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Shirley Guertin's avatar

Thank you for writing this article. This is another commonly used product in the horse world—one I’ve always treated with enormous respect, gloving up - not wanting it touching my skin. Yet I see people jumping on the DMSO bandwagon and using it without a second thought, just because “it’s natural.” But natural doesn’t equal safe. Snake venom is natural—want a sip? Poison ivy is natural too—feel like rolling in it?

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Zoë's avatar

I'm so torn about DMSO - I've been using it for awhile now via Amandha Volmer (Canadian naturopath) and it's worked wonders for chronic painful knees and other muscular issues and I've given some mixed with other herbs, etc to someone with severe eczema with miraculous results and on clients to really great effect. That being said I'm extremely uncomfortable with the industry it comes from. So what do I do, right? I wouldn't trust Midwestern Doctor as far as I can throw him and Amandha Vollmer has other crazy ideas that I can't line up with. For now, it seems to work and I swear by black salve (contains DMSO. I have used it many times on suspicious skin growths on myself and my dog and it has been miraculous, creating extremely precise and clean wounds after the tumours are neatly popped off, roots and all but I used that before I ever heard of DMSO.

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