Over the past yr, I’ve labored to convey the general public’s consideration to dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) a forgotten pure remedy which quickly treats a variety of situations and that many research have proven may be very secure (offered it is used appropriately), and, most significantly (due to the 1994 DSHEA act which legalized all pure therapies)1 is now available.
Since I imagine DMSO has immense potential to supply the medical neighborhood and particular person sufferers, I’ve diligently labored to compile proof that finest helps its rediscovery. As such, all through this sequence, I’ve introduced over a thousand research that DMSO successfully treats:
• Strokes, paralysis, and lots of different neurological or circulatory issues (mentioned right here).
• Persistent ache and tissue accidents, equivalent to sprains, burns and non-healing wounds (mentioned right here).
• Quite a few autoimmune and contractile issues (mentioned right here).
• Head situations, equivalent to tinnitus, imaginative and prescient loss, dental issues, and sinusitis (mentioned right here).
• Inside organ illnesses, equivalent to pancreatitis, infertility, liver cirrhosis, and endometriosis (mentioned right here).
• Pores and skin situations, equivalent to varicose veins, zits, hair loss, ulcers, and pores and skin most cancers (mentioned right here).
• Many alternative cancers (mentioned right here).
• Lung issues, together with bronchial asthma, COPD, pulmonary fibrosis, and cystic fibrosis (mentioned right here).
• Infections, together with continual bacterial infections, herpes, and shingles (mentioned right here).
DMSO Mixture Therapies
DMSO’s means to deal with a variety of sicknesses outcomes from its having quite a lot of extremely uncommon properties that seem to handle the foundation causes of illness (e.g., it drastically improves circulation). One in every of DMSO’s most noteworthy properties is its means to boost the consequences of different substances, which in lots of instances makes it attainable to surmount main dilemmas historically seen with these therapies.
DMSO’s distinctive means to operate as a car is because of the truth that it might probably go via organic membranes with out damaging them,2 so as soon as it contacts the pores and skin, it quickly spreads all through the physique.3 On the similar time, concurrently it readily dissolves most substances and is ready to convey them with it into the physique. That is very helpful because it means that you can:
• Apply a drugs topically or orally that might usually require an IV or injection.
• Make medicine turn into rather more potent and capable of deal with situations that in any other case won’t reply to (e.g., these mixtures can penetrate and deal with antibiotic-resistant micro organism or chemotherapy resistant cancers).
• Enable decrease doses of a drug for use, which are sometimes a lot much less poisonous and in lots of instances, counteract the toxicity of the blended remedy (as DMSO protects tissue from damage) — all of which make it extremely helpful for decreasing the hurt of chemotherapy.
Word: Whereas DMSO can’t be patented, mixtures can. As such, whereas DMSO alone is “unsafe” “ineffective,” and “unproven” many “secure and efficient” DMSO pharmaceutical mixtures exist, together with many authorised by the FDA.
Pure Mixture Research
A big quantity of scientific literature exists on DMSO being utilized in mixture with pharmaceutical medicine, and many authorised DMSO merchandise additionally incorporate pure brokers equivalent to menthol, camphor, lavandin, lavender oil, coriander oil, arnica, and capsicum. Many pure brokers, together with quite a few botanicals, have additionally been proven to synergistically mix with DMSO in lots of situations.
• Neurological situations:
◦In rats with Alzheimer’s illness, DMSO and Ginkgo biloba extract (GBE), administered for 14 days, improved studying and reminiscence.4
◦In 31 sufferers with postherpetic neuralgia, DMSO and Chinese language natural medicines diminished ache scores and improved signs extra successfully than customary medical remedy.5
• Dermatological situations:
◦In 33 sufferers with extreme psoriasis, an extract of camptotheca nuts dissolved in 70% DMSO was a “fast, efficient and handy remedy,” as a yr later, 21 had a whole decision of the illness.6
◦A hospital dermatology division reported that DMSO and 0.05% lithospermum (purple gromwell) successfully handled viral warts.7
◦DMSO combined with linethol (a flaxseed focus with anti-inflammatory, regenerative, and wound-healing properties) handled burns.8
• Infectious illnesses:
◦A 2023 medical trial gave an oral DMSO spray containing zinc iodide, ginger extract, propolis extract, and xylitol to sufferers with delicate or average COVID-19.9 In comparison with placebo, this remedy triggered vital enhancements in medical signs, restoration time, and viral clearance.
