Prickling, nausea, from such a low dose? Could that be caused by a bad reaction to DMSO?
You shouldn’t feel tired or sedated at all. I wonder if this is the oil you have or the DMSO causing this. Have you ever used DMSO on its own before?
IS YOUR DMSO 30% WATER OR PURE DMSO?
Hmm…SWIM has not felt bronchoconstriction at all even at pretty high doses. One thing though, he drinks coffee with it and that’s a mild bronchodilator, and also SWIM has been using the same exact bottle of oil for quite a while now. He recently ordered some more. It’s a different brand. He’ll see if that makes any difference. There are more than a dozen compounds in the oil. Maybe some oil is just too high in other junk to be of much use? I think the bottle of elemi oil SWIM has been using must be high in elemicin and that’s why his tests are so positive. I think he maybe got lucky with his purchase.
At a party, one guy who took pure elemicin felt tension in his body, but no one else did. That indicates it causes some vasoconstriction. Another person in another thread mentioned getting slight muscle cramping the day following oil usage, like that sometimes felt from HBWR, and that also indicates some vasoconstriction is happening. Passionflower would be very good for alleviating vasoconstriction, especially cramping.
SWIM get’s very noticeable bronchoconstriction from the LSH found in HBWR, but never from his elemi oil. The bronchoconstriction from the LSH is pretty strong and a little scary.
Chocolate is good for easing bronchoconstriction because it contains theobromine. Passionflower relieves relaxes muscles in general.
I’ve been reading some other forums of people trying elemi oil, and their results mirror the ones on this forum. Some are like SWIM and love the stuff. Others are complaining of side effect mostly. This cleanup step in this thread works wonders for SWIM’s oil, but maybe it will not be so effective with other oils out there. It all depends on what gets extracted into the DMSO. There are many other compounds present in the oil that are active that would be extracted into the DMSO unfortuantley.
It seems like only a certain percentage of people are getting good effects from elemi oil. My gut feeling is that some batches of oil are just too low in elemicin to be of use, and taking more is just causing side effects from the other compounds present.