Due to the
nuclear alert in Japan and its likelihood to affect the United States and other
parts of the world, I decided to carry this article the Dot Connector Magazine‘s issue N. 12.
First, a
little bit of background.
Radiation
produces free-radicals (“inflammatory molecules”) that damage cells that make
up tissues such as organs, glands, muscles, and bones. Besides causing the
cells to age more quickly they also become distorted, or mutated, creating
cancers such as leukemia, anemia, birth defects, and other diseases.
Sulfur has a long history of use as an antidote
for acute exposure to radioactive material. DMSO is the classical sulfur
compound. A Japanese study showed that
even low concentrations of DMSO had radio-protective effects through the
facilitation of DNA double-strand break repair, providing protection against
radiation damage at all cellular levels in the whole body.
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DMSO is an effective pain
killer, blocking nerve conduction fibers that produce pain. It reduces inflammation
and swelling by reducing inflammatory chemicals. It improves blood supply to an
area of injury by dilating blood vessels and increasing delivery of oxygen and
by reducing blood platelet stickiness. It stimulates healing, which is a key to
its usefulness in any condition. It is among the most potent free radical
scavengers known to man, if not the most potent one.
In 1866, Russian scientist
Alexander Saytzeff isolated a most curious and peculiar chemical compound. It
was crystalline, odor-less, non-toxic and had a garlic-like taste when
consumed. At the time, Saytzeff had no way to predict that his discovery was
going to prove highly controversial throughout its entire medical history, that
it was going to be tested in thousands of studies, providing miraculous relief
in numerous patients.
I’m talking here about
dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), an organic sulfur compound which was used only as an
industrial solvent, that is, until its
medical properties were discovered in 1963 by a research team headed by Stanley
W. Jacob, MD.
DMSO is a by-product of kraft pulping (the “sulfate process”) which converts
wood into wood pulp consisting of almost pure cellulose fibers. As industrial
as it may sound, the process simply entails a treatment of wood chips with a
mixture of sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide, known as white liquor, breaking
the bonds which link lignin (from the Latin word lignum, meaning wood) to the
cellulose.
DMSO is useful as a pain
reliever, in burns, acne, arthritis, mental retardation, strokes, amylodoysis,
head injury, scleroderma, it soothes toothaches, eases headaches, hemorrhoids,
muscle strains, it prevents paralysis from spinal-chord injuries, it softens
scar tissues. In fact, it is useful in well over 300 ailments and it is safe to
use. You would think that a compound that has so many alleged uses and benefits
will be automatically suspect, but careful examination of its properties and
the data available will shed some light in this miraculous chemical.
Sulfur: The
Stuff of Life
DMSO is an intermediate
product of the global Sulfur Cycle which distributes bioavailable sulfur for
all animal and plant life (Parcell, 2002). Sulfur compounds are found in all
body cells and are indispensable for life, they are needed for a number of
chemical reactions involved in the detoxification of drugs and other harmful
toxins, and they have potential clinical applications in the treatment of a
number of conditions such as depression, fibromyalgia, arthritis, interstitial
cystitis, athletic injuries, congestive heart failure, diabetes, cancer, and
AIDS (Parcell, 2002). Among the sulfur compounds, DMSO is probably the one that
has the widest range and greatest number of therapeutic applications ever shown
for any other single chemical. It has around 40 pharmacological properties that
may be beneficial in the prevention, relief or reversal of numerous diseases
(Morton, 1993).
Smeone complained to Dr.
Jacob of a splitting headache and gave him permission to apply some DMSO after
hearing of its capabilities. The headache was gone in minutes, came back in
four hours, and left for good after DMSO was applied a second time. Used for one
purpose, sometimes it did another; put on a cold sore, within a few hours it
cleared up a woman’s sinusitis. A woman who had had a stroke found after DMSO
was painted on her painful jaw that she could now write with her paralyzed hand
and could walk better. (Haley, 2000)
Therapeutic
Properties
DMSO is an effective pain
killer, blocking nerve conduction fibers that produce pain. It reduces
inflammation and swelling by reducing inflammatory chemicals. It improves blood
supply to an area of injury by dilating blood vessels and increasing delivery
of oxygen and by reducing blood platelet stickiness. It stimulates healing,
which is a key to its usefulness in any condition. It is among the most potent
free radical scavengers known to man, if not the most potent one. This is a
crucial mechanism since some molecules in our bodies produce an unequal number
of electrons and the instability of the number causes them to destroy other
cells. DMSO hooks on to those molecules and they are then expelled from the
body with the DMSO.