Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is an easy compound with a exceptional mix of therapeutic properties. During the last 12 months, I’ve compiled hundreds of research displaying the way it treats a variety of situations together with:
• Neurological problems resembling strokes, dementia, paralysis, and neuropathies (mentioned right here).
• Circulatory problems resembling Raynaud’s, varicose veins, and hemorrhoids (mentioned right here).
• Persistent ache (e.g., from disc herniations, bursitis, or complicated regional ache syndrome) and tissue accidents, resembling sprains, concussions, burns, surgical incisions, and spinal twine accidents (mentioned right here).
• Autoimmune, protein, and contractile problems, resembling arthritis, scleroderma, amyloidosis, and interstitial cystitis (mentioned right here).
• Head situations, resembling tinnitus, ear infections, dental issues, and sinusitis (mentioned right here).
• Inside organ illnesses resembling prostate enlargement, pancreatitis, and cirrhosis (mentioned right here).
• Respiratory problems, together with bronchial asthma, COPD, and pulmonary fibrosis (mentioned right here).
• Many various gastrointestinal problems, resembling bowel irritation, cirrhosis, and pancreatitis (mentioned right here).
• Pores and skin situations resembling hair loss, zits, ulcers, pores and skin most cancers, or psoriasis (mentioned right here).
• Infections, resembling onychomycosis, herpes, and shingles, and lots of antibiotic-resistant infections (mentioned right here).
• Many features of most cancers, together with eliminating cancers, enhancing chemotherapy, decreasing the toxicity of mainstream most cancers therapies, and decreasing most cancers ache (mentioned right here).
Due to how efficient DMSO was for a variety of “incurable” situations, after being found within the Nineteen Sixties, DMSO shortly grew to become probably the most demanded drug within the nation — at which level the FDA did every little thing they may to suppress it.
Within the Nineteen Sixties a miraculous therapy for persistent ache, traumatic harm, strokes and spinal twine paralysis was found that unfold throughout America like wildfire—till the FDA buried it.
Right here, 60 Minutes uncovered the FDA utilizing the identical playbook they used all through COVID-19. A🧵 pic.twitter.com/Bh0dcjNk5w
— A Midwestern Physician (@MidwesternDoc) October 14, 2024
The FDA succeeded, and DMSO’s unbelievable utility grew to become largely forgotten. Nevertheless, because of its exceptional efficacy and the intensive proof corroborating its medical utility, as soon as I introduced consideration to DMSO (in a post-COVID world the place widespread skepticism exists in direction of the medical institution), it quickly went viral, and there’s now an analogous curiosity in DMSO to what was seen within the Nineteen Sixties.
Due to this, I’ve now obtained over 5,000 reviews from readers who’ve benefitted from DMSO (which I compiled right here),1 most of which match the results sometimes attributed to DMSO (e.g., speedy therapeutic from an harm or eliminating debilitating persistent ache). Nevertheless, I additionally come throughout some which are fairly extraordinary, resembling this 75 12 months previous man who regained sight in his eye after being blind since beginning after utilizing DMSO to remove a persistent sinus an infection.
This 75 12 months previous who’d been blind since beginning abruptly regained his sight after utilizing DMSO to treatment sinusitis.
DMSO has been repeatedly proven to heal eye points medication nonetheless cannot resolve like blindness and macular degeneration together with eliminating floaters and cataracts by… pic.twitter.com/8jyF48INX3
— A Midwestern Physician (@MidwesternDoc) October 25, 2025
Murray’s story illustrates one of many least appreciated aspects of DMSO — it’s exceptionally properly suited to treating a variety of eye situations — a lot of that are thought-about incurable inside standard medication.
Word: The German DMSO neighborhood (together with DMSO using ophthalmologists) has additionally reported that DMSO has a rare affinity for treating a variety of eye situations.
DMSO and the Eyes
DMSO’s makes use of for the eyes initially emerged after contributors in early medical trials famous that their imaginative and prescient regularly improved when an unrelated challenge was being handled (as DMSO will focus throughout the eyes) — one thing many readers have additionally reported to me. As DMSO has quite a lot of totally different therapeutic results, resembling therapeutic tissues, decreasing irritation, eliminating an infection, eradicating protein deposits, or rising blood circulation and fluid drainage, it’s properly suited to treating quite a lot of eye situations.
