Silver - What can it really do?

[Knight~Ryder]

From http://www.skysong.eu/2007/01/silver-do … -bacteria/


Scientists in Hong Kong uncover the biological mechanism behind the age-old treatment of wounds with silver.

Silver has for centuries been used to treat and prevent infection, and its wound-healing properties are well known. Less well understood is exactly how the metal acts as such an effective antimicrobial and healing agent. Kenneth Wong and others at the University of Hong Kong recently investigated the wound-healing properties of silver nanoparticles, and have shown that they do more than simply kill bacteria.

Wounds heal following a complex combination of blood coagulation, tissue inflammation and remodelling, and the best medical interventions are those that prevent or at least minimise scarring. Silver has long been used to treat a variety of diseases, and silver’s antibacterial effect is thought to be due to its penetration of cell walls and alteration of microbial DNA.

But the new research, published in the journal ChemMedChem (subscription required), indicates that silver goes further than this and modifies cytokines – the enzymes involved in cell growth and movement – leading to reduced inflammation and an increased rate of healing.

Wong and his colleagues describe wounds treated with silver nanoparticles healing in around 25 days, whereas it takes 29 days with common antibiotics, and 35 days with wounds left untreated. This translates into considerable cost savings in medical care.

With a scale size of around 10 nanometres, Wong says that silver can be used in a pure form and made into a stable solution, and also has the advantage that with a large surface area, the dose can be reduced. “The next step is to evaluate whether there is a receptor for silver, and what signalling pathways are affected," says Wong. “Furthermore, we are going to investigate if other nano-metals or compounds can be applied in disease models such as haemostasis and tissue regeneration."

MIT-based medical scientist Rutledge Ellis-Behnke regards the Hong Kong group’s research as groundbreaking, saying: “Silver has been used for over a thousand years in traditional Chinese medicine for wound healing, but this is the first time that a hint of the true mechanism has been shown."

[tara]

