Curcumin 95%

My