I prepared this for my own list a couple years back...
DMSO is a very valuable adjunct to the use of CS. This info comes from the book The Miracle of MSM-The Natural Solution for Pain, written by Stanely Jacob,MD, Ronald Lawrence, MD, PHD., and Martin Zucker, copyright 1999. Chapter 2 titled: Roots of MSM-The DMSO Connection this chapter written Dr. Stanley Jacob: Dr. Stanely appeared on a piece on 60 minutes, March 1980. At the time he was doing intravenous DMSO treatments for pain control. The piece centered on a woman who had suffered severe chronic whiplash and nerve damage in an auto accident in 1978. After 3 days of treatment, all observed on film, she no longer required any pain meds. This woman, as of the 1998 writing was/is STILL pain free. DMSO= dimethyl sulfoxide. Dr. Jacob had already been working with DMSO for more than 15 years when the piece was produced. DMSO a naturally occurring sulfur compound was first synthesized a hundred and thirty years ago by a russian chemist. In the process of transplantation research, Dr. Jacob found a scientific paper written by a British scientist named Lovelock about various chemical compounds that permitted freezing red blood cells ''alive''.One of those compounds was DMSO. A company named Crown-Zellerbach Corp., a large paper making company was producing DMSO. Robert Herschler, a chemist had made the observation that in plants and trees DMSO tended to move through tissues and could carry other materials with it. They found, through research that it did the same in animals. DMSO had the potential to carry medications through the skin and into the body. The DMSO also demonstrated potent pain-reduction and anti-inflammatory properties for people. Applied over an acute sprain or burn, one could see the swelling resolve within an hour. DMSO also is a diuretic, has antibacterial effects and even rendered resistant bacteria vulnerable to the same antibiotics to which they had previously been resistant. In regards to transplantation, it is today used globally for the purpose of a preservative for transplantation- bound frozen bone marrow, platelets,embryos,ova and sperm cells. (ova and sperm cells, if it causes birth defects, why widely used to preserve these things?) Dr. Jacob first reported his development in 1963, of the use of DMSO for the relief of the pain of people with severe, unresolved arthritis, bursitis,tendinitis, and many other conditions. Articles began to appear in newspapers,including The New York Times describing DMSO as the ''most exciting thing in medicine.'' Now the pharmaceuticals and big government get involved...the PC were primarily interested in DMSO as a through the skin carrier of their own patented medicines. By 1965, more than 1500 studies had been conducted, involving about 100,00 patients.. Now this is where the confusion about birth defects, etc probably comes in...... During that year, the US FDA responsible for approving new drugs, temporarily stopped its consideration of medical uses for DMSO because of the flood of studies it had received and also out of fear of a Thalidomide-like nightmare occurring in the US. (for those that do not know or remember-Thalidomide had been discovered to cause serious deformities of the fetus when taken during pregnancy). The FDA was saying NO to EVERYTHING, including DMSO. The pharm companies subsequently lost interest in DMSO. 1970 approval was finally obtained for veterinary usage in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders. Vets, still use it for this purpose on both large and small animals. 1978, the FDA finally approved DMSO as a prescriptive treatment for interstitial cystitis, a painful inflammatory condition of the bladder affecting a half-million women. IC remains the only disorder for which DMSO is approved by the FDA, despite numerous congressional hearings recommending wider application. It is still widely used by athletes for speedier healing of typical muscle, ligament and tendon injuries. A special law in the state of Oregon has allowed Dr. Jacob to use it for many other conditions. He continues to treat many other conditions and has helped many patients with a variety of severe disorders and musculoskeletal conditions. 1973, DMSO became prescriptive in Soviet Union-;prescribed there for an estimated 30 million patients annually for lupus, scleroderma, arthritis, diabetic ulcerations. Globally-is in about 125 countries, including Canada, Great Britain, Germany Switzerland. It has been the subject of 55,000 studies worldwide. "DMSO is safe, a substance of extraordinarily low toxicity, without a single documented death attributed to it. The most common side effect, if you want to call it that, is of the nuisance variety-the odor-it produces a distinctive fish-or oyster-like odor and taste in the mouth." It is used widely internationally to reduce inflammation and carry critical medications through the skin in life-and-death trauma situations. (where the odor factor is irrelevant) This is where MSM comes in. MSM is the major metabolite of DMSO. When DMSO enters the body, 15% of it becomes MSM. A smaller percentage of DMSO is converted to DMS (dimethyl sulfide) the odor causing component of DMSO. MSM in itself does not penetrate the skin. DMSO does.... Now, the reason for mixing the CS with DMSO....simply put, it allows the CS to penetrate the skin. It is used as a transport of the CS when taken internally,inhaled etc. And Chuck posted this info several weeks back: http://www.dmso.org/articles/information/herschler.htm A wide range of primary pharmacological actions of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)has been documented in laboratory studies: membrane transport, effects on connective tissue, anti-inflammation, nerve blockade (analgesia), bacteriostasis, diuresis, enhancements or reduction of the effectiveness of other drugs, cholinesterase inhibition, nonspecific enhancement of resistance to infection, vasodilation, muscle relaxation, antagonism to platelet aggregation, and influence on serum cholesterol in emperimental hypercholesterolemia. This substance induces differntiation and function of leukemic and other malignant cells. DMSO also has prophylactic radioprotective properties and cryoprotective actions. It protects against ischemic injury. (1986 Academic Press, Inc.) The pharmacologic actions of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) have stimulated much research. The purpose of this report is to summarize current concepts in this area. When the theorectical basis of DMSO action is described, we can list literally dozens of primary pharmacologic actions. This relatively brief summary will touch on only a few: (A) membrane penetration (B) membrane transport (C) effects on connective tissue (D) anti-inflamation (E) nerve blockade (analgesia) (F) bacteriostasis (G) diuresis (H) enhancement or reduction of effectiveness of other drugs (I) cholinsterase inhibition (J) nonspecific enhancement of resistance of infection (K) vasodilation (L) muscle relaxation (M) enhancement of cell differentiation and function (N) antagonism to platelet aggregation (O) influence on serum cholesterol in experimental hypercholesterolemia (P) radio-protective and cryoprotective actions (Q) protection against ischemic injury Chuck Artificial Intelligence: The other guy's opinion. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. 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