offer the prospect of helping the patient recover. MSP meets both of the criteria.
I started using a silver suspension in protocols for patients with infections in January of 1992. The first patient, a female, had "walking" viral pneumonia. She was placed on one tablespoon of the silver suspension t.i.d. She was asymptomatic the fourth day into treatment. I was astounded. I thought that it might have been a misdiagnosis. Since that first experience I have treated more than 50 cases of viral pneumonia with the same positive results. Time of treatment varies, due to patient condition and severity of infection, from four days to thirty days. The outcome, however, is consistently positive; the infection is cleared.
Since that first experience I have included MSP in protocols for all types of infectious diseases with positive results.
MSP has cleared reoccurring ear infections in children who were scheduled for tube surgery making the procedure unnecessary. Booklet Page #8 Infectious fibromayalgia(Fibromyositis) andSj�gren's syndrome patients have benefitted from MSP therapy; MSP therapy helps manyrheumatoid arthritis patients with synovial fluid infections that are causing inflammation to no longer need steroids.
SystemicCandida Albicans is successfully treated with MSP. It is so effective we must start with small doses to controlHerxheimer effect.
Staph and other infections in the mouth(Gingivitis) have dramatically improved with MSP therapy.
The Lyme disease spirochete(Borrelia burgdorferi) is eliminated using MSP therapy. I have records of Lyme patients who have been taking various antibiotics for three or more years who have become asymptomatic on MSP therapy after just three or four weeks of treatment. The average duration to rid the body of the spirochete is three to nine months. Systemic Candida Albicans frequently occurs in patients with Lyme; complicating the treatment and prolonging the duration of treatment.
Lyme disease is far more prevalent than is generally known. Lyme has been reported in the U.S. in 43 states, and in all of Canada. I believe that reported cases of Lyme represent only about 20% of the actual number of Lyme cases. Lyme is routinely misdiagnosed as meningitis or as a "heat rash." A red rash is a typical symptom of Lyme. Mild Silver Protein solutions* are proving to be 100% effective in getting rid of the Lyme spirochete when they are included in the treatment protocol.
The important thing about MSP therapy is that it is non-toxic. I have never observed any side effect from using MSP therapy, and I have used it in patients with all kinds of infections. In acute conditions as much as four tablespoons per day has been given, with no adverse reactions observed or reported.
HIVpositive patients have responded to MSP therapy if begun before the advanced stages of full blown AIDS. Temple University studies indicate that MSP kills the HIV virus in vitro. I believe that the HIV can be completely eliminated by using higher concentrations of MSP than can be absorbed with oral dosing. In vivo studies should be done using 250 to 750 ppm MSP administered IV. Due to the fact that MSP is non-toxic in high concentrations, this should prove to be a God-sent treatment for the millions who are suffering and dying from AIDS related illnesses.
The use of AZT and other chemotherapeutic drugs, in the vain attempt to treat AIDS is, in my view, simply death by prescription. These drugs destroy DNA and the immune system; a case of "the cure being as bad as the disease." Booklet Page #9 Why not use a proven to be non-toxic protocol with AIDS patients, rather than the present approach of hitting them on the head with a hammer to get rid of the headache?
Scientists at a major U.S. pharmaceutical company have developed a Mild Silver Protein solvent formula (MSP). This formula, when applied to the gums, produces dramatic improvement with the first treatment.*
Saturate a band-aid pad with MSP and apply to ringworm. The infection is cleared in 2 to 3 days.
Psoriasis(virus in the skin) responds to MSP, applied topically. Within 3 weeks of treatment (b.i.d.) new normal skin growth is observed. It takes three to eighteen months of MSP therapy to heal psoriasis.
MSP is so effective in treating gum diseases (Gingivitis) that, in my opinion, if widely utilized in the population, it could eradicate gum disease completely.
