Turmeric is a spice plants or native medicine in Southeast
Asia. These plants then have spread toregions suchas Malaysia,
Indonesia, Australia, even in Africa, almost everybody Indonesia and
India in general ve spice plants consume in, both for food supplies,
maintaining a healthy body and keep beauty. Turmeric is used as a
seasoning in dishes like goulash, and is used as a yellow color in
cooking or as a preservative products made from raw turmeric is able to
compete with a variety of patented drugs.
Turmeric contains the medicinal ingredient compounds called kurkuminoid
consisting of curcumin, desmetoksikumin bisdesmetoksikurkumin as much as
10% and as much as 1-5% and other beneficial substances such as
essential oils are composed of sesquiterpene ketones, turmeron, tumeon
60%, zingiberen 25 %, felandren, sabinen, borneol and sineil. Turmeric
also contain as much as 1 -3% Fat, Carbohydrates as much as 3%, 30%
Protein, Starch 8%, Vitamin C 45-55%, and mineral salts, namely iron,
phosphorus, and calcium. The health benefits of turmeric for use as a traditional medicine that can cure various diseases or as a herbal medicine to maintain a healthy body, the following is one of the benefits of turmeric for healtas.
- As a natural antiseptic and antibacterial for treating wounds or burns.
- Turmeric can treat diarrhea.
- Improve liver function
- Reducing the risk of leukemia.
- Antioxidants improve.
- Turmeric can prevent the occurrence of malignant tumors and can kill melanoma cells in the body.
- Turmeric can prevent metastasis, the spread of cancer from the first place to other places in the bodyTurmeric.
- Turmeric can be used as natural painkillers.
- Turmeric can prevent the occurrence of depression
- Turmeric can help the process of fat metabolism and helps in maintaining body weight.
- Turmeric can prevent and slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease by eliminating the buildup of amyloid in the brain slab.
- Turmeric may slow the progression of multiple sclerosis (multiple sclerosis, which is an inflammatory disorder of the brain and spinal sumsusm).
Turmeric Recipes for various drugs
There are many different ways to consume turmeric in the home, by boiling turmeric and coupled with some other herbs according to the disease that want to be treated. The following is one example:
- Treating Fever: is washed (20g), grated, then added with 100ml boiled water, squeezed with a filter cloth. Water is taken 2 times a day.
- Treating Diarrhea: saffron sliced, then boiled with water, add 1 teaspoon of water whiting, stirring until smooth. Refrigerate. Sieve water is taken 3 times a day until healed.
- Treating Itching (chickenpox): a piece of turmeric, a handful of tamarind leaves are washed, then blend until smooth like porridge. Then apply on the body that itch.
- Treating Ulcers: grated turmeric for the thumb, plus a teaspoon of water whiting and juice 1 lime water, stirring until smooth. Then apply the mixture on the affected body part.
- Treating Tonsillitis: half finger turmeric grated, then added 2 tablespoons of water, stirring until smooth, then squeeze and take the water. Add 1 chicken egg yolk and a little water whiting. Beat the dough, drink 1 to 2 times a day.
Although the turmeric plant has many health benefits, but these plants also have side effects if used in the wrong way. The following side effects:
- Gastric disorders : Because of its spicy nature, consume turmeric in the long term can cause stomach upset.To help avoid these side effects, while taking turmeric supplements, choose supplements using an enteric coating which dissolves in the small intestine so it does not interfere with the stomach.
- Stimulate Rahim : Turmeric is known as uterine stimulant that can encourage menstrual flow. Pregnant women and nursing mothers need to be careful not to use too much turmeric.
- Lowering effects of chemotherapy :
Research has shown that turmeric may have an effect on chemotherapy, so you should not use turmeric supplements while undergoing chemotherapy. - Bleeding : Turmeric is known to inhibit platelet clumping which can prevent blood clots. But it turns turmeric can also trigger bleeding. It is important to take the proper dose to avoid these side effects.When selecting turmeric supplements, select the listed products as well as additional natural nutrients that a growing number of properties that you will get. It is also important to avoid turmeric if you are using anticoagulant drugs
- Difficult absorbed by the body: Turmeric has a tendency difficult to be absorbed by the body. If you want to buy turmeric supplements, be sure to choose containing piperine as one of the active ingredients. Piperine will help facilitate the absorption of turmeric so that the body will get the maximum benefit.
Similarly, a brief description of the properties of turmeric for health and turmeric are still many benefits to health and side effects of turmeric, but already outlined ways to overcome the side effects, may be beneficial to you all.
