Colloidal Silver Myths vs Facts Colloidal silvers can be both dangerous and highly beneficial. In short, the cheap ones aren't so great, the expensive and more processed ones are far superior and safer. On the down side, some expensive ones don't have any real silver at all. Colloidal silver should be in PURE water and not some type of protein goop. The non-pure-water versions are weak and mostly worthless...not to mention potentially dangerous. Colloidal silver made through electrolysis needs to be constant current and below 3mA. It should be slow and take a long time to do (hour or more). It should also have a motor turning very slowly for constant stirring. The goal is to get tiny silver pieces off the wires in a nano-particle size. Adding salt to the water to speed up the reaction is BAD. It will form silver chloride that is mildly poisonous and will eventually turn you blue. 99.99% pure silver nano-particles at 5 to 10ppm in pure distilled water will NOT turn you blue. Colloidal silver SHOULD be non-reactive to anything (think fine silver dust). This makes sense as it is basic chemistry. Colloidal silver is highly UNreactive with other pharmacy pills making it ideal as an additional treatment. One Theory: Colloidal silver works by penetrating a single cell organizm (like bacteria...and supposedly viruii), mixing in with its DNA, causing the DNA to constrict, cronstricted DNA cannot replicated, cell dies, person gets well. Most direct/topical applications prove a 20-40minute bacterial destruction. It seems that groups of cells in organs do not react the same way as single cells and are unaffected. It is also reported that colloidal silver binds to the outside of the cell wall and suffocates the bacteria or virus. There are other theories, but they haven't been studied in depth because of cost and squashing by the prescription drug cartels. Some will say you should drink a small amount each day. This would probably help when sick but the human body has a lot of volume and even though colloidal is small, it still has to be transported there. Not all areas get transported evenly... although it supposedly will help kill brain infections. Topical application (like the lab petri dishes) are lethal to bacteria. Good for like bandaid use, animal bites, scrapes, major wounds before the ambulance gets around, major wounds after the ambulance gets around, and direct sinus application. I also suspect that a true silver colloid in a nebulizer inhaled into the lungs would kill off bacterial pneumonia by the next day (direct lung surface application). It would probably "immunize" a well person from a sick person with pneumonia as any bacteria inhaled by the well person would just get killed off. I might also guess that it would kill lung inhaled anthrax by those sand nigger terrorists. (keep this in mind for your friends and family) Big drug companies don't want you to know this because this would undercut their expensive and worthless pills...not to mention their toxic and highly addictive pills... Prescription drug cartels hate silver treatments because they cannot patent a pure metal, pure water, and a low frequency square wave (blood electrifier). I highly recommend picking up the nasal sprayer. Best sinus silver application seems to be about an hour after doing the saline rinse. This way the nose is clear and the sinus walls can absorb the silver without reacting to the salt formula. A person who is really sick could take up to 1 liter of silver per day. This goes against most documentation, but it is common sense. A few drops on your head won't cure a foot infection. A large amount is needed to get through the entire body. Add a blood electrifier to really boost it. True colloids will not react with salt as they are particles and not ions. Monatomic silver is another advertising term commonly used to describe some silver solutions. It is not truly monatomic. Colloidal silver is made up of tiny nanoparticles of metallic silver. The particles are complete and do not combine with other elements. Ingestion of highly concentrated forms of ionic silver (100 ppm and above) may cause argyria, a permanent discoloration of the skin. Silver suspended in a protein matrix is poisonous and not a true colloid.