DMSO – Dimethyl Sulfoxide

DMSO: The Real Miracle Solution
by: Gabriela Segura, MD

DMSO is an effective pain killer, blocking nerve conduction fibers that produce pain. It reduces
inflammation and swelling by reducing inflammatory chemicals. It improves blood supply to an area of
injury by dilating blood vessels and increasing delivery of oxygen and by reducing blood platelet stickiness.
It stimulates healing, which is a key to its usefulness in any condition. It is among the most potent free
radical scavengers known to man, if not the most potent one.
In 1866, Russian scientist Alexander Saytzeff isolated a most curious and peculiar chemical compound. It
was crystalline, odor-less, non-toxic and had a garlic-like taste when consumed. At the time, Saytzeff had no
way to predict that his discovery was going to prove highly controversial throughout its entire medical
history, that it was going to be tested in thousands of studies, providing miraculous relief in numerous
patients.

I’m talking here about dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), an organic sulfur compound which was used only as an
industrial solvent, that is, until its medical properties were discovered in 1963 by a research team headed by
Stanley W. Jacob, MD.

DMSO is useful as a pain reliever, in burns, acne, arthritis, mental retardation, strokes, amyloidosis, head
injury, scleroderma, it soothes toothaches, eases headaches, hemorroids, muscle strains, it prevents paralysis
from spinal-chord injuries, it softens scar tissues. In fact, it is useful in well over 300 ailments and it is safe
to use. You would think that a compound that has so many alleged uses and benefits will be automatically
suspect, but careful examination of its properties and the data available will shed some light in this miraculous chemical.

Sulfur: The Stuff of Life

DMSO is an intermediate product of the global Sulfur Cycle which distributes bioavailable sulfur for all
animal and plant life (Parcell, 2002). Sulfur compounds are found in all body cells and are indispensable for
life, they are needed for a number of chemical reactions involved in the detoxification of drugs and other
harmful toxins, and they have potential clinical applications in the treatment of a number of conditions such
as depression, fibromyalgia, arthritis, intersticial cystitis, athletic injuries, congestive heart failure, diabetes,
cancer, and AIDS (Parcell, 2002). Among the sulfur compounds, DMSO is probably the one that has the
widest range and greatest number of therapeutic applications ever shown for any other single chemical. It has
around 40 pharmacological properties that may be beneficial in the prevention, relief or reversal of numerous
diseases

(Morton, 1993).

Please refer to Dr. Gabriela Segura, MD’s blog for full information.

Healing with DMSO with Amandha Vollmer and Tom Barnett

We highly recommend watching this video at the link above.  There are a lot of information on other health related topics as well.