Marketed as a cure-all, colloidal silver has muddled and controversial history. Its use was wide-spread prior the mass production of antibiotics in the 1940s, but declined considerably thereafter. Since the 1990s it has regained a bit of...
A popular "cure-all" prior to the 1940s, the 1990s saw the beginning of a resurgent interest in colloidal silver. The proponents of colloidal silver claim that it can do everything from stop the cold to cure AIDS. These claims lack supporting...
Certain minerals, including silver, can bind to proteins and other biological compounds and affect the way that they work. Colloidal silver is used for a variety of medicinal purposes, particularly for the treatment of infections. However, it...
Colloidal silver is a dietary supplement marketed as a treatment and/or cure for many medical conditions. However, according to the Food and Drug Administration, silver is a nonessential mineral that doesn't have any known health benefits....
Silver is a heavy metal used in jewelry due to its natural luster and ease of being worked. Certain preparations have been used medically as a topical antibiotic and cauterizing agent. It occurs as an electrically neutral metal or as an ion, a...
Manufacturers of colloidal silver products and equipment used to market colloidal silver as a dietary supplement. Silver isn't considered an essential element in the human body and there isn't any proof that it has any function in the body. The...
Colloidal silver is an over-the-counter dietary supplement that proponents assert has beneficial medicinal properties. The Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health states that there are no scientific...
A colloidal substance is one that has been reduced to a micro-fine powder. It may then be dispersed in a solvent. The individual particles are larger than molecules, but still too small to be seen without a microscope. Colloid is the substance...
Lyme disease is an inflammatory disease caused by infection with the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi. The bacteria that cause the disease are transmitted to humans through a bite by the black-legged tick, commonly called a deer tick. According to...
Of all the alternative medicines available today, colloidal silver may be one of the most controversial. Products, such as creams and salves, that use colloidal silver take this metallic element and suspend it in liquid. The theory behind its use...
Silver, especially colloidal silver, is often promoted as a cure-all for a variety of diseases including herpes, HIV and shingles. According to Dr. Brent A. Bauer at the Mayo Clinic, however, silver is not an effective treatment for any of these...
You may have seen advertisements for the health benefits of colloidal silver solutions, claiming the product can strengthen the immune system or cure diseases. But, according to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, there...
Colloidal silver are small, nearly invisible particles of silver that have been suspended in steam-distilled water, commonly used in the U.S. up until the mid-1930s as a form of medicine. There is no current scientific proof that colloidal silver...
Colloidal silver is used in the treatment of skin infections as well as internal bacterial infections. According to Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D. of EMR Labs, colloidal silver kills bacteria on contact, healing infection as it has for centuries....
Every day the news seems to have a story about drug resistant infections or infections that require multiple medications in order to eradicate them. MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, is such an infection. This serious infection...
Liquid or colloidal silver has a controversial history that includes previous use as a cure-all for ailments early in the last century before pharmaceuticals and antibiotics. Liquid silver is a solution that the body does not need or use...
Cataracts appear as a natural part of the aging process that slowly occurs over many years. This results when the clear components that form the lens behind your iris start to break down and turn cloudy. In early stages, you may not notice vision...
Back in the days of buckskin and buckboard wagons, colloidal silver was taken orally to treat medical conditions and infections such as epilepsy, gonorrhea and the common cold, according to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. It remained in...
Using colloidal silver for acne is both a controversial topic and approach. This form of silver was used for many years previous to the invention of antibiotics to combat bacteria-related diseases. For acne, some of the purported benefits include...
Colloidal silver is an over-the-counter dietary supplement that has been used for centuries to fight all sorts of ailments and conditions, yet its medicinal validity today remains controversial. No scientific data exist to support claims that...
Silver has been used for a thousand years as a natural antibiotic. Silver kills bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. Silver food dishes kept food safe from bacteria in ancient cultures, and the first settlers in America put silver dollars in...
Silver Biotics is a brand of colloidal silver that is used in alternative medicine for the treatment of a variety of infections. The National Institutes of Health warns strongly against taking colloidal silvers due to dangerous side effects and...