◦DMSO with food-grade vinegar was discovered to be an efficient remedy for 406 sufferers with fungal athlete’s foot (59% DMSO 41% vinegar given 3 to 4 instances a day for 3 to five days)10 and 100 sufferers with jock itch (40% DMSO 60% vinegar).11
◦DMSO combined with quite a lot of completely different plant extracts was extremely efficient at inhibiting the expansion of Candida infections remoted from sufferers with mouth cancers (whereas it was proof against many antifungals).12
◦DMSO with papaya enzyme and nitrofurazone was discovered to deal with suppurative wounds.13
Word: DMSO additionally considerably elevated the flexibility of Annona muricata seed extracts to eradicate mosquitoes within the water, and after 6 hours, 0.5mg/L killed 62% of larvae and 100% of pupae.14
• Dental situations:
◦50% DMSO and 1 mg/ml oleanolic acid (which is discovered inside many crops, together with olives15) in 30 extracted human enamel with enterococcus faecalis infections quickly diminished micro organism ranges, inside 24 hours, utterly eliminating them.16,17,18
◦DMSO in a gel with 10% glucosamine hydrochloride, nettle juice, and Kalanchoe juice successfully handled periodontitis in animals, decreasing irritation and rushing tissue restore.19
Word: Many research have additionally proven DMSO enhances the absorption of plant extracts (e.g., for ginseng20,21).
Therapeutic with Pure DMSO Mixtures
As there’s an nearly infinite variety of pure substances that may very well be mixed with DMSO, it has not been attainable to analysis them. Luckily, the convenience, security, and efficacy of those mixtures have impressed many to take their well being into their very own palms and discover combining DMSO with many confirmed pure treatments. Key discoveries with these mixtures from the DMSO neighborhood embrace:
• Provider oils and topical bases — Along with diluting DMSO with a liquid, it’s typically combined with a thicker substance, of which three are generally used:
◦Aloe vera — This rehydrates the pores and skin, thereby counteracting the dryness typically skilled with continual DMSO use, and in lots of instances extenuates DMSO’s therapeutic properties.
Mostly they’re used collectively to assuage the pores and skin (e.g., for sunburns, eczema, or zits), for wound therapeutic (e.g., in a mouthwash taken a couple of instances a day for a molar abscess), typically together with calendula, however has additionally proven promise for prostatitis (the place it’s usually rectally administered) and sophisticated regional ache syndrome (the place it’s massaged into the affected space).
◦Castor oil — That is ceaselessly used for musculoskeletal and eye points, so earlier than lengthy it turned mixed with DMSO for these conditions. This mixture is considered wonderful for rheumatic complaints (e.g., spinal points, joint ache, and painful beforehand fractured bones), one thing many readers have attested to22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32 together with eye points (e.g., cataracts), which likewise many discovered labored.33,34,35,36,37,38
This mixture can also be used for different musculoskeletal points (e.g., therapeutic tendons and scar tissue) and amongst the 80 or so readers who’ve reported utilizing it, I’ve additionally heard success tales for a lot of different situations (e.g., neuropathies, fungal infections, facial pores and skin points, eczema, rashes, and an umbilical hernia, and so forth.).39
◦Coconut oil — That is mostly used to forestall pores and skin irritation or dryness from DMSO (particularly from continual use), and for pores and skin points (e.g., zits, eczema, chapped pores and skin) or beauty preparations. Sometimes it is suggested to start out with utilizing 10% to twenty% coconut oil, whereas in therapeutic purposes, 50% is commonly wanted. Lastly, MCT oil is typically used when a extra substantial therapeutic impact is required (e.g., for joint ache).
Word: I’ve a powerful suspicion that coconut or MCT oil DMSO mixtures can be fairly useful for Alzheimer’s, as every has been proven in medical trials to enhance dementia,40 and lots of readers have reported success from all three individually for Alzheimer’s.
• Important oils — Many important oils have been mixed with DMSO and ceaselessly produced therapeutic outcomes higher than these seen with the oil alone. These embrace:
◦Frankincense — Identified for its anti-inflammatory and ache relieving properties, it’s typically used for situations like knee ache, again ache, and sciatica. Moreover, when rubbed onto the roof of the mouth, it might probably promote parasympathetic activation (which for instance helps most cancers sufferers if carried out twice a day).
