Colloidal Silver Dosages: Rule-of-Thumb Guidelines for Varying Conditions Based on Experiential Accounts

When it comes to oral colloidal silver consumption and trying to figure out the proper dosages for different situations you might encounter, it’s pretty much the Wild West out there in internet land.

You’ll find crazy people claiming you can “drink all of the colloidal silver you want every single day and it can’t harm you.” And you’ll find cautious people claiming you should never use colloidal silver on a regular daily basis, but only when you have an active infection you want to help the body resolve. Finally, you’ll find people on the far end of the fear spectrum claiming you should never consume colloidal silver orally at all, but only use it topically as an antiseptic for cuts, scratches, burns and more.

And virtually everybody disagrees with everybody else on how to determine an effective dosage for varying conditions or situations. So in this short article I’m going to attempt to provide a brief overview of the basic “rule-of-thumb” guidelines for oral colloidal silver consumption under four different circumstances.

Admittedly, it’s just a rough sketch. And admittedly, I’m not a doctor. So please don’t take this article as being “prescriptive” in nature. It’s just my journalistic account of what’s seemed to work best for the thousands of experienced colloidal silver users I’ve interviewed over the course of the past 22 years.

Also, it’s important to note that this article is not nearly as extensive as the dosage information provided in my book, The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, which has been the #1 best-selling book on colloidal silver usage for the past 15 years. But I think you’ll get a good rule-of-thumb idea of what experienced colloidal silver users are doing for the basic situations colloidal silver is being used for.

Here’s what you need to know…

There are basically four different types of dosing situations when using colloidal silver. They are:

1.) Daily nutritional supplement dosage

2.) Dosage for stubborn, long-term, underlying “stealth pathogen” infections

3.) Dosage for sudden-onset infections, such as food poisoning.

4.) Dosage for other infections such as colds, flu, bronchitis, pneumonia, etc.

We’ll talk about all four below. But first, what does the FDA have to say about colloidal silver dosages for fighting active infections?

The FDA on Colloidal Silver Dosages

Before the FDA intervened, most of the big bottled colloidal silver manufacturers stated right on their labels that a normal daily adult nutritional supplement dosage of colloidal silver is about one teaspoon to one tablespoon per day, depending upon body weight.

Most labels also stated that up to four or five times that amount, or more, can be taken during the course of a day when using colloidal silver to help the body fight an active infection such as a cold, flu, tummy bug, or other minor infection.

You’ll no longer find that information for fighting infections on most labels of commercially bottled colloidal silver. Why? Because the FDA claims such information turns colloidal silver into an “unapproved drug.” They’ve come down hard on colloidal silver manufacturers in recent years for mentioning colloidal silver’s infection-fighting uses.

That’s kind of odd, because the same FDA that claims you can only sell colloidal silver commercially as a nutritional supplement also claims (erroneously, in my opinion) that colloidal silver has no demonstrable nutritional benefit to the human body whatsoever.

In other words, the FDA won’t let manufacturers sell colloidal silver as an infection-fighting agent. They only allow it to be sold as a nutritional supplement. Yet they claim that it has no nutritional value.

Go figure. The Bible says “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” And I think the FDA pretty much qualifies as being double-minded over the colloidal silver dosage and usage issue.

My point being, this is why bottled colloidal silver manufacturers today simply print on their labels the much lower daily nutritional supplement dosage – one teaspoon to one tablespoon per day — and leave off the significantly higher oral dosages for helping the body fight off common infections.

Thanks to the FDA, colloidal silver manufacturers legally cannot provide information on higher dosages for fighting active infections.

And that’s okay. The bottom line is that with high-quality colloidal silver, less can certainly be more. Under normal circumstances, it doesn’t take huge doses of colloidal silver to impart its healing benefits to the human body.

Moving Past Daily Nutritional Supplement Dosages

As mentioned earlier, in addition to the relatively low daily nutritional supplement dosage for colloidal silver, there are varying types of infections colloidal silver has been proven to be helpful with in experiential accounts, such as:

• Underlying, long-term “stealth pathogen” infections that might be triggering chronic degenerative diseases such as Lyme disease, Chronic Candidiasis, Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome (CFIDS), Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, Rheumatoid arthritis and many other stubborn conditions which conventional medical science claims either have no known cause, or are caused by an auto-immune response in the body, but cutting edge researchers believe to be caused by hidden infections.
• Sudden-onset infections such as a nasty case of food poisoning.
• Other infections such as colds, flu, bronchitis, pneumonia, etc.

