20 Health Benefits of Turmeric

All I know is it has made an instant cure overnight all joint inflammation GONE!! And was pleased to read it helps with psoriasis too. Two thumbs up!! (Ps I’m only 34)

I read your comment about using turmeric to lower cholesterol, entered in 2010. I’m wondering how this worked for you. I am having problems using statins with muscle weakness but Dr. keeps wanting me to take the drug, my cholesterol remains high without it. Would appreciate hearing how this worked for you. Thank you.

Wondering if anyone has used this to treat bowel problems caused by radiation for recurring prostate cancer?

I read that you shouldn’t use turmeric if you have gall stones. What about kidney stones. don’t want to aggravate this and cause more stones. Want to make sure I know this is safe before I start using it. I like the health benefits listed.

I found information on coconut oil on this website. I don’t promote any specific brand of coconut oil, I just buy what I can find in town that says natural and organic on the label. I take a teaspoon a day of it to prevent Alzheimer’s and it seems to help my IBS. I also use it to brush my teeth with after a regular brushing with a non fluoride tooth paste. It’s helped with receding gums. I have read that it reverses Alzheimer’s. Just do a search on your favorite search engine online for “coconut cures alzheimer’s?” and there will be quite a few links to follow with information, opinions and such. I personally believe it reverses Alzheimer’s.

Quite often it really disturbs the pharmaceutical corporate reps when an herb or spice heals or aids in the healing of disorder of some sort and the only side effects are actually health benefits. Take a hike and go to some pharma website.

Great point made there….I have read about pharmaceutical corporation reps being paid to talk bad about natural remedies online. This seems to be one of those situations. Et should totally be ashamed.

I am starting to wonder if you’re a pharmaceutical corporation representative. Tumeric is a food substance. Who cares what the lower limit is. :S

I was just diagnosed with liver abscess, unknown source
The doctor drained some pus out of my liver and now i am home
with a picc line on my arm taking 2 kids of antibiotic
Can i still take this turmeric, i am sure if i ask my doctor he would not know
Thanks

Yes I Tried Turmeric .It is a real magic herb on the earth.It deserves a try.
For losing weight,for loweing LDL,For cystics,and more.

I started using the tumeric powder with olive oil and honey(making a facial/body mask) for blackheads and the dark blemishes left from other black heads. My skin was in such bad shape I became depressed. Used daily after a couple of weeks the balckeheads dried and the blemishes started to disappear. After a month I felt the depression reducing partly due to my new glowing skin and blackheads fading.
After the first month I used the mask 3 times a week and will reduce it until once weekly or as needed. So far I cant complain. Not only did my skin glow but I am no longer trying every wonder product that comes on the market and being embarrased at the check out counter or ripped off by Internet merchants who faile to honor their refund policy. I spend roughly $50 a month to make the facial mask all the best organic olive oil ,honey and tumeric found in the grocery store.
I read somewhere that in India prior to the brides wedding she is covered in tumeric and oils to have a bright glow on her wedding day.
This is a true wonder root.
You can serach the Internet for the recipe for the tumeric face/body mask.
Do not make more than you will use for one application because it will start to mold. I found this out when I made a small batch a couple of jars.
For preventative measures I take 2 tumeric pills a day also found in the grocery store of health food stores.
Happy Happy

I drank tumeric in milk for 5 months very night as I had a cracked metatarsal…. Am now fully healed

Wow, I didn’t know that turmeric can be used a lot for medicinal purposes… Thanks for sharing this information… Really learned a lot..

I have been drinking a tsp mixed with 1/2 cup of water every morning to help with a horrible cough I have had. It works wonders!!

i have pancreatic auto immune disease with acute pancreatitis and a bile obstruction.

I’m on pancreatic enzymes with pedisone steroid and none of it is helping. Ive had 6 stint procedures for the obstruction and it’s still there.

Will turmeric help me?

