1, lipid-lowering effect: turmeric alcohol or ether extracts, curcumin and volatile oil gavage, and can reduce hepatic cholesterol, but has no effect on endogenous cholesterol; on the lowering of plasma triglycerides is more significant.

2, anti-tumor effects of turmeric alcohol extract can inhibit the growth of cancer cells. And on the lymphocytes and Dalton's lymphocytes have cytotoxic effect, and can reduce the growth of animal tumors, its active ingredient is mainly curcumin.

3, anti-inflammatory effects: curcumin inhibits anti-inflammatory effects. Sodium curcumin reversibly inhibits nicotine, acetylcholine, 5-hydroxytryptamine, barium chloride and histamine-induced contraction of isolated guinea pig ileum.

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Curcumin is normally weakly bactericidal, but when given light exposure, microgram quantities of curcumin show strong phototoxic responses. Gram-negative bacteria are more resistant to curcumin phototoxicity than Gram-positive.

This phototoxicity of curcumin can be produced only in the presence of oxygen. Therefore curcumin may be used as a photosensitizing agent in phototherapy of psoriasis, cancer, bacterial and viral diseases.

Curcumin also acts as a stabilizing agent for drugs that are susceptible to photolysis. Such as nitrophenylpyridine light stabilization is particularly strong, so that it extends the half-life of 6 times, can enhance its therapeutic effect.

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