SILVER HEALING™   -   Facts About Silver




History of Silver

Silver has been used for centuries to prevent and to treat a variety of diseases, mostly infections. In ancient Greece and Rome and the middle ages it was used to disinfect water and food while in storage, as well as for the treatment of burns and wounds as wound dressings.

Throughout the last centuries silver has been used as an antimicrobial agent and the efficacy and safety of this metal has been well established. In the 18th century Karl S. F. Crédé developed silver gauze for wound dressing.

The US Food and Drug Administration approved silver solutions in the 1920s for use as antibacterial agents.

Today silver containing wound dressings are well established for clinical wound care.

Did you know...

	Roman empires used silver as a disinfectant for the storage of water.
	Ancient Greek’s drank wine from silver cups to prevent the transmission of infectious disease.
	Silver was used by the Egyptians to wrap around wounds.
	The expression ‘born with a silver spoon in your mouth’ comes from the middle ages when the wealthy gave their children silver spoons to suck on to ward off diseases.
	Today NASA use systems containing silver to purify water on space missions.
	Silver is used in dishware and eating utensils because it has been proven that disease causing pathogens cannot survive when silver is present.

Benefits of Silver
Well established efficacy
Proven broad-spectrum antiseptic effect
Pro-healing effect
Negligible resistance
Allergies are extremely rare


"In comparison to other antiseptics, silver has the advantage of being effective on a broad range of germs even in small concentrations and over a long period of time; whilst being non-toxic at the same time."
Prof. Dr. med. Heinz-Peter Werner; Microbiologist
HYGCEN– Centrum für Hygiene und medizinische Produktsicherheit GmbH, Schwerin.