As such, quite a few research and tons of of readers have reported exceptional enhancements within the following eye situations:
• Floaters, cataracts, and different opacities throughout the eyes
• Myopia, astigmatism, presbyopia, and different focusing issues (permitting many individuals to scale back or remove the necessity for glasses)
• Dry eyes, blurry imaginative and prescient, and eye pressure (particularly from screens)
• Eye spasms and muscle twitching
• Glaucoma and elevated intraocular strain
• Therapeutic from eye surgical procedures and eliminating adhesions throughout the eyes
• Growths on or across the eyes (pores and skin tags, chalazia, pterygia, and so on.)
• Blepharitis, conjunctivitis, uveitis, and different inflammatory or infectious eye situations
Word: The extraordinarily excessive success fee readers have reported for treating floaters is kind of noteworthy given the shortage of passable standard therapies for the situation.
In flip, since lots of the above situations can impair imaginative and prescient (together with many extra minor ones not talked about), it isn’t shocking that many readers have reported visible enhancements from DMSO2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31 (e.g., many reported improved night time imaginative and prescient32,33,34,35,36). Studies embody:
“I simply dabbed a little bit of DMSO on my eyelids and bought an instantaneous enchancment. I may see my pool pictures so a lot better.”37
“Imaginative and prescient has improved, and I can learn some small textual content once more — The deterioration of imaginative and prescient that I felt at night time after just a few hours on the display has lessened.”38
“DMSO instantly helped my eyesight by enhancing distinction after I simply put a bit of above my ankle.”39
Moreover, DMSO’s therapeutic properties allow it to achieve the retina and optic nerve, thereby straight treating many difficult visible problems that ophthalmology nonetheless struggles to handle (e.g., past decreasing eye strain, DMSO can straight counteract the degenerative strategy of glaucoma).
Word: DMSO has additionally been repeatedly proven to reinforce the penetration of medication into the eyes, permitting decrease (safer) doses for use and to probably remove the necessity for eye drugs to be injected.40,41,42,43,44
Eye Safety
One in all DMSO’s most properly documented properties is its capacity to guard tissues all through the physique from quite a lot of in any other case deadly stressors, resembling warmth, chilly, radiation, poisons, and a lack of blood move — which is a key purpose why it produces such exceptional outcomes for strokes and different central nervous system accidents.
In flip, many readers have reported exceptional stroke recoveries with DMSO (together with a canine who’d developed quite a lot of vestibular neurological points resembling uncontrolled eye actions, because of mini strokes which instantly resolved from small quantities of DMSO and magnesium).45
Word: A number of readers have additionally reported DMSO quickly resolving the visible disturbances occurring with migraines.46,47
Because the eyes are additionally nervous tissue, comparable results from DMSO have been repeatedly noticed inside them:
• Injecting 1.5% DMSO into the eyes of rats subjected to 90 minutes of retinal ischemia (by way of optic nerve ligature) was discovered to scale back the variety of ganglion cells that died.48
Word: One reader reported “I bought IV DMSO after an optic nerve stroke and I am fairly positive it saved my eyesight in that eye.”49 One other shared that six weeks after a retinal bleed,50 that eye had episodes of partial lack of imaginative and prescient (“gray outs”) which cleared a couple of minutes after making use of DMSO gel to the eyelid of the affected eye, and a 3rd shared DMSO handled a branched retinal vein occlusion within the eye that was not responding to straightforward therapies.51
• In mice, quite a few research have proven that DMSO therapy protects retinal cells from injury attributable to poisonous brilliant mild publicity, preserving retinal operate and construction (whereas in untreated mice, most retinal cells had been broken or died).52,53,54,55
Word: A reader who broken their eyes from extreme daylight publicity (because of pre-existing irritation weakening the attention) was capable of heal their eyes with DMSO.56 Likewise, one other reader who broken their eyes by by accident staring on the solar for too lengthy (presumably because of solar gazing) additionally healed their eyes with DMSO.57
Lastly, in parallel with DMSO’s capacity to heal broken eye tissue, quite a few research have proven that regular doses of DMSO don’t have any toxicity to the retina or optic nerve.
Retinal Ailments
DMSO’s restorative properties make it uniquely suited to deal with difficult degenerative eye illnesses.
