Turmeric, Curcumin and Curry Powder
Turmeric is an excellent natural antibiotic,strengthens digestion and helps improve intestinal flora. It is effective for cleansing the chakras (nadi-shodhana), purifying the channels and promotes proper metabolism in the body. good blood purifier, and works as a tonic to aid digestion and relieve congestion,Turmeric is aromatic and a stimulant It aids in the digestion of protein.
Curry:
Though the current research focuses on curcumin, the entire group of spices usually included in curry powder have been touted for centuries as being good for the “braynes”. And those “in the know” InIndia say that it is much better to take whole turmeric than the extracted curcumin.
Curcumin: 
Confusion exists in present usage of this word; Curcumin is the name for turmeric in many countries; however, expensive products called “Curcumin” are now being sold with the vitamins at health food stores, research on curcumin abounds in current medical literature. Some say that curcumin is the yellow oils that give turmeric its yellow color, and which are also used as both food coloring and textile dyeing. Others call these yellow oils “curcuminoids” or “curcumin extract.” Curcumin has nothing to do with “Cumin”Cumin:
Today, turmeric is widely recommended for myriad diseases, from stomach ulcers and skin infections to eye conditions.
In a small but interesting 1992 clinical trial of 16 cigarette smokers, those taking 1.5 grams of turmeric a day for 30 days had a significantly lower level of mutagens (in the urine) than a control group consisting of six nonsmokers.
A small, warm-climate annual plant of which the seeds are used; often mistranslated as “caraway” in curry recipes due to similarity of the Indian words for both cumin and caraway, jeera, as well as nearly-identical appearance of the seeds; assume that “caraway” means “cumin” in curry .this simply means “sauce”; Indian foods made with sauces are thus all “curries”
India produces nearly all the world’s turmeric, and consumes 80% of that crop.
