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?
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.
The past 5 years of witnessing gradual extermination of this tract of man, gave me new eyes to see and new ears to hear.
We are such powerful beings that is it our 'faith' in products that heals. Now that I have been made aware of the source of DMSO, I choose to not use it again.
That's a good point Doreen and one I've thought of many times. I understand it is the belief that is the strongest. Watching a product that worked wonders with my dog who doesn't have any beliefs around the treatment (in fact, did not like it at all!) raises an interesting counterpoint though. Thanks for your insights.
I would love to think so but I think there's a little more to it than that. I've never seen anything like what happened with my dog and so used it on myself too. (The black salve that is - that contains DMSO). Not ready to let that go just yet.
It's a world full of smoke and mirrors and we've come to completely distrust or own instincts as a result. One the one hand we have this by-product from the paper industry and on the other we have pharmaceutical products. The one is worth millions of dollars, the other trillions. The one has 2 known, possible side effects - itchy, burny skin and garlic/oyster smell and taste - the other has multiple, serious possible side effects. (Pull out any medication packet insert - those we throw in the bin without reading). The one works on conditions for very desperate people that the other has given up on. Desperate people feel they have nothing to lose - and they are right. Remember that the FDA approved DMSO for interstitial cystitis - flooding the bladder with it - since they couldn't deny they didn't have another solution. Have those who prefer pharmaceutical to natural products ever checked the side effects and ingredients in the vaccines we put into our babies, which we believe save their lives? Aluminium, polysorbate 80, mercury, called thimeresol, aborted fetal cells (which has to be harvested while the fetus is still alive, without anaesthetic) SV40 (yes, those monkey kidney cells they inject into mice to create rumours to test chemo drugs, which was found in the Pfizer product). I can go on,but you get the idea.
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?
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.
Hello Zoë.
The past 5 years of witnessing gradual extermination of this tract of man, gave me new eyes to see and new ears to hear.
We are such powerful beings that is it our 'faith' in products that heals. Now that I have been made aware of the source of DMSO, I choose to not use it again.
That's a good point Doreen and one I've thought of many times. I understand it is the belief that is the strongest. Watching a product that worked wonders with my dog who doesn't have any beliefs around the treatment (in fact, did not like it at all!) raises an interesting counterpoint though. Thanks for your insights.
Hello Zoë,
Perhaps it was your love, and faith in DMSO that healed your pet.
I would love to think so but I think there's a little more to it than that. I've never seen anything like what happened with my dog and so used it on myself too. (The black salve that is - that contains DMSO). Not ready to let that go just yet.
It's a world full of smoke and mirrors and we've come to completely distrust or own instincts as a result. One the one hand we have this by-product from the paper industry and on the other we have pharmaceutical products. The one is worth millions of dollars, the other trillions. The one has 2 known, possible side effects - itchy, burny skin and garlic/oyster smell and taste - the other has multiple, serious possible side effects. (Pull out any medication packet insert - those we throw in the bin without reading). The one works on conditions for very desperate people that the other has given up on. Desperate people feel they have nothing to lose - and they are right. Remember that the FDA approved DMSO for interstitial cystitis - flooding the bladder with it - since they couldn't deny they didn't have another solution. Have those who prefer pharmaceutical to natural products ever checked the side effects and ingredients in the vaccines we put into our babies, which we believe save their lives? Aluminium, polysorbate 80, mercury, called thimeresol, aborted fetal cells (which has to be harvested while the fetus is still alive, without anaesthetic) SV40 (yes, those monkey kidney cells they inject into mice to create rumours to test chemo drugs, which was found in the Pfizer product). I can go on,but you get the idea.
You're preaching to the choir sister.