As I read through this thread, I note that no one has responded to an early question; what is the shelf life of DMSO.
Having taken my first hit of oral DMSO yesterday at the chateau, and having been impressed with the results, I started looking around for the food grade DMSO that I have carried around for about ten years. The shelf life question was relevant for me, eh? Anyway I found this:
http://www.arkema-inc.com/literature/pdf/360.pdf
It appears that shelf life is 2 years. There is a wealth of info in this PDF file. The link came from a search which landed me at this site, which has links to several pertinent DMSO study summaries:
http://www.arkema-inc.com/literature.cfm?pag=121
After my dose of DMSO yesterday, I was treated to a few of the chateau kitchen mini buckwheat pizzas - tres bein. Following that, and at Laura's suggestion that 5HTP would likely correct some recent sleep problems, I took my first dose of that supplement. I awakened this morning, after my first night of uninterrupted sleep in a week feeling rested and alert. No middle of the night trips to urinate.
I am now convinced that DMSO and 5HTP are valid therapies for me.
I had acquired the DMSO originally after spending an afternoon with Daniel Haley, author of the book,
Politics in Healing. He was working on his second book and was in California to interview, for his second book, the president of our corporation who was one of the early researchers in vitamin C and the inventor of EmergenC, which is the only product which contains all of the actual bioavailable mineral ascorbate components of what the body converts ascorbic acid into, in readily usable form. Unfortunately it also has a rather large quantity of sugar.
Haley, in his 80s, related to me the importance of keeping DMSO on hand at all times. His wife, a nurse, had administered it to him orally when he had a stroke. By the time the paramedics arrived, the clot had already dissolved and the ER had little left to do.
His stroke had happened after he had written in his first book, in the chapter on DMSO, this passage:
...If given soon after a stroke, DMSO, one of the world's greatest solvents, has been shown to dissolve the clot that causes the stroke, thus restoring circulation and avoiding paralysis. How soon? Dr. Stanley Jacob says within the first few hours is best and intravenously is better than oral, but oral works too. Once DMSO gets into the body either daubed on the skin, given I.V., or by mouth, it permeates the body and crosses the blood brain barrier, so even taken orally it can dissolve the clot. One man who had a stroke at 7:30 AM refused to go to the hospital until his wife had spoken to Dr. Stanley Jacob, which didn't happen until 6:30 PM. Starting at 7:00 PM the day of the stroke, she gave him a teaspoonful of 50% DMSO in a little orange juice every 15 minutes for two hours and then every half hour for two hours. The next day her husband was fine. A substance that can stop a stroke as its happening is something many might want in their home medicine chest.
Neurosurgeon Dr. Jack de le Torre is a professor of physiology and neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico, in Albequerque. He and Dr. Jacob believe that DMSO should be in every ambulance and emergency room so as to start giving it to stroke victims intravenously in the ambulance as soon as picked up or, at the latest, as soon as the patient arrives at an emergency room. If such were the established practice, the number of people dying or incapacitated from strokes would plummet.
Haley had a seat in the NY State Assembly for 12 years. He saw first hand the pharmaceutical industry money working on his colleagues to prevent acceptance of effective and inexpensive methods such as DMSO for preventing or mitigating catastrophic illness. He goes on in this book to list the other uses for DMSO, such as in limiting damage to spinal cord accident victims. He quotes Dr. Morton Walker:
DMSO tends to protect nerve cells... following injury. It provides better protection than any other treatments. Scientists have verified this by observation with electron microscope and the light microscope. Thus DMSO prevents the paralysis that may ensue following trauma; it alters the severe effects seen after a brain stroke.
Dr Walker also observed the work of Dr. Weinstein, with learning disabled and retarded children, using a DMSO therapy. There was notable improvement in IQ, reading, writing and mathematics, as well as reduction in behavioral problems. There was elimination of of anger for no reason, a general reduction irritability and a lessening of disobedience.
It would seem then that in addition to DMSO's virtues discussed in this thread, it is also a valid prophylaxis for arterial and vein blockages, and much more.
Source:
Politics in Healing, Daniel Haley, 2000, Potomac Valley Press, ISBN# 0-9701150-0-8
http://politicsinhealing.com/
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