◦Tea tree — Tea tree oil is thought for its antibacterial, antiparasitic, and antifungal (and to a lesser extent antiviral) exercise. As such, it is likely one of the commonest antimicrobials combined with DMSO and used to deal with a variety of infections (e.g., sprayed into wounds, for folliculitis or, as a reader reported,41 an angular cheilitis which had not responded to fifteen years of pure and traditional therapies), together with many different situations equivalent to insect bites.
◦Peppermint — This cooling oil relaxes muscle tissues and blood circulation. It’s typically used alone or with DMSO to alleviate ache, complications (together with migraines), and nerve irritation (e.g., sciatica) or swallowed for digestion.
◦Lavender — This ceaselessly used oil is sort of useful for muscle cramps and joint ache, reduces nervousness, improves sleep, and typically is used for bronchial asthma assaults, and is ceaselessly combined into DMSO lotions or gels.
◦Different important oils — Generally mixed with DMSO embrace Eucalyptus (joint/muscle soreness or bronchial asthma), Myrrh (again and knee ache), Black Pepper (circulation enhancement), Wintergreen (ache aid), Clary Sage (cramps, significantly menstrual ones), and Candy Birch (muscle rest).
Word: Given their efficiency, you will need to dilute important oils when combining them with DMSO.
• Botanicals — Along with important oils, many different botanicals have been efficiently mixed with DMSO:
◦Arnica and comfrey — These heal musculoskeletal accidents, and when mixed with DMSO, relieve aches, ache, and bruising, heal ligament or tendon accidents (e.g., sprains, tennis elbow, and Achilles tendon ache) and help tissue restore, with some reporting drastically accelerated therapeutic (e.g., recoveries in 1 to 2 weeks as an alternative of months).
◦Turmeric — As turmeric is a extremely potent (however secure) anti-inflammatory agent, and the lively ingredient in it (curcumin) absorbs poorly, it’s well-suited for being mixed with DMSO. There, it’s typically used to deal with situations equivalent to joint irritation, gastritis, knee ache, and common ache (e.g., three readers discovered it instantly, and infrequently completely, eliminates ache).42,43,44
Word: One reader used it with ginger to eradicate a lipoma,45 whereas one other used it with a inexperienced tea extract to eradicate a seborrheic keratosis.46
◦Black cumin seed oil — This anti-inflammatory oil is potentiated by DMSO, and lots of have discovered fast ache aid from it.
◦Cayenne pepper (Capsicum) — At low doses, that is usually carried out for ache aid (significantly neuropathic ache and migraines) or to enhance circulation.
◦Cannabinoids — CBD oil’s makes use of (significantly decreasing seizures, irritation, ache, and neuropathies) are enhanced in DMSO mixtures. A number of readers47,48,49 have reported this mix helped their arthritis, ache, and neuropathies (e.g., thumb arthritis that was scheduled for surgical procedure,50 or most cancers ache from chemotherapy and metastases).51
◦Amygdalin — It is a pure most cancers remedy (also referred to as B17 or laetrile) from apricot kernels that the FDA efficiently blacklisted and erased from reminiscence. On the time it was in use, many integrative medical doctors noticed a big synergy when it was combined with DMSO in IVs and routinely used that mixture to deal with most cancers, and lately it has been rediscovered in Germany.
Word: Hematoxylin (a standard dye) mixed with DMSO produces an extremely potent (and secure) most cancers mixture. Moreover, when mixed with DMSO, ivermectin turns into rather more efficient for eliminating most cancers.
◦Sulforaphane — I’ve acquired a compelling report that this mix improves Parkinson’s.
◦Eyebright (Euphrasia rostkoviana) — This is likely one of the high DMSO mixtures for eye well being (e.g., cataracts) and has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. Moreover, blueberry extract, l-Carnosine, l-Carnitine, and taurine are typically used to boost the efficacy of DMSO eye drops (e.g., one reader reported52 that they eradicated their cataracts).
Word: DMSO alone is ceaselessly noticed to be a extremely efficient remedy for quite a lot of degenerative and inflammatory eye situations.
Creating Your Personal House Treatments
Regardless of having now gone via hundreds upon hundreds of research with DMSO, there’s nonetheless a terrific deal I don’t perceive in regards to the substance, significantly the innumerable variety of issues it may be mixed with.
Luckily, excluding instances the place there’s a exceptional and sudden synergy (e.g., DMSO and hematoxylin treating most cancers) these mixtures behave in a reasonably predictable sample. So long as you’re conscious to keep away from frequent points (e.g., utilizing an excessive amount of of an irritating or acidic substance), these mixtures are comparatively secure and infrequently fairly efficient.