“My son has retinitis pigmentosa. He makes use of DMSO eyedrops. They assist his [eye’s] visual field.”58,59
For instance, retinitis pigmentosa (RP),60 is a genetic dysfunction that causes steadily rising visible loss, and is incurable (excluding a uncommon subset that an $850,000 gene remedy treats about half the time).61 As such, it instantly caught just a few medical doctors’ consideration that their RP sufferers had their imaginative and prescient enhance whereas receiving DMSO for one thing else.62
This prompted a preliminary (profitable) investigation that discovered that DMSO utilized to the eyes improves RP,63 after which a bigger trial of fifty sufferers with RP or macular degeneration.64
There, no retinal toxicity was noticed, and 22 (44%) had improved visible acuity, 9 (19%) had improved visible fields, 5 (10%) had improved night time imaginative and prescient and 48 (96%) had no additional worsening of their imaginative and prescient (which might in any other case be anticipated in these retinal problems) — outcomes that are fairly extraordinary. This, for instance, was one affected person in that examine:
“When his DMSO therapy was began, this affected person may see hand movement solely along with his proper eye, and had a visible acuity of 20/200 (Snellen) in his left eye. 5 days later, his imaginative and prescient was measured as 20/70 + 1 within the left eye, and he may rely fingers at 5 ft along with his proper eye. Three months later, his visible acuity was 20/50 within the left eye.
This affected person has continued his therapies every day, apart from a 1-week trial interval with out DMSO. He famous that his imaginative and prescient started to worsen throughout this interval, and when he restarted therapy, his imaginative and prescient returned to the extent he had simply earlier than discontinuance. His most up-to-date visible acuity measurement (two years after beginning DMSO) continues to be 20/50 within the left eye, and he can rely fingers at 6 ft along with his proper eye.”
Animal research have additionally proven that DMSO prevents retinal imaginative and prescient loss:
• Low doses of DMSO (0.01% in consuming water) protected retinal cells in mice engineered to mannequin RP.65
• In RP mannequin mice, from day 4 to day 23 of life, untreated mice skilled a lack of retinal operate not seen in regular mice,66 whereas DMSO handled mice had these parameters enhance — scotopic a-wave amplitudes (-42% vs. +107%), photopic a-wave amplitudes (-8% vs. +65%) photopic b-wave amplitudes (-20% vs. +56%).
• In Alzheimer’s mannequin mice, very low-dose (0.01%) DMSO in consuming water improved early distinction sensitivity deficits and restored regular outer retinal (ELM-RPE) thickness.67,68
• In Alzheimer’s mannequin mice, 0.01% DMSO in consuming water prevented the visible loss seen early within the illness course of and restored the thickness of the retinal pigment epithelium.
• In rats with diabetic retinopathy, subconjunctival injection of 10% and particularly 50% DMSO considerably improved retinal operate (larger B-wave and flicker ERG amplitudes) and restored retinal thickness.69
In parallel, readers have reported quite a lot of important visible enhancements from DMSO in quite a lot of eye problems (e.g., imaginative and prescient loss because of RP, glaucoma, or a number of sclerosis), together with many situations the place “incurable” macular degeneration (AMD) improved70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82 (or stopped progressing83,84,85):
“I personally have used eye drops for 6-7 years. It has successfully stopped my macular degeneration.”86
“Personally I’ve used DMSO eye drops for 3 years. My retina doc mentioned my scarring is down 50% with my AMD.”87
“I take advantage of DMSO eye drops for my macular degeneration, and it introduced my sight from 25/40 to twenty/25.”88
“I [have AMD] and have been utilizing 40% DMSO for 3 weeks. Earlier than, I used to be having ink-blot-like hallucinations that severely affected my central imaginative and prescient, to the purpose the place I could not drive at night time even with my glasses on. Simply three weeks later, I can now drive at night time within the rain with out sporting glasses in any respect, and the impairment in my central imaginative and prescient is totally gone.”89
“I examined my AMD with an Amsler’s chart earlier this 12 months and my left eye confirmed distorted traces. After a month of DMSO, I had no extra distortions.”90
“My husband has macular degeneration and he’s utilizing DMSO. It has been about 4 months and his imaginative and prescient has not gotten worse, I believe it is enhancing. He is driving higher.”91
“I now use the drops for my macular degeneration. Have nice outcomes.”92
Word: A lot of the reviews I’ve seen on macular degeneration had been enhancements of the extra widespread (dry) kind. Some proof additionally suggests it may well assist moist macular degeneration by inhibiting VEGF and the formation of recent blood vessels, which underlie many eye illnesses.93,94,95,96
Moreover, DMSO has additionally been reported to heal quite a lot of different difficult retinal situations. For instance, readers have reported enchancment of a macular gap,97 a extreme macular pucker that had required pressing surgical procedure,98 and a torn retina that had beforehand healed badly.99
Reversing Blindness
DMSO’s capacity to deal with situations like macular degeneration additionally permits it typically to supply much more exceptional outcomes. For instance, after I initially obtained Murray’s seemingly inconceivable report that DMSO restored sight in an eye fixed which has been blind for 75 years, I used to be inclined to consider it as I would learn very comparable accounts throughout the early DMSO literature, resembling:100
• A person who had been blind for greater than 30 years after having dynamite explode in his face, who began seeing flashes of sunshine after making use of DMSO to the pinnacle.
