DMSO is a phenomenally effective medicine that can treat a wide variety of common, debilitating, or incurable conditions, which allowed it to rapidly take the country by storm (as both the public and the medical community saw its results and rapidly embraced it). Unfortunately, the widespread enthusiasm behind something that completely changed medicine and allowed people to care for themselves independently was unacceptable to the FDA. For the next two decades, the agency went to incredible lengths to suppress it (e.g., it actively defied Congress for over 16 years) and eventually made DMSO become a Forgotten Side of Medicine.

Note: extensive data shows that DMSO is a very safe substance with negligible toxicity.

In turn, one of the truly ironic things about this was that many of those who attacked DMSO later needed it. For example, the pioneer of DMSO discusses how Former President Lyndon Johnson sought his help in 1971 -- after his FDA commissioner had just spent almost three years weaponizing the FDA against anyone wishing to use DMSO (which in turn set the stage for many of the police-state tactics the FDA would illegally use against natural medicine in the decades to come).

Note: in the previous article I erroneously stated this conversation took place in 1981 not 1971 (at which point LBJ was deceased).

I have now received hundreds of unbelievable reports from readers (which can be read here) of what DMSO did for them -- many of which are almost identical to what people reported fifty years ago before the FDA wiped DMSO off the map.

For context, the majority of those reports were for the most common uses of DMSO, such as chronic pain, acute injuries, and arthritis (discussed further here). However, as discussed here, DMSO is also immensely valuable for a variety of circulatory and neurological disorders (e.g., varicose veins, hemorrhoids, Down Syndrome, and Parkinson's) -- all of which readers here reported significant improvement from. Likewise, (as discussed here) DMSO also helps various autoimmune conditions.

In this article, I will focus on another group of conditions DMSO was found to be extraordinarily effective -- those within the head.

There are two common ways to view medical problems someone has -- as a specific disease process of a particular part of the body or as one manifestation of a systemic issue. Neither approach is entirely correct, as in some cases, you need one more than the other, but our medical system is very much biased towards the first one.

This, I would argue is in part because this makes medicine easier to practice (e.g., a specific set of symptoms goes with a specific drug rather than having to go the extra mile to figure out what is causing a nebulous set of symptoms), and in part because it makes it possible to sell far more patentable medicines (as by viewing each symptom as a different disease, far more diseases exist to market products for). Unfortunately, this also frequently lends itself to a situation where modern medicine "treats the symptoms rather than the cause."

I personally believe that most chronic disease processes can have a variety of ways they manifest throughout the body. Typically the manifestation you see is a result of a pre-existing weakness in the body being the first spot to give out after a stressor is put on the entire body (e.g., one of the most common symptoms individuals with COVID vaccine injuries had was a pre-existing site of minor inflammation or an old scar becoming highly inflamed). Similarly, I believe this paradigm answers a critical question medicine never quite addresses -- why do some people get so sick from the same thing that others quickly shrug off?

In turn, I've tried to focus on the forgotten areas of medicine that I believe often underlie various seemingly unrelated disease processes. For example, I believe that microcirculation is critical for health, but since it is not easy to measure, our focus instead has gone to blood pressure -- which while sometimes useful for determining circulatory health, often is not. In turn, I've provided a variety of strategies for improving the microcirculation (e.g., improving the physiologic zeta potential). Beyond cardiovascular health improvement, many readers here who did that reported a variety of other chronic symptoms also having noticeable and unexpected improvement.

Note: all the previous also holds true for the cell danger response -- a defensive mechanism cells go into where their mitochondria shut down that can only be treated by finding a way to coax the mitochondria out of it.

DMSO is also a systemic agent that has the ability to address some of the common root causes of disease. Because of how dramatically it helps injuries, arthritis, and chronic pain (of which I've received many remarkable testimonials from readers you can read here), those are its typical uses. However before long, many patients on DMSO would report some other chronic issue they never thought could improve also begin getting better (which likewise, many readers here have noticed). These reports caused the early pioneers of DMSO to begin researching other novel uses of DMSO.

In this article, I will look at the variety of remarkable benefits that have been observed for DMSO for conditions within the head. These results, I believe are a product of DMSO:

*Being able to increase microcirculation and treat circulatory or neurological disorders(e.g., strokes, traumatic head injuries, spinal cord injuries, and dementia or mental disability).

*Being able to easily pass through biological membranes without harming them and spread throughout the body (while also carrying anything mixed with it into the body).

DMSO and the Eyes

Many DMSO users have noticed that their vision improved while they used it for something else (e.g., see this, this and this testimonial from a reader here), which in turn inspired physicians to begin applying it to the eyes of patients with vision problems.

Note: to my knowledge, every route of administration for DMSO except intrarectally has been researched. Of these, the only one that ever caused issues was nebulizing it (as rats who regularly breathed DMSO eventually developed toxicity). As a result, the DMSO field has recommended against nebulizing it, although I periodically read cases of individuals who had a positive response to nebulized DMSO

Ocular DMSO Distribution

The logic behind putting DMSO in the eyes is that a much stronger dose can get to the eyes than what would arise from systemic applications of DMSO. To evaluate DMSO's distribution (and that of its metabolic breakdown products), radioactive forms of DMSO (DMSO synthesized from either S or H or both) were placed in animals and then their entire bodies were monitored for radiation emissions.

In one study, it was noted that while DMSO tended to distribute evenly throughout the body (typically being at a lower concentration in the tissue than in the blood), in the iris and ciliary body, it matched the blood's concentration, while in the cornea (the surface of the eye), after 2 hours it was 2.2 times higher than the blood in rabbits and 4 times higher in rats. In other words, DMSO specifically concentrates in the cornea when administered into the body (after which it rapidly cleared), suggesting that DMSO is indicated for treating corneal and uveal diseases.

Note: concentrations did not increase with repeated administrations (indicating DMSO does not accumulate in the body).

More importantly, that study helps to explain why consuming DMSO can often directly impact and improve eye health.

Conversely, in another study, rats eyes were exposed to DMSO, and it was found regardless of the route of administration or the concentration used, DMSO rapidly cleared from the eyes:

This in turn, suggests that DMSO can rapidly extract things from the eyes that should not be there (e.g., excessive fluid) as whatever is in the eye will be drawn out into the rest of the body with the DMSO that leaves the eyes.