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DMSO wont carry "anything" along with it through the skin. There is an upper bound limit as to the size of the molecule. You will need to check the molecular weight of the substance, if the molecule is too big, it will just sit on your skin and do nothing.

I would also reserve DMSO use for compounds that are not readily bio available orally. No point in wasting DMSO on creatine, when you can just take it orally and its effective.

As for using it with a balm/linament and bruising, that is the first I've heard of it, not really sure what would be in that balm that would dissipate blood collecting under the skin, none the less it would be interesting to find out.

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Well at the time we were stopped from buying DMSO from the drug store, we were told the reason was its transporting capabilities and the possibility of carrying a substance into the blood stream with the DMSO made it dangerous. At that point we could no longer buy it.
There was no internet and we were all too busy to really go try to find out the truth about the stuff. Those Chinese instructors were always rubbing stuff on you, everyone had his own jar of stuff. But it did work and the DMSO made it work a lot faster.
Hrdgain, everything you said made sense about molecular size. But if it were dissolved in water then the DMSO would slowly absorb it in the skin. My point was why go through the entire body to get where you want to go. BUT I'm just telling you what we were told why it was stopped from being sold to anyone on the street. I never knew much about it, myself, I didn't even like it as a linament period. I was just curious as to this transporting thing. I read (or tried) a few articles on the stuff but really didn't understand what they mean't in the explanations. Maybe people just believed in this so much, they healed themselves with belief.