Turmeric gets a LOT of attention in the scientific community.  A quick search of published studies done today yields 13,214 papers with Turmeric in the title and 38,375 papers with the word Curcumin in the title!  That’s a massive amount of research into this bright yellow ginger family root.  As a comparison, dandelion, another very useful root, has a measly 1,046 searchable studies. 

As herbalist Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa says, “The more I use this yellow wonder, the more uses it seems to have.  I call it ‘the medicine cabinet in a jar.’” (1)