Page 95DMSO is used in the rest of the world quite ethically by doctors. No problem.
Toxicity: less than aspirin, if used properly. The supposed changes in eye function
were alterations in refractive index (not opacity), seen in pigs, dogs and rabbits.
Yet the FDA makes a big deal out this.
No eye changes have ever been seen in humans, despite worldwide use of
DMSO. In Portland, Oregon. Dr Jacob and Edward Rosenbaum MD, Clinical
Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Rheumatology at
the University of Oregon Medical School, had 32 patients examined by an
ophthalmologist and then treated with DMSO, 30 grams daily, for between three
and nineteen months. They were then reviewed by the ophthalmologist. None of
them showed the characteristic lens changes seen in animals.
Dosage of DMSO varies by body weight. The IV route is best but it has
measurable benefits even taken orally.