There is another kind of root tumeric that is white, not yellow. My grandmother use to give to us when we were kids. We have to take it before breakfast. She used to bring it, grated it and then a little bit of warm water and squezeed out the juice. We have to take 2tablespoon, yucky, but we were never sick.

now, reading about tumeric, it reminds me of my grandmother. She also used to cut out this branch like from the swamp tree. OMG, the taste of this one was worse than the white tumeric. She grated it, add a little bit of warm water, squeezed the same n we have to take 2tablespoon. Anyway, something I just like to share. Just remind me of the days I live in my village.

Hey Matt what do you mix the tumeric with?

Audrey

This is a great post and I was wondering if someone could help me.
My wife is on B/P tablets at the moment (Minipress). Recently she has developed 2 spurs in her left foot and has a back problem. Is it OK to take Tumeric whilst she is on the Minipress?

My mum hasa brain tumour, what natrual remedies are there

I want to use turmeric daily just to cleanse my insides. WOuld I use a teaspoon to 1 cup of water? Do you know the mixture?

Thanks!

Gloria, to help Alheimers try adding L-arginine and l-citrulline Nancy

My dad is in a bad condition in hospital with lung cancer that’s spreading to the rest of his body. we are thinking of bringing him home to take care of him ourselves. I wanna try the turmeric capsules on him, I still have hope! God worked miracles in the bible times, he still can now.

Turmeric contains curcumin.

Curcumin is what has the benefits.

For best results take turmeric with black pepper and then have green tea.You can stir this in yogurt and flax oil and add fruit like blueberries too.
This will give you most anticancerbook effect

Use turmeric with black pepper for better absorption. Have green tea with it.
This combination is most effective for many ailments and is beneficial overall.
I take it mixed with yogurt,flax oil,turmeric,black pepper and blueberies.
A very health giving combination
Read book by Richard Beliveau of Montreal Canada. He is a world famous scientist for cancer research.

Chew on this:

“Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.” ~Hippocrates

“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.” ~Hippocrates

“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.” ~Hippocrates

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” ~Hippocrates

“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”

“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.” ~Hippocrates

“Medicine is the most distinguished of all the arts, but through the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who casually judge such practitioners, it is now of all the arts by far the least esteemed.” ~Hippocrates

“I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this – never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.” ~Alexander Fleming

“It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.” ~Vernor Vinge

@et: Your “proof” is in OUR pudding . . . turmeric pudding, that is! LOL! So, don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it! Just let those who have found it beneficial for whatever ails them enjoy their sweet relief and share such insightful testimonials while you’re back on your way to the ‘ol ~Medicine Cabinet~, i.e., your corrupt, “ar$enic”, brainwa$hing, pharmaceutical money~chain that only serves to kink our natural, holistic style any which way he/she/it/they can! That just leaves more turmeric and other earthly gifts for us to reap!

As “Cherz” replied to you above, “Take a hike, et, you are making me sick!” = b (Good one, Cherz! I was LMAO!)

Put some turmeric in your pipe, et, and smoke it, if you will! Perhaps it’ll open your narrow mind, you’ll come to your senses and see more clearly!?! ; ) The articles/studies are out there, not to mention right here; perhaps if you spent more time searching for the positive versus posting your negatives you just might find them! Just some food for thought! Healthy Hiking and Happy Hunting! . . . if you dare! ; )

hello evrybody..yes turmeric indeed is a natural wonder healer. a friend of mine was diagnosed of breast cancer stage 3. her Doctor said she is lucky if shelsurvive for 6 months because the cancerous cells is spreading fast in her body. thanks to twice daily intake of Turmeric Capsules, fresh Turmeric shake and moringga capsules, she survived the ordeal. Moringa is the most nutritious plant on earth. Thanks to this Herbal wonders its been 5 years now and NEGATIVE of any cancerous cells.. this the reason why i was inspired to make turmeric capsules and Moringga Capsules.
Just incase you are interested to order you can send me an email at jonna_acabal@hotmail.com

1,000 pcs of Turmeric capsules is just $140.00 excluding shipment.
1,000 pcs of Moringga capsules is just $120.00 excluding shipment.

