The function of curcumin makes life more colorful

Curcumin is a chemical component extracted from the rhizomes of some plants in the Zingiberaceae and Araceae family. Among them, turmeric contains about 3% to 6%. It is a rare pigment with diketones in the plant kingdom, and is a diketone type. Compound. Curcumin is orange-yellow crystalline powder with a bit bitter taste. Insoluble in water. In food production, it is mainly used for coloring products such as sausage products, canned food, and soy sauce products. Medical research shows that curcumin has the effects of lowering blood fat, anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, choleretic, and anti-oxidant. Scientists have newly discovered that curcumin can help treat drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Efficacy and effect of curcumin powder

The efficacy of curcumin extract

Breaking blood, promoting qi, easing menstruation, and relieving pain. It can cure abdominal pain, arm pain, lumps, blood stasis and amenorrhea in women, postpartum stasis, abdominal pain, fall and flutter injury, and carbuncle swelling.

The role of curcumin extract

1. The role of blood pressure reduction

Curcumin alcohol extract has antihypertensive effect on anesthetized dogs. This effect is not affected by injection of atropine and removal of the vagus nerve. For example, pre-injection of ergot fluid extract can reverse the hypotensive effect into a hypertensive effect (similar to the overturning effect of berberine), and the antihypertensive effect of the ether extract is extremely weak.

2. Antibacterial effect

Curcumin and volatile oil have good antibacterial effect on Staphylococcus aureus. Turmeric water infusion can inhibit various skin fungi to varying degrees in the test tube. The decoction can prolong the survival time of the vaccinated mice, but it is not effective for adding chemical (carbon tetrachloride) to the liver injury on the basis of hepatitis. In addition, turmeric preparations can kill flies.

3. The role of hangover and liver protection

The curcumin contained in turmeric has the effects of inhibiting hepatitis, repairing damaged liver cells, and improving liver parenchymal damage. Turmeric extract, curcumin, volatile oil, turmeric, gingerene, borneol and sesquiterpene alcohol, etc., all have a beneficial effect on the bile, can increase the production and secretion of bile, and can promote the contraction of the gallbladder, which in turn uses curcumin. The strongest.