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By: A Midwestern Doctor

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• DMSO is an "umbrella remedy" capable of treating a wide range of challenging ailments due to its combination of therapeutic properties (e.g., reducing inflammation, improving circulation, and reviving dying cells). It also rapidly transports substances dissolved in it through the skin and throughout the body

• These benefits are also seen when DMSO is combined with a variety of natural therapies – in many cases, allowing the mixture to treat challenging conditions neither could treat alone

• DMSO is commonly combined with proven nutraceuticals, such as vitamins and antioxidants

• These combinations effectively treat a myriad of diseases, including skin cancer, prostate enlargement, cataracts, CRPS, fatigue, lost smell or hearing, osteoarthritis, COPD, and tinnitus

• This article will review the basics of botanical DMSO combinations, the literature supporting it, and show how these mixtures can be used to treat many additional challenging medical conditions

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Over the last year, I've worked to bring the public's attention to dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) a forgotten natural therapy which rapidly treats a wide range of conditions and that many studies have shown is very safe (provided it's used correctly) and, most importantly (thanks to the 1994 DSHEA Act which legalized all natural therapies)1 is now readily available.

Since I believe DMSO has immense potential to offer the medical community and individual patients, I've diligently worked to compile evidence that best supports its rediscovery. As such, throughout this series, I've presented over a thousand studies that DMSO effectively treats:

• Strokes, paralysis, and many other neurological or circulatory disorders (discussed here).

• Chronic pain and tissue injuries, such as sprains, burns and non-healing wounds (discussed here).

• Numerous autoimmune and contractile disorders (discussed here).

• Head conditions, such as tinnitus, vision loss, dental problems, and sinusitis (discussed here).

• Internal organ diseases, such as pancreatitis, infertility, liver cirrhosis, and endometriosis (discussed here).

• Skin conditions, such as varicose veins, acne, hair loss, ulcers, and skin cancer (discussed here).

• Many different cancers (discussed here).

• Lung disorders, including asthma, COPD, pulmonary fibrosis, and cystic fibrosis (discussed here).

• Gastrointestinal disorders, such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis, peptic ulcers, cirrhosis, and gastritis (discussed here).

• Infections, including chronic bacterial infections, herpes, and shingles (discussed here).

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DMSO Combination Therapies

DMSO's ability to treat a wide range of illnesses results from its having a variety of highly unusual properties that appear to address the root causes of disease (e.g., it greatly improves circulation). One of DMSO's most noteworthy properties is its ability to enhance the effects of other substances, which in many cases makes it possible to surmount major dilemmas traditionally seen with those therapies.

DMSO's unique ability to function as a vehicle is due to the fact that it can pass through biological membranes without damaging them,2 so once it contacts the skin, it rapidly spreads throughout the body.3 At the same time, simultaneously it readily dissolves most substances and is able to bring them with it into the body. This is very useful as it allows you to:

• Apply a medication topically or orally that would typically require an IV or injection.

• Make drugs become much more potent and able to treat conditions that otherwise will not respond to (e.g., these mixtures can penetrate and treat antibiotic-resistant bacteria or chemotherapy-resistant cancers).

• Allow lower doses of a drug to be used, which are often much less toxic and in many cases, counteract the toxicity of the blended medication (as DMSO protects tissue from injury) — all of which make it incredibly useful for reducing the harm of chemotherapy.

Note: While DMSO cannot be patented, combinations can. As such, while DMSO alone is "unsafe," "ineffective," and "unproven," many "safe and effective" DMSO pharmaceutical combinations exist, including many approved by the FDA.

Nutraceutical Combination Studies

A large volume of scientific literature exists on DMSO being used in combination with pharmaceutical drugs, and many approved DMSO products also incorporate natural agents such as menthol, camphor, lavandin, lavender oil, coriander oil, arnica, and capsicum. Many natural agents, including numerous nutraceuticals, have also been repeatedly shown t