Turmeric: everything you need to know about yellow gold

Table of contents:

The plant
What are the properties and benefits of turmeric?
How to use turmeric?

The plant

An herbaceous plant that originated inSoutheast Asia, turmeric is widely used as a spice in Indian, Middle Eastern, and Thai cuisine. It can be recognized by its color, yellow and straw-colored, which is very difficult to remove because of its high coloring rate and its smell, which is intense and rounded.

What are the properties and benefits of turmeric?

Best known for its therapeutic virtues, turmeric is beneficial to the whole body; in Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine, this spice is famous for aiding digestion and helping the proper functioning of the liver and pancreas.
Prominent among turmeric’s healing properties is its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant function, making it a grandmother’s remedy for strengthening the body from the aggressions of external agents such as viruses and bacteria.
However, not everyone knows that turmeric is also useful against menstrual irregularities. Also great for fighting arthritis pain, turmeric is a real yellow gold for healing benefits and properties all to be discovered.

How to use turmeric?

In addition to curry preparations, spicy chicken, and tasty recipes, the turmeric we know comes from drying boiled or dried rhizomes. The basis of masalas, the celebrated spice mixes, turmeric can be used to season vegetables in cooking, flavor fish, and is a cheaper alternative to saffron.
Among its traditional uses, turmeric is used to hand-dye the robes of monks and by brides. In fact, legend has it that on their wedding day, brides use turmeric to dye their hair.
Did you know? Turmeric is one of the 11 ingredients in our Remedium No. 4 – Hangover, an herbal tea designed to get us back on our feet after a bad day. To find out the other ingredients in this elixir of life, take a look here.