The newspaper headlines and television news broadcasts are filled with constant reminders that there are viral, bacterial and fungal threats for which medical science has no effective treatment. People are dying daily, in alarming numbers around the world, from diseases that resist all currently available antibiotics. Diseases that used to succumb to antibiotics have mutated into new forms that are now resistant to traditional treatment. They are even rampant in our hospitals.
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174] EVIDENCE OF EFFECTIVENESS OF 10 PPM SILVER FOR TREATMENT OF HUMAN AILMENTS
[175] A. Purpose of Example
[176] The purpose of this example is to demonstrate the utility of silver- based composition embodiments of the present invention for treating a variety of human ailments. The studies in this section were performed in Ghana, West Africa, at the Air Force Station Hospital under the direction of Dr. Kwabiah, at the KORIE-BU Teaching Hospital under the direction of Sr. Sackey, and at the Justab Clinic/Maternity Hospital under the direction of Dr. Abraham. In total, fifty-eight (5 patients were treated using a composition of the present invention comprising 10 ppm silver. The composition was used both internally and externally as an alternative to traditional antibiotics. The ailments treated included malaria, upper respiratory tract infections, urinary tract infections, sinusitis, vaginal yeast infections, eye, nose and ear infections, cuts, fungal skin infections, and sexually transmitted diseases, such as gonorrhea.
[177] B. Treatment Methods and Outcomes
[178] Abdominal pain and Diarrhea. The method comprises the step of administering approximately 5-25 ML of silver composition, one to five times a day orally until there was a response. One patient was treated with about 10 ML (about two teaspoons) of a composition of the present invention three times in one day. The patient had a full recovery in one day.
[179] Bronchitis. The method comprises the step of administering ca. 2-25 ml of silver composition orally, one to five times a day until there was a response. Two patients were treated with about 5 ml (about one teaspoon) each of a composition of the present invention for two times a day for three days. The patients had a full recovery in three days.
[180] Vaginal Yeast (Candida). The method comprises the step of administering ca. 5-25 ml of silver composition, one to five times a day as vaginal douches until there was a response. Five patients were treated with about 10 mi (about two teaspoons) each of a composition of the present invention for two times per day. The patients showed a full recovery within six days.
[181] Conjunctivitis. The method comprises the step of administering ca. several drops of a silver composition, one to five times a day to the infected eye until there was a response. Two patients were treated with several drops of a composition of the present invention in each of the infected eyes for two times per day. The patients had a full recovery after one day.
[182] External cuts and infection (including Staphylococcus skin infections, septic ulcers and infected abscesses). The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day to the infected area until there was a response. Six patients were treated with about 5 ml (about one teaspoon) each of a composition of the present invention on the infected areas for two times per day. The patients showed a full recovery within three days.
[183] External Otitis. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day to the infected ear until there was a response. Six patients were treated with approximately two drops of a composition of the present invention into, the infected ears for three times per day. The patients showed a full recovery after about four days.
[184] Otitis Media. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day to the infected ear until there was a response. One patient was treated with approximately two drops of a composition of the present invention comprising into the infected ear three times per day. The patient showed a full recovery in four days.
[185] Fungal Skin Infection. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day topically to the infected area until there was a response. Two patients were treated with about ten ML (two teaspoons) each of a composition of the present invention three times per day.
The patients showed a full recovery within eight days.
[186] Gonorrhea. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition to the infected area until there was a response. Two patients were each treated with about ten ml (two teaspoons) of a composition of the present invention three times per day. The patients showed an absence of symptoms within six days.
[187] Malaria. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day orally to the patient until there was a response. Eleven patients were treated with about ten ML (two teaspoons) each of a composition of the present invention three times per day. The patients showed a resolution of symptoms within five days.
[188] Halitosis and Gingivitis. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day as a mouthwash until there was a response. Two patients were each treated with the composition as a mouthwash. There was a full resolution of symptoms within three days (gingivitis) and within one day (halitosis).
[189] Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. The method comprises the step of administering about 5-25 ml of silver composition, one to five times a day as a vaginal douche until there was a response. One patient was treated with about 5 ML (approximately one teaspoon) of a composition of the present invention two times per day. The patient's symptoms resolved within five days.
[190] Pharyngitis. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day as a gargle until there was a response.
Four patients were each treated with about ten ml (two teaspoons) of a composition of the present invention three times per day. The patients showed full recovery within six days.
[191] Retrovirus Infection (HIV). The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, comprising 5 to 40 ppm silver one to five times a day orally area until there was a response. One patient exhibiting HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) was treated with about 5 ml (approximately one teaspoon) of a composition of the present invention two times per day.
The patient's symptoms resolved within five days.
[192] Sinusitis and Rhinitis. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day to the nose until there was a response. Six patients with nasal infections (four with sinusitis and two with rhinitis) were each treated with approximately two drops of a composition of the present invention comprising in their nasal passages three times per day.
The patients showed full recovery within four days.
[193] Tonsillitis. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day as a gargle until there was a response.
One patient was treated with a composition of the present invention three times per day. The patient showed full recovery within seven days.
[194] Upper Respiratory Tract Infection. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day orally until there was a response. Two patients were each treated with about 5 ml (approximately one teaspoon) of a composition of the present invention three times per day. The patients showed full recovery within six days.
[195] Urinary Tract Infections. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day orally until there was a response. Three patients were each treated with about ten ml (two teaspoons) of a composition of the present invention two to three times per day. The patients showed full recovery within six days.
[196] C. Discussion [197] These results are consistent with the various in vitro tests reported herein. Essentially, the silver composition is extremely effective against a large number of microbes in vitro. However, the tests indicate that this effectiveness remains even in the presence of a large amount of organic material. The silver compositions are widely effective in vivo where the organic background is extremely high. Many other disinfecting agents are ineffective in the presence of a large amount of organic material and/or are too caustic or toxic to be used in vivo.'
[198] EVIDENCE OF EFFICACY OF 10 PPM SILVER AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS BACTERIA
[199] A. Purpose
[200] The purpose of this example is to demonstrate the efficacy of a silver composition of the present invention against the bacteria that cause tuberculosis. This example describes the procedures for evaluation of the present invention for tuberculocidal efficacy. The methodology is based on the Tuberculocidal Activity Test Method as accepted by the EPA on December 11, 1985. [Refer to United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1986. Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances. Data Call-In Notice for Tubercuolocidal Effectiveness Data for All Antimicrobial Pesticides with Tuberculocidal Claims.

https://lifesilver.com/uses.htm

There are so many different uses and applications for ASAP Solution and Patis 30 that the task of listing them all here would require several pages at this website. Also, we all have different metabolic rates and physical body sizes, therefore, any attempt to pinpoint specific dosage sizes for the general public is an impossible task and borders on offering medical advice, which the FDA and the AMA are loathe to tolerate.
The Suggested Use, as recommended by American Biotech Labs, states on each bottle:
Adults: 1/2 to 1 teaspoon once or twice daily

[tara]

