Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is a simple, inexpensive compound found throughout nature whose remarkable properties allow it both to treat a wide range of illnesses and to facilitate the use of many different (FDA approved) medical therapies. Yet, it exists in a strange limbo: it is one of the most extensively studied and used medicinal compounds, but most mainstream sources insist there's no evidence it works for anything beyond its single FDA-approved use, interstitial cystitis, despite the fact that physicians and scientists, seeing its promise, independently conducted tens of thousands of studies demonstrating its therapeutic utility and that DMSO, on the basis of that data, is widely used in foreign medical systems.

DMSO's peculiar status results from the fact it cannot be profited off of (e.g., a twenty dollar bottle will last a user for months). Because of this, there has been no incentive within the medical field to secure a costly approval for it within the FDA's "pay-to-play system." Rather, the FDA went to war against DMSO for decades (despite immense public protest to legalize DMSO) and as a result, almost all of the approved DMSO preparations on the market are DMSO pharmaceutical combinations (as they can be patented and then marked up). Likewise, there was no incentive within the natural health field to market it as a supplement, which has resulted in it becoming mostly forgotten by the time a 1994 law took away the FDA's ability to restrict natural supplements like DMSO.

I find this egregious, as DMSO is able to:
•Treat a variety of common conditions (e.g., pain and injuries) in a dramatically effective, cheaper, and most importantly safer manner than the existing therapeutic options.
•Treat a variety of challenging and tragic illnesses that have few or no treatment options, in many cases producing recoveries so dramatic they are regarded as "miraculous" or "impossible."

Since many of DMSO's most incredible effects are seen with neurological disorders (that often otherwise lack satisfactory treatment options), a significant portion of the DMSO literature base has focused on this area. So, over the last six months, in an effort to make this option available to people, I've tried to concisely summarize approximately 4,500 studies and 1,000 reader reports of DMSO's utility for neurological conditions. Unfortunately, given how much information this was, despite my absolute best efforts to compress it, the four articles I wrote1,2,3,4 still totaled to 142,000 words. However, now that those four have been done (which I felt had to be done first as many of the claims I've made seem impossible within the conventional framework), it is possible to write a much shorter (and more accessible) summary of the DMSO's uses in neurology which can link back to the more detailed pieces which provide all the corroborating references one might need before considering trying DMSO.