For instance, many people need alternate options to chemical cosmetics that keep away from their toxicity and don’t irritate or deplete the pores and skin, however discover pure formulations typically don’t “do sufficient.” Nevertheless, when mixed with DMSO, these frequent elements (e.g., lots of which I listed above) not solely turn into more practical, however in lots of instances are capable of rejuvenate and restore the pores and skin, in lots of instances displaying exceptional antiaging results (e.g., pores and skin tightening).
As such, a variety of efficient beauty DMSO blends have been developed that not solely free customers from dangerous chemical formulations, but additionally typically permit them to heal quite a lot of difficult pores and skin points. Likewise, DMSO has been mixed with quite a lot of different pure brokers, which have produced exceptional outcomes, in lots of instances making it attainable to treatment incurable situations. These embrace:
• Many nutritional vitamins and antioxidants, drastically rising their efficiency and making it attainable to deal with many situations, together with fatigue, osteoarthritis, cussed infections, misplaced scent, tinnitus, bronchial asthma, or COPD.
• Quite a few minerals, lots of that are used to deal with infections or heal accidents.
• Pure Metabolites, lots of that are used to revive the physique (e.g., treating continual fatigue or strengthening weakened tissue).
• Amino acid mixtures reliably treating Down Syndrome and studying disabilities. Further neurotransmitter mixtures have been later found to assuage the nervous system, bettering sleep and nervousness.
• Oxidative therapies (e.g., chlorine dioxide or hydrogen peroxide) have gotten rather more potent for eliminating infections (e.g., Lyme or toenail fungus) when mixed with DMSO. They’re additionally ceaselessly discovered to deal with most cancers.
• Hematoxylin and some different dyes have demonstrated vital anticancer exercise with DMSO.
• DMSO considerably improves the flexibility of cleansing therapies (significantly steel chelating brokers) to eradicate toxins from the physique.
Lastly, many different physique therapies (e.g., acupuncture, hypnosis, meditation, and therapeutic massage) turn into considerably more practical when mixed with DMSO. As such, practitioners in elements of Europe ceaselessly mix the 2.
Conclusion
The exceptional potential of DMSO mixture therapies represents a paradigm shift in how we method pure therapeutic and wellness. What we have found via hundreds of research and numerous affected person experiences is that DMSO does not simply deal with signs — it seems to handle elementary therapeutic mechanisms on the mobile degree, making a basis for the physique’s personal restorative processes to flourish.
The fantastic thing about these pure mixtures lies not solely of their therapeutic efficacy however of their accessibility. In contrast to advanced pharmaceutical interventions that require specialised medical services and intensive oversight, many of those DMSO mixtures will be safely ready and used at residence, empowering people to take an lively position in their very own well being journey.
Maybe most encouraging is the rising neighborhood of practitioners, researchers, and sufferers who’re documenting their successes with these therapies. From continual ache aid to most cancers remedy, from wound therapeutic to neurological restoration, the constant stories of enchancment throughout such a large spectrum of situations recommend we’re witnessing the emergence of a really transformative method to drugs.
As we transfer ahead, the combination of DMSO mixture therapies into mainstream healthcare holds large promise. The scientific basis is stable, the protection profile is well-established when used correctly, and the therapeutic potential seems nearly limitless. For these searching for pure, efficient alternate options to standard therapies, DMSO mixtures supply hope, therapeutic, and most significantly, the chance to reclaim management over one’s well being with out relying upon a malignant medical system.
The way forward for drugs might be discovered on this exceptional solvent’s means to unlock the therapeutic potential that has at all times existed inside nature — we merely wanted the suitable key to entry it.
Writer’s Word: That is an abridged model of an extended article which fits into a lot higher element on what every of the pure DMSO mixtures can do and learn how to put together them at residence. That article, together with sources and protocols for acquiring and utilizing DMSO will be learn right here. Moreover, a companion article explaining how DMSO interacts with a variety of drugs and the synergistic pharmaceutical mixtures which have been found will be learn right here.
A Word from Dr. Mercola In regards to the Writer
A Midwestern Physician (AMD) is a board-certified doctor from the Midwest and a longtime reader of Mercola.com. I respect AMD’s distinctive perception on a variety of matters and am grateful to share it. I additionally respect AMD’s need to stay nameless since AMD remains to be on the entrance strains treating sufferers. To seek out extra of AMD’s work, make sure you try The Forgotten Facet of Drugs on Substack.
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