I put 1 teaspoon into a “Green Drink” (my Vitamineral greens and some chia seeds). Drank that down and will do the same for the next week or so. (I might miss a couple days since I will be on the road this weekend).

For the skeptics, the only reason I looked up the word Turmeric today is that I have trigger finger and the cortisone injections are not working. So I asked my orthopedic surgeon if there was anything else I could do before going the route of surgery. He listed some things that could help and when he mentioned turmeric, he said this is a scientifically proven anti inflammatory. So that is one instance where you have the “proof” your are seeking. But no one should simply start taking anything until they do check its possible side effects, if it might interfere with something else they are taking, the quantity, caps or powder, etc. You gotta do your own research man, no article is going to cover everything. Just like when the news mentions a new drug discovery, they don’t tell you too much could kill you or it might cause internal bleeding if you take it with aspirin….Thanks for everyone’s insights.

Thanks, Raj

Have a great time in the great outdoors!!

Let them (et) believe what they believe. When it all comes down to it those of us who choose to live a healthier, safer and easier to abide by lifestyle can all gloat while the naysayers can’t afford their high priced RX’s that this economy is and continues to create.

I say let them have their cupcakes, while we enjoy the whole meal.

Tumeric helped my wife’s pain caused by MS and generally with ALL her inflammation issues. I would highly recommend tumeric for anyone with pain and/or autoimmune problems.

How do you use it as a hair inhibitor? Can you PLEASE share the recepie?

They want to kill you, but slowly. There’s more $ in you dying slowly taking their numerous poisons every day. Be well, friend.

He’s just a shill for Big Pharma. There are plenty of those. Just like there are plenty of shills for Monsanto and so on.

Good one!

Well said and true. The medical industry, along with the cancer research crooks, prefer you stay away from natural and time-proven methods of relieving or curing what ails you.

The cancer research crooks, in particular, have been searching for a “cure” for nearly a century now – collecting billions and billions from all over the world yet have come up with : We can cut large chunks out of you or we can radiate you to death.

That’s it?! All that money/time and the best they can come up with is the Inquisitions methods to “help” you?

Whenever you pass by a cancer Begging Booth say, “You’ve been researching for a Cure for nearly a century with NO EFFECTIVE RESULTS. I don’t pay for promises. I pay for results. Until such time you get nothing from me!”

Say it loud and clear. Others will hear and may wake up to these crooks. Starve them. That might be the very incentive they need to actually get some real results.

Be well all!

I recently starting using a home made face cream using turmeric, coconut oil, organic yogurt and depending on what day it is I’ll switch between cantoloupe or cucumbers. The turmeric does not make an obvious yellow stain unless you use much more than is necessary. I live the results I’ve had in just 3 days. Becareful with today’s moiusturizers and face creams, most of them have toxic ingredients that are horrible for your skin in years to come. Natural alternatives for smoothies, recipes, face cleansers, moisturisers etc really make the difference health wise. Turmeric has become a fundamental in everything I use. Thank you guys for your awesomeness.

I,ve been taking turmeric for the last 2 weeks and i,ve noticed big changes, my prostate problems have improved alot, and my stomache ulcers from colitus have deminished. i feel hardely no stomache pain. I feel turmic may be the best herb out there for more things than people know about, i,m going to take it forever.:)

Not True. That’s exactly how vaccines work. A very dilluted attenuated (weakened) drop
of the hair of the dog that bit ya! that tiny amount of the killer will cause your immune
system to form antibodies against that particular invader (antigen). Homeopathy is based on the same practice. Native Americans used to chew poison oak to build up immunity against
it.

Hi i just tried it and it is helping disinfecting cuts and burns.

