
Blog - Turmeric
Nature’s Bounty: Currying Favor With the Brain
It is becoming increasingly difficult to make the distinction between food and drug. As scientists gain the ability to study the chemical components of food—notably fruits and vegetables—and trace their actions and interactions in our bodies at a molecular level, they’re finding that they contain potent bioactive compounds that have the capacity to improve overall [...]
THE THERAPEUTIC PROPERTIES AND USAGES OF FIVE COMMON SPICES: CORIANDER, CUMIN, FENNEL, GINGER, AND TURMERIC
Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist (C.A.S.)Board Certified, American Academy of Pain ManagementBoard Certified, American Board of Anti-Aging Health PractitionersINTRODUCTIONSpices have been revered throughout history and around the world for their culinary enhancing and medicinal properties. Over 4,500 years ago, the Chinese emperor Shen Nung composed an extensive treatise on medicinal herbs and spices. Around the same time [...]
Turmeric – History and traditional uses
Curcuma longa L. (fam. Zingiberaceae), also known as turmeric, was highly esteemed by the ancient Indo-European people, for its golden-yellow dye resembling sunlight. This culture known as Arya, worshipped the solar system and attributed special protective properties to those plants, which like turmeric, contained sun-colored yellow dyes.Turmeric, best known as “Haridra” in Sanskrit, has a [...]
Turmeric – Contemporary applications in medicine
Turmeric exemplifies an herb for which clinical applications have evolved over time. Until recently, this perennial herb, widely cultivated in tropical regions of Asia, particularly in India, was valued primarily as a commercial item for imparting a lively yellow color and also as a part of most curry powders. In India, the Bengal kind of [...]