Bill (Philippines) on 03/21/2022
A huge caveat here. Just because people in the old and distant past could be treated with large dose LI does not necessarily mean that you can do it now without problems. Lugols Iodine was been around for over 150 years and was eventually banned for use internally in the US round about the beginning of the 1950s to make way for the glorious and unhindered use of antibiotics as well as modern vaccines. Wow, with LI out of the way, think of all that profit for the drugs companies involved! The 1950s was also the beginnings of wide agri-use of poisonous pesticides, fertilizers, etc that contained serious poisons like mercury, lead, aluminum, chlorine, flourine, and glyphosate, etc. You should also bear in mind that -- especially in America -- the supermarket food contains all these poisons, which are very unhealthy for your body.
I'm just saying that if you live in the US and you eat all that poisoned supermarket food and drink their poisonous tap water then your body will accumulate and contain high amounts of heavy metals that also include bromine, fluorine and chlorine. It's also little known or appreciated that Lugol's Iodine is an exceptional detoxer of lead, cadmium, mercury, aluminum, bromine and fluorine. But if your body contains high amounts of any of these poisons then, when you initially start taking the LI at high dose, LI will rapidly remove these poisons from the tissues and put large amounts of them into the blood. And right there is the problem!! Because once the poisons get into the blood there is a definite possibility that those heavy metals, chlorine and fluorine etc will be redistributed throughout the body -- and that is what can cause, serious skin rashes, racing heart, breathing problems etc. Basically these symptoms can accurately mimic a serious allergic reaction -- but they are not caused by an allergic reaction -- they are caused by large amounts of heavy metals and other poisons suddenly being dumped into the bloodstream because of the efficient detox effect of LI.
So, if you're going to take high dose iodine for your testicular cyst, you should start with one drop and just work up to the proper dose slowly.
Here's some more useful advice on how to treat testicular cysts with iodine from Ted from Bangkok:
"Testicular Cysts... If lugol's iodine is applied externally to that area, is one of the few ways it the iodine can reach it to prevent further spread. Cysts is usually calcium, hence magnesium supplements is taken, such as magnesium citrate roughly 500 mg a day. The magnesium is antagonistic to the calcium. I have also found that cysts is a form of iodine deficiency, it seems to occur in women with low iodine, which gathers around the breast. Cysts can also form when the blood sugar is high, increasing the solubility of calcium to go from bones to the tissues causing cysts. Hence, 1500 mcg of chromium chloride, or a good chromium supplements without the calcium added, best in capsule form is taken. I prefer chromium chloride, perhaps chromium polynicotinate. If a person is serious about reducing this cyst, staying away from sugar, and drink plenty of water during meals will dilute sugar concentration, in addition to avoiding dinners before sleep also helps reduce the sugar spikes."
Source: https://answers.earthclinic.com/any-remedy-for-testicular-cysts.html
Replied by Peter Doubcheck Robinson from England UK on 05/14/2025
Hi Bill,Many thanks for your 2022 communication. It appears there could be a typo
in "3 drops of 15% lugol's iodine -- which works out to a total of about 170 mgs of iodine/iodide per day". Let me explain:
Let us note that when Jean Louis Guillaume Lugol made his solution in 1829. His iodine concentration of 5% represents the nominal iodine (molecule I2). He combined I2 with
with 10% Potassium Iodide (molecule KI). As you know, 5% means 5grams of solute (i.e. I2) in a solution that has a volume of 100ml. Therefore 5000mg/100ml or 50mg per milliliter (ml). For KI we have 10 grams in 100ml -> 100 mg/ml; Iodide in KI
takes 76.45% of the molecular weight of KI.
A standard medical drop size is 0.05 milliliters:
3 drops = 3*0.05 = 0.15ml
So the actual total iodine from I2 and KI is:
0.15ml*(50mg/ml + (100*0.7645)mg/ml) = 18.9675 mg let us round it to 19mg.
The above pertains to original Lugol solution
Assuming that your quoted 15% is the nominal concentration
this means the concentration of molecular I2 is 15% (i.e. 150mg/ml) and
and the concentration of KI is 30% (i.e. 300mg/ml).
If we apply the above reasoning of 5% Lugol's iodine to the 15% Lugol's iodine the total iodine corresponding to 3 drops is:
(3×0.05)×(150 +(300× 0.7645)) = 56.9025 mg per dose of 3 drops
To reach the quoted "170 mg of iodine/iodide per day" the patient would be
administered about 170/56.9025 = 2.987... about 3 times
the quoted dose of 3 drops per day!
Even if the "15%" represents 5% I2 and 10% KI, the patient will have to be
administered 170/18.9675 = 9.962... about 9 times the quoted dose of
3 drops per day.
Forgive me if its a typo. in fact in clinical setting, the patient is
usually administered small doses many times per day in order
to reach (accumulated) the target dose per day.
Of course you may be absolutely right if your dispensing dropper has
a vertical drop size of 126.45 ml (i.e. 126.45 milliliters)
P. D Robinson