I have seen patients withsevere infections of the mouth whose symptoms included swollen gums, tongue, and cheeks (making them unable to speak or eat) improve immediately. Following one application of MSP most could eat. These severe infections are completely cleared after two to four days of applying MSP four times per day.
We have seen excellent results using MSP therapy in Herpes genitalis. If MSP is applied topically when itching and soreness occurs prior to vesicular eruption it prevents eruption in more than 50% of the cases. Eruptions are mild when they do occur. If treatment is continued b.i.d. topically to the area, the infection clears in half the usual time. Patient should also take 2 teaspoons of MSP orally daily and remain on 1 teaspoon per day to help eliminate future out-breaks.
Herpes Zoster(shingles) has been successfully treated as well. Pain is substantially relieved and duration of eruption reduced as indicated above with h. genitalis, (same Protocol).
Mild Silver Protein is not a standard colloidal silver suspension. It is made by a licensed laboratory, that has research to substantiate its efficacy and safety for use in vivo to control infection.*
Many companies have jumped on the bandwagon producing colloidal silver products. Many are unstable; rendering them useless. Most are formulated with only 3 to 6 ppm. Silver suspensions are not homeopathic remedies. They are more effective in higher concentrations. The lab formulates MSP at 30 ppm and 40 ppm as a dietary supplement, and topical application. Types of concentrations I have access to in my practice, range from 30 ppm, 40 ppm, 50 ppm, 100 ppm, 400 ppm, 500 ppm, 1,100 ppm, 2,000 ppm, 5,000 ppm and 10,000 ppm, with 5,000 ppm "now" being demonstrated to be the most palatable to the patient and effective*. These concentrations are responsible for the results achieved with patients coming to my clinic that I have shared with you in this article.* Booklet Page #10 If you and your doctor had access to something that would effectively kill all kinds of infections, and that was completely non-toxic with no side effects, it would be a blessing.
Mild Silver Protein has proven to be that blessing in my practice.
For those on traditional abx, chinese researchers have shown there are synergistic antibacterial effects of traditional antibiotics combined with silver nanoparticles. IMO an ESSENTIAL supplement in these bacterial resistant times. http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0957-4484/16/9/082Posts: 731 | From Humble,TX | Registered: Feb 2005
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What Dr. Burgdorfer did was show that colloidal silver killed spirochetes in a petrie dish. So would bleach and many other things.It is a totally different matter in vitro - in a mammal's body.
I think Dr. Burgdorfer regretted doing that and having his letter published in Farber's book, I think without permission. What you have posted is material from that book. Of course, they don't include any documentation of their sources and make it sound like new info.
Silver has its uses topically, but injesting it is a doubtful way to use it, and can be dangerous. I know lots of people who tried it for Lyme disease to no avail. I also know people who lost a lot of money on undelivered bottles of the stuff from the Farber bunch.
After Farber was murdered in the late '90's, his family continued the sale of the concoction. They even had "Ask the doctor" on their website - in Canada - with Farber's picture as though he was still living.
Just wanted to point out that you can't believe everything you read on the internet.
Just wanted to point out that you can't believe everything you read on the internet.
Ann - OH
Ann, how much should our gov't, in your opinion, be investing in this possible cure? Am I the only one offended that our gov't sits on it's @ss as millions rot away with borrelia?!?
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quote:Originally posted by Ann-OH: What Dr. Burgdorfer did was show that colloidal silver killed spirochetes in a petrie dish. So would bleach and many other things.It is a totally different matter in vitro - in a mammal's body.
You meant in vivo? Anyhow the above can't be true, this is from the newbie link from Tom Grier. "I found across the board that at full strength no Colloidal Silver at any time ever had any significant inhibition of bacterial growth" Whats a newbie to think Posts: 731 | From Humble,TX | Registered: Feb 2005
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No, she meant in vitro. Dr. Burgdorfer was indeed mad about being "used" by the CS person who wrote the book. All he said was that it deserved further study.
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sorry, Brent, hasty reply. In the body should be "in vivo" - which Dr. B's experiment wasn't.
