* ATTENTION: STEPHANIE, Re: Lugol's and Optimal Concentration!

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Trisha: further to my last, you can get a faster result by going to the box on

the left of this page and clicking on FILES, then clicking on 15 IODINE

DOCUMENT, and then clicking to open the resulting documents which concern the

constituents of Iodoral and what is actually in Lugols. Should have remembered

those sooner, apologies.

Regards, Megaera

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> > Trisha: There may be an optimal formulation of iodine to potassium iodide

for health purposes, but insofar as Lugol's formulation is concerned it is a

chemical formula only, developed for use in reagent research and simply has his

name attached for convenience, so there are no " proprietary " issues -- it's just

what the formula is called. As far as J. Crow's Lugol's formula is concerned,

their MSDS shows a ratio of 5% iodine to 10% potassium iodide and their water

concentration is appropriate for 5% Lugol's solution. If your question arose

over omitting the potassium from the formula to get that 1:1.5 calculation,

remember that Lugol's HAS to have the compound potassium iodide as its second

part, because without the potassium iodide the elemental iodine will not

dissolve in water. Omit the potassium from anyone's " Lugol's " formulation and

you will probably wind up close to (plus .5 parts potassium), but it's never

written out that way because the potassium iodide is already in compounded form.

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> > J. Crow's use of horizontal-drop dosing calculations has caused some

confusion in the past about how much of their product to take, but if you use

per-ml or per oz content estimates appropriate for the percentage strength

Lugol's you are using and make correct droplet counts for your dropper the

company's formulations are as usable as any.

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> > Trust this is of service. Regards, Megaera

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