Show me a link to one peer reviewed study on the efficacy of Colloidal Silver (which is not debunking it). It's as useless as homeopathy.
Hmm, let's see how most reviews from medical doctors start:
Colloidal silver isn't considered safe or effective for any of the health claims manufacturers make. Silver has no known purpose in the body. Nor is it an essential mineral, as some sellers of silver products claim.
Did you believe Clinton's Surgeon General Donna Shalala, when he marched out that little orc and she
stood with Attorney General Janet Reno and Drug "Czar" Barry McCaffrey threatening to revoke doctors' licences for recommending medical marijuana (a successful civil challenge later backed the government off.) "Marijuana is illegal, dangerous, unhealthy and wrong," Shalala said. "It's a one-way ticket to dead-end hopes and dreams."
Modern medical doctors use silver all the time. Before antibiotics, physicians used it even more frequently and extensively.
Let's consult the Wiki to continue your education.
First, please familiarize yourself with the
oligodynamic effiect. This will be important later, so pay attention!
The oligodynamic effect (Greek: oligos = few, Greek: dynamis = force) was discovered in 1893 by the Swiss Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli as a toxic effect of metal ions on living cells, algae, molds, spores, fungi, viruses, prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms, even in relatively low concentrations.
Data from silver suggest that these ions denature enzymes of the target cell or organism by binding to reactive groups, resulting in their precipitation and inactivation.
Silver inactivates enzymes by reacting with the thiol groups to form silver sulfides. Silver also reacts with the amino-, carboxyl-, phosphate-, and imidazole-groups and diminish the activities of lactate dehydrogenase and glutathione peroxidase.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodynamic_effectGot it? Good, now let's move on and apply your new learning to medicine.
Silver and silver nanoparticles are used as an antimicrobial in a variety of industrial, healthcare and domestic applications.
Colloidal silver was used by physicians in the early 20th century, but its use was largely discontinued in the 1940s following the development of safer and more effective modern antibiotics.
Hippocrates in his writings discussed the use of silver in wound care. At the beginning of the twentieth century surgeons routinely used silver sutures to reduce the risk of infection. In the early 20th century, physicians used silver-containing eyedrops to treat ophthalmic problems, for various infections, and sometimes internally for diseases such as tropical sprue, epilepsy, gonorrhea, and the common cold.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver