Turmeric for Behcets

[tamirra]

Hi, I have just read an article online about the spice Turmeric active ingredient Curcumin, it states it is good for the control of Behcets, any ideas if this spice really will help improve symptoms? Xx

[cherie1w74]

Hi I've read a lot of studies which advocates the use of turmeric in auto immune conditions due to its anti inflammatory properties. I keep meaning to give it a try but always forget to buy some!

[Lupilu in reply to cherie1w74]

My brothers lived with the tuareg and the bedouin some 30 years ago...They saw the benefits of it then,nomadic families use it daily...They came back enlightened....good enough for me! We all use it....my brother had bad stomach ulceration and it healed completely

[MissTeddy]

Google tumericlife & Doug English for some very valuable information on Tumeric. Doug is a vet who for quite a long time has used Tumeric for sick animals of all varieties with different problems. He's continues to study Tumeric & all its properties. Btw it's important to consume Tumeric in a certain way to get maximum benefits. Anyway hope you find some useful info on his site tumericlife (:

[Jaxxi]

I use fresh turmeric every day in cooking and smoothies. It is said that black pepper and oil help you ingest turmeric, so my recipes include those, or oily foods like nuts. I had lots of joint pain and gastro-intestinal symptoms and these are now lot better than they were a year ago. Mouth ulcers are also rare nowadays. It's hard to say if it's just the turmeric as around the same time I took up turmeric I stopped eating nightshade-family foods.

I have been able to stop colchicine so am now off all drugs.

I find the fresh turmeric more effective than the powdered and I prefer the taste, but I also use the powder when I can't get fresh. I also tried capsules but they didn't seem to work at all. I don't think there was enough active ingredient in them.

[BarbaraSteele in reply to Jaxxi]

Congrats to you for getting off meds.

[tamirra]

Thankyou for all your replies, I would love to hear from others who have had positive results in using the capsules, I was thinking of getting my daughter the 12000 mg caps with black pepper. Thankyou xx

[Hidden]

The latest research on turmeric. It concludes that there is no evidence of any benefit. Beware of articles that aren't evidence based and are opinion pieces. It probably won't do any harm but the danger is that patients will stop medications thinking it will control Behcets.

news-medical.net/news/20170...

[BarbaraSteele in reply to Hidden]

Most of the things that have helped me (with BD symptoms as well as other issues) are things that have "no evidence of benefit".

[tamirra in reply to BarbaraSteele]

That's interesting Barbara, so have you tried Turmeric if so did it help, especially Turmeric capsules as this is the article I found that I am most interested in for my daughter x

[BarbaraSteele in reply to tamirra]

Actually I started eating turmeric years ago. My husband has digestive issues, so we started cooking with it. It is very good for your pancreas and intestinal inflammation. I also scrub my face with it. It really makes your skin glow. (just don't leave it on too long) I have never taken it in pill form.

[Jaxxi in reply to Hidden]

The review you have linked to (which is not the latest research on turmeric, but a report of an uncited metastudy on curcumin) reports that sources 'could find no evidence of a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial on curcumin'. That is a very different thing from finding no evidence of whole turmeric's benefit , and in fact later in the article it states 'Turmeric extracts and preparations could have health benefits'.

The review's conclusion is 'The researchers suggest that future studies should take a more holistic approach to account for the spice's chemically diverse constituents that may synergistically contribute to its potential benefits.'

Could I also draw attention to the comment under the article that states "For some reason, this review - which appears to echo conclusions considered highly passe - ignored successful randomized clinical trials applying curcumin with enhanced bioavailability, either (ironically) through chemical modification or adjunct therapy such as piperine, despite studies on the latter being listed in the references. This is doubly unfortunate, given the attention-grabbing headlines it has generated."

The possibility of elements within turmeric that act synergistically with curcumin, the bioavailability issues (ref research on piperine), and the widely varying levels of curcumin within powdered turmeric are why I choose to use the fresh root rather than the dried spice, and try as often as possible to use it with black pepper and an oil to enhance bioavailability.

I have come to these conclusions by directly reading and interpreting peer-reviewed studies rather than reviews by bodies with commercial / industrial interests or indeed opinion pieces.

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