Iodine an age-old antibiotic for Respiratory Infections and as an Expectorant and Mucolytic
Breaks up mucus in the lungs and kills respiratory bacteria and virus. Potassium iodide has long been used by doctors as an expectorant in cases of infectious diseases of the respiratory tract, or in pulmonary diseases in which anatomical changes impair expectoration, such as emphysema and cystic fibrosis