OMG, just got my order of Turmeric, which I purchased as an extract on Ebay from India !! I have lots of neck, and shoulder pain residual from cervical disc surgery. After reading all the info here, with a pillow behind my neck to help with the pain, I went into the kitchen and mixed one teaspoonful into some applesauce with some black pepper and just swallowed it. Within 5 minutes, my intense pain was gone, a small tolerable sensation of the pain was still there, but I had impressive relief of major pain….imagine what will happen if I take it three times a day everyday. Loving this stuff!!

i used it for malaria by eating it’s raw form,diarhia, stomach ach,insect bite and spice in meal giving a good aroma.

How amazing? Really surprise to know that turmeric is very useful.

Thanks for sharing.

we should not use turmeric for scalp for vitiligo patients

To Et, just add a C to your name ETC. I’m sure you will get your X and Y results to turmeric. Go study!

Hi et…what happened to you, have you been busy searching for TURMERIC? Good for you, it may help with your thinking. Update us with your X and Y findings.

Hi folks,
I cannot tell you how grateful I am to have stumbled onto this site! I’m almost giddy!
So many of the benefits of turmeric listed above really caught my eye – I cook a LOT of Indian food at home (thanks to having been taught by some great friends!), and even though everyone is always saying how good turmeric is, I honestly had not sat down to read about it.

Well, I do intend to check back here with my own anecdotal story – whether it’s good or otherwise – to let you know how I feel.

Since today – 5/24/12 – is the first day I decided to use turmeric on a daily basis with specific intent, I put 1 teaspoon into a “Green Drink” (my Vitamineral greens and some chia seeds). Drank that down and will do the same for the next week or so. (I might miss a couple days since I will be on the road this weekend).

But, I’ll be trying to gauge specifically how my neck feels (it may be coincidence, but 3 hours after taking my first dose I’m already noticing less soreness), my knee, left hip, and also skin tone (ruddiness – hasn’t been diagnosed as Rosacea, but it sure looks like it to me).

I’ll report back!

Our beloved 9 1/2 year older golden retriever has been diagnosed with cancer around the groin area. The vet has provided cortisone shots, pills and cream. It occured to me to try giving some Turmeric capsules. I’m hoping it will disrupt or slow the cancerous cell growth.

I am so impressed I am going to get some asap thanks for the heads up. I will pass this information on to my family members to help with the cancer. We have to research it but I’m impressed.

Good Response!! I too want a natural product to handle my osteo-arthritis in my knees after arthro-scopic surgery and my joints hurting. I used to take Aleve and Advil and after a few days I would start feeling down and depressed. I sure don’t need to add that on. I like natural products and all of the food additives that have been added to our food and all of the medical things sometimes make us more sick…I call it the begets…one thing begets another thing. I also believe that God created this world and that all of the natural herbs were there at the beginning of time…actually a lot of our medicines come from herbs too but then more synthetic things are added to them. I can see that both of these worlds need to co-exist. Either way you can get too far out in left field. You both have great ideas.

I would like to know how many times a day that this will need to be taken and does this help with phybromyalia and arthrits and bursitus?

Thank you,
Dale Dant

A friend of mine recommended this for Pain relief. I have been on pain killers, you name it, high dosage, for several years now. I Want to get off of the pain killers but I’m scared of the withdrawal symptoms that I will have from coming off of them. I have heard that this stuff will help with the withdrawal symptoms. Has anyone experienced this Before? Thank you for your input.

I’ve just personally began to discover the benefits one could reap from natural turmeric. I first heard of it as a sore throat and fever remedy, but I’m surprised at how much this one spice can help with so much!

hi kerrie, hows your psoriasis now? like you, i’m also suffering from this illness and searching for other remedies….thanks.

I have been a chain smoker for almost 12yrs. Quit recently. One of the major ingredient on my detox strategy is turmeric. For almost a month now, I drink a glass of lukewarm water mixed with a small quantity of turmeric every morning and evening. I have been able to breathe easy ever since and no more coughs.Hope this is working right

Currently Turmeric is being researched at M.D. Anderson for its cancer curing abilities. Interesting…

After reading all the comments on Tumeric, I am so gratefull that such a simple root carries answers to most of our health issues. Do away with all the strong painkillers which will eventualy kill you.
I am so thankfull I stumbled upon this link !

