I have read studies that showed benefit for those who have NAFLD, and ingest Curcumin but Unfortunately the COMMUNITY HERBAL MONOGRAPH ON CURCUMA LONGA L., RHIZOMA which is adopted by the Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products lists Liver disease to be a contraindication for Turmeric consumption, and when I sent them, they said that NAFLD is included in the "liver disease" category? So is it contraindicated for NAFLD patients or not ?
The best reference for the assessment is The National Toxicology Program, Technical Report number 427-
TOXICOLOGY AND CARCINOGENESIS
STUDIES OF TURMERIC OLEORESIN
I would encourage you to carefully read the whole report. Definitely chronic use of this substance is associate with several pathological changes affecting the liver and the gastrointestinal system plus other organs. We cannot assume that chronic intake of Turmeric Oleoresin is safe. I attach a copy of the report.
Dear Mostafa and Luis,
Curcumin is a COX - 1 and COX - 2 inhibitor, basically an anti-inflammatory with similar effects and side effects to "artificial" pharmacological agents like Naproxen, Ibuprofen and Diclofenac. Not as potent, but I do wonder if that may be the reason why there will be caution in the use of patients with liver disease.
Best wishes,
Immo
Turmeric : the genus Curcuma / edited by P.N. Ravindran, K. Nirmal Babu, and K. Sivaraman. p. cm. -- (Medicinal and aromatic plants--industrial profiles ; v. 45)
The anti-inflammatory properties of turmeric derivatives can be useful in some patients with NAFLD, bit in low doses and in short term time
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