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Turmeric
Traditional indian cooking is mostly boiling and steaming......in toasting and frying now Acrylamide toxins shown to cause cancer.......Good News. Turmeric prevents formation of acrylamide in frying.....Hatsoff to once again using organic turmeric in making frying items......secret of Ancient Indian healthy frying....https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19012407
 

      Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae which is native to tropical South Asia. It is also often misspelled (or pronounced) as tumeric. It sometimes also known as kunyit in some Asian countries.

Its rhizomes are boiled for several hours and then dried in hot ovens, after which they are ground into a deep orange-yellow powder commonly used as a spice in curries and other South Asian cuisine, for dyeing, and to impart color to mustard condiments. Its active ingredient is curcumin and it has an earthy, bitter, peppery flavor and has a mustardy smell

Sangli, a town in the southern part of the Indian state of Maharashtra, is the largest and most important trading centre for turmeric in Asia or perhaps in the entire world.

 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27107245 

High performance curcumin subcritical water extraction from turmeric (Curcuma longa L.). Curcumin is a hydrophobic polyphenolic compound derived from turmeric rhizome, which consists about 2-5% of the total rhizome content and is a more valuable component of turmeric.  The scanning electron microscope (SEM) images from the outer surface of turmeric, before and after extraction, clearly demonstrated the effect of each parameter; changes in porosity and hardness of turmeric that is directly related to the amount of extracted curcumin in process optimization of the extraction parameters.

Dietary Curcumin: Correlation between Bioavailability and Health Potential https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6770259/

use of turmeric

World's oldest curry 4000 years old has turmeric and brinjal-eggplant

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Turmeric is known by different names in different languages. Some examples include:

Medicine
In the Ayurvedic medicine, turmeric is thought to have many medicinal properties and many in India use it as a readily available antiseptic for cuts and burns. Whenever there is a cut or a bruise, the home remedy is to reach for turmeric powder. Ayurvedic doctors say it has fluoride which is thought to be essential for teeth. It is also used as an antibacterial agent.

It is taken in some Asian countries as a dietary supplement, which allegedly helps with stomach problems and other ailments. It is popular as a tea in Okinawa, Japan. It is currently being investigated for possible benefits in Alzheimer's disease, cancer and liver disorders.

Turmeric, under the name Avea, is becoming popular to treat depression.

It is only in recent years that Western scientists have increasingly recognised the medicinal properties of turmeric. According to a 2005 article in the Wall Street Journal titled, "Common Indian Spice Stirs Hope," research activity into curcumin, the active ingredient in turmeric, is exploding. Two hundred and fifty-six curcumin papers were published in the past year according to a search of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Supplement sales have increased 35% from 2004, and the U.S. National Institutes of Health has four clinical trials underway to study curcumin treatment for pancreatic cancer, multiple myeloma, Alzheimer's, and colorectal cancer.

A 2004 UCLA-Veterans Affairs study involving genetically altered mice suggests that curcumin, the active ingredient in turmeric, might inhibit the accumulation of destructive beta amyloids in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients and also break up existing plaques. "Curcumin has been used for thousands of years as a safe anti-inflammatory in a variety of ailments as part of Indian traditional medicine," Gregory Cole, Professor of medicine and neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA said.

Another 2004 study conducted at Yale University involved oral administration of curcumin to mice homozygous for the most common allele implicated in cystic fibrosis. Treatment with curcumin restored physiologically-relevant levels of protein function. [1]

Anti-tumoral effects against melanoma cells have been demonstrated [2].

Curry Pharmaceuticals, based in North Carolina, is studying the use of a curcumin cream for psoriasis treatment. Another company is already selling a cream based on curcumin called "Psoria-Gold," which shows anecdotal promise of treating the disease.

A recent study involving mice has shown that turmeric slows the spread of breast cancer into lungs and other body parts. Turmeric also enhances the effect of taxol in reducing metastasis of breast cancer [3].

Curcumin is thought to be a powerful antinociceptive (pain-relieving) agent. In the November 2006 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism, a study was published that showed the effectiveness of turmeric in the reduction of joint inflammation, and recommended clinical trials as a possible treatment for the alleviation of arthritis symptoms.[4] It is thought to work as a natural inhibitor of the cox-2 enzyme, and has been shown effective in animal models for neuropathic pain secondary to diabetes, among others.[2]


Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric

 

 
 
 
 
 2015 Jul-Aug;31(7-8):1052-3. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2015.02.002. Epub 2015 Feb 14.

Antibiotic overuse and Clostridium difficile infections: the Indian paradox and the possible role of dietary practices.

Ramakrishnan N1, Sriram K2.

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Abstract

Antibiotic abuse is rampant in India, such that one may expect to see an increase of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI). However, we found that the incidence of CDI in India (1.67%) is no different from that reported in USA (1.6%) using similar techniques of detection (polymerase chain reaction test). We offer a possible explanation for this paradox. It is likely that a diet rich in fiber, yogurt, and possibly turmeric may have a protective role in decreasing the incidence of CDIs in India.

 

Kasturi Manjal Aromatica

http://www.phytojournal.com/vol3Issue5/Issue_jan_2015/1.1..pdf

 

Black Turmeric CURCUMA CAESIA

http://www.ijrpc.com/files/29-3103.pdf

 

https://www.ijcmas.com/vol-4-11/Prasanthi%20Donipati%20and%20S.%20Hara%20Sreeramulu.pdf

 

 

Testing Turmeric

Assessment of genetic diversity in indigenous turmeric (Curcuma longa) germplasm from India using molecular markers

 

 

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