The newspaper headlines and television news broadcasts are filled with constant reminders that there are viral, bacterial and fungal threats for which medical science has no effective treatment. People are dying daily, in alarming numbers around the world, from diseases that resist all currently available antibiotics. Diseases that used to succumb to antibiotics have mutated into new forms that are now resistant to traditional treatment. They are even rampant in our hospitals.
http://lifesilver.com/approvals.htm
174] EVIDENCE OF EFFECTIVENESS OF 10 PPM SILVER FOR TREATMENT OF HUMAN AILMENTS
[175] A. Purpose of Example
[176] The purpose of this example is to demonstrate the utility of silver- based composition embodiments of the present invention for treating a variety of human ailments. The studies in this section were performed in Ghana, West Africa, at the Air Force Station Hospital under the direction of Dr. Kwabiah, at the KORIE-BU Teaching Hospital under the direction of Sr. Sackey, and at the Justab Clinic/Maternity Hospital under the direction of Dr. Abraham. In total, fifty-eight (5 patients were treated using a composition of the present invention comprising 10 ppm silver. The composition was used both internally and externally as an alternative to traditional antibiotics. The ailments treated included malaria, upper respiratory tract infections, urinary tract infections, sinusitis, vaginal yeast infections, eye, nose and ear infections, cuts, fungal skin infections, and sexually transmitted diseases, such as gonorrhea.
[177] B. Treatment Methods and Outcomes
[178] Abdominal pain and Diarrhea. The method comprises the step of administering approximately 5-25 ML of silver composition, one to five times a day orally until there was a response. One patient was treated with about 10 ML (about two teaspoons) of a composition of the present invention three times in one day. The patient had a full recovery in one day.
[179] Bronchitis. The method comprises the step of administering ca. 2-25 ml of silver composition orally, one to five times a day until there was a response. Two patients were treated with about 5 ml (about one teaspoon) each of a composition of the present invention for two times a day for three days. The patients had a full recovery in three days.
[180] Vaginal Yeast (Candida). The method comprises the step of administering ca. 5-25 ml of silver composition, one to five times a day as vaginal douches until there was a response. Five patients were treated with about 10 mi (about two teaspoons) each of a composition of the present invention for two times per day. The patients showed a full recovery within six days.
[181] Conjunctivitis. The method comprises the step of administering ca. several drops of a silver composition, one to five times a day to the infected eye until there was a response. Two patients were treated with several drops of a composition of the present invention in each of the infected eyes for two times per day. The patients had a full recovery after one day.
[182] External cuts and infection (including Staphylococcus skin infections, septic ulcers and infected abscesses). The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day to the infected area until there was a response. Six patients were treated with about 5 ml (about one teaspoon) each of a composition of the present invention on the infected areas for two times per day. The patients showed a full recovery within three days.
[183] External Otitis. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day to the infected ear until there was a response. Six patients were treated with approximately two drops of a composition of the present invention into, the infected ears for three times per day. The patients showed a full recovery after about four days.
[184] Otitis Media. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day to the infected ear until there was a response. One patient was treated with approximately two drops of a composition of the present invention comprising into the infected ear three times per day. The patient showed a full recovery in four days.
[185] Fungal Skin Infection. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day topically to the infected area until there was a response. Two patients were treated with about ten ML (two teaspoons) each of a composition of the present invention three times per day.
The patients showed a full recovery within eight days.
[186] Gonorrhea. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition to the infected area until there was a response. Two patients were each treated with about ten ml (two teaspoons) of a composition of the present invention three times per day. The patients showed an absence of symptoms within six days.
[187] Malaria. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day orally to the patient until there was a response. Eleven patients were treated with about ten ML (two teaspoons) each of a composition of the present invention three times per day. The patients showed a resolution of symptoms within five days.
[188] Halitosis and Gingivitis. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day as a mouthwash until there was a response. Two patients were each treated with the composition as a mouthwash. There was a full resolution of symptoms within three days (gingivitis) and within one day (halitosis).
[189] Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. The method comprises the step of administering about 5-25 ml of silver composition, one to five times a day as a vaginal douche until there was a response. One patient was treated with about 5 ML (approximately one teaspoon) of a composition of the present invention two times per day. The patient's symptoms resolved within five days.
[190] Pharyngitis. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day as a gargle until there was a response.
Four patients were each treated with about ten ml (two teaspoons) of a composition of the present invention three times per day. The patients showed full recovery within six days.
[191] Retrovirus Infection (HIV). The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, comprising 5 to 40 ppm silver one to five times a day orally area until there was a response. One patient exhibiting HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) was treated with about 5 ml (approximately one teaspoon) of a composition of the present invention two times per day.
The patient's symptoms resolved within five days.
[192] Sinusitis and Rhinitis. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day to the nose until there was a response. Six patients with nasal infections (four with sinusitis and two with rhinitis) were each treated with approximately two drops of a composition of the present invention comprising in their nasal passages three times per day.
The patients showed full recovery within four days.
[193] Tonsillitis. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day as a gargle until there was a response.
One patient was treated with a composition of the present invention three times per day. The patient showed full recovery within seven days.
[194] Upper Respiratory Tract Infection. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day orally until there was a response. Two patients were each treated with about 5 ml (approximately one teaspoon) of a composition of the present invention three times per day. The patients showed full recovery within six days.
[195] Urinary Tract Infections. The method comprises the step of administering a silver composition, one to five times a day orally until there was a response. Three patients were each treated with about ten ml (two teaspoons) of a composition of the present invention two to three times per day. The patients showed full recovery within six days.
[196] C. Discussion [197] These results are consistent with the various in vitro tests reported herein. Essentially, the silver composition is extremely effective against a large number of microbes in vitro. However, the tests indicate that this effectiveness remains even in the presence of a large amount of organic material. The silver compositions are widely effective in vivo where the organic background is extremely high. Many other disinfecting agents are ineffective in the presence of a large amount of organic material and/or are too caustic or toxic to be used in vivo.'
[198] EVIDENCE OF EFFICACY OF 10 PPM SILVER AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS BACTERIA
[199] A. Purpose
[200] The purpose of this example is to demonstrate the efficacy of a silver composition of the present invention against the bacteria that cause tuberculosis. This example describes the procedures for evaluation of the present invention for tuberculocidal efficacy. The methodology is based on the Tuberculocidal Activity Test Method as accepted by the EPA on December 11, 1985. [Refer to United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1986. Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances. Data Call-In Notice for Tubercuolocidal Effectiveness Data for All Antimicrobial Pesticides with Tuberculocidal Claims.

