Turmeric is useful for all inflammatory disorders and for autoimmune conditions.

More on tumeric

For me it interesting that it is effective against inflamatory disorders.

I wonder if there is any communality in involvment (if opposing effect) in body mechanisms with omega six a percusor of inflamatory body responses



RB

http://www.azcentral.com/health/well...aweil0207.html

ABSTRACTs

In the M.D. Anderson study, researchers injected mice with breast cancer cells from a woman whose disease had spread to her lungs. The cells began to grow in the mice and then were surgically removed. The mice then were divided into four groups: one got no treatment, one got curcumin, one got the cancer drug Taxol and the fourth group got curcumin plus Taxol. Cancer spread to the lungs among half the mice in the curcumin-only group and 22 percent of those in the curcumin/Taxol group. The other groups fared far worse: among the mice that received Taxol alone, 75 percent developed lung tumors; and the cancer spread to the lungs among 95 percent of the mice that were given no treatment.................


Turmeric is useful for all inflammatory disorders and for autoimmune conditions. It also may have a role in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. (Elderly villagers in India appear to have the lowest rate of Alzheimer's in the world, perhaps due to the fact that Indians eat turmeric with almost every meal. Some animal studies have shown that curcumin blocked the formation and accumulation of the plaque that characterizes Alzheimer's.)

Overall, turmeric appears to have significant anti-inflammatory and cancer-protective effects. These seem most evident at doses well below pharmaceutical strength, which suggests that it would be wise to consume more foods spiced with turmeric.