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DMSO (dimethyl sulphoxide)
Here’s an amazing substance that was once hailed on mainstream TV ("60 Minutes") as a miracle and the NY Times said, in a lead editorial published April 3, 1965, that "DMSO is… the closest thing to a wonder produced in the 1960s." Yet DMSO is now largely forgotten, since it is not hyped by Big Pharma, the way they do for drugs.
DMSO is an organic, sulfur-rich substance found in the woody part of trees. It was first discovered by a Russian researcher in 1866. It absorbs easily and a drop placed on the skin will be sucked in almost instantly. Over 12,000 modern papers have studied its amazing properties.
Among other properties, DMSO is a tremendous pain reliever. But it also has a real part to play in fighting cancer the "chemical route". It seems to protect the body from the ravages of chemo agents, notably cyclophosphamide, and at the same time can persuade many types of cancer cells to start behaving more normally. It relieves pain noticeably and helps the patients normalize the sickly feeling so obvious with cancer.
Studies carried out by Jorge Cornejo Garrido MD at the military hospital in Santiago, Chile, convince me.
DMSO performs best with the lymphoma group of cancers. Note that it doesn’t actually kill tumor cells, so much as turn them back to well-behaved counterparts.
Several studies of this group of compounds, called polar solvents, have shown this tendency to be very pronounced. This could be called tumor maturation therapy, since it turns wild, uncontrolled "young" or undifferentiated cells into sensible citizens of the body.
Why doesn’t the FDA approve it? Well at first they admitted this was such a versatile substance with so many applications, they simply didn’t have enough staff to evaluate it. Quite likely too, they cannot cope with the idea of a compound sold commercially as a solvent can also have drug status.
But you know the FDA is not there for your protection but to protect the drug industry. Such a cheap, safe adjuvant to therapy simply cannot be released to the public. So they complain about lack of safety reports (there are hundreds of good papers) and lack of patient experience (there are over 100,000 patient success reports of safety, which the FDA commissioners simply ignore).
PAGE 92 Cance r Confidential Keith Scott-Mumby MD, MBChB, PhDDMSO is used in the rest of the world quite ethically by doctors. No problem. Toxicity: less than aspirin, if used properly. The supposed changes in eye function were alterations in refractive index (not opacity), seen only in pigs, dogs and rabbits. Yet the FDA makes a big deal out this.
No eye changes have ever been seen in humans, despite worldwide use of DMSO. In Portland, Oregon. Dr Jacob and Edward Rosenbaum MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Rheumatology at the University of Oregon Medical School, had 32 patients examined by an ophthalmologist and then treated with DMSO, 30 grams daily, for between three and nineteen months. They were then reviewed by the ophthalmologist. None of them showed the characteristic lens changes seen in animals.
Dosage of DMSO varies by body weight. The IV route is best but it has measurable benefits even taken orally.