I am glad I stumbled on your Review because I have had IBS for years and am not taking medication. Then one fine day I remembered Dr.Oz advice to take a 1/4 tsp of tumeric in
a glass of milk. This is helping to reduce the severe abdominal cramps and allows to sleep better. Please offer whatever advice you may have on IBS. What is this curcumin extract you
mention and can I get it from you.

this is a great write up on turmeric! I recently watched a news story on how it is included in the “super foods” group, and I didn’t really know why. Thanks for the awesome info, it is also a tasty addition to brown rice, I discovered. Thanks for sharing!

My aunt told me a health secret – you mix tumeric with your wheatgrass juice. It makes the wheatgrass taste better, and you get a double dose of goodness

Hey everyone interested in trying alternative methods to their problems. I had swollen gums that led to infection a few months ago. I put a poultice of salt, tumeric, and garlic on it.
Healed that night. Just a little advice for someone out there.

18 Freaken years, eighteennnnnnn darn years I have suffered with neck, shoulder, upper and lower back pain 24/7, ironically I am from India, didn’t know the benifits of turmeric, or atleast wasn’t told about. I poped in whole raw garlics and everything in between to get relife, nothing ever worked, been to a Chiropracter, physio, decompression, deep tissue massages, accupuncture, pain killers and shots…none and I mean none of that shit worked. I am 37yrs male, I came across this website http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/healing/best-herbs-to-eliminate-pain.html. well end of January I caught bronchitis and was given antibiotics, in the mean time I went to GNC to check for the 4 herbs mentioned in the above site, I was confused so decided to just take a tsp of turmeic from my kitchen that I got from my local grocery store along with warm milk, first thing morning and just before bed. Two days later, I woke up for the first time in 18yrs pain free, ususally my neck, shoulder and my whole back would cramp and hurt, from Feburary 1st 2012 up until today I have been pain free, I have been faithfully taking turmeric. I don’t care about how I have also lost weight and look much younger as my wife noticed, ALL THAT I CARE ABOUT IS BEEING PAIN FREE…..which is what I AM TODAY….huh if I only knew 18yrs ago…even though it’s been used in India in every other dish and most knew about its benifits….I am one of those few unlucky ones to have not been told/educated about….DARN….PAIN FREE AT LAST….

P.S. I am going to continue taking turmeric, however, I am going to give the pill form a shot as I know the purety from the grocery store isn’t as much as the pills.

Yes, I have also got my MRI for my neck and back taken, only to be told. nothing wrong. Oh well, i.e. advance.

Are curcumin and turmeric the same? If so, are there also curcumin powder that can be used in cooking?

I have started recently using Jeunesse and one of the products is Re’serve which is a gel of Resveratrol. This is really a great product to aid in nutrion to the cellular level. Great to see you here.

I use fresh turmeric root when I juice!
Does anyone know if horses can have it? I normally give the juice pulp to my horses but have stopped since using the turmeric root. I don’t want them to develop colick from it, they are use to the ginger root and do fine.

Thank you

be sure to use 2-1 ratio of tumeric to black pepper. will double the effect.

So ET,
First off, why are you hiding behind two letter words. Man or woman up and stop hiding. ET…I think that you need to “Phone home”, because your statements are out of this world.

I agree with the other person’s question, how did you come across this natural approach web blog? How much are you getting paid to attempt to place doubt in the natural approach, and how long have you been in the western world of chemical drug dependency?

I think that you should take ALL of the drugs that ALL of the people on this web blog with all of the side effects, or have you already been doing such, which has resulted in such crazy outlandish statements? Which may be the reason you’re being so, so……. such a…..!

