by Arjun Walia
Turmeric (Curcuma longa), a plant native to southwest India, belongs to the ginger family. Found in a variety of Asian dishes, this herb boasts a number of significant healing potentials.
Unfortunately, the medical industry has been dominated by the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in the Western world, and we have forgotten how to heal with nature. Many used to deny or even ridicule this fact, but some of the most credible physicians in the world, chief editors of major medical journals as well as other professionals, are now urging the public to open their eyes to the truth. You can read some of the statements they’ve made and see some examples of pharmaceutical fraud in an article we published last month HERE.
Sayer Ji from Greenmedinfo explains just why turmeric is so miraculous:
Indeed, turmeric turns the entire drug-based medical model on its head. Instead of causing far more side effects than therapeutic ones, as is the case for most patented pharmaceutical medications, turmeric possesses hundreds of potential side benefits, having been empirically demonstrated to positively modulate over 160 different physiological pathways in the mammalian body.While no food or herb is right for everyone, and everything has the potential for unintended, adverse side effects, turmeric is truly unique in its exceptionally high margin of safety vis-à-vis the drugs it has been compared with, e.g. hydrocortisone, ibuprofen, chemotherapy agents. Furthermore, nothing within the modern-day pharmaceutical armamentarium comes even remotely close to turmeric’s 6,000 year track record of safe use in Ayurvedic medicine.[1]
This is just one of many herbs which demonstrate clear medicinal value, evinced by thousands upon thousands of published studies in reputable peer-reviewed medical journals. However, because turmeric is an herb and not a chemical, it can’t really be patented, offering no profit incentive for pharmaceutical companies to use it as a healing agent.
This situation raises many questions, and I have to wonder how we ever arrived at such a backwards way of doing things. How did we allow our healthcare system to turn a blind eye to natural means of healing, whose efficacy has been proven by both research and years of human ingenuity? When did profit become more important than healthcare? And why are doctors and pharmacists not raising these concerns themselves, or even aware of this research?
When a new drug shows even slight potential for healing, randomized, multiphase double blind clinical trials are set up right away. But when it comes to natural and abundant substances like turmeric, nothing of the sort ever happens, and if the medical industry continues to be dominated by the elite and their corporations, it may never happen.
Those who claim that pharmaceuticals are more effective and precise are simply kidding themselves. They may work more quickly, but they often cause more harm than good — a reality that drug companies work very hard to hide. The results of clinical trials are often manipulated, information hidden, in order to get the product onto the market. A study published last week in The British Medical Journal by researchers at the Nordic Cochrane Center in Copenhagen, for example, took a close look at this problem, revealing how pharmaceutical companies often fail to disclose all information regarding the results of their drug trials. Researchers looked at documents from 70 different double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRI) and found that the full extent of serious harm in clinical study reports went unreported. These are the reports sent to major health authorities like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. You can read more about thathere.
To learn more about natural ways to heal and support the body, I suggest visiting GreenMedInfo.com, which has an excellent database. They’ve reviewed over 5,000 study abstracts from the National Library of Medicine’s bibliographic database. MEDLINE has identified more than 600 potential health benefits of turmeric and/or curcumin, its primary polyphenol.
Some of the most amazing demonstrated properties include:
- Destroying Multi-Drug Resistant Cancer
- Destroying Cancer Stem Cells (arguably, the foot of all cancer)
- Protecting Against Radiation-Induced Damage
- Reducing Unhealthy Levels of Inflammation
- Protecting Against Heavy Meta Toxicity
- Preventing and Reversing Alzheimer’s Disease Associated Pathologies
Again, GreemMedInfo.com has reviewed over 5000 study abstracts from the National Library of Medicine’s database, with more than 600 potential health benefits discovered. These can be viewed on their turmeric research page, which disseminates the research on the topic to a larger audience.
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