These additional types of infections might require completely different dosage amounts than the standard nutritional supplement dosage mentioned above. But since the FDA won’t allow colloidal silver manufacturers to print dosages for various types of infections on the labels of their bottled colloidal silver products, people have had to experiment on their own with dosages.

So what are experienced colloidal silver users doing, in terms of dosage, when they use colloidal silver to help their bodies overcome underlying, long-term infections, sudden-onset infections, or other types of infections?

I’ve interviewed thousands of experienced colloidal silver users over the course of the past 22 years, for my book, The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, as well as for my DVDs and other publications. And this is what I’ve learned…

Dosage Method for Helping Stop Long-Term Underlying Infections

Many experienced colloidal silver users, when wanting to use colloidal silver to fight an underlying long-term infection caused by what cutting edge researchers are calling “stealth pathogens” — i.e., for example, the Lyme spirochete, the mycoplasmas pathogen, the Epstein Barr virus or Cytomegalovirus, systemic Candida yeast infections and more — use what’s called the “four up, four down, pyramid method” which is also called the “incremental dosage” method.

That’s where the individual suffering from a long-term underlying infection starts with a relatively small amount of colloidal silver, say, for example, one ounce per day of 10 ppm colloidal silver and takes it once a day for several days. Then he or she might go to two ounces per day for several days. Then to three ounces per day for several days. Then to four ounces per day for several days.

After those four steps, the individual then goes back down the other side of the pyramid, i.e., three ounces per day for several days, then two ounces per day for several days, then one ounce per day for several days.

Then the individual either stops taking colloidal silver altogether if the results were satisfactory, or many people simply resume their normal daily nutritional supplement dosage regimen of colloidal silver if they’re already on one.

Again, a normal daily colloidal silver nutritional supplement dosage for most adults is widely considered to be about one teaspoonful of colloidal silver per day to one tablespoonful per day, depending upon body weight. “Depending upon body weight” simply means bigger people take a little bit more, and smaller people take proportionately less. So while a 200 pound man might take a tablespoonful of colloidal silver a day (or perhaps a bit more), a 120 pound woman might take a teaspoonful of colloidal silver, or so, per day.

(To learn how to calculate your safe, daily, nutritional supplement dosage of colloidal silver, based on your body weight and the ppm of the colloidal silver product you’re taking, you can get a FREE copy of the Colloidal Silver Safe Dosage Manual by email, at the link in this paragraph.)

Now, please understand: I’m not a doctor. So I’m not “prescribing” the incremental dosage method described above. I’m only a natural health journalist. And I’m just reporting what hundreds of experienced colloidal silver users have told me they’ve done, quite successfully, to aid their body in defeating (or at least subduing and getting under control) stubborn or long-term underlying infections which, in many cases, had triggered chronic degenerative diseases.

And yes, I’ve used this incremental dosage method myself, quite successfully, over 20 years ago when I was first diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome triggered by underlying long-term infections with Epstein-Barr virus and Cytomegalovirus.

But many colloidal silver users have told me the same method has worked, as well, for conditions such as Lyme disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, Rheumatoid arthritis and many other conditions that can be caused or triggered by a wide variety of underlying “stealth pathogen” infections.

And in many cases, the results from using the “incremental dosage method” (aka “four up, four down, pyramid dosage method”) have been life-changing. You can read about hundreds and hundreds of such results on the Colloidal Silver Testimonials page of The Silver Edge website.

For example, I recently heard from an individual who had been diagnosed with leukemia, who stated that he’d tried the incremental dosage method (i.e., the “four up, four down, pyramid method described above), and suddenly had a “spontaneous remission” that astonished his cancer specialist!

I should point out here that there are always going to be cases where a bit more, or a bit less, colloidal silver than described above might be needed when using the incremental dosage method. And there might be instances in which the incremental dosage method might need to be repeated if the underlying infection is particularly stubborn. In other words, the individual might decide to “run through the pyramid,” so to speak, a second time to put the final kibosh on an underlying long-term “stealth pathogen” infection.