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From what I've been reading here, we are confronted with the possibility that for some people not only do traditional abx NOT work they seam to be making them sicker. With this in perspective I'll throw this question out again to anyone reading.
Should we be looking into this very promising substance as Dr. Burgdorfer, the Docs at the University of Texas Cancer Center, and others suggest we do?
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Mild silver proteinis not very promising and some bottles grew bacteria. It is also too high a particle count and not safe longterm. Colloidal silvers are not proven. NANOtechnology with silver as impregnated on catheters etc as you've posted about is interesting but nobody has created an IV use, so...how do you "Investigate" it? It doesn't exist. And don't compare that technology to colloidal silver.
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quote:Originally posted by oxygenbabe: so...how do you "Investigate" it? It doesn't exist. And don't compare that technology to colloidal silver.
As I've posted before technology has already passed mild silver protein. Whats needed is a silver molecule that releases it's ion upon contact with a pathogen. Invision has one version and the chinese have another.
Conval PAg-40TM: The Tsinghua University, Beijing, developed the silver-bearing antibiotic, silver zircon phosphate. Extensive studies proved its action against Staphylococcus aureas, Candida albicans, and Bacilius entritidia. Toxicity tests showed no allergenic reactions to the skin.
Tsinghua's silver-bearing antibiotic is certified by the Science and Technology Ministry of China as a "National Key New Product" as part of the Chinese Government's program to improve health through sanitation of the environment. The silver-bearing antibiotic, "Conval PAg-40TM", is marketed by the Tsinghua Pharmaceutical Co., Beijing, and in the USA by the Kotler Marketing Group, (www.kotlermarketing.com) Washington, DC.
So lets refine the question. Instead of Did Willy B find a cure? Lets ask, are these two products a cure for lyme?
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No, because the Chinese one is used topically on devices etc. And because Invision, there's no proof that its anything different than colloidal silver with a new spin.
Google "tetrasil" and you'll see a patent, if you can find Antelman's patent, for a more "nano" type technology. Nobody is making it. IF somebody makes it, or something similar, great. But it doesn't exist.
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maybe this is not quite to the mark, but i had a horrendous double earlobe infection caused by cheap pierced earrings several years ago, but the infection started subsiding immediately when i switched to sterling silver wires. doesn't that kind of prove that silver has antimicrobial properties, particularly through the skin? babies also get silver nitrate ointment put in their eyes at birth in hospitals to prevent eye infections, especially from VD. so we're not exactly shooting in the dark here, when it comes to associating silver with microbicide. however, all things considered, the FORM and APPLICATION may be very important considerations.
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quote:Originally posted by oxygenbabe: And because Invision, there's no proof that its anything different than colloidal silver with a new spin.
Invision is ions of silver complexed with citrate and potassium. It's not ionic silver. Ones a molecule and ones an atom. As to patents I believe the Invision product has patents pending. What we need is pubmed testing.
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Historic Perspectives on Clinical Use and Efficacy of Silver
Prior Civilizations
In ancient times, the first metals discovered and used were gold, copper and silver, in that order. Among the ashes of fire pits used by Stone Age peoples are the remains of metallurgical work. Discoverers associated the yellow color of gold with the sun. In turn, the white brightness of silver became associated with the moon. The Greek word argyros is derived from a Sanskrit root mean shining white. In Latin, the moon is known as luna. The surgical cauterizer made from silver nitrate and niter is still known as lunar caustic today. The later Latin name argentum comes from an Aryan root meaning white and shining. The word silver is of Gothic origin meaning shiny white. The optical properties of silver are distinctive because of its exceptionally high reflectivity and very low emissivity.
