Turmeric or turmeric (Curcuma longa Linn. Syn. Curcuma domestica Val.) Including one of spices and medicinal plants native from Southeast Asia region. These plants then have spread to areas of Indo-Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and even Africa. Almost everyone Indonesia and India as well as Asian nations generally have to consume this herb plants, either as a supplementary cooking, medicinal or to maintain health and beauty. Turmeric is a spice commonly used in cooking in Asian countries. Turmeric is often used in cooking curry kind, and is also used to give a yellow color to dishes. Pharmaceutical products made from raw turmeric, can compete with a variety of drug patents, for example, for inflammation of the joints (rheumatoid arthritis) or osteo-arthritis is made of active sodium deklofenak, piroksikam, and phenyl butason with a high price or food supplements (vitamin-plus) in capsule. Product so the material in the form of extract of turmeric dietary supplements in capsule form (Vitamin-plus) market and the industry has developed. Food supplements made from raw turmeric extract with additives Vitamin B1, B2, B6, B12, Vitamin E, Lecithin, Amprotab, Mg-stearic, Nepagin and Kolidon 90. Usage: root tubers are older than one year used as Ubat (root tubers are cooled, cleaned, particularly affecting the abdomen in the stomach, stimulating, releasing excess gas in the intestines, stop bleeding and prevent blood clotting) other than that is also used as an ingredient in cooking. Turmeric is also used as an anti-itch and anti-spasm and reduce the swelling of the mouth mucous membrane. Turmeric juice consumed in the form of so-called filtrate, is taken as an extract or used as a salve for mengubati bengkak.Kunyit also efficacious to cure a stuffy nose, how to burn the turmeric and inhaleTurmeric belong to the group-jahean ginger, Zingiberaceae.
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