Basically there is very little real science on this topic because the whole premise seems to be based on magical thinking.
Not only is mono-atomic gold unstudied and unproven, not only is it lacking a plausible mechanism of action, but from what I seem to be finding it might not even exist anymore,(because it looks like the product, its "discoverer" and its proponents are likely responsible for at least one death).
In an attempt to cut to the chase, I visited a number of sites touting the product and listing it as for sale, and while some of them appeared slightly disreputable, I was willing to purchase a little in the name of science. However, nearly every link I clicked yielded:
or a similar screen.
Research into monoatomic gold yields such scientifically rigorous gems such as this from wiki answers
Quite by chance, the mysteries of this long-forgotten science were
rediscovered quite recently. Not only did mfkzt re-emerge to find its
place at the forefront of quantum physics research, but the stories of
the Ark of the Covenant, the accounts of lightning, levitation and
other godly attributes of the ancient texts, quite suddenly became
modern scientific reality.
In 1996, the story of this initial discovery was reported in NEXUS
articles by the Phoenix, Arizona, crop farmer David Hudson ]. He
explained that his soil suffered from a high sodium content, which
caused the surface to be hard and impenetrable by water. To combat
this (back in 1976), he was injecting sulphuric acid into the ground
so as to break down the crust to a manageable consistency, but, on
testing soil constituents that were not dissolved by the acid, he
found that one particular material had a most unusual quality. When
heat-dried in the Arizona sun, it would flare into a great blaze of
white light and totally disappear. Under spectroscopic analysis,
however, the substance registered as "pure nothing"!
Following unsuccessful tests at Cornell University, a sample was sent
to Harwell Laboratories in Oxfordshire, England, for neutron
activation analysis, but even they could not obtain a suitable
reading. Eventually, with assistance from the Soviet Academy of
Sciences, it was determined that the mysterious, glowing white
substance was composed entirely of platinum group metals in a form
hitherto unknown to science.
In the course of continued research, the material was regularly heated
and cooled, with a resultant fluctuation in its gravitational weight.
It was also discovered that, at a certain temperature, the white bead
would fall apart to become a monatomic (single atom) powder--at which
point its weight fell dramatically to 56% of its starting weight.
Further heating at 1160º centigrade then transformed the precious
substance into a wonderfully clear glass, at which point the material
weight returned to its original 100%. It was seemingly impossible, but
it happened time and time again!
Totally bewildered, the scientists continued their investigations.
When they repeatedly heated and cooled the sample under inert gases,
they found that the cooling processes took the sample to an amazing
400% of its starting weight; but when they heated it again, they found
it weighed less than nothing--way below zero. When they removed the
sample from the pan, they discovered that the pan actually weighed
more than it did with the material in it, and they perceived that the
sample had the ability to transfer its weightlessness to its
supporting host. In other words, even the pan was levitating! This was
precisely in accordance with the old Alexandrian alchemical text which
had discussed the golden Paradise Stone over 2,000 years before: that
the material could outweigh its original quantity of gold, but, when
transposed to powder, even a feather would tip the scales against it.
The substance was also determined to be a natural superconductor with
a null magnetic field, repelling both north and south magnetic poles,
while having the ability to levitate and store any amount of light and
energy within itself
To say the least, skepticism is warranted, but much to my surprise, I did find some preprints on the topic from around 1998, however:
Electronic structure and dimerization of a single monatomic gold wire
The Puzzling Stability of Monatomic Gold Wires
Stiff monatomic gold wires with a spinning zigzag geometry
Obviously none of that has anything to do with medicinal uses.
The whole monoatomic gold thing seems to have its genesis with that Arizona farmer, David Radius Hudson (take a look around his site for the typical pseudoscientific woo),
(Hudson)
and an excerpt from one of his lectures:
"Superconductivity and Modern Alchemy" "Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found?
White Powder Gold - A Lecture by David Hudson
Okay, into to the alchemical substance. When I became interested in
this alchemy, because the white powder of gold was the alchemical
substance supposedly, I began to do all sorts of reading, and one of
the things I came across immediately was the Melchizedek priesthood
and the white powder of gold associated with the Melchizedek
priesthood. So I went to Rabbi Plotkin at Temple Beth Israel in
Phoenix, and I asked the Rabbi, who is one of the most knowledgeable
rabbis in Arizona, I said, "Rabbi, have you ever of the white powder
of gold?", and he said, "Oh yes Mr. Hudson, but to our knowledge no
one's known how to make it since the destruction of the first temple".
He said, "The white powder of gold is the magic. It can be used for
white magic or black magic".
And when you really find out what the white powder of gold is, you
begin to really appreciate that statement. So, anyway, as I began to
research this further, I found out about the history of it, I found
out that it has been associated with the ancient peoples over in the
Tigris-Euphrates valley. It was knowledge that was given to them by,
they claimed, the gods. It is always depicted in the literature as a
triangular shaped stone, but it's about twice as tall as it is wide,
kind of an elongated pyramidal shape, like this. I think Zecharia
Sitchin refers to it as the "athinder? stone". Ah, but all of their
sacred text always began with it. Curious enough, in the ancient
Egyptian text it was always referred to as the "What is it?", and if
you read in the papyrus of Ani that was found in the tomb of Pepe the
2nd in old kingdom Egypt, it says, "I am purified of all
imperfections, what is it, I ascend like the golden hawk of Horus,
what is it, I come by the immortals without dying, what is it, I come
before my father's throne, what is it, and she goes on and on, page
after page, talking about all these attributes that you acquire as you
ascend, but they always stop and ask the question, "What is it"? source
I am almost hesitant to include the above quote, as it could be considered an ad hominem attack on Hudson, but there is very little real science done on his findings, and I hope showing that his whole premise is based entirely on magical thinking will enlighten some.
However, this article from the Phoenix New Times puts the whole thing in perspective...(pay special attention to the first paragraph and remember that Payne was the one who administered the compound to the desperate, dying patient)
So, while I typically would go a little more in depth with an answer I have too much to do today and may edit later. But it seems that this product (and its proponents) have caused at least one verifiable death. I'll leave you with a little more from the same article...
At least one desperate person bet her life on these claims.....and lost
