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Nothing Cowardly about the Yellow Spice Turmeric

Nothing Cowardly about the Yellow Spice Turmeric

By Joan McDaniel                

You don’t have to be a Cowardly Lion to like Turmeric.

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What is Turmeric?

I am an LPN who ate my way back to health. Read my continuing story about researching a different kind of nutrition. I used food as my medicine. Turmeric is all about ancient civilization and deep traditions, both in food and holistic medicine.  It has been harvested for more than 5,000 years. Like ginger you plant it in the ground and eat the roots.  We know it for its yellow color but there is much more to learn of its powers.  The plant is called Curcuma longa and the root is called a rhizome. It has a tough brown skin and a deep orange flesh.  Like ginger and other spices it has amazing anti-inflammatory and healing benefits. It is also used as a textile dye.

Turmeric is traditionally been used both in the Traditional Chinese and Indian Ayurvedic traditions of holistic medicine.  It is also known as “Indian saffron”.  It is 5 to 8 times stronger than Vitamin E and stronger than Vitamin C. In South Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine turmeric is used in spice curries, for dyeing, and to impart color to mustard condiments. Its active ingredient is curcumin and it has a distinctly earthy, slightly bitter, slightly hot peppery flavor and a mustardy smell.

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