Application of silver in medical practice
Despite the fact that silver solutions have been used in the people since ancient times to treat a variety of diseases and there is irrefutable evidence of the use of silver in medical practice, it must be admitted that at present it is unjustifiably forgotten under the onslaught of the commercial industry of antibiotic and other chimera treatment.
In 1895, for the first time in the surgical practice, Krode used organic silver salts as an antiseptic in the treatment of wounds. The best preparation was a solution of lemon acid in the concentrations of 100-200 mg / l. Later, Kreda used silvered gauze as an antiseptic for household use and in field practice.
Ammonia solutions were used in the treatment of surgical sepsis.
Silver powder, cooked on a labile, was used to treat surface skin and other skin damage to patients.
The use of colloidal silver has yielded good results in the decontamination of tetanus and diphtheria toxins.
"Silver Water" was used to prepare various vaccines. Even typhoid vaccine was preserved.
The results of the application of "silver water" and a solution of silver salts with a therapeutic purpose indicate the effectiveness of their action in gastrointestinal, pulmonary diseases, cholecystitis, inflammatory processes of throat, eyes, ears, superficial ulcers, wounds, eczema.
An excellent anti-inflammatory and anesthetic agent in the treatment of acute and subacute arthritis, dystrophic osteoarthritis, chronic osteomyelitis, postoperative
inflammatory phenomena, wounds, carbuncles, furuncles, panaricians, pustular skin diseases and subcutaneous tissue - electrophoresis on "silver water".Especially valuable is this method with intolerance to antibiotics and sulfonamides, as well as resistance to microorganisms.
Positive therapeutic result with tonsillectomy gives rinsing 3-4 times a day at a dose of 20 mg / l.
The most effective way to sanitize palatine tonsils electrified silver, kills at the same time different types of pyogenic and intestinal streptococci and staphylococci growing in the crypts of the tonsils, perfectly treats chronic allergic vasomotor rhinitis.
Among the drugs for treating burns, silver has no equal in effectiveness."Silver water" can be used as an external agent( lotion, bath) in the treatment of dermatoses: viral, yeast, strepto- staphylococcal, trophic origin.
Adding a small amount of ammonia to the silver water makes electrolytic silver solutions well digestible.
The famous preparation of professor PE Yermolaev - "ammargen"( 2.5 parts of silver nitrate dissolved in a mixture consisting of 30 parts of 25% ammonia and 70 parts of water) was used in the renowned clinic NN Burdenko. This preparation was treated with purulent wounds, peritonitis, phlegmon, purulent pleurisy, traumatic infected wounds, carbuncles, furunculosis, angina, acute rhinitis, frostbite, lymphangitis, sterile and secondary infected tubercular purulent pneumoplethritis, septic postpartum diseases, eczema, dermatitis. Perm Medical Institute recommends the use of aerosols and electroaerosols of "silver water" in a concentration of 5-10 mg / l in complex therapy of acute chronic pneumonia.
The combination of tuberculostatic therapy with silver electrophoresis for the treatment of tuberculous lobar pneumonia contributes to the acceleration of the elimination of perifocal exudative reaction, resorption of curdled necrosis, the prompt elimination of foci of tuberculosis pneumonia and foci of extrapulmonary tuberculosis dissemination. It uses "silver water", obtained electrolytically, in the form of irrigation and applications for the treatment of ulcerative gingivostomatitis, multi-form exudative erythema, long-lasting non-healing ulcers, acute stomatitis, fungal stomatitis, inflammatory-dystrophic form of periodontitis. In other words, it is a good treatment for acute and chronic inflammatory diseases of the oral mucosa.
Irrigation of the oral cavity is carried out for 5-7 minutes with "silver water" in a concentration of 22-25 mg / l.
Procedures are prescribed for patients with inflammatory-dystrophic form of periodontal disease of I, II, III degree, catarrhal ulcerative gingivitis. After the course of treatment, the researchers note the absence of serous-purulent discharge, increase the resistance of capillaries, the disappearance of pain. The mucosa of the oral cavity is consolidated.
"Silver water" in the Ufa tuberculosis dispensary is successfully used in the treatment of fistulas and ulcers, formed as a result of bone tuberculosis and tuberculosis of lymph glands with disintegration and suppuration. For many years the unhealed wounds were delayed for 2-5 months.
"Silver water" is successfully used in the Krasnodar Medical Institute for the treatment of chronic tonsillitis, phlegmonous, catarrhal angina, stomach ulcers and 12-peristokishki, trophic ulcers, in gynecological and dental practice, and physiotherapy.
Highly effective "silver water" in the treatment of bacterial vulvovaginitis in children, adolescents, women.
"Silver Water" can successfully be used in veterinary practice for the prevention and treatment of adulthood in rabbits and dyspepsia in calves, piglets, diarrhea in bees.
With a systematic( with a break of 1-3 months) drinking potable water treated with silver, its dose in water should not exceed 0.05 mg / l.