Tumeric

Hi all, I've been reading about the benefits of tumeric for people with Lupus as is a good anti flamitary, has anyone on here tried it, and if so did you find it helps. Thanks.

[Barnclown]

Yes....here is my story, for what it's worth (taking turmeric supplements & cooking with turmeric has been a sort of antiinflammatory trend for a while now...it must be helping someone):

my Pain Consultant had me start taking daily turmeric (aka curcuma longs) in supplement form and in my cooking for several years in my late 50s, but I never noticed any improvements....at that time the only prescription meds I was on were PPIs, NSAIDs & analgesic opiates (none helped me much...just turned me into a zombie & messed up my GI tract). And I got a v unpleasant long lasting after-taste from the cooking paste

then my infant onset lupus diagnosis was recovered in my late 50s during 2011. My medics had me stop my previous meds. Instead i was prescribed typical lupus meds (hydroxy, amitriptyline, pred & eventually myco)....but rheumatology let me continue the daily turmeric.

Last year I felt my lupus meds are clearly helping me so much....that I could try an experiment: i stopped the turmeric.... & felt no difference at all. So I've decided to save my £s.

I have continued to take daily supplements approved by my lupus clinic: vit C, vit D3 & B complex. This has been fine while I could eat a relatively balanced antiinflammation diet...but for several months I've had to stop eating fruit & veg, and have been referred to a dietician. We'll see what she says about supplements 😉

If you do decide to try turmeric, please check with your lupus clinic first

🍀🍀🍀🍀 coco

[jacqueline121]

davidwolfe.com/girls-defeat...

A friend posted this to me on Christmas Day. Thought you might be interested. I've been doing the diet and supplements since then. I haven't noticed a difference yet but will stick to it.

I've also heard chamomile tea....loose chamomile is better, is a good anti inflammatory.

All the best

[Kokica]

I take it in a form of a drink which I buy from Japanese shop in london. I just find it useful addition and have no idea if it's doing something or not

I started using it for energy when I was on my knees from tiredness and utter exhaustion. It works for me. For the anti inflammatory I use things depending where in body - camomile tea (not tea bag!), cold compress on my eyes and to rinse/calm my eyes with; thyme tea (fresh not dry herb) for chest infections and coughs - 1 teaspoonful, hot water, leave it for 5 mins, don't add any swaeteners, and drink - acquired taste, I know, but amazing outcomes; Indian tonic water for cramps (quinine), feaverfew for headaches (leaves in a sandwich as they are quite bitter and can make mouth sore), etc, etc... my family have always been into herbal medicine, so all of the above I've used from childhood and have given it to my daughter when she needs it. She has Hughes Syndrome and takes very high doses of warfarin. She had a full blown stroke in her 20s and is now 42. She's also lupus symptomatic now. When her eyes flare up - camomile, etc etc

Also, look into this for more info AND CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR

Nicholas Culpeper

Nicholas Culpeper was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His published books include The English Physician (1652) and the Complete Herbal (1653), which contain a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick (1655), which is one of the most detailed documents we have on the practice of medical astrology in Early Modern Europe.

Culpeper spent the greater part of his life in the English outdoors cataloging hundreds of medicinal herbs. He criticized what he considered the unnatural methods of his contemporaries, writing: "This not being pleasing, and less profitable to me, I consulted with my two brothers, DR. REASON and DR. EXPERIENCE...

Hope this helps

K

[Cas70]

I use it and it really helps, My Doctor approves. Take a very little every day. You can try capsules from Holland and Barrett just one to start then 2 a day. Go to the website Turmeric for Health.com very good recipe and advice - good luck!

[vonnyrad]

I suggest you Google Michael Mosely/Turmeric for info on the study he presented on the efficacy of turmeric, also it is apparently better to take the powdered spice itself as opposed to extracts in capsules which might contain very high levels of curcumin and are more likely to provoke side-effects.Search for "golden paste" for how to make and take it and where you can buy it ready made if you prefer.(Quite cheaply, by the way)

[Cann]

I don't take supplements; I use turmeric in my cooking, but only by muscle testing how much. I find too much of something can be as much of a problem for me as not having any. There are many anti-inflammatories out there - today I am drinking nettle tea.