Useful trace elements: silver

Silver is not only a wonderful metal for chains, earrings and rings, but also an important microelement for the body. Silver has always been used not only in rituals to drive out evil spirits, but also to drive out diseases.

Preparations with silver

The most popular of them are silver nitrate and also silver colloids. They are called collargol (first group) and protargol (second group). In their composition, silver looks like tiny particles that are difficult to even see. But they are surprisingly hard.

Silver is heavier than water, so to prevent it from sinking to the bottom of the preparation, it is diluted with special additives that make the liquid more homogeneous.

The preparations used to dilute the silver solution contain albumin, an egg white. There is quite a lot of silver in it, up to 75%, the rest is additives combined with egg white. The preparation may look like a blue powder.

True, it is not always in powder form. Its forms are different: creams, rubs, ointments, solutions. These preparations - protargol and collargol - are rubbed into places of inflammation and injury.

Silver-containing preparations are used for the following diseases:

• Eye diseases (eye drops with silver)
• Ointments for wound healing and disinfection
• Silver-based ointments and liquid solutions for relieving inflammation of the mucous membranes
• Ointments and solutions with silver for removing purulent infections in wounds
• Preparations in the form of solutions and creams for treating skin affected by erysipelas

Silver is good because it actively fights infections. This function is very useful for eliminating severe skin lesions.

Silver in the right doses

Silver used in medical preparations helps fight inflammation and reduces the risk of infection. But you need to be careful with dosages: if you put more silver in the solution than the norm, the tissues can be burned. To treat eye or skin diseases, you need a silver nitrate solution of no more than 2% concentration.

For a silver solution taken orally, an even lower concentration is needed: up to 0.06%. Even such a small amount of silver can fight inflammation, stomach ulcers, gastritis.

If you take one part of silver nitrate and mix it with two parts of potassium nitrate, you can successfully cauterize wounds on the skin.

Water with silver: useful properties

This water also heals and disinfects. If you put a very small amount of silver in water, it suppresses the growth of bacteria in it. The water becomes very clean and much more useful for use. And you need very little silver - for 1 ton of water, up to 30 grams of this amazing metal will be enough. True, a weak taste of silver will be felt.

But if you dilute silver in a slightly higher concentration – up to 50 grams per ton – the taste will not be noticeable at all, and the water will still retain its beneficial properties.

It is because of this valuable property that silver is used to clean water. Such water is poured into filters and coolers. True, it is more expensive than usual.

Water with small doses of silver is also used for swimming pools. Such water can destroy plants and harmful microorganisms, and is not dangerous for humans. In order not to exceed the doses of silver, they are strictly controlled, especially for cleaning swimming pools.

How do silver ions purify water?

They destroy the structure of harmful microorganism molecules and thus render them harmless. Silver ions disinfect water by combining with amino acids and thus enhancing their purification properties.

Mercury and copper solutions would be very good for water purification, but they are more harmful to the human body. While destroying harmful bacteria, they also fill the human body with toxins and destroy it along with bad microorganisms.

Silver overdose is dangerous

If there is more silver in water than normal, the water no longer cleanses the body of toxins and does not fight infections, but causes various diseases. The immune system begins to react hostilely to increased concentrations of silver, immunity decreases and instead of the noble function of fighting infections, silver, on the contrary, reduces resistance to them.

If you overdo it with silver, the blood vessels in the brain can dilate too much and cause headaches. The same applies to the blood vessels in the spinal cord, which can cause the risk of developing blood clots.

Increased doses of silver can also cause problems with internal organs, in particular, the liver, thyroid gland, heart, and kidneys. Excessive doses of silver also disrupt the nervous system. True, silver tends to be excreted from the body quite quickly. But it is still better not to take risks with large doses.

How does silver overdose affect the skin?

Skin under the influence of silver changes its shade from healthy to bluish-pale. If the human body is constantly exposed to doses of silver, even small ones, a disease such as argyria develops.

Silver can accumulate in muscle tissue, bone tissue, brain, kidneys, liver, spleen. A person who is constantly exposed to silver doses is immediately visible by the bluish color of the skin, sometimes quite dark. True, this may take many years, but still, one should be wary of unregulated use of drugs with silver.

Signs of silver poisoning of the body appear very slowly, but the consequences are irreversible: they are very difficult to neutralize later. Healthy skin color will not return. Although a person does not feel pain when poisoned by silver.

The only positive aspect of argyria is the disinfection of the body and the destruction of infections.

Before you start taking silver supplements, be sure to consult with your doctor to avoid exceeding the recommended dose.