https://lifesilver.com/uses.htm

There are so many different uses and applications for ASAP Solution and Patis 30 that the task of listing them all here would require several pages at this website. Also, we all have different metabolic rates and physical body sizes, therefore, any attempt to pinpoint specific dosage sizes for the general public is an impossible task and borders on offering medical advice, which the FDA and the AMA are loathe to tolerate.
The Suggested Use, as recommended by American Biotech Labs, states on each bottle:
Adults: 1/2 to 1 teaspoon once or twice daily

[tara]

BTW, I have no affiliation with the company ABL other than I use the product. I have been using it for 4 years and the result is that I and my family rarely get ill. Any cut or abrasion is healed within three days and I have experienced gum disease and athlete’s foot fungus resolved in the same period of time. We use a teaspoon a day.

Any product that can cure malaria or HIV in less than a week has my vote.

Babesiosis is a close relative of malaria. Malaria is widely respected and feared--a major, worldwide epidemic that has gained the attention of health professionals globally. In this country, babesiosis similarly is spreading like a ring of fire from the New England states where it was identified, into the grass and brush wherever ticks are found. States, government officials, and most physicians are reluctant to investigate what they imagine to be rare and exotic. Pleas to Health Departments for dragging to collect and test ticks for the causative babesia protozoan parasite fall on deaf ears in most areas. Babesiosis is not even a reportable disease according to the Center of Disease Control. Thus, multitudes of children, playing innocently in the grass, and their parents, as well, are equalized by rings—rings in the rosy red blood cells and those other rings, the ones on skin—the famous bull’s eye rings of Lyme disease.

Babesiosis is caused by a single-celled PARASITE that lives in red blood cells and is carried by the same tiny deer ticks that spread Lyme disease. Doctors should look for it as a companion to cases of known Lyme disease, and in cases where there is no clear explanation for a patient's symptoms. In addition to Lyme and babesiosis, diseases borne by deer ticks include ehrlichiosis and bartonellosis. Tests for tick-borne diseases should be performed by laboratories that specialize in these infections. Doctors in the Commonwealth say the state's incidence of the MALARIA-LIKE scourge, which is carried by the same ticks that spread Lyme disease, may exceed that of New Jersey, where the disease has reached epidemic proportions. Those who are infected with Lyme spirochetes are also co-infected with such unpleasant microbes as those of ehrlichiosis, babesiosis, mycoplasma, and bartonella - diseases that greatly multiply the patients symptoms.

The thing is that if borreliosis is not treated, given that it is so similar to the organism that causes syphilis, it can progress into other very serious manifestations --- just as heart disease, brain damage, dementia—very similar to what has been seen with late stage syphilis when it goes untreated.. http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Daily...meDisCover.htm
ASAP Solution Immune System Support is:
Doctor recommended...
Tested scientifically...
Patented...
Proven immune system support in clinical trials...
Currently in use, world wide, by over 150,000+ satisfied customers...
Proven effective against some of the most dangerous pathogens known...
Safe and Non-Toxic...
Broad spectrum anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal...
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ASAP Solution, Argyria and Risk
What Is Argyria?
American Biotech Labs’ silver products are non-addictive, non-toxic and are not a salt. The extreme misuse of some silver salt compounds may cause a condition called argyria. Argyria has no known side effects except that it causes a graying of the skin color. The condition is non-toxic and only cosmetic in nature. In most cases the discoloration is permanent.
What Causes Argyria?
Argyria has resulted from extreme misuse of very strong silver solutions consisting of silver salts, including silver nitrate, silver arsphenamine, silver chloride and possibly silver iodide. These products were sold until 1975 under various labels consisting of solutions ranging from 5-30% silver [50,000-300,000 ppm (parts per million)] (Federal Register, FDA-21CFR Part 310, pg. 53685).
Silver Salts Are Not Colloidal Silver
Silver salts have mistakenly been called colloidal silver products by some misguided individuals. By definition, the word colloidal means a system in which particles larger than molecules in size (in this case retaining their metallic identity) of one substance are suspended throughout a second substance. In the case of American Biotech Labs’ silver products, finite particles of metallic silver are suspended within highly purified water. Silver salts readily dissolve in water, and therefore are not colloidal in nature.
No Comparison Between New And Old Products
American Biotech Labs’ silver products have been proven to kill bacteria at levels of between 2.5 – 5 ppm, and since the old silver products ranged between 50,000 – 300,000 ppm, there is really no comparison. American Biotech Labs’ products are effective with concentrations of 20,000 – 60,000 times less silver in the solution. A better, patented technology which produces a more useful (bacteria lethal) product would seem to be the difference. Because American Biotech Labs’ silver solutions effectively kill bacteria using thousands of times less silver, the risk of any possible side effects has been all but eliminated.
Minimum Amount Of Silver Known To Cause Argyria
Hill and Pillsbury (1939) stated, “…the ordinary clinical use of colloidal silver compounds practically never gives rise to any gross untoward effect other than argyria.” The minimum amount of silver known to cause argyria in adults, from the use of any silver compound (including salts) is 900 mg of silver taken orally in one year. In order to reach this level of silver intake, an individual would have to consume 380 – 8 oz. bottles of American Biotech Labs’ 10 ppm ASAP Solution silver product within a year. Suggested adult dosage is about ½ to 1 teaspoon taken one to three times daily. This means that an individual would have to consume over 50 times the normal adult dosage, every day for a year, to even reach the lowest level ever known to cause argyria. It should be noted that EPA standards for the amount of silver that can be safely consumed in drinking water is .005 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day (EPA RED document, page 2, 4th paragraph). This means that a normal sized adult could consume an ounce (6 tsp) of the 10 ppm ASAP Solution every day, for a 72 year lifespan and still be within the safe limits as defined by the EPA. In the EPA RED document for silver, the EPA goes on to state (page 3, 4th paragraph) "The EPA does not anticipate that dietary exposure to these low levels of silver will be associated with any significant degree of risk."
American Biotech Labs has had independent in vivo toxicity tests completed on its ASAP Solution product that showed that at as much as 200 times the normal adult dosage, or the equivalent of an adult consuming 32 full ounces of the 10 ppm product at one sitting, the ASAP Solution was found completely non-toxic to the test animals. As was noted above, most adults using the ASAP Solution only use about 1 – 3 teaspoons a day.
Absorption And Retention Of Ingested Silver
According to the EPA IRIS Report on silver (Integrated Risk Information Systems) , page 5, 1st paragraph, it states that a number of tests were completed to test the absorption and retention of ingested silver in a number of animals (including primates). In conclusion, the test work indicated that between 90 – 99% of ingested silver was excreted on the second day after ingestion, and greater than 99% was excreted in less than a week. So, in other words almost all of the silver was out of the body in only two days, which indicates that silver does not build up in the system when consumed in small amounts. [Lifesilver Editor’s note: As you will see elsewhere at this site, small amounts of ASAP Solution have been scientifically proven to possess very powerful antibiotic properties.]
Levels Of Silver Usage Historically Deemed Safe
Many different silver products have been and are still being used throughout the medical industry. Up until the advent of chemical antibiotics, as we now know them, which came about in the 1940s, some very strong silver products were being used as antibiotics. Of the millions of people who used these concentrated silver products, there were no reported deaths and only 239 reported cases of generalized argyria (EPA Report ECAO-CIN-026, January 1991, page VI-3). In that same EPA report, on page VI-4, it states that Gaul and Staud (1935) suggested 8 grams of silver arsphenamine (administered by injection at 145,000 ppm strength) as a safe total dose. They also noted that other authors suggested safe total doses of 12 – 15 grams, based on clinical experience. The work of Furchner, et al (196, as stated above, showed that small amounts of silver did not build up in the system of primates. For argument’s sake, if we assumed that every bit of ingested silver was retained by the body, and that a person was using the American Biotech Labs’ 10 ppm, ASAP Solution at a level of two teaspoons daily, then using the Gaul and Staud’s safe levels of total silver usage of 8 grams, we can state that it would take an individual 235.66 years of daily usage, at two teaspoons, to achieve the total consumption of 8 grams (a level that they deemed safe).
Almost Everyone Has Used Silver To Kill Bacteria
Just about every single person born in the United States in the last 80 years was treated with a silver product at the time of birth. Silver was found to be so safe and effective at killing the bacteria that newborns pick up in their eyes coming through the birth canal, that at one point, it was mandated by law that it be used in the hospitals and clinics.
ASAP Silver VS Prescription Antibiotics Usage
Prescription antibiotic usage, unlike silver, can be very dangerous. In numerous cases it can cause death…which is a fairly serious and permanent side effect. In an article in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), December, 2000, Barbara Starfield estimated that there were 106,000 deaths annually caused by properly administered antibiotics. This number does not include deaths from antibiotic usage whereby the antibiotics were used or prescribed incorrectly. There were no reported deaths in 2000 from the use of silver products.

