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Has anyone any experience with using curcumim to prevent an inflamatory response?  It’s being touted along with ginger as a powerful treatment for muscular pain when taken internally.  Anything to this? Thanks, jim

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Has anyone any experience with using curcumim to prevent an inflamatory response?  It’s being touted along with ginger as a powerful treatment for muscular pain when taken internally.  Anything to this?

Why don’t you try it and report back?  I don’t think it will cause you any harm.  Some high school student in my city won a science fair local contest studying the effect of curcumin on cancer cells.  She was from Pakistan or India and used a lot of cumin in meals.  Apparently populations that add a lot of cumin to their recipes get less cancer.  This isn’t the smoking gun of course.  But cumin happens to be my favorite spice.  Go for it!! And let us know if it helps. (I like ginger tea too).

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Has anyone any experience with using curcumim to prevent an inflamatory response?  

Curcumin is an extract of Tumeric, not Cumin, as noted in the previous response.  I have used it (in combination with Bromolain, as noted in several of Michael Murray, ND’s books) with moderate success as I was weaning from Prednisone for an auto-immune disease. I was able to continue weaning from the Prednisone while increasing the Curcumin dosage, but as it did not provide a permanent solution, and became quite expensive, I stopped taking it and started looking deeper into natural health. I’ve posted most of what I’ve found (including Curcumin/Bromolain) on my web page: http:/darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sshapiro/Pemphigus/index.html best wishes, steve shapiro

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Has anyone any experience with using curcumim to prevent an inflamatory response?  It’s being touted along with ginger as a powerful treatment for muscular pain when taken internally.  Anything to this?

While curcumin is has anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-viral, anti-cancer and cholesterol lowering effects (sound too good to be true doesn’t it , I found nothing on medline to suggest that it would help muscular pain. The anti-inflammatory benefit has been applied instead to arthritis pain. For muscular pain, I believe that you would be better to try Boswellia which has both anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects and is available in a topical ointment preparation. –Tom Tom Matthews The LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION – http://www.lef.org – 800-841-5433 A non-profit membership organization dedicated to the extension of the healthy human lifespan through ground breaking research, innovative ideas and practical methods.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Has anyone any experience with using curcumim to prevent an inflamatory response?   Curcumin is an extract of Tumeric, not Cumin, as noted in the previous response.  I have used it (in combination with Bromolain, as noted in several of Michael Murray, ND’s books) with moderate success as I was weaning from Prednisone for an auto-immune disease. I was able to continue weaning from the Prednisone while increasing the Curcumin dosage, but as it did not provide a permanent solution, and became quite expensive, I stopped taking it and started looking deeper into natural health. I’ve posted most of what I’ve found (including Curcumin/Bromolain) on my web page: http:/darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sshapiro/Pemphigus/index.html best wishes, steve shapiro

That’s Turmeric, not Tumeric I understand. Grows mostly in India.

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: :Has anyone any experience with using curcumim to prevent an inflamatory :response?   : :Curcumin is an extract of Tumeric, not Cumin, as noted in the previous :response.  I have used it (in combination with Bromolain, as noted in :several of Michael Murray, ND’s books) with moderate success as I was :weaning from Prednisone for an auto-immune disease. I was able to :continue weaning from the Prednisone while increasing the Curcumin :dosage, but as it did not provide a permanent solution, and became :quite expensive, I stopped taking it and started looking deeper into :natural health. : :I’ve posted most of what I’ve found (including Curcumin/Bromolain) on :my web page: : :http:/darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sshapiro/Pemphigus/index.html : : :best wishes, : :steve shapiro :That’s "Turmeric" not Tumeric.  Grows mostly in India. : Doesn’t neccessarily *grow* mostly in India, but is *used* for culinary purposes mostly in India, as it’s an essential ingredient of curry. Nex "Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace." Ariwara no Narihira

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Has anyone any experience with using curcumim to prevent an inflamatory response?   Curcumin is an extract of Tumeric, not Cumin, as noted in the previous response.  I have used it (in combination with Bromolain, as noted in several of Michael Murray, ND’s books) with moderate success as I was weaning from Prednisone for an auto-immune disease. I was able to continue weaning from the Prednisone while increasing the Curcumin dosage, but as it did not provide a permanent solution, and became quite expensive, I stopped taking it and started looking deeper into natural health. I’ve posted most of what I’ve found (including Curcumin/Bromolain) on my web page: http:/darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sshapiro/Pemphigus/index.html best wishes, steve shapiro

That’s "Turmeric" not Tumeric.  Grows mostly in India.

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