Curcuma longa is a perennial herb of Zingiberaceae and Curcuma, which can be used as medicine and is called Curcuma longa. At present, more than 90 kinds of compounds have been isolated and identified from these Curcuma plants, among which curcumin is the most well known.
In Japan, turmeric is widely used to make turmeric tea, turmeric granules, and even some people use turmeric to make beauty powder. Turmeric beverage has been popular in Japan for more than 40 years. For the Japanese, turmeric has the effect of relieving alcoholism and relieving pain.
In addition, Japanese people also use turmeric when eating. They like to grind turmeric into powder and sprinkle it directly in the cooked meals.
Turmeric is considered to have anticancer effect, and curcumin is the main one. At present, some experimental studies do show that curcumin has anti-cancer effect.
For example, one study showed that curcumin could block protein, a cortical protein of colon cancer. This is an essential protein for cancer cells to move, and it is often overexpressed in cancer, thus promoting cancer cells to transfer to other organs of the body.
Researchers at Macy's Cancer Center in virginia commonwealth university also mixed thalidomide, an anti-nausea drug, with turmeric, a commonly used spice, in the laboratory to create some new molecular structures. These new molecular compounds can effectively kill multiple myeloma cells.
A study published in PLoSOne magazine also confirmed that curcumin can inhibit the expression of STAT3, thus inhibiting the proliferation of small cell lung cancer cells, affecting the cycle of tumor cells, and reducing the metastasis, invasion and angiogenesis of cancer cells.
Researchers from Ludwig maximilian University found that curcumin can effectively inhibit the formation of cancer metastasis.
However, although many laboratory and animal studies have shown that curcumin can prevent cancer, slow down the spread of cancer, make chemotherapy more effective and protect healthy cells from radiation therapy, people's research on curcumin is still in a very preliminary stage.
At present, some people are also conducting clinical trials of curcumin in the treatment of cancer to study whether curcumin can prevent cancer, or as a treatment for cancer, or can alleviate the symptoms caused by cancer treatment.
However, we haven't figured out how to use curcumin, how much curcumin should be used, and what drugs can be used together, so we can't use it to treat cancer. In the end, it is hard to say whether it can become an effective anticancer drug.
Although we can't use curcumin as a drug to treat cancer, many experiments still show that curcumin has certain anti-cancer ability. Then, can we use turmeric as a health care product to prevent cancer or play other roles like the Japanese?
In fact, many functions of curcumin are exaggerated, such as anti-oxidation, anti-inflammation, and even anti-cancer. At present, it is effective in experiments, but it is still far from clinical application.
Dipanjan Pan, an associate professor of bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, pointed out that curcumin is an abnormal example in medical science. Although it has a certain therapeutic effect, its effectiveness cannot be fully exerted because it is insoluble in water.
This makes it difficult for curcumin to be further applied, because then we can't transport it through blood.
Or some people still think that although the effect is not very good, since it has so many effects, eating more should still be good for your health. It should be reminded here that excessive drinking and long-term intake of turmeric can easily cause allergies and digestive problems. In particular, people with poor liver eat too much turmeric, which can also lead to cirrhosis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer.
There are many reliable ways to keep healthy, and they are generally a combination of many methods, such as regular work and rest, healthy eating and so on. When we talk about turmeric, it is better to forget about these functions and curative effects, and think more about the delicious taste it brings when it is used to make turmeric rice and curry. # Breeze Plan # # Healthy Popular Science Qualifying Competition ##39 Healthy Super Group #