For thousands of years, silver has been highly regarded as a versatile healing tool. In ancient Greece, Rome, Phoenicia and Macedonia, silver was used extensively to control infections and spoilage. Hippocrates, the "Father of Medicine," taught that silver healed wounds and controlled disease. Around 400 B.C., he listed as a singular treatment for ulcers "the flowers of silver alone, in the finest powder." Herodotus describes how the King of Persia carried with him boiled water in silver flagons to prevent sickness. In 69 B.C., silver nitrate was described in the contemporary Roman pharmacopoeia. Pliny the Elder, in his survey of the world's knowledge, Natural History (78 A.D.), states in Book XXXIII, Section XXXV, that the slag of silver "... has healing properties as an ingredient in plasters, being extremely effective in causing wounds to close up..."
The popularity of medicinal silver especially arose from 702 A.D. through 980 A.D. throughout the Middle East where it was widely used and esteemed for blood purification, heart conditions, and controlling halitosis. Paracelsus (circa 1520) extensively incorporated silver medicinally, and later Caradanus, Pareus and Sala also used it. Angelus Sala used silver nitrate to successfully treat chorea, tabes dorsalis (syphilis), and "doubtably epilepsy". These crude forms of silver were reported by Sala to rarely cause the bluish hue of skin discoloration due to its overuse (Argyria). It is widely thought that during the Middle Ages, silver utensils and goblets contributed a bluish hue to the skin tone of the upper class, resulting in the term "royal blue bloods." Plausibly the term "born with a silver spoon in his mouth" was coined during that time for the same reason, as an attribute for describing the good fortune of health more than having wealth. These blue bloods were noted to have obtained a measure of protection from the rampant plagues common to Europe in those centuries. The use of silver to provide bacteria-free tableware, pacifiers and storage vessels has been practiced throughout history. Today it is known that metallic silver will dissolve in water to the level of 10-5 g/l, which is toxic to Escherichia coli and Bacillus typhosus.
Pioneers of the American West would often put a silver dollar into a jar or container of milk to help keep it fresh without refrigeration. They would also drop silver and copper coins in their barrels of drinking water to combat bacteria and algae. During the wars with Napoleon, the armies of Tsar Alexander used water casks lined with silver to clean drinking water from rivers and streams. This practice by the Imperial Russian army was common through World War I and continued to be incorporated by some units in the Soviet Army during World War II.
Raulin recorded the first clinical description of the water-cleansing effect by silver in 1869. He observed that Aspergillus niger could not grow in silver vessels. Modern Research using the Scientific Method In 1861, Thomas Graham found that certain solutions would pass through a membrane and others would not. He found a stable, intermediate state of matter and was able to describe it. Graham discovered that substances could enter a solution in such a manner that they would exhibit characteristics quite different from those of a true solution. He applied the term "colloidal" (from kolla = glue) to this intermediate state, since glue, gelatin, and related substances were the most obvious to him as being in this unique state.
The Swiss botanist von Nageli recorded one of the amazing discoveries of the 19th Century in 1869. Von Nageli coined the term "oligodynamic" to describe the microbiocidal properties of a metal hydrosol (e.g. copper, silver and tin) at minute concentrations. Silver is unique in its action against micro-organisms.
Recent studies confirm that silver ions are active against bacteria at concentrations as low as one part per billion in pure water. Silver ions react rapidly with the walls of prokaryotic cells typical of micro -organisms, whereas the membranes of eukaryotic cells of mammals strongly resist any effect by silver.
In 1884, the German obstetrician C.S.F. Crede, observed that there was a 79% relationship between blind children and maternal venereal disease. He subsequently introduced a prophylactic l% silver nitrate eye solution for newborns for the prevention of ophthalmia neonatorum. Following its introduction, the incidence of eye disease in newborns dropped to about 0.2%. His treatment was a milestone in clinical prophylaxis and became a government regulation throughout most of the world. By 1897, silver nitrate began to be used in America to prevent blindness in newborns and is still used today. By 1910, Henry Crookes had documented that certain metals, when in a colloidal state, had strong germicidal action, but were harmless to human beings. The oligodynamic concept motivated the development of many antimicrobial processes and products.