ET,
Don’t rain on everybody’s parade. Your paragraph seem to thwart natural remedies. People drink alcohol, liquor, beer, etc, which when consumed too much and in large doses can also case side effects, and nobody questions why. The people in this forum/blog are common lay people, not doctors, or pharmaceutical companies that promote drugs from the Western world which ALWAYS have side effects. In which they (western medical society, i.e. doctors, pharmacies) ALWAYS state such, so why would anybody want to take those drugs, should be the question that you should be asking?

How ofetn do you use it on your face ? I have dark mark on my skin after giveing birth. Pplease advise
Thanks

You tell em!!

I take Turmeric every day ( 1 good teespoon in food ) and all my backache stoppend, my Ganglion gone, got rid of Carpal- Tunnel-Syndrom !!!
It’s so great and natural !!!

Did you add this recipe to Milk, or water, or did you just bend the tumeric with the ingredients,and it made into a smoothie with those ingredients.

Really there are so many Health Benefits of Turmeric and not only that Turmeric is good for skin also.

Thanks

I HAVE ASTHMA, I HAD A BAD “GUNKY” COLD WHERE PHLEM AND SNEEZING…RUNNING NOSE COUGH… I WAS WHEEZING ETC… I TRIED TUMERIC IN A TEA, 1/4TH TEASPOON IN 3-4 CUPS OF WATER WITH 3 BAGS OF GREEN TEA, ADDED SOME HONEY. I POURED 1 OF THOSE BIG SOUP CUPS FULL… AFTER 1/2 OF IT… DRANK IT PRETTY QUICK… AFTER ABOUT 10 MINUTES, I FELT MAJOR RELIEF IN 5-10 MINUTES I WAS AMAZED… TOTALLY… I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT IT WORKED… I MADE MY OWN BREW… GOD LED ME TO PUT THE AMOUNT THAT I NEEDED…

Numeric powder can be found in most asian stores. Ask for “bot nghe”

Did you graded the turmeric root or just blended?

I’m 51 yrs old and was hospitalized and diagnosed with acute pancreatitis(AP) more than a yr ago.Is turmeric a possible cure to prevent the occurrence of AP?

Nevermind the above post….

I figured it out. Every day I take out a capsule and drop it into my right hand. The oil on my skin must react with some residual on the capsule. It just takes awhile for it to show.

LOL…I feel like an idiot.

I was wondering if anyone here has had this happen to them after taking turmeric.

I take 1 500mg capsule a day with 1 capsule of 1000mg fish oil. over the past few weeks I have been developing a bright yellow (almost neon in color)stain on the palm of my right hand. It mostly washes off in water, so I don’t think it’s jaundice…I do drink to excess sometimes on the weekends, so I have been worried about my liver.
I read somewhere that it might be from the antioxidant effects of the turmeric, but am unsure what to think.

I have only been taking it for a month or so, but find it strange that it only shows up on my right palm.

Any ideas??

My father’s coworker told him about turmeric. This coworker is an elderly man with a severe arthritic condition of some sort.

He had taken steroids and other anti inflammatory drugs over the years but found it generally painful to walk and move around. It was obvious to those around him how much pain he was in.

According to my dad, this man started taking turmeric after a friend recommended it. He didn’t notice any benefit at first (I think he initially only took small doses), but increased the dosage 2 or 3 times and he started feeling much better. His coworkers even noticed that he was moving around easier.

Long story short, my dad recommended I start taking it. I have some sort of autoimmune problem and deal with colitis due to food allergies and other things.

My dad bought me a bottle that he found in a local vitamin shop. I took one pill at each meal. I didn’t notice anything until I took about 4 pills with lunch and or dinner.

The regular turmeric is too spicy for me. in fact it makes me sweat and upsets my stomach. However the brand that doesn’t give me trouble is “Turmeric Force” by New Chapter. I’ve been taking it for about 7 months and it helps my stomach to a degree.