Does ASAP Solution harm the helpful bacteria in our intestines?
Individuals who have taken the ASAP Solution for an extended period of time report no negative gastro-intestinal side effects. Two different independent studies have been completed on probiotic bacteria and the ASAP solution. the ASAP solution was found to have no negative effect on the helpful or probiotic bacteria in both studies.

Conclusion
There is no comparison on the issue of safety in usage between silver products and prescription antibiotics. Silver is obviously much safer to use. According to the EPA, who is in charge of defining safe levels of any mineral in water used for ingestion or drinking, the oral consumption of small amounts of silver in water, on a daily basis, poses no significant degree of risk. Unless an individual were constantly consuming (every day for over a year) over 50 times the recommended daily dosage of the ASAP Solution, at 10 ppm, there is literally no possibility of that individual contracting the non-toxic condition called argyria.
[The above information is taken from the American Biotech Labs’ Product Information Report for ASAP Solution]

Non-Toxicity Test Work Summary:
In order to insure not only the best product, but also a safe product, American Silver L.L.C. [American Biotech Labs] hired an independent laboratory to do a toxicology study on the ASAP Solution. The test, called an LD-50 test, was performed in accordance with the guidelines of the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA) Regulations, 16 CFR 1500.

In the test work, the ASAP Solution was given to a number of both male and female test rats. The amount of ASAP Solution given to the rats was 5g/kg, or the equivalent of a 200 pound man taking 192 teaspoons of about 4 full 8 ounce bottles of the ASAP 10ppm solution at one time (the normal adult dosage is one or two teaspoons/day).
As a result of the test work, the independent laboratory made the following conclusion, "Under the conditions of this study, there was no mortality or significant evidence of toxicity observed in the rats. The test article (ASAP Solution) would not be considered toxic at a dose of 5g/kg by oral route in the rat."

[tara]

BTW, I have no affiliation with the company ABL other than I use the product. I have been using it for 4 years and the result is that I and my family rarely get ill. Any cut or abrasion is healed within three days and I have experienced gum disease and athlete’s foot fungus resolved in the same period of time. We use a teaspoon a day.

Any product that can cure malaria or HIV in less than a week has my vote.

Babesiosis is a close relative of malaria. Malaria is widely respected and feared--a major, worldwide epidemic that has gained the attention of health professionals globally. In this country, babesiosis similarly is spreading like a ring of fire from the New England states where it was identified, into the grass and brush wherever ticks are found. States, government officials, and most physicians are reluctant to investigate what they imagine to be rare and exotic. Pleas to Health Departments for dragging to collect and test ticks for the causative babesia protozoan parasite fall on deaf ears in most areas. Babesiosis is not even a reportable disease according to the Center of Disease Control. Thus, multitudes of children, playing innocently in the grass, and their parents, as well, are equalized by rings—rings in the rosy red blood cells and those other rings, the ones on skin—the famous bull’s eye rings of Lyme disease.

