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About 40 years ago I boarded my horse with an old cowboy who used DMSO as a horse liniment. He had been using it for years any time one of his mounts was worked pretty hard or when someone brought a lame horse to him. He would rub the joints, calves, and thighs of the horse down good with DMSO for a few days and then they were good to go again. He also used it on his wife. He told me that she had type I diabetes and…
Are you certain it was DMSO and not DMSO2? I ask because quite a few ointments for horses have DMSO2/MSM. I use it on horses with horse specific formulas and on myself in a cream designed for humans called Penetrex .
He had a long career as a wrangler for Hollywood westerns after setting several records himself as a young cowboy in rodeo events as a bronc-buster, calf roper, header/heeler even setting one record in a rodeo at Madison Square Garden. He participated in founding the American Quarter Horse Association. He told me he had trained several actors over the years including a couple from the old TV series Rawhide who had never ridden a horse before that show. He knew Gene Autry, Tom Mix, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and worked with them and other western movie stars at one time or another. He knew horses, mules, saddles and tack like the back of his hand and he understood cigars, whiskey, and women intimately as any real man did back then.
My wife uses Penetrex here at home for sore muscles. She claims to get some benefit from it. I was not aware that there were two compounds, DMSO and DMSO2 but we definitely have Penetrex here at home.
It is possible that the product he used back then was DMSO2 if it was widely used in the 60's through 80's in horse liniment. I actually had to look them up to get a feel for the differences between them.
Thanks for asking.