NANO SILVER – A REVIEW

Silver has some medicinal uses going back for centuries. The Phoenicians are said to have stored water, wine and vinegar in silver bottles to prevent spoiling. In early 1990s people would put silver coins in milk bottles to prolong the milk‟s freshness 1 . Hippocrates, the father of medicine wrote that silver had beneficial healing and antimicrobial properties. In the early 1990s silver gained regulatory approval as an anti-microbial agent. Prior to the introduction of antibiotics, colloidal silver was used as a germicide and disinfectant. This review attempts on biological activity and method of production of nano silver