One of the water purification developments that took place in 1928 was the development of Katadyn silver, described as a porous metallic, spongy mesh that attempts to maximize surface area. This silver meshwork also contains a small quantity of gold or palladium. Katadyn silver has been used inside flasks and storage containers and with water filters.
Both the U.S. and Russian space shuttle vehicles use electrified silver and copper water filtration systems.
Many urologic implements were made of silver and commonly used during the period of 1930 to 1960. This author has a Keyes-Ultzman silver urethral canula designed to reach the prostatic urethra. The advent of inexpensive stainless steel and improved sterilization methods greatly diminished the clinical market for silver implements.
During World War II, Charles L. Fox, a surgeon, observed that many soldiers died of uncontrolled bacterial infection in open wounds. He had long used silver nitrate as part of his medical practice, but it was far too aggressive with protein structures - limiting its clinical uses. His research at the Department of Surgery and Microbiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, led to the discovery of silver sulfadiazine. This combination provided controlled release of silver ions in a wound along with an active antibiotic drug. Silver sulfadiazine provided a steady, long-term delivery of silver ions onto or into a wound. This combination remains a medical milestone in the treatment of burn wounds and is the standard against which all other burn wound treatments are measured. It is a dual antagonist: silver has the primary activity against pathogens but should an organism be sensitive to sulfonamids, the sulfadiazine component will also be active. This dual function has been extensively studied to show effectiveness against a wide range of bacteria, fungi, extracellular viruses and protozoa.
During the last century, advances in pharmacological manufacturing methods sought to harness this time-valued strategy expressed in nearly all silver formulations. Yet early manufacturing methods rarely created high quality, homogeneous oligodynamic silver. Nevertheless, more than 96 different silver medicinals (many used intravenously) were in use prior to 1939, as documented by the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association. The introduction of Argyrol, a silver-protein compound that provided silver ions for minor illnesses, was one of the most successful silver-based preparations. Argyrol was widely marketed until the advent of the miracle drugs during the 1950's.
Also during the 1950's, Czech researchers developed a gennicidal silver product called "Movidyn". It was initially popular because it was much less expensive than chlorine-based disinfectants. Studies of contaminated wells found that Movidyn completely eliminated anaerobic bacteria such as Vibrio cholerae, which causes cholera, and aerobic bacteria such as Escherichia coli, a potential enteric pathogen and the most common organism associated with "traveler's diarrhea", and the Rickettsial pathogens associated with typhus, and protozoa such as Entamoeba histolytica associated with amebiasis. Apparently the Soviet military had the Czech manufacturing facility disassembled and shipped to Russia.
Charles E. Renn at the Department of Sanitary Engineering and Water Resources, Johns Hopkins University conducted studies in the 1950's that revealed drinking water could be disinfected if very fine silver particles were deposited in an activated carbon. The resulting filter acted as a mild galvanic couple or battery that caused silver to dissolve. Silver concentrations varied 25 to 40 parts per billion. The activated carbon adsorbed undesirable organic compounds including cancer-inducing trihalomethanes that can be generated in the presence of chlorine. Silver impregnated activated carbon is a major component of the $4,000,000,000.00 U.S. water purification market.
Research conducted at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arizona proved that silver and copper ions effectively eliminate Legionella in drinking water pipelines. Silver and copper ions penetrate biofilms that build up in hospital plumbing, destroying entrenched Legionella and other pathogenic organisms. The stability of silver and copper ions provides long-term margins of safety. In addition, these ions drift into and sanitize the less-used portions of the water supply system. Over 100 hospitals in the U.S., Canada, and U.K. have silver-copper ionization systems to eradicate Legionella pneumophilia from hot and cold water recirculation pipelines.
Studies conducted over decades at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University revealed that the minimum bactericidal concentration of silver required for biocidal activity against bacteria in pure water was 0.5 and 0.1 um/ml or 0.1 ppb.
