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buildsjetstoday at 1:35 AM2 repliesview on HN

DMSO is a solvent that is is absorbed directly through the skin. Jello Biafra was wrong though, if you mix it with lemon juice and pour it on your hand, you will not sense the taste of lemons in your mouth. You will taste garlic. Try it and see.

https://genius.com/Dead-kennedys-dmso-lyrics

I’m not sure what happens when you mix it with LSD. Again, try it and see.


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tingletechtoday at 2:47 AM

When I worked for Bill Atkinson's sister, Dr. Kathy Atkinson, at UCR in high school, I was involved in a DMSO leak. Dr. A. was a microbiologist, but botanists worked upstairs. I guess DMSO is used a lot in botany, and they let an experiment boil over and DMSO got into the HVAC air return and then into the whole building. Smelled like garlic, and I turned bright pink. We had to evacuate. I also tasted garlic for a day or so. Nowadays you have to be 18 to get a job in a UC Lab.

You could get DMSO and ketamine at the vet supply store back then in the 80s. I heard of people ingesting acid via DMSO in that time frame, but it could have been an urban legend. It was a horse area and DMSO was used with horses to get stuff deep into their legs or something like that.

PaulHouletoday at 2:07 AM

Back when diclofenac + dmso was rx-only and crazy expensive I tried making my own formulation with ibuprofen and dmso for back pain hoping it wouldn’t tweak out my stomach. According to what I read, ibuprofen would be very well absorbed with dmso.

After applying the ointment I got an upset stomach in minutes so yeah…. It was well absorbed.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3141840/

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/drugs/21230-diclofenac...