Re:DMSO what is it and how to use & experiences from a user

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This is information that has been posted previously on this group from Garnet.

www.jeffersequine.com $4.95 pint vet market 99.9%, Roll on and Gel also.

www.jacoblab.com more expensive but higher level of purity

www.lifesvigor.com packaged for the human health store market instead of

vet market

For pharmaceutical quality you need a prescription. It is called

Rimso-50, and is 50%.

Some insurance companies will pay for it if you have things like Lupus.

I have a friend

who uses it with her physician's blessing. Got her off cortisone shots

in the back for

her Lupus. She mentioned it costs $50 for a bottle, not sure what size,

probably 8 oz but

maybe 16 oz.

Also if it is used for cystitis of the bladder, but in that instance you

don't buy it

the attending physician or treatment facility will supply it.

www.gaylordchemical.com is the only USP lab producing USP grade DMSO. It

is not sold to

the public. Some people can arrange to purchase it for specific purposes

with signed

purchase agreements. A 55 gallon barrel is $14,000.00 . Smaller

quantities are more expensive

depending on the amount and the purchase agreement. They will discount

to some manufacturers

depending on the arrangement. They support new businesses that want to

use USP DMSO in

their products but do not support someone wanting to rebottle and sell

it OTC as pure

DMSO.

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> How to safely mix with water?

Always add DMSO to water since it releases heat. Adding water to

concentrated DMSO will

produce a large release of heat. Never boil DMSO, it boils at over 320*,

the vapors are

toxic, lethal actually. This is not to say that inhaling nebulized DMSO

is lethal, it is

not because it is actually liquid in very tiny droplets. The droplets

coming out of a

nebulizer just look like vapor, they are actually not in a gas form.

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> Safe internal doses.

4cc orally is what Dr Stanley states as a recommended daily oral

dose. Although many

have taken much more orally or by slow IV push. It is difficult to

recommend a dose when

dose response studies are lacking and when toxicity studies indicate

that the lethal dose

in animal models was not reached until 40,000 times the therapeutic

dose.

Dr is in the process of writing a 16 volume set on DMSO. There is

more scientific

literature on DMSO than on MSM its cousin, MSM being DMSO2, that is DMSO

with two oxygen

atoms. This set will be Dr 's "masterpeice" and many of us simply

can not wait.

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> How long can you take it internally?

Indefinitely. It is naturally occuring in your food so you already take

it in corn, coffe,

oysters and other natural sources. It is extracted from trees, although

it sounds like a chemical

keep in mind that we are all made up of chemicals. The distinction is

between naturally occuring,

naturally extracted and synthetically altered or manufactured. Chemicals

are not bad, it is the

way they are used, how they interact with our bodies and how the

artificial ones are designed, for

what purpose and how they act in combination when they mix in our air or

other mixtures to form

new compounds or "cocktails" that have greater action in combination,

some actions are good, some

are bad, some are neutral. Remember too that herbs are chemicals.

Everything in life boils down to

a chemical and electrical interaction with living tissue.

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> Can you take it with food - or on an empty stomach?

Best on an empty stomach. It causes some queasiness and can cause a

transient

headache due to vasodilation. I have taken it with some food in my

stomach and

it did give me a slight nauseous feeling that passed in 20 mintues, but

I would

avoid doing this. I was just curious.

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> Safe topical doses.

Some people, a very few, are so sensitive that they claim they have

never experienced

a dose that did not bother them, they can not even work around it with

gloves on. Others

need to keep topical concentrations in the 10-30% range. Some like

myself can use it

full strength with no untoward reaction except a bit of drying effect

and maybe some

itching from Histamine release. With continued application Histamin

stores are depleted

from mast cells and there is no itching. I have compresed an are on my

chest for over

a week, keeping it constantly moist. It did dry the skin to the point

that it did not

rehydrate, although I did not apply Emu Oil or Aloe Vera Gel which is

recommended, I

just let it run it's course and it grew back new skin after a couple

weeks. Again just

curious.

Now if I use full strength cause I am in a hurry to treat a burn or a

trauma I follow

up with Emu Oil. Best to keep dilution bottles around in the kitchen,

workshop, barn,

car etc where it is there when you need it. The faster you apply it the

better it works

to repair and avoid tissue destruction effects of the burn or trauma.

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> How to deal with the smell. Is there anyway to not have the smell?

Chlorophyll tablets, I take two 50 mg and that works for me. Each

person's

metabolism is slightly different. Chlorophyll tabs are cheap and are

good

for you, great blood cleanser and a magnesium source. The Chlorophyll

molecule

is almost the exact same as the Heme molecule that makes up hemoglobin.

I also

give it to my dogs when they are in heat and it takes the odor away. I

have read

recently that Mg can prevent body odor, so perhaps there is a

connection.

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> How to deal with the dryness.

Pretreat area with aloe vera gel. I also use Emu Oil, mostly after

the DMSO, but pretreating would not hurt either. What ever you pretreat

with should be food grade since the DMSO will carry it in to your

tissues.

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> What not to mix with dmso.

Anything toxic, some essential oils that should not be used internally,

anything

really concentrated that you would normally dilute before consuming.

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> What is safe to mix with it?

For diluting I use distilled water or CS made with distilled water.

Filtered water

would be OK too as long as there is no chance of cholorine or other

toxins in the

water.

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> Can you spray it up the nose?

> Can you use a rubber hose? Sorry, just had a Dr. Seuss spirit come

> upon me.

<Giggle> actually yes you can use a rubber hose! I do spray it up my

nose, I use

drops or a meter nasal spray bottle. I generally dilute to 20% but have

used 30% drops

when my sinuses were very stuffy and I had a bad migraine, it steps the

migraine down

to a tolerable level within minutes and the stuffy sinuses drain

immediately and continue

to drain for about ten minutes.

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> If yes, what dilution?

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> Can you use it in a urinary catheter?

That is the one FDA approve used. To infuse into the bladder via

catheter to treat

cystitis of the bladder.

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> If yes, what dilution?

30 or 50%, not sure, I have used both as infusion in my dogs

who had a slight uterine metritis and would probably start with 30%

since with DMSO just 2.4% to 4% is used to transport Stem Cells you just

gotta realize that it does not always take high concentrations. I

am sure the cocentration for bladder infusion is in the literature.

Try a Pub Med search.

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> Can you use it in your eyes?

Yes, I use 10% but even 20% is well tolerated. There are some reports of

improvement in eye disease. DMSO Nature's Healer by Dr Morton

has more details and is a great reference, it is $11 from Amazon. You

really will not regret buying it. There are other books but Dr 's

has been updated in 1994.

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> Safe dilution?

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> Can you use it in your ears?

Yep I use it in eyes, ears, nose and throat during flu season and I

nebulize.

For ears I can go to 30% with no problems. Nebulizing I use 20%. I

recommend

nebulizing and sprayin in eyes, ears, nose and throat to anyone who

travels

on airplanes a lot.

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> Safe dilution?

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> Well those are the things I want to know. Perhaps there are questions

> I didn't ask and should?

You can extract herbs with DMSO and apply the solution topically. Doug

Cameron has the details

and recently posted them somewhere, maybe on his Equine Herbal list,

can't remember. Doug

if you see this would you repost the instructions? It's a great idea for

those who don't

like the taste of herb tinctures or can't use alcohol.

Slow IV push is one of the most effective ways to administer for

heartattack, stroke or

spinal cord injury. The details of how to do this are not complex but

should be under

taken with some training and understanding of the precautions. I can't

really explain it

fully here but it is something I would not hesitate to do. 100 ml DMSO

in 1000 ml of sterile

saline can be dripped in as well.

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