A project begun in the early 1970's by Robert Becker, an orthopedic surgeon, involved a silver nylon product. This project was instigated in order to find an electromagnetic shield. Instead, it lead to the revolutionary discoveries by Becker of silver's unique properties to increase the rate of tissue regeneration in diseased or damaged tissues and his discovery that silver ions could induce fibrocytes to dedifferentiate into stem cells and back again. Becker also addressed the fact that children under 4 years of age could regenerate fingertips with silver. His extensive studies suggest that the regeneration effect initiated by silver appears to be similar to that seen in salamanders, which regenerate lost parts. While at the Upstate Medical Center, University of Syracuse, Syracuse, New York, Becker developed a technique that released large quantities of silver ions from silver electrodes via small electric currents of approximately 0.9 volts. Electrically driven silver ions were found to consistently penetrate one centimeter within 20 minutes into local proteins at a wound site and were effective in treating osteomyelitis, similar infectious diseases, and the silver proved to be a stimulus for reconstruction of tissue in large wounds.
Decades of practical application revealed that this technique was effective against both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. No bacteria proved resistant to the silver ions or developed a resistance to silver after treatment. Toxic effects to this process were negligible. During electrically driven silver ion treatment, a profuse exudate composed of large numbers of cells formed at the wound site. This exudate was accompanied by a dramatic increase in the rate of wound healing. No other known technique is capable of producing this effect.
One of Becker's research associates, A. Bart Flick, continued work in this area for professional and commercial applications. As a result, Flick has filed patents in 1994, 1996 and 2000 for silver-based wound dressings that are far superior to anything that has ever been available before. He has also obtained approval for these wound-dressing products from the U.S.
45 Food and Drug Administration."" Because of the success of these silver dressings, many other medical product manufacturers have filed for their own parallel products. Silver products include many variations of bandages, intratracheal tubes and catheters.
A 12 month randomized, multicenter trial study of uncoated and silver-coated urinary catheters was conducted in wards at the University of Medicine, Baltimore, the University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville and the University of Pittsburgh Hospital, Pittsburgh. This trial revealed that the risk of infection declined by 32% among patients in whom silver coated catheters were used. The silver subset of patients also had a decreased length of hospital stay and a decrease in morbidity. The estimated savings in hospital cost was nearly $500,000.
In the early 1970's treatment of severe burn cases using silver topical salves, such as silver sulfadiazine, provided superior control and prophylaxis. Today, multiple drug resistant (MDR) microbes are challenging this formulation's effectiveness, but this review shall discuss how state-of-the-art silver protocols and formulations offer superior protection against microbial strategies for acquiring resistance.
Absolute microbial resistance to medicinal silver has not been scientifically established. Several studies have indicated that some bacterial species have physiological mechanisms that circumnavigate silver's toxicity. Although it is clear that some pathogens have mechanisms to survive exposure to certain forms of silver, these mechanisms are limited when compared to higher life forms. Herein lie all the clues necessary to identify strategic silver therapeusis that pathogens are unlikely to survive.
It is probable that pathogens lack sufficient defense mechanisms to circumvent the toxic effects of silver ions when oligodynamic silver is delivered in sufficient, physiologically compatible quantities. In fact, the "apparent" resistance of microbes to silver was mistakenly noted by many who failed to notice and identify: (a) insufficient oligodynamic silver particle concentrations, (b) ineffective percentages of charged particles, (c) inadequate protocols or (d) improper procedures. Reports that multiple-drug-resistant (MDR) pathogens (i.e., MRSA ( and Acinetobacter spp.) were truly resistant to silver proved to be erroneous. Grier stated, "Some so-called silver-resistant micro-organisms may result from an apparent neutralization of the metal's inhibitory action or other assay artifacts. These include the presence of chelators such as serial amino acids, constituents of hard water, different buffers, light, incubation temperature, and particularly, soluble components of trypticase soy agar (TSA) and tryptose glucose extract agar (TGE). Currently, bacterial pathogens are unable to cope with sustained exposure to a silver hydrosol.