Babesiosis is caused by a single-celled PARASITE that lives in red blood cells and is carried by the same tiny deer ticks that spread Lyme disease. Doctors should look for it as a companion to cases of known Lyme disease, and in cases where there is no clear explanation for a patient's symptoms. In addition to Lyme and babesiosis, diseases borne by deer ticks include ehrlichiosis and bartonellosis. Tests for tick-borne diseases should be performed by laboratories that specialize in these infections. Doctors in the Commonwealth say the state's incidence of the MALARIA-LIKE scourge, which is carried by the same ticks that spread Lyme disease, may exceed that of New Jersey, where the disease has reached epidemic proportions. Those who are infected with Lyme spirochetes are also co-infected with such unpleasant microbes as those of ehrlichiosis, babesiosis, mycoplasma, and bartonella - diseases that greatly multiply the patients symptoms.

The thing is that if borreliosis is not treated, given that it is so similar to the organism that causes syphilis, it can progress into other very serious manifestations --- just as heart disease, brain damage, dementia—very similar to what has been seen with late stage syphilis when it goes untreated.. http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Daily...meDisCover.htm
ASAP Solution Immune System Support is:
Doctor recommended...
Tested scientifically...
Patented...
Proven immune system support in clinical trials...
Currently in use, world wide, by over 150,000+ satisfied customers...
Proven effective against some of the most dangerous pathogens known...
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ASAP Solution, Argyria and Risk
What Is Argyria?
American Biotech Labs’ silver products are non-addictive, non-toxic and are not a salt. The extreme misuse of some silver salt compounds may cause a condition called argyria. Argyria has no known side effects except that it causes a graying of the skin color. The condition is non-toxic and only cosmetic in nature. In most cases the discoloration is permanent.
What Causes Argyria?
Argyria has resulted from extreme misuse of very strong silver solutions consisting of silver salts, including silver nitrate, silver arsphenamine, silver chloride and possibly silver iodide. These products were sold until 1975 under various labels consisting of solutions ranging from 5-30% silver [50,000-300,000 ppm (parts per million)] (Federal Register, FDA-21CFR Part 310, pg. 53685).
Silver Salts Are Not Colloidal Silver
Silver salts have mistakenly been called colloidal silver products by some misguided individuals. By definition, the word colloidal means a system in which particles larger than molecules in size (in this case retaining their metallic identity) of one substance are suspended throughout a second substance. In the case of American Biotech Labs’ silver products, finite particles of metallic silver are suspended within highly purified water. Silver salts readily dissolve in water, and therefore are not colloidal in nature.
No Comparison Between New And Old Products
American Biotech Labs’ silver products have been proven to kill bacteria at levels of between 2.5 – 5 ppm, and since the old silver products ranged between 50,000 – 300,000 ppm, there is really no comparison. American Biotech Labs’ products are effective with concentrations of 20,000 – 60,000 times less silver in the solution. A better, patented technology which produces a more useful (bacteria lethal) product would seem to be the difference. Because American Biotech Labs’ silver solutions effectively kill bacteria using thousands of times less silver, the risk of any possible side effects has been all but eliminated.
Minimum Amount Of Silver Known To Cause Argyria
Hill and Pillsbury (1939) stated, “…the ordinary clinical use of colloidal silver compounds practically never gives rise to any gross untoward effect other than argyria.” The minimum amount of silver known to cause argyria in adults, from the use of any silver compound (including salts) is 900 mg of silver taken orally in one year. In order to reach this level of silver intake, an individual would have to consume 380 – 8 oz. bottles of American Biotech Labs’ 10 ppm ASAP Solution silver product within a year. Suggested adult dosage is about ½ to 1 teaspoon taken one to three times daily. This means that an individual would have to consume over 50 times the normal adult dosage, every day for a year, to even reach the lowest level ever known to cause argyria. It should be noted that EPA standards for the amount of silver that can be safely consumed in drinking water is .005 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day (EPA RED document, page 2, 4th paragraph). This means that a normal sized adult could consume an ounce (6 tsp) of the 10 ppm ASAP Solution every day, for a 72 year lifespan and still be within the safe limits as defined by the EPA. In the EPA RED document for silver, the EPA goes on to state (page 3, 4th paragraph) "The EPA does not anticipate that dietary exposure to these low levels of silver will be associated with any significant degree of risk."
American Biotech Labs has had independent in vivo toxicity tests completed on its ASAP Solution product that showed that at as much as 200 times the normal adult dosage, or the equivalent of an adult consuming 32 full ounces of the 10 ppm product at one sitting, the ASAP Solution was found completely non-toxic to the test animals. As was noted above, most adults using the ASAP Solution only use about 1 – 3 teaspoons a day.
Absorption And Retention Of Ingested Silver
According to the EPA IRIS Report on silver (Integrated Risk Information Systems) , page 5, 1st paragraph, it states that a number of tests were completed to test the absorption and retention of ingested silver in a number of animals (including primates). In conclusion, the test work indicated that between 90 – 99% of ingested silver was excreted on the second day after ingestion, and greater than 99% was excreted in less than a week. So, in other words almost all of the silver was out of the body in only two days, which indicates that silver does not build up in the system when consumed in small amounts. [Lifesilver Editor’s note: As you will see elsewhere at this site, small amounts of ASAP Solution have been scientifically proven to possess very powerful antibiotic properties.]
Levels Of Silver Usage Historically Deemed Safe
Many different silver products have been and are still being used throughout the medical industry. Up until the advent of chemical antibiotics, as we now know them, which came about in the 1940s, some very strong silver products were being used as antibiotics. Of the millions of people who used these concentrated silver products, there were no reported deaths and only 239 reported cases of generalized argyria (EPA Report ECAO-CIN-026, January 1991, page VI-3). In that same EPA report, on page VI-4, it states that Gaul and Staud (1935) suggested 8 grams of silver arsphenamine (administered by injection at 145,000 ppm strength) as a safe total dose. They also noted that other authors suggested safe total doses of 12 – 15 grams, based on clinical experience. The work of Furchner, et al (196, as stated above, showed that small amounts of silver did not build up in the system of primates. For argument’s sake, if we assumed that every bit of ingested silver was retained by the body, and that a person was using the American Biotech Labs’ 10 ppm, ASAP Solution at a level of two teaspoons daily, then using the Gaul and Staud’s safe levels of total silver usage of 8 grams, we can state that it would take an individual 235.66 years of daily usage, at two teaspoons, to achieve the total consumption of 8 grams (a level that they deemed safe).
Almost Everyone Has Used Silver To Kill Bacteria
Just about every single person born in the United States in the last 80 years was treated with a silver product at the time of birth. Silver was found to be so safe and effective at killing the bacteria that newborns pick up in their eyes coming through the birth canal, that at one point, it was mandated by law that it be used in the hospitals and clinics.
ASAP Silver VS Prescription Antibiotics Usage
Prescription antibiotic usage, unlike silver, can be very dangerous. In numerous cases it can cause death…which is a fairly serious and permanent side effect. In an article in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), December, 2000, Barbara Starfield estimated that there were 106,000 deaths annually caused by properly administered antibiotics. This number does not include deaths from antibiotic usage whereby the antibiotics were used or prescribed incorrectly. There were no reported deaths in 2000 from the use of silver products.

