Turmeric is a golden spice famous for its culinary use in Asian cuisine. Its use has not been limited to lucrative food preparation since antiquity. Curcumin, one of the highly valued natural compounds, underlies the use of turmeric-based formula in traditional medicine. Can we find any systemic area which lacks curcumin-directed traditional knowledge or scientific evidence of curcumin-based research? So, why this nature's gift still could not find its way to conventional medicine?
Curcumin, the most active compound of turmeric (Curcuma longa) possess anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties. Thus, it is useful against heart disease, arthritis, cancer, metabolic syndrome, Alzheimer's and various degenerative conditions.
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Thank you @ Arbind Singh for your participation in this discussion. However I am looking for a discussion that covers potential approach to enhance curcumin's drug likeliness.
@ Dr. Abdul Hannan
Turmeric (Curcuma longa) has been used in traditional medicine for more than 40 centuries as a herbal remedy for the treatment of inflammations, fevers, colic, scars, and skin diseases.
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Turmeric has healing properties be it sore throat or an external cut or abrasion
Thank you for your participation in the discussion. Turmeric is a great healer from mother nature.
Turmeric and its most active compound curcumin have many benefits to helath, like the prevent of heart disease, Alzheimer's and cancer.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283492603_Curcumin_an_Active_Component_of_Turmeric_Curcuma_longa_and_Its_Effects_on_Health
Thank you Dr Ingo Schreiber and Dr Dhifaf Zeki for your adding those information on turmeric's health benefits.
Curcumin generally suffers from poor bioavailability and other pharmaceutical limitations that could hamper the therapeutic potentials of curcumin.
You can check this paper about pharmaceutical strategies to tackle these limitations:
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