Note: DEA restrictions now require us to limit
orders of this product to one bottle per transaction.
In 1880, a French physician named Lugol originated a
solution which contains 5 percent of elemental iodine in
a 10 percent solution of potassium iodide. It has
been used steadily ever since.
One drop of Lugol's Iodine contains 6.417mg of
elemental iodine. A 5-drop dose contains 32.09mg of
elemental iodine. Lugol's Iodine is a
non-prescription item.
Iodine is related to the ability to resist
disease. Iodine is necessary for the thyroid
gland to perform its work properly. The human
thyroid gland is located in the front of the lower part
of the neck, and all the blood in the body passes through
the thyroid gland every 17 minutes. Because the
cells making up this gland have an affinity for iodine,
during this 17-minute passage, the gland's secretion of
iodine kills weak germs that may have gained entry into
the blood through an injury to the skin, the lining of the
nose or throat, or through absorption of food from the
digestive tract. Strong, virulent germs are
rendered weaker during their passage through the thyroid
gland. Every 17 minutes, they are made still weaker
until finally they are killed if the gland has its
normal supply of iodine. If it does not, it cannot
kill harmful germs circulating in the blood as Nature
intended it should.
It is well established that the iodine content of the
thyroid gland is dependent upon the iodine available in
the food and water intake of the individual. If the
iodine intake is low, the gland is deprived of an
element it needs to do its work.
This gland performs several other functions besides
killing harmful germs in the blood. The first is
the rebuilding of energy with which to do the day's
work. There is a definite relationship between the
amount of energy you have and your iodine intake.
The first question to be asked in the presence of a
condition of depleted energy is, Is the soil of the
state in which one lives iodine-poor? Second, is
the deficiency being made up by supplementary means?
When energy and endurance run low in relation to doing
the day's work, then consider taking iodine.
A second function of iodine is to calm the body and
relieve nervous tension. When nervous tension runs
high, there is irritability and difficulty in sleeping
well at night, and the body is continually on a combat
basis, organized for fight and flight. All these
points stress a body's need for iodine to lessen nervous
tension, relax, and enable it to organize for peace and
quiet by the building and storing of body reserves
against time of need. It is possible to repeatedly
change an irritable, impatient, and restless child under
ten years of age into a calm, patient individual within
two hours by giving one drop of Lugol's solution of
iodine by mouth in a vegetable or fruit juice or in a
glass of water made acid in reaction by adding a
teaspoon of apple cider vinegar. This is useful
for calming a hyperactive child.
A third function of iodine in the human body relates
to clear thinking. The mind simply works better
when the body is supplied the iodine it needs.
Then there is the matter of the storing of unwanted
fat. Iodine is one of the best oxidizing catalysts
we have. A catalyst is the match which touches off
in the body the fire that burns up the food we take in
each day. If this food is not properly burned off,
it may be stored as unwanted fat.
Now while the thyroid gland helpfully stores iodine
from the blood passing through it every 17 minutes, the
gland may also be made to lose that stored iodine if, for
example, we take in drinking water to which chlorine is
added, or use too much sodium chloride, whose common
name is table salt. There is a well-known law of
halogen displacement. The halogen group is made up
of the following elements, shown with their Relative
Atomic Weights:
- Fluorine: 19.0
- Chlorine: 35.5
- Bromine: 80.0
- Iodine: 127.0
The critical activity of any one of these four
halogens is in inverse proportion to its atomic
weight. This means that any one of the four can
displace the element with a higher atomic weight, but
cannot displace an element with a lower atomic
weight. For example, fluorine can displace
chlorine, bromine, and iodine because fluorine has a
lower atomic weight than the other three. Similarly,
chlorine can displace bromine and iodine because they
both have a higher atomic weight. Likewise, bromine can
displace iodine from the body because iodine has a higher
atomic weight. But a reverse order is not
possible. A knowledge of this well-known chemical
law brings us to a consideration of the addition of
chlorine to our drinking water as a purifying
agent. We secure a drinking water that is harmful
to the body not because of its harmful germ content but
because the chlorine content now causes the body to lose
the much-needed iodine.
Because we may live in an iodine-poor area;
because drinking water may be treated with
chlorine; because we may be sick too often, lack
energy and endurance, develop nervous tension, lack the
ability of clear thinking, and accumulate unwanted fat,
how shall we go about bringing up the iodine content of
the body to the point needed?
There are three ways:
- Eating foods which analysis has shown are
particularly rich in iodine. Among these are all
food out of the ocean, radishes, asparagus, carrots,
tomatoes, spinach, rhubarb, potatoes, peas, strawberries,
mushrooms, lettuce, bananas, cabbage, egg yolk, and
onions.
- Painting a small area of the body with tincture of
iodine.
- Taking preparations known to be rich in
iodine. One of these is cod-liver oil. Another
is Lugol's solution of iodine. Still another is
kelp.
Dosage: Add one teaspoon of apple cider vinegar
to a glass of water to make the water acid. Hold
the Lugol's dropper horizontal in order to get a maximum
drop, and add one drop of the Lugol's solution to the
mixture. Stir the contents and sip through the
course of a meal.
Contents: Lugol's Iodine Solution
in a 1 oz. dropper bottle. 1 oz. equals 576 drops.
