by Samuel Etris
Senior Technical Consultant to The Silver Institute
Silver can help regenerate human cells that have been destroyed by disease or damaged in accidents.
The silver-based procedure has been so successful in clinical tests, that one patient who had sustained three crushed fingers in an accident grew new tissue immediately. Within 2-1/2 months, skin coverage was complete and there was normal, full sensation, good blood supply and all joints had a normal range of motion. If left untreated, the 3~year-old electrician’s fingers would have fallen off after turning black with gangrene, and he would have been left with a totally useless hand. In fact, his orthopedic surgeon recommended amputation of al1 three fingers, but the patient requested silver-ion therapy that was successful.
The mechanism by which silver ions help rebuild tissue has been studied for more than a decade by Robert O. Becker, M. D., Becker Biomagnetics, Lowville, New York. Becker first reported his findings at the First International Conference on Silver and Gold in Medicine, cosponsored by The Silver Institute in 1987.
In the decade since, this technique has been used in a clinical setting at Mountain Medical Specialties in Lakemont, Georgia, where hundreds of patients with various wounds have recovered. In addition, a laboratory study conducted by the U.S. Army Institute for Surgical Research in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, showed that laboratory animals with burn wounds treated under controlled conditions experienced shortened time for reconstruction with silver-nylon dressings. Recovery of skin function was faster when electric current was applied compared to no application of electric current.
Becker discovered that when positively charged silver ions are electrically introduced into wounds with a proprietary silver-coated nylon fabric used as the positive electrode, large amounts of primitive embryonic stem cells are produced. These stem cells are responsible for the reconstruction of destroyed tissue at a pace considerably faster than if the wound had been left to heal by itself. In other cases, the wound might not heal at all without the introduction of these stem cells
“The advantages of this technique,” says Becker, “are the ease of use, use of the patient’s own cells, no immune reaction, no need to use human fetusus as a source of stem cells, no need for anti-rejection drugs and it is economic.” [bag – the pharmas just hate that]
On September 29, 1998, Becker received a U.S. patent (5,814,094) for the devices, materials and techniques involved in regeneration of tissue using silver ions.
After several hundred cases, Becker believes that the technique works in three stages. The first stage is the chemical combination of the highly active free silver ions with all bacteria or fungi present in the wound that are inactivated within 20 to 30 minutes. The second stage occurs over the next few days. Silver acts on fibroblast cells (the cells that normally cause wound healing by scar formation) to cause them to revert to their embryonic state, becoming stem cells. These cells are universal building blocks whose role is to reconstruct new tissue regenerating the original structure rather than simply to form scar tissue only.
In the final stage, silver ions form a complex with the living cells in the wound area to produce immediately convertible stem cells. As stem cells flood the wound, they are rapidly converted into new, mature normal tissues of the types present before the wound occurred. The end result of this conversion is complete restoration of all anatomical structures including nerves and blood supply with no scar formation. In all cases treated, no evidence of argyria (discoloration of skin) or any other side effect was noted.
No other known treatment provides sufficient numbers of the embryonic or stem cells required for true regeneration of damaged or destroyed tissue in humans and animals. This success indicates that there is the potential not only for the healing of near-surface wounds, but for regenerative repair of internal organs such as the heart, liver, brain and the spinal cord.
罗伯特·贝克博士
银离子电渗疗法
“银可帮助数百名患者再生组织-通过基于银的程序可再生被破坏的细胞”
塞缪尔·埃特里斯（Samuel Etris）
白银学会高级技术顾问
银可以帮助再生已被疾病破坏或在事故中受损的人体细胞。
以银为基础的手术在临床测试中非常成功，以至于一名在意外中受伤了三个手指的患者立即种植了新组织。在2-1 / 2个月内，皮肤覆盖完全，并且感觉正常，饱满，血液供应充足，并且所有关节的运动范围都正常。如果不加以治疗，3岁大的电工因坏疽变黑后手指会掉下来，而他的手完全没用。实际上，他的骨科医生建议将三个手指全部截肢，但患者要求成功的银离子疗法。
纽约州Lowville的Becker Biomagnetics公司的Robert O. Becker，M. D.研究了银离子帮助组织重建的机制。贝克尔于1987年由银学会（The Silver Institute）共同主办的第一届医学银和金国际会议上首次报告了他的发现。
此后的十年中，该技术已在佐治亚州莱克蒙特的Mountain Medical Specialties的临床环境中使用，在那里数百名患有各种伤口的患者得以康复。此外，由美国陆军外科医学研究所在得克萨斯州Fort Sam Houston进行的一项实验室研究表明，在受控条件下处理过烧伤伤口的实验室动物，使用银尼龙敷料进行重建的时间缩短了。与不施加电流相比，施加电流时皮肤功能的恢复更快。
贝克尔发现，当带正电荷的银离子通过使用专有的涂银尼龙织物作为正极电引入伤口时，会产生大量原始的胚胎干细胞。这些干细胞负责以比伤口自身愈合快得多的速度重建受损组织。在其他情况下，如果不引入这些干细胞，伤口可能根本无法愈合。
贝克尔说：“这项技术的优点是易于使用，使用患者自己的细胞，没有免疫反应，不需要使用人类胎儿作为干细胞的来源，不需要抗排斥药和这是经济的。” [袋-药房就是讨厌那个]
1998年9月29日，贝克尔获得了一项涉及使用银离子再生组织的装置，材料和技术的美国专利（5,814,094）。
几百例之后，贝克尔认为该技术可以分为三个阶段。第一步是将高活性的游离银离子与伤口中存在的所有细菌或真菌在20至30分钟内灭活的化学结合。第二阶段发生在接下来的几天。银作用于成纤维细胞（通常通过形成疤痕而导致伤口愈合的细胞）使它们恢复到胚胎状态，成为干细胞。这些细胞是通用的构建基块，其作用是重建新组织以再生原始结构，而不是仅仅形成疤痕组织。
在最后阶段，银离子与伤口区域的活细胞形成复合物，从而立即产生可转化的干细胞。当干细胞充满伤口时，它们会迅速转化为新的，成熟的正常组织，其类型在伤口发生之前就已经存在。这种转换的最终结果是完全恢复了包括神经和血液供应在内的所有解剖结构，而没有形成疤痕。在所有接受治疗的病例中，均未发现有银屑病（皮肤变色）或任何其他副作用的迹象。
没有其他已知的治疗方法可以提供足够数量的胚胎或干细胞，以真正还原人和动物中受损或破坏的组织。这一成功表明，不仅存在治愈近表面伤口的潜力，而且还具有修复心脏，肝脏，大脑和脊髓等内部器官的潜力。
注意：金银铜具有广谱杀菌能力，对大多数细菌都有抑制能力，其中铜对人体有弱毒性。