Turmeric cures

Neem said:

http://turmeric.bravehost.com

<LOL> At the bottom of the page it says, and I quote, "Remember we are
NOT Doctors and have NO medical training."

Nuff said.

Pastorio

To be fair, the guy they quoted, Dr. Aggarwal, is a researcher at
University of Texas M.D. Andersen Cancer Center which is a well
respected institution. I must admit he sounds like a crackpot though!

"To be fair, the guy they quoted, Dr. Aggarwal, is a researcher at
University of Texas M.D. Andersen Cancer Center which is a well
respected institution. I must admit he sounds like a crackpot though!
"

I don;t understand the laughing and calling this researcher a crackpot.
The article was a Reuters news report about possible anti-tumor
capability of a compound found in tumeric. Where do you think many of
the drugs we have today came from? Everything from aspirin for
headache to taxol for cancer were originally isolated from common
plants. Sounds like perfectly valid and important research to me.

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I don;t understand the laughing and calling this researcher a crackpot.
The article was a Reuters news report about possible anti-tumor
capability of a compound found in tumeric. Where do you think many of
the drugs we have today came from? Everything from aspirin for
headache to taxol for cancer were originally isolated from common
plants. Sounds like perfectly valid and important research to me.

I don't understand it either. Turmeric has long been known as an anti-
inflammatory, and if you go to PubMed and enter 'turmeric', you'll get 27
hits, studies on everything from Alzheimer's to heart disease. Entering
'curcumin', the active ingredient in turmeric, nets you 74 studies. I
haven't read them all, but all the ones I've read reported positive
results.

Chak

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Here's why I'm deeply sceptical, but first let me note that my wife has
been fighting with cancer for over ten years and I've spent a lot of
time both researching the subject and in contact with cancer
professionals. On the one hand there is mainstream treatment, well
designed studies which look for a statistical correlation between
treatments and outcomes, as a result of which treatment continues to be
refined and survival rates for most cancers have improved. Then there
is "alternative medicine", mainly espoused by mountebanks and shysters
looking to make money from frightened people to whom the mainstream can
offer no guarantees and in many cases little comfort. Dr. Aggarwal is
strongly recommending a substance to combat cancer but without the
support of peer-reviewed clinical trials on humans. Apparently it
killed some myeloma cells in the lab, but so what? There is no magic
bullet for cancer, but there are however, well established treatments
combining surgery, radiation and chemo which have varying degrees of
success. Why the treatment works in one case and not another is
unclear. And I have had it up to here with false hopes being offered
to desperate people based on untested treatments.