Originally Posted by
Coldfusion 
My wife and I have been sober for over ten months. She uses an alcohol-based, topical, homeopathic pain remedy. She has tried a water-based lotion, but she says it doesn't work. In fact, I believe that the alcohol in the gel is what gives her pain relief. This is one of the conundrums of homeopathic medicine--is it the herbal tincture that is active or the alcohol? But as far as I know, alcohol is not an essential ingredient of iodine therapy.
Yes, maybe she is addicted to the stuff (it is not cheap). But does it change her behavior? No. Does it make life unmanageable? No. Do we fight about it? No.
The alcohol based iodine tincture I've been taking is called Magnascent iodine and it's taken with water. I guess you could use it on the skin too, some people do. I'm going to switch over to SSKI that is water based, it's more potent so just one drop every few days in water will do me.