Werner Kühni - Colloidal Silver: The Natural Antibiotic

Colloidal Silver

This is the most authoritative and insightful guide to the curative and healing powers of colloidal silver. The authors offer a practical and systematic protocol for addressing common acute and systemic complaints. A must for every household and health care practitioner.

VATSALA SPERLING, MS, PHD, PDHOM, CCH, RSHOM (NA)

This book is a complete, thorough, but very readable presentation of the wonderful antibiotic and anti-inflammatory properties of Colloidal Silver!

CHRISTOPHER VASEY, AUTHOR OF NATURAL REMEDIES FOR INFLAMMATION AND OPTIMAL DETOX

Acknowledgments

The ideas presented in this book were born out of discussions we had with each other and with our German publisher, AT Verlag. Once we came up with the idea to write a comprehensive silver book that would also include information about the use of colloidal silver, we developed the theme together. As we had found when working on our Enzyklopdie der steinheilkunde (Encyclopedia of Stone Healing), the principle of analogy also proved to be the most promising and realistic approach that could be applied to all aspects of silver.

I wish to thank my teachers and professors at the University of Heidelberg for their knowledge and inspiration: Professor Schipperges (the history of medicine), Professor Wei (the history of chemistry), professors Dchting and Bersching (the Latin language of the Middle Ages), Professor Mller-Jahnke (the history of pharmacology), and doctors Gebhard and Wnstel (homeopathy).

I would especially like to thank my wife, who has always had my back and who has supported me as only she could and has always given me good advice. I would also like to thank the many healing practitioners and physicians with whom we are acquainted, and with whom we have discussed various aspects of practical use. Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to our patients and clients, who now number over 1,000, including 400 who have been treated for Lyme disease, and who in the past few years have allowed me to become familiar with their case histories.

WERNER KHNI

Introduction

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, medical practitioners held silverespecially colloidal silverin high regard. This changed during the twentieth century with the introduction of antibiotics and corticosteroids. Today, our increasing awareness of the side effects of these kinds of pharmaceutical drugs indicates that it is time for silver to regain its place in medical theory and practice. The uses for silverin particular colloidal silverhave expanded enormously in recent years, and these are now so well known that it is only a matter of time before colloidal silver once again becomes a standard component in the medical pharmacopoeia.

There are literally hundreds of thousands of pages about colloidal silver on the Internet. Unfortunately, much of this information is unreliable and unorganized, and a great deal of it is simply wrong. For this reason we believe that the time has come for a book that accurately and clearly examines both the theoretical basis for and the range of practical uses of colloidal silver. In keeping with this goal, we consider it equally important that we also point out the limitations of our own current understanding of and experience with colloidal silver, not only for the sake of our readers, but also to hopefully provide an impetus for further research.

While silver is frequently characterized as a natural antibiotic, this description encompasses only a small part of its broad range of uses. For example, its antibiotic effect does not explain why silver is so effective in treating viruses, which are, strictly speaking, not alive. Nor does it address its capacity for healing wounds and alleviating pain. It makes no note of the antidepressive effects that have often been observed after using silver solutions and ignores the fact that colloidal silver can be used to continue treatment after a person has been weaned off of psychopharmacological agents. Characterizing silver as an antibiotic also says nothing about its ability to help epileptics have fewer as well as less severe seizures.

Recent years have shown that colloidal silver can form the basis of a practical and systematic form of therapy for a host of conditions and diseases as well as an effective means of maintaining ones health and well-beinga subject that will be explored in detail in this book. We will also look at the use of silver in mineral stone therapy; in this regard, silver differs from all other metals in its luster and indestructibility, while its purifying influence can cause many pathogens and ailments to disappear.

Of all the colloidal metals, silver has the greatest range of medical applications. Although the effects of colloidal silver are similar to those of colloidal gold and colloidal platinum, in practice it is actually far superior to these other noble metals. And even though colloidal gold can be used for a variety of psychological ailments, colloidal silver exerts similar effects when taken over a longer period of time.

Despite its long and complex cultural history, silver has been seen in an ambivalent light. Since ancient times, scientists and poets around the world have been fascinated by the great beauty and the marvelous properties of this precious metal. In the mythological, spiritual, and psychological domains, and even in fairy tales, silver has come to symbolize modesty, purity, devotion, neutrality, and reason. In meditation, it can open a path to deeper spirituality. At the same time, silvers negative potential can be seen in the ways that it has seduced the powerful and the wealthy, such that it has come to stand for corruption and colonialism.

And so the task that lies before us is to compile all that has been learned about silver in both theory and practice from the many different sourcesthe humoral pathology of ancient times, alchemy, folk medicine, homeopathy, anthroposophy, and modern biomedicineand to present this to you, the reader.

A Brief History of Silver

Metallic silver has been known since antiquity. The oldest known silver artifacts date from the fourth century BCE. The Egyptians were probably the first to use silver for medicinal purposes. We know silver also found its way into ancient Greek, Roman, Persian, Indian, and Chinese medicine. Hippocrates believed that silver healed wounds and controlled disease. He listed as a singular treatment for ulcers the flowers of silver alone, in the finest powder (Rentz 2015). Herodotus describes how the king of Persia carried with him boiled water in silver flagons to prevent sickness. In the Americas, the Inca, Maya, and Aztec peoples used silver both for creating cult objects and for ornamentation, and there is evidence that ancient Incan and Muiscan surgeons performed cranioplasty using precious metals and gourds. Indeed, the quest for gold as well as for silver was part of the reason Spain colonized these indigenous cultures of the Americas.

SILVER DURING THE MIDDLE AGES

The different ways that silver was used during the Middle Ages were largely shaped by influences stemming from antiquity and Arabic alchemy. It was not until the sixteenth century, with the introduction of Paracelsus (14931541) concept of spagyrics, that this changed. Swiss-German physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and occultist Paracelsus (n Philippus Theophrastus Bombast) first coined the term spagyric to refer to an herbal medicine produced by alchemical procedures that involve fermentation, distillation, and the extraction of mineral components from the ash of a plant. Paracelsus associated the seven metals (gold, silver, mercury, copper, iron, tin, lead) with the seven planets (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn), and in turn with seven different parts of the body, and even with certain foods.