With the advent of antibiotic therapy, medicinal silver products fell largely into disuse (circa 1940 -1945), with the notable exceptions of topical silver salves and neonatal eye drop preparations. These salves advanced the science of "silver salt-derived" delivery and effectiveness in the mid 1960's. Then, during the mid 1970's, several papers were published that utilized electrically activated silver probes as delivery systems for targeted oligodynamic. More information is available from the U.S. FDA on Silverlon or the company that manufactures this dressing product. silver strategies. 81 The interest in such strategies continues to grow to the present, with high efficacy being obtained for viral vectors such as HIV 82 and resistant bone and dental infection.
83 Sufficient defense capacity to mitigate morbidity clearly exists in higher organisms, including humans (with the exception of medically benign Argyria).g4 Zhao and Stevens state that, "With the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, silver is re-emerging as a modern medicine because all pathogenic organisms have failed to develop an immunity to it (Ag+)."gs Silver is being used in the U.S. as a broad-spectrum antiseptic in several commercial arenas. For example, silver dihydrogen citrate, Axenohl� is an electrolytically generated compound that works well with other compounds used as hard surface disinfectants for food contact surfaces, clinical work surfaces, medical disinfectant wipes, and water treatment systems. The black polyvalent silver oxide [Ag404] is a compound unit with two single-charged and two triple�charged silver atoms. It is a microcidal compound effective against bacteria, yeast and mold. It is a safe, EPA approved antiseptic oxide compound. Tetrasil� is an example of this oxide used in a bactericidal topical ointment. It is also the best choice of relatively inexpensive silver currently available for sanitizing acrylic hot tubs.
Research initiated in the 1990's by the Chinese government through the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, studied the reaction between bacteria and silver ions. Their goal was to develop an effective antiseptic that would sanitize almost any surface. They developed a silver/zircon phosphate complex that proved to be an excellent disinfectant with stable, long-term sterilization effects. This silver complex also maintained perfect safety with no toxicity to humans. The Science and Technology Ministry of China certified the new antimicrobial as a "National Key New Product". It is marketed as Concal PAg-40TM.
In Vitro Studies The medical literature of the early 20th century regarding silver provides an important cautionary lesson from the past. Previous scientists, who were either supporters or detractors of silver medicinals, typically expressed equivocal knowledge and misapplied context because they failed to recognize silver speciation. This fault undermined their definitive knowledge about silver. Correct and in-context discernment of silver's therapeutic threshold remains elusive to most investigators even today. This "box" perception about silver will continue to lose its limitations as technology continues to prove itself outside of that box in the coming decades.
Clinical reports on silver medicinals began to flood into the various medical journals worldwide at the start of the last century. Initially, the Journal of the American Medical Association took a negative position. But within 11 years, a true revolution in medical practice with silver medicinals occurred that did not subside until the U.S. government's purchase of the patent rights to penicillin (circa 1940). Throughout this period, 1920 through 1942, JAMA articles were replete with oral (per os) and intravenous clinical reports of the efficacy and side effects of silver medicinals. 86 In tandem with research in America, Great Britain published prominently in such respected journals as The Lancet and the British Medical Journal.
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Should we be looking into this very promising substance as Dr. Burgdorfer, the Docs at the University of Texas Cancer Center, and others suggest we do?
Yep, I think so, Brent.... Definitely a lot of promise there...... !!
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quote:Originally posted by Boomerang: [QUOTE]Yep, I think so, Brent.... Definitely a lot of promise there...... !!
Thanks, I think so to. Here's another interesting article.
Study Shows Silver Nanoparticles Attach to HIV-1
In the first-ever study of metal nanoparticles' interaction with HIV-1, silver nanoparticles of sizes 1-10nm attached to HIV-1 and prevented the virus from bonding to host cells. The study, published in the Journal of Nanotechnology, was a joint project between the University of Texas, Austin and Mexico Univeristy, Nuevo Leon.
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Brent, the nanoparticles article is about a completely different form of silver than colloidal silver. And who knows what Invision means by ions or why putting potassium citrate in makes a difference if any. Their website is so vague it practically has nothing on it.
Turn the clock back a bunch of decades to when penicillin was discovered. Well mold grows on bread too. So you're saying the equivalent of, "We've got this stuff on bread, folks! It could cure us!"
It's NOT THE SAME THING. Yeah it would be great if scientists working in nanotechnology would use silver, or if Tetrasil/Imusil would get funded and made, but it ain't happening now.
As for Rentz I remember in a conversation with him he said do argentyn 23 (silver) IV for lyme except you also need antibiotics because the silver won't get it in the kidneys. Whatever that was supposed to mean? If it works it works, right? But just not in the kidneys? Meanwhile, the Kanes reported dangerously elevated liver enzymese in some folks on IV argentyn 23, I couldn't tolerate even 1/4 teaspoon a day, and I just read a post by a lymie who got so sick from taking it her husband took her to the hospital. So remember, you're self medicating with an uncontrolled substance so be careful. Mild Silver Protein, batches grew bacteria i.e. became completely contaminated, and one couple I know reported that batches of Argentyn23 were also contaminated with precipitate which was later "corrected".
Which is not to say they shouldn't work with it, it *is* antimicrobial. But by the way so is mercury. So is bismuth. That's why they put mercury into amalgams and into vaccines, for the antibacterial effect, and bismuth into gutta percha for root canals.
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Brent....please send me a PM. I have some info for you from LLMD.......about the latest product being used.
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So remember, you're self medicating with an uncontrolled substance so be careful. ------------------------------------------ Thanks I will. But I will continue to be VERY angry concerning the fact that it appears our government is censoring the scientific advances of silver. I can think of at least a dozen articles which should be on the front page of every newspaper in america. (which is controlled by only 5 corporations!) Perhaps with public outrage and major hospitals demanding action we can pressure our gov't to do the right thing. pubmed testing is NEEDED. Afterall we do have a pandemic on our hands.
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They're not censoring anything.
OTOH, to develop nanotechnologies with silver as an anti infective might be censored by lack of funding, because it might easily put a lot of expensive antibiotics and antifungals out of business. I do believe that there is a technology there that would be eminently worth pursuing. But whereas you can get fudning for using it on medical devices for indwelling catheters, some of which are delivering pricey antibiotics, you cannot get it for a one-fits-all anti infective that would make so many profitable drugs useless.
Did you see that NY TImes article recently? It was brilliant and I was pleased to see it. Pointing out that, for example in diabetes, they will not cover a $75 podiatrist to help avoid gangrene/amputation, but will cover a $30,000 foot amputation (or however much it costs). The insurance companies are banking on the amputation mostly not happening. Its bottom line. They don't even want the diabetics to come to them, or encourage them, by covering nutritionists and podiatrists. 3 or 4 NYC programs trying to offer preventive care to diabetics, closed down because they couldn't make enough $. The article noted that, even the hospital, if it can get a lot more $ for a surgery than for a nutritional consultation, will tend to go in that direction.
So what's screwed up is that we don't have socialized medicine like Australia and Canada. If medicine is a business, we're globally screwed. Antelman's patent, from what I could see, was very very interesting. They could NOT GET FUNDING.
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quote:Originally posted by oxygenbabe: So what's screwed up is that we don't have socialized medicine like Australia and Canada. If medicine is a business, we're globally screwed. Antelman's patent, from what I could see, was very very interesting. They could NOT GET FUNDING.
I missed the New York Times article. I couldn't agree more with the above statment. While I'm from corporate america and I believe in business as an engine for economic growth when it's built on disease management we have a problem. As to not getting funding I'll be more than happy to open my wallet! nice to end on agreement Posts: 731 | From Humble,TX | Registered: Feb 2005
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