But that’s the general “rule-of-thumb” most people have touted as being effective for these kinds of hidden, underlying, long-term “stealth pathogen” infections that many cutting-edge researchers say act as triggers to a variety of chronic degenerative diseases.

Quackery?

And before I’m criticized for writing about this, I’ll happily state that such high dosages of colloidal silver can indeed be considered “excessive,” and that such high dosages of colloidal silver should never be undertaken except under the guidance of an experienced and licensed natural health care practitioner or doctor.

Though many people do it on their own, having a natural health practitioner’s guidance and watchful eye to help you adjust dosage in response to your rate of healing is decidedly the best way to go.

What’s more, I concede that the use of nutritional supplements to help fight active disease conditions is considered to be excessively risky and even irresponsible by the FDA. Other medical authorities refer to it as “quackery.” I can only leave it up to you to decide for yourself.

As I mentioned, I was diagnosed with a condition known as Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome over 20 years ago. And in addition to my regular regimen of nutritional supplements, I’ve been taking colloidal silver daily, in small amounts, for most of those years. And I wouldn’t want to be without it, because it’s provided far more help than the doctor’s drugs ever did.

Indeed, instead of only being able to function normally for a couple of hours a day, I regularly do back-to-back 12- and 16-hour days at work, and have for much of the past two decades. And I believe with all of my heart I owe it chiefly to my dedicated daily use of small amounts of colloidal silver.

So call me a “quack” if you will. But colloidal silver has helped keep me well when all of the doctors I went to couldn’t. And I don’t care what the medical authorities have to say about that. I was there. They weren’t.

Dosage Method for Helping Stop Sudden Onset Infections

It’s important to understand that the above incremental dosage method (i.e., “four up, four down, pyramid dosage method”) is quite different than, say, using higher dosages of colloidal silver to stop a sudden-onset infection, like, for example, an unexpected case of food poisoning.

It probably goes without saying that most people want an infection like food poisoning, which might strike suddenly and completely out-of-the-blue, to be over with as quickly as possible.

So they might, for example, at the first sign of food poisoning symptoms – i.e., projectile vomiting, explosive diarrhea, etc. — take three or four ounces of 10 ppm colloidal silver at once. And then they might take a couple of ounces every hour throughout the remainder of the day, until the food poisoning symptoms subside.

And then they generally quit taking the higher dosages of colloidal silver altogether as soon as they’re clearly on the mend.

So the difference is that long-term underlying “stealth infections” that can trigger chronic degenerative diseases are often dealt with using the incremental dosage method (aka the “four up, four down, pyramid dosage method” described above) because they’re stubborn, underlying infections and thus often require more time to effectively get under control using colloidal silver. In many cases, these hidden infections might have been active in the body for years, or even for decades, and are thus well-established and “fortified,” if I can use the term.

But most experienced colloidal silver users I’ve interviewed over the years tell me they’ve dealt with “sudden onset infections” such as a nasty case of food poisoning or other sudden infection, by using a more abrupt and immediate “carpet bombing” approach, as described above, i.e., taking four or five ounces of 10 ppm strength colloidal silver at the onset of infection, and the following up with an ounce or two every hour until the infections has stopped.

This heavy colloidal silver usage should not go on for days, of course. This is for infections that can be knocked out in a day or so. If the infection persists in spite of the colloidal silver usage, then the solution is simple this: Go to the doctor.

Dosage Method for Helping Stop Other Infections

There are many other kinds of infections, of course.

For example, colds, flu, bronchitis, pneumonia and other upper respiratory infections are often dealt with by experienced colloidal silver users by taking three or four ounces of colloidal silver per day, orally, in divided doses throughout the day (i.e., one ounce, morning, noon, evening and before bed).

If the upper respiratory infection is particularly stubborn, they might also try inhaling aerosolized colloidal silver into the lungs through a medical nebulizer for six or eight minutes at a time, three or four times a day. You can read more about nebulizing colloidal silver for upper respiratory infections here.

