Re: Turmeric!

In article <df53e3$3ibi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Herman Rubin) writes:
> In article <df4d1h$7fh$3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Steve Goldfarb <slg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Big article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal about the benefits of
>>turmeric. I believe a new study came out, showing that it's a potent
>>anti-oxidant and reduces the incidence of certain cancers in India, where
>>it's heavily used.
>
>>Still waiting to buy my gasoline/water engine, though! <grin>
>
> Josh Backon was extolling turmeric in this group years ago.

The journal Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry had the orginal
paper in 1986 after a drug (Benaxoprofen) was taken off the market
after 30 patients had died after taking it. A new lipoxgenase inhibitor
was desperately needed and thousands of compounds were tested. Nothing
worked. An Indian researcher, Srivastava, remembered the Indian folk
remedy turmeric being used to treat recalcitrant rheumatoid arthritis
and tested it for lipoxygenase inhibitor activity. It was enormously
powerful. In 1987 I tested 1 cent worth of turmeric shnorred from the
hospital's kitchen on a perfused Langendorff sheep heart at the hospital's
cardiothoracic lab and compared its effect to a $1500 (0ne thousand five
hundred dollar) bolus of tPA which we had gotten free from the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda MD. Needless to say, the one cent
turmeric was MORE effective.

But since the cardiology unit was supposed to show how GEVALDIG tPA
was as a drug on heart patients, we couldn't report on the turmeric.
After all, BUSINESS IS BUSINESS! :-)

If I were ever stuck on a deserted island in the South Pacific and could
take only ONE medication, I'd take turmeric, It affects everything from
cancer to psoriasis to wound healing to Alzheimers to malaria.



Josh

>
> The problem is to keep the coloring agent (the active
> ingredient) from getting all over everything.
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