• A person who misplaced sight in the fitting eye (together with different capabilities of the attention like focusing) and steadily misplaced sight within the different after an nearly deadly affect by an vehicle whereas skating down the street.
After attempting DMSO for hair loss, he seen a sensation at the back of his proper eye, so Dr. Stanley Jacob (the pioneer of DMSO) determined to use DMSO to that eye, ultimately deciding on a excessive focus (which stung for a number of minutes, induced tears, and left the eyes bloodshot for about 20 minutes). After this, sight quickly returned to the fitting eye (as demonstrated in a blindfold take a look at), together with him regaining the flexibility to see colour (one thing his good eye had misplaced because the accident).
Word: One reader has additionally reported with the ability to treatment their colorblindness with DMSO.101
• A person who had been blind for a few years in a single eye (solely capable of distinguish mild and darkish) regained his sight in that eye with DMSO (e.g., he demonstrated this by strolling unaided in public areas and describing objects and occasions whereas his good eye was lined).
• A person who was nearly blind (resulting in him being solely depending on others, like his spouse, to take him wherever, lower his meat, or preserve his home clear), after a 12 months on DMSO, regained his sight and not wanted help to do something (which was of nice aid to his household).
Word: These outcomes led Jacob to check DMSO on a sequence of sufferers with incurable blindness, a lot of whom then had their imaginative and prescient enhance.
Conclusion
I’ve spent many years looking for out strategies to deal with macular degeneration, and seen just a few approaches (e.g., intensive dietary regimens, eye circulation enhancing regimens or energetic inputs that reawaken dormant retinal cells) “do the inconceivable” and produce misplaced sight again to the eyes.
It is therefore fairly noteworthy that DMSO is each capable of create many of those similar therapeutic results (e.g., by rising microcirculation to the eyes, it drastically will increase the very important diet retinal cells obtain), and like these therapies, restore imaginative and prescient, however accomplish that in a way more broad and economical method (slightly than solely focusing on one element of imaginative and prescient loss).
“I’ve had numerous sufferers who had been already doing all of the ‘proper’ issues with diet and weren’t getting higher with their ache/autoimmune issues, after which they did properly after including DMSO.” — James Miller MD
Extra importantly, the truth that DMSO can shortly and simply deal with “incurable” situations like imaginative and prescient loss present a important lesson into the myriad of different persistent sicknesses we face, because the eyes aren’t the one a part of the physique affected by the ever rising circulatory impairments (a lot of which consequence from vaccination) and dietary depletion of the meals provide seen all through society.
The numerous well being challenges our society faces require doing one thing totally different. Fortuitously, as issues like DMSO’s saga present, the options we’re looking for exist already.
Extra importantly, we’ve reached a singular historic crossroad, because the dire want to repair America’s disastrous healthcare has thrust us right into a never-before-seen political local weather the place giant elements of the tradition, media, and authorities help slightly than oppose the adoption of those actual and inexpensive pathways to well being. It’s as much as every of us to make the very best of this second and rediscover the forgotten umbrella therapies.
Creator’s Word: That is an abridged model of an extended article that discusses the proof introduced right here in additional element together with how DMSO can be utilized along side pure therapies to deal with the situations mentioned on this article (e.g., macular degeneration) together with quite a lot of different eye problems (e.g., floaters, cataracts, glaucoma, nearsightedness, dry eyes, and persistent eye pressure). That article, together with further hyperlinks and references, might be learn right here.
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