Turmeric and ginger are not the same.
Curcuma longa belongs to the order Musa, Zingiberaceae, and Curcuma longa is a perennial herbaceous plant with a plant height of 1 to 1.5 m, with well-developed rhizomes, thick roots, and enlarged ends to form tuberous roots.
Ginger is the fresh rhizome of ginger, a perennial herbaceous plant of the Zingiberaceae family. Its aliases include ginger root, Bai La Yun, Gou Zhuozhi, Yin Di Xin, Yan Liang Xiao Zi, fresh ginger, and honey roasted ginger.
The rhizome is used for medicinal purposes, and the fresh or dried product can be used as a cooking ingredient or made into pickles and candied ginger.
Turmeric has a long history of being used as medicine. It is also used as a spice and is directly added to different foods. In addition, it contains natural curcumin, so it plays an important role in curry powder.
In addition, one of the most important functions of turmeric is that it has a strong antioxidant function, so it can delay the appearance of skin aging and has become a good choice for people's beauty care.
Ginger is mostly used as a material to remove fishy body odor, and can also be used as medicine, but it is mainly used for appetizing, refreshing, and repelling cold.
Compared with turmeric, ginger appears more frequently in life. You can see ginger of different ages and tenderness in the vegetable market all year round, and it also exists in many forms in life.
Extended information: Medicinal value of turmeric: Turmeric can promote qi, break blood stasis, stimulate menstruation and relieve pain.
Mainly used to treat chest and abdominal distension and pain, numbness and pain in shoulders and arms, unbearable heartache, postpartum hemorrhagic pain, initial onset of sores and ringworm, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, and bruises.
It can also extract yellow food dye; the curcumin contained in it can be used as an analytical chemical reagent.
Curcumin also reduces the potential of mutagens to cause cancer.
Curcumin can also inhibit the cancer-inducing effect of TPA (12-O-Tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate).
When 10 μmol/L curcumin was topically applied, the inhibition rate of guanylate decarboxylase activity induced by 5 nmol/L TPA reached 91%; when 10 μmol/L curcumin was topically applied with 2 nmol/L TPA, the inhibition rate of TPA was
The inhibition rate of excited 3H-thymine chimeric into epidermal DNA is 49%, and its inhibition rate is related to concentration.
Therefore, curcumin may act as an anticancer agent.
Curcumin has weak bactericidal ability under normal circumstances, but when exposed to light, microgram quantities of curcumin show a strong phototoxic reaction.
Gram-negative bacteria are more resistant to curcumin phototoxicity than Gram-positive bacteria.
This phototoxicity of curcumin can only occur in the presence of oxygen.
Therefore curcumin may be used as a photosensitizing drug for phototherapy of psoriasis, cancer, bacterial and viral diseases.
Curcumin can also stabilize drugs that are easily photodegraded.
For example, nifedipine has a particularly strong photostabilizing effect, extending its half-life by 6 times, which can enhance its efficacy.