Does ASAP Solution harm the helpful bacteria in our intestines?
Individuals who have taken the ASAP Solution for an extended period of time report no negative gastro-intestinal side effects. Two different independent studies have been completed on probiotic bacteria and the ASAP solution. the ASAP solution was found to have no negative effect on the helpful or probiotic bacteria in both studies.

Conclusion
There is no comparison on the issue of safety in usage between silver products and prescription antibiotics. Silver is obviously much safer to use. According to the EPA, who is in charge of defining safe levels of any mineral in water used for ingestion or drinking, the oral consumption of small amounts of silver in water, on a daily basis, poses no significant degree of risk. Unless an individual were constantly consuming (every day for over a year) over 50 times the recommended daily dosage of the ASAP Solution, at 10 ppm, there is literally no possibility of that individual contracting the non-toxic condition called argyria.
[The above information is taken from the American Biotech Labs’ Product Information Report for ASAP Solution]

Non-Toxicity Test Work Summary:
In order to insure not only the best product, but also a safe product, American Silver L.L.C. [American Biotech Labs] hired an independent laboratory to do a toxicology study on the ASAP Solution. The test, called an LD-50 test, was performed in accordance with the guidelines of the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA) Regulations, 16 CFR 1500.

In the test work, the ASAP Solution was given to a number of both male and female test rats. The amount of ASAP Solution given to the rats was 5g/kg, or the equivalent of a 200 pound man taking 192 teaspoons of about 4 full 8 ounce bottles of the ASAP 10ppm solution at one time (the normal adult dosage is one or two teaspoons/day).
As a result of the test work, the independent laboratory made the following conclusion, "Under the conditions of this study, there was no mortality or significant evidence of toxicity observed in the rats. The test article (ASAP Solution) would not be considered toxic at a dose of 5g/kg by oral route in the rat."