Turmeric is one of the most common household spices in Asian kitchen. It contains a yellow colored antioxidant called curcumin. It is known to have some therapeutic properties. It is considered possibly effective for hay fever, depression, high cholesterol, fatty liver, osteoarthritis and itching. However, it is considered possibly ineffective for Alzheimer disease, stomach ulcers and radiation dermatitis.
Some people also believe its effectiveness against heartburn, memory skills, inflammatory bowel disease, stress etc, but we don't have sufficient scientific evidence to support this assumption.
Turmeric is considered likely safe for use as food and when applied to the skin. Because of its antioxidant and therapeutic properties, it is considered one of the healthy food ingredient.
Recently, the health benefits of turmeric has got a lot of attention from politician, relevant experts, medical practitioners and general public. There are different views from the different personnel. In general, they can be categorized as follows:
1. Turmeric is a medicine that can be used to cure or treat the COVID-19 disease.
2. Turmeric is a healthy food ingredient with some known therapeutic properties. Since healthy people are more likely to get recovered from COVID-19, the use of turmeric might benefit us during this pandemic situation.
3. Turmeric is a healthy ingredient. But, it does not help in the recovery from COVID-19.
4. Turmeric is just a food ingredient, as it gives yellow color. It does not have any health benefit or therapeutic properties.
Let's try to read the updated monograph of turmeric to evaluate different views.
