Subject: Re: Tendonitis ** dmso warning*

From: [email-masked] (Marc Davis III)
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 19:39:13 -0800

DMSO has been around for at least 30 years in the athletic community 
and a lot longer in the industrial world. I t started out as a cleaning 
solvent. I t has Extremely low viscosity. So low it actually enters the 
blood stream when applied to the skin. That's how its use was 
discovered. Someone was cleaning without gloves and noticed that it 
helped with athritus. Pro, college and high school athletes have been 
using it as long as I can remember. To my knowlege it is only available 
as a cleaning solvent (about 99.6-99.9% pure). The instant garlic taste 
is evidence that it enters the blood. One other "known" side effect is 
that it tends to disolve whatever it comes in contact and carry it into 
the blood stream also. The report about it I read in about 1977 (I 
can't find or remember the source) said that doctors had experimented 
giving heart medication disolved in the DMSO to patients because of its 
"immediate" absorbetion. 
I have heard no other reports about cancer or any other side effect 
but, that does ot mean there are none.
It does work. It helps with muscle pain, joint pain, arthritis and most 
other aches and pains. If you are going to try it get the purest form 
you can find, make sure it stays pure, make sure there is "nothing" on 
your skin or what you apply it with.
It is available at most pharmacys as a cleaning solvent.

***"Do not use WD40 unless you want all the other additives in your 
blood stream too.

good luck, be careful!

Marc3 

You wrote: 
>
>One morning at the shop I saw a guy roll up his pant leg and give his 
knee a 
>liberal dose of WD40. I asked him what the knockerloose was for, and 
he 
>stipulated that it was the ONLY thing that helped his arthritis.
>I thought he was kooky.
>Then one day, my sweetie was experiencing her usual knee discomfort 
>(orthroscopic surgery on both knees), and a friend suggested she spray 

>them with - WD40. 
>She declined.
>Now comes last week, I'm visiting with my veterinarian friend, and he 
>tells me that WD40 contains DMSO which has been getting a lot of 
>attention in the medical literature. Seems there might be something to 
it.
>But it has one known side affect. It gives you a strong garlic taste 
in 
>the mouth instantaneously. So spray on a squirt and tell everyone 
you've 
>just had Italian!
>Pete G.

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From: Ralph Snel <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 9:53:21 MET

> but, that does ot mean there are none.
I've worked with DMSO, as a solvent for plastic. The Mercks (sp?) Index
of chemical stuff has a warning in it: one deadly allergic reaction is known.
It's been a long time since I read this, so things may have changed and I
may have forgotten details, but there was nothing scary about this stuff.
Plain good old alcohol looked a lot worse (coma, liver damage, cancer etc).

> ***"Do not use WD40 unless you want all the other additives in your 
My granddad used it. He lived to be 86.

Ralph Snel
[email-masked]
Sweden