Chemistry's
Miraculous Colloids
(Reprint from READER'S DIGEST - March 1936 - Pages 71 - 73)
Condensed from Rockefeller Center Weekly by Kenneth Andrews
A Group of executives sat tense and silent in an office in the RCA Building
in New York City. They stared incredulously at a purple orchid. A short
time before it had been rescued from a pile of debris, a withered, yellowed
thing, dead. Now the petals were fresh and crisp, its colors vivid. It
was blooming with new life, and would continue to do so for 16 or 17 days!
Dr. Frederick S. Macy, one of the country's outstanding bacteriologists,
had added a teaspoonful of an amber-tinted liquid to the quart of water
in the bottle which held the flower. Here was striking indication
of the mysteries that lie ahead in that comparatively unexplored realm
of science known as colloidal chemistry. It was one of innumerable
experiments these gentlemen had been witnessing for a year or more, on
behalf of their internationally known pharmaceutical company. A few days
later they signed an 18 year contact for the rights to a solution similar
to the one in Dr. Macy's bottle. They will invest more than $2,000,000
a year in it from now on.
To gain a working conception of what colloidal chemistry is, consider that
living tissues and organs are simply great masses of cells - billions of
them. The energy, the very life-force of these cells, is obtained
from certain minerals and metals, among them iron, iodine, manganese, copper. There
are some 32, with traces of as many others, in the human body. Colloidal
chemistry is the science which converts those elements into particles so
minute that they can be utilized by living cells.
Normally, nature supplies the cells with these elements in their colloidal
form. Science has now learned to produce these colloids in the laboratory.
"Lately, life has been prolonged by colloid action," says Dr.
Macy, "and better knowledge of the subject will certainly result in
prolonging the normal term of existence." In the case of the
apparently dead orchid, copper in colloidal form was needed to restore
the proper balance of the mineral and metals that comprised the life cells
of the flower. Once that balance was restored, the cells began to function
and the orchid lived again.
In the Colloidal Laboratories of America they have a motion picture which
is as weird as anything every shown on a screen - a movie of a headache.
The actors are the nerves in a human head, magnified millions of
times. You see the headache. Those nerve endings are tangled, twisting,
writhing. Then you see the colloids enter. These rescuers, smaller
than the blood corpuscles themselves, march straight to the spot where
there is an unbalance of the vital metals. You see those laboratory-prepared
colloids restore normalcy there at the seat of the trouble. Then
you see the nerves cease their twisting, relax, and assume their proper
position.
Dr. Steinmetz, the wizard of electricity, devised a method of utilizing
colloids in the treatment of sinus trouble. The Bid-a-Wee Home, New York's
famous hospital for cats and dogs, can cure mange in three days, where
it used to take three months. A large Midwestern city was freed from
the scourge of goiter when colloidal iodine was added to the water supply. A
famous institution for the treatment of alcoholism is experimenting with
a colloidal solution which apparently not only overcomes the effects of
excessive drinking but removes the craving for liquor as well. Such
treatment consists of the introduction of metals - gold and iodine, in
the case of alcoholism - which correct the unbalance caused by alcoholic
poisons.
The effect of colloids is explainable in part by electric action. Sick
and dead and broken-down cells are attracted to the colloids by electro-magnetic
force, as iron filings are attracted to a magnet. The colloids carry
those decayed or poisonous substances into the blood stream, and they are
eliminated, the system meanwhile adapting what it needs of the colloids.
(Ed. - Research from Squibb-Meyer labs, according to David Hudson,
the precious elements have been found to interact with the cell by a vibrational
frequency or by a light transfer to correct the DNA.)
A simple illustration will suggest the immense powers that are being
unsealed. Suppose we have a cube or iron measuring an inch on each edge.
The total surface would be six square inches. The electrical charge is
on the surface; therefore, the greater the surface the greater the charge;
and if we divide the cube of iron into smaller pieces we increase the surface
areas. By colloidal chemistry that iron cube can be divided into particles
so minute that they are invisible, hence instead of six square inches of
surface emanating electric energy, we have something like 127 acres.
(Ed. - More information is provided by monoatomic and microcluster
research. A transitional effect seems to occur at small critical numbers
of atoms from one to about twelve depending on the element and they change
from aggregate metallic to monatomic state or microcluster and their properties
become completely different.)1
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In colloidal form iodine, for example, is one of the elements
essential to the well-being of human cells. Yet if you should drink
as much as two or three grains of free iodine, it would kill you. Dr.
Macy, when explaining this, held up an eight-ounce cup full of colloidal
iodine. "There," he said, "is the equivalent of 740 grains
of free iodine - enough to kill 300 men." And he drank it. In
that form iodine is not only harmless but beneficial. The same is true
of arsenic and other deadly poisons.
Colloidal Chemistry was evolved by David Graham, a British chemist, 50
years ago, but only recently has it been realized even by scientists what
an enormous influence it is destined to have in medicine, agriculture,
industry. "We have television now," one of the world's greatest
scholars said recently. "There is, as I see it, just one great
development left for our time. That is in the understanding of colloidal
metals. It is the 'Fourth Estate of Matter,' the other three being
land, water, and air." Says Dr. Macy: "The study of these
phenomena constitutes the road to the ultimate in human knowledge."
Everybody else who has a vitamin or mineral or what not just follows the
labeling requirements of the FDA. This is the only one that in fact has
a Federal Consent Decree to do it, because it passed all of their tests.
It's the only one that has been put to this level of tests because it works
and people were running around 12 or 15 years ago and saying "Hey,
my Arthritis got better." "My Diabetes got better."
"My early cataracts went away." "My white hair turned
black again." "My knee arthritis got better." and
so they thought they must be putting Cortisone, Prednazone, antibiotics
or drugs in that stuff and when they examined it for two years it only
had sixty colloidal minerals in it.
The only time you should not consider taking in colloidal minerals or vitamins
or all these nutrients, is if the doctor says "Absolutely no food!"
OK? Because these are just food, this is what's supposed to
be in your food. They will not interfere in any way, infact, if that medication
is going to help you, it will in fact help it work better. (ibid)
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