Re: tannin is an organic iodine ?

[Guest guest]

Charlotte...Iodine and tannin are two different animals. As are walnuts

and acorns.

The best plant source for iodine is kelp.

I haven't done it, but I am sure that if you googled it you would be

able to finde a source of good quality kelp.

Good luck! :-)

Gayle

WI/USA

> Is tannin iodine? I could get iodine by soaking acorns in water and

using

> the water?

[Guest guest]

No they are not the same at all.

Gayla

Always Enough Ranch

Acampo, California

http://bouncinghoofs.com/alwaysenough.html

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tannin is an organic iodine ?

[Guest guest]

> BLACK

> WALNUT- The dried and ground green hull of the Black Walnut contains

> tannin which is an organic iodine >>

Black walnut contains tannin, and also contains iodine. However, its

iodine levels are incredibly low compared to kelp or seaweed of any

sort. Go to your local Asian food market and pick up some seaweed used

in Asian cooking: it's delicious and healthy!

[Guest guest]

Posted by: " Beckman "

<< Black walnut contains tannin, and also contains iodine. However, its

iodine levels are incredibly low compared to kelp or seaweed of any

sort. Go to your local Asian food market and pick up some seaweed used

in Asian cooking: >>

They don't have Asian stores here in southern England, at least not

around here. English people think Asian means India and Pakistan, btw,

but I assume you mean Asian in the American sense of Chinese.

I have kelp. I have capsules I take regularly and a pack of dried kelp

I pulled out of the ocean on the Connecticut shore that I keep

thinking I ought to do something with. I just had visions of pulling

iodine off oak trees ... I often add oak leaves to my kombucha tea and

raw beer because I like the flavor ... so it just would have made my

life so much easier if tannin were iodine as that person had posted.

I just ordered a bottle of Lugol's iodine, though. Any suggestions for

ways to take it? Would it be OK in my clay water? [recipe: 1 qt.

water, 1 Tbl raw vinegar, 1 tsp raw honey, 1/2 teaspoon french green

clay, 1/4 teaspoon Celtic sea salt and juice of a wedge of lemon, put

the squeezed lemon wedge in the glass.] If so, how many drops per

quart?

[Guest guest]

> English people think Asian means India and Pakistan, btw,

> but I assume you mean Asian in the American sense of

> Chinese.

I do: an Asian grocery in the States will usually cover

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and -- if you're lucky -- Lao,

Thai, and Vietnamese. But it is generally southeast Asian

and Chinese food.

> I have kelp. I have capsules I take regularly and a pack

> of dried kelp I pulled out of the ocean on the Connecticut

> shore that I keep thinking I ought to do something with.

> I just had visions of pulling iodine off oak trees ... I

> often add oak leaves to my kombucha tea and raw beer

> because I like the flavor ... so it just would have made

> my life so much easier if tannin were iodine as that

> person had posted.

It would be nice. However, even if that were the case,

quercetins in oak leaves and acorns are toxic. In fact,

" acorn flour " used by Amerinds had to be heavily washed in

running water to remove toxic quercetins and bitter tannins.

The fact is that even black walnut, which is one of the few

plants that does sequester iodine, has an almost

uselessly-small amount, due to the simple fact that iodine

compounds are incredibly water-soluble, and like most salts,

end up washing out of the soil and into the ocean.

> I just ordered a bottle of Lugol's iodine, though. Any

> suggestions for ways to take it?

Actually, I recommend specifically against supplementing the

diet with Lugol's solution. Lugol's contains both potassium

iodide (a safe compound) and free elemental iodine (a

dangerous oxidizer similar to chlorine gas in action).

> Would it be OK in my clay water? [recipe: 1 qt. water, 1

> Tbl raw vinegar, 1 tsp raw honey, 1/2 teaspoon french

> green clay, 1/4 teaspoon Celtic sea salt and juice of a

> wedge of lemon, put the squeezed lemon wedge in the

> glass.] If so, how many drops per quart?

If you must supplement with Lugol's, rather than with a

safer source such as potassium iodide (one component of

Lugol's), or seafoods such as fish or kelp, no more than

four drops in a gallon should be used. The ascorbic acid

(vitamin C) in lemon juice is an antioxidant, and should

combine with the free iodine, neutralizing its " bleaching "

effects.

Still, I'd save the Lugol's for adjusting iodine levels in

the saltwater fish tank and stick with safer alternatives.