When I was a young woman living in Kolkata, my cousin (sister) and I would make a paste of red lentils, orange peel, raw TURMERIC root and coconut oil and apply this every day instead of soap. Have known about a pinch of pure unadulterated turmeric in warm milk since childhood in India. Have just got back from there with a few bags of it.
LOWERING CHOLESTEROL — I tested the following: grate ginger root (heaped teaspoon full) and put in cup and pour freshly boiled water to the top. Drink this and chew the ginger in the cup too. I told my doctor I was testing this as someone I know had lowered their cholesterol to a manageable level doing this and she’d heard from a friend who had also had the same result. So my GP (lovely lady doctor – this is in London UK, by the way) agreed to take a test for me after the trial period of 3 months. So though my cholesterol was high, in order to test the ginger tea remedy I continued having eggs chocolate wine cheese etc. while I had the two cups of ginger tea a day more or less regularly for three months. After which, i had the cholesterol test as agreed with my doctor. We found my cholesterol levels both good and bad cholesterol had dipped – there was a reduction of just over one point. So the conclusion we reached was I could carry on with the ginger tea and would get an even better result if I cut out or cut down on the chocolate etc. Apparently adding some lemon juice to the ginger also helps further and do chew the grated ginger in the cup as well.

My doctor advised me to take Turmeric to help lower my cholesterol. I have had some bad side effects from statins and he wants me to try it AND vit D for a couple of months. I have read with interest all of the comments and I’m hoping for great things.

I have read with great interest all of the comments. I am 41, diagnosed with breast cancer 2 months ago. Has anyone taken turmeric as an alternative to tamoxifen? I’m very hesitant about taking the tamoxifen…side effects sound awful, but turmeric sounds like a healthy alternative. Any thoughts/experiences would be appreciated. Thank you!

Here in Bali or Indonesia turmeric is a very common root used for natural health boosting drinks and turmeric has been used for as long as anyone can remember. My wife’s grand mother and grand grand mother all used turmeric in their food and Bali with it’s famous spice mixes are usually accompanied with turmeric. Ask anyone young as old and they will state the benefits of eating or drinking turmeric. None has ever said they had side-effects or any downsides to it. This is a remedy that has gone from generation to generation. There are many ‘treasures’ out there which has been proved over and over throughout the generations that it is beneficial to our health. That’s a pretty good record no pharmaceutical company every will be able to copy.

As for the science of how turmeric works or if there are any diverse side-effects, well, let the scientists and pharmaceutical companies work that out. I put my faith in our parents, grandparents and grand grandparents who are all living proof of the benefits.

As for the drink, i extract about 3 dl of pure turmeric juice, mix it with 1 liter of water, press one small lime, put in a few tablespoons of honey. Put it in the fridge or drink straight away (always recommended not to drink cold beverages though).

As for comparing turmeric to arsenic or other natural poisons goes against the human sense of what’s good and what’s not. If turmeric would have diverse side-effects or be more dangerous than beneficial i’m certain this is something people would’ve figured out ages ago. Instead, the reality is that turmeric has helped us and keeps doing so.

And NO “Et”

“A rule of thumb is: the more potent the drug the greater/more side effects you can expect. Something that has no potency almost certainly will have no side effect.”

.. this is certainly not always the case or for that matter a good rule of thumb.

Dan F, agreed. I meant to say FDA. The guy who was talking about turmeric on the radio also said it’s the only good thing the FDA ever did that he knows of! Another interesting article:

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1910028,00.html

I have contracted Chicken pox, and could not sleep at all because of the burning feeling on my skin, scalp.

An Indian lady told my wife I should soak in Tumeric, I did this and found instant relief.
Slept like a baby.

I guess if you have found something natural working for you, its worth trying again.
Except for yellow skin today I feel much better.

Already had a teaspoon
in milk today.

The meds they gave me don’t work at all.

If you think the EPA or the FDA has your best intrest at heart… Well, guess what, there’s no Santa either…..Zocor almost killed me just to lower my cholesteral a few points! That’s just one instance of prescription drugs that are being heaped on the public by Big Pharma with the FDA looking the other way….