MRSA infections are another type of infection that experienced colloidal silver users have had phenomenal success with. MRSA generally starts out on the skin as a staph infection that doesn’t respond to common antibiotic drugs and causes painful boils or even open sores and lesions. It then tries to go bloodborne, at which point it can actually become deadly.

People with MRSA infections have reported phenomenal success simply by soaking gauze bandages in colloidal silver and applying the bandages to the affected area of the skin. To help prevent serious problems in case the skin infection tries to go bloodborne, they might also drink three or four ounces a day of 10 ppm colloidal silver in divided doses throughout the day, for up to a week or 10 days. You can read more about using colloidal silver for stubborn MRSA infections here.

There are many, many other kinds of infections that colloidal silver has been demonstrated in experiential accounts to be effective against. And again, you can read about hundreds of these reported cases on the Colloidal Silver Testimonials page of The Silver Edge website.

Or, consider scrolling through the nearly 500 article topics about colloidal silver and its usage on the Articles page of The Silver Edge website and read about the vast plethora of conditions colloidal silver has successfully been used for by experienced colloidal silver users.

Or consider obtaining a copy of the Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, which, at over 547-pages, is the most comprehensive book on colloidal silver and its many uses ever published. It’s virtually encyclopedic in scope. And there are two in-depth chapters on specific dosage amounts that have been used by experienced colloidal silver users for dozens of specific diseases – over 25 pages of specific dosage information including dosages for germ warfare and biological terrorism agents!

Helping the Body Clean Up, Afterwards

I’m a large man. I weigh about 220 pounds, so I generally take between a tablespoonful and an ounce of colloidal silver per day, as a nutritional supplement dosage. I’ve done so for about 22 years now. (As I mentioned earlier, smaller people would take proportionately less if using colloidal silver on a daily nutritional supplement basis.)

But when I’ve been sick with an unexpected or stubborn infection, and I’ve chosen to take larger-than-normal amounts of colloidal silver for some reason, afterwards I always try to take a short “vacation” away from colloidal silver consumption for a few days to a week or more.

And during the course of that “vacation” away from colloidal silver usage, I always start drinking lots of fresh, pure water in order to help flush any excess or accumulated silver particles out of my body through the liver, kidneys, and sweat glands.

I also start taking specific supplements known to help the liver and kidneys clear any excess silver particles and prevent oxidative stress inside the body (such as Vitamin E at 400 IU, N-acetyl-cysteine at 500 mg., and maybe some selenium at 200 mcg., as suggested by Dr. Jonathan Wright, M.D. in his articles on colloidal silver usage).

Finally, I also start taking a good probiotic supplement with a full “grid” of active cultures of beneficial digestive microbes (such as Dr. Langer’s 16-strain probiotic supplement), in order to help my body re-establish any colonies of beneficial microbes that might have been affected by the higher dosages of colloidal silver. Or, each day I’ll start eating a good, high-quality yogurt or kefir product that contains large numbers of active cultures.

Only after doing those three things, usually for a good week to 10 days or more after ceasing to take the larger colloidal silver dosages, do I return to my normal daily adult nutritional supplement dosage of colloidal silver.

The Gist of It

So that’s the gist of it.

You’ve got the daily nutritional supplement dosage, which for most adults is considered to be anywhere from a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful per day, depending upon body weight (get a copy of the Colloidal Silver Safe Dosage Manual here to learn how to calculate your own daily safe dosage based on your body weight and the ppm of the colloidal silver product you’re using.)

You’ve got the “incremental dosage method” (aka the “four up, four down, pyramid dosage method”) for deep-seated, stubborn, long-term infections, which I’ve explained above.

You’ve got the “sudden onset dosage method,” also described above, for infections that strike suddenly, like food poisoning.

And finally you’ve got the general dosage guidelines for other types of infections, such as colds, flu, bronchitis, pneumonia, etc.

Again, all of the dosage ideas mentioned in this article are just general guidelines, based upon the experiences of thousands of colloidal silver users I’ve interviewed over the course of the past 22 years.

And once more, let me repeat, I’m not a doctor, so please don’t take these ideas as being “prescriptive” in nature. For serious situations in which you choose to use colloidal silver, you should always do so in conjunction with the supervision and guidance of an experienced natural health doctor (i.e., a naturopath) who can help monitor your condition and adjust your dosages appropriately.