I read about the lab experiments where they caused vision problems with DMSO. No animal actually went blind, but there were some changes in the eyes. In the first place, it was an amount equivalent to a person drinking like a quart of the stuff per day. In the second place, they couldn't even reproduce the effect in other animals, and it was never seen in people.
The FDA got down on DMSO because the scientist who began using it for medicinal purposes (I believe his name is Dr. Jacobs), didn't go through proper channels to begin with. The media got wind of what he was doing, and made a big deal over DMSO, and the FDA was mad because he hadn't cleared everything properly with them. So they came out publicly and said the stuff was dangerous. Then they set about to prove it to save face. They didn't have any success, so they blew up this eye thing and tried to make a big thing of that. They never would admit it was harmless, even after they couldn't find any real problems with it. When they say that a natural remedy is "untested," what they mean is that it hasn't gone through all the complicated, double-blind studies the FDA requires in order to "approve" of it. Those studies cost millions and millions of dollars, and NOBODY is going to spend all that money on remedies that they can't patent and make a LOT of money on. Things like colloidal silver, and MSM, and DMSO can't be patented, and so nobody is ever going to spend the money to get them "tested" and "approved." I doesn't matter that they have helped thousands of people, and have caused far fewer problems then most of the approved drugs. All that doesn't count at all. They are still "untested remedies," and they will stay that way. That doesn't keep them from working!!!! Jeannie Jeannie Gaston wrote: > Hi all, > > I was planning to use CS with DMSO externally for my wife due to pain with > her legs, > caused by severe arthritis, but I found the following two articles in the > respectives web adresses > as shown below and I am a bit reluctant to do so. > > I would appreciate any comments that experts may have on this regarding > vision problems pls. > > Thanks > > Gaston > ---------------------------------------------------- > > http://www.camprehoboth.com/issue09-22-00/fitness.htm > > Did you know that two of the biggest sellers in the pet and feed stores are > DMSO and MSM? Some people promote them as > remedies for arthritis. MSM has yet to be tested in humans, and DMSO is > thought to contribute to vision problems. > Neither one is approved for regular medical use in humans. > ------------------------------------------------- > http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/cancer1/altthrpy.htm#DMSO > > The FDA outlaws DMSO for two reasons: the first being that it is a solvent, > and they do not know how to handle a > substance that can be both a medicine and something you use to clean engine > parts; the second reason , according the > book DMSO-Nature's Healer by Dr Morton Walker, animal studies showed that > injections of DMSO caused dogs to go blind. > The FDA jumped on this and stopped its use. Later it was discovered that only > in dogs does it cause blindness, but like > the ban on L-tryptophan, once it's there, heaven and earth will have to be > moved to clear it. > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> -- One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. Jeannie McReynolds Oregon Coast