Turmeric is truly a wonder healer. I have been using it for 6 years – no sickness – no hip pains – no stomach pain – its un – real. I take 2- 300 mg pills a day as do all of my family – i’m 83 years old and feel like 50. I recommend it to everyone- you will live a lot longer and sickness free using it.

I don’t know for sure if it’s true, but a guest on Art Bell’s radio show said that big pharma lobbied the EPA hard to regulate turmeric so that drug companies/pharmacies could capitalize on it. The EPA refused due to the length of time it was used in India. Interesting, no?

I just started taking turmeric, feeding it to DH too, I had already learned about the cancer cure/preventative part, I am happy to hear all of the other things it does too, especially the liver detox.

DH takes lots of OTC pain killers and worries about his liver, with the double whammy of turmeric being anti-inflammatory AND liver detox, I hope to get him off the painkillers and help heal any damage that might have been done to his liver to date.

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I’m an ultra-runner and my right knee was nearly crippled with inflamation. Tired of poisoning myself with Ibuprofen, I finally gave turmeric a try. After a about a week, I was running again with mild pain, and after a solid month of 300 MG capsules, three times per day, the pain is mostly gone, and I’m running my high miles again. A noticeable side effect is that I feel my mood has improved.

Well, for the Doctor who does not believe that Turmeric has many health benefits;I am a 63 yr old lady who has had a very bad case of Rosacia. I have had a very red face, some red viens showing, the papsules on my face and even had a small growth on my nose. I tried Metrogel,still needed more help but couldn’t afford treatment of other kinds, as I do not have insurance. I tries Turmeric, 1 tsp a day, sometimes in warm milk sometimes in hot water with lemon and Stevia. I noticed results in just a few days. In just a few weeks even more and now just a few months, 4 I think, you would never know that I have Rosacia at all.
I have been told 3 times this week that I have pretty skin. I never ever expected to hear such a compliment. The small growth on my nose is not red anymore and is not usually even noticed. Don’t tell me that Turmeric does not work. I suffered for years with this disease before finding something that would work that I could actually afford.
Turmeric is a great health benefit and will treat many kinds of health problems but it is especially great for skin problems.

Dear ET,

Currently Turmeric is being researched at M.D. Anderson for its cancer curing abilities.

Smooches,
Steph

Gloria, if you go to http://www.google.com and type-in “alzheimers turmeric”, there looks to be a lot of info out there regarding the relationship between the two (alzheimer’s and turmeric). At the very least, I’m guessing that experimenting with some good-quality turmeric supplements wouldn’t hurt, and might just prove to be a help, though I’d read up on the many different related sites first, then go from there. Best of luck!

i would like to know if turmeric would work with “LATE-ONSET ALZHEIMER’S” i haven’t seen on this page if so how long would it take to work and what would it do exalcty

thank you
gloria

Some interesting debate going on here, along with some good points. My two cents: I’ve had very good results with other select health supplements, and no, that has not been proven in a lab. And while I agree that “anecdotal evidence” has no place in the lab (except when forming your hypotheses, maybe), in the legal system, people are routinely incarcerated based (sometimes solely) upon little more than the testimony and whatnot of other individuals. If you really want to utilize some good “critical thinking,” take into account all the information you can gather, anecdotal or otherwise, form what’s hopefully a good hypothesis, then make your decision from there (and, yes, do be wary of the aforementioned “quackery”). Is the ultimate desision “guaranteed” to be the right one? Nope. But hopefully, with a little luck and cautiously optimistic critical decision-making, maybe it’ll be close, at the very least. (Incidentally, as I seem to recall, isn’t experimentation an important part of the whole scientific process? Just a thought.) And as for this self-proclaimed “debunker” obsession that some people seem to be so preoccupied with, maybe many years of intense scientific research will one day help to fully explain that to us, as well, though personally I’m not holding my breath. In the meantime, if you do decide as I have to try it (the turmeric, not the debunking), proceed with caution, and best of luck.

Eating turmeric powder for the past one month lossen my weight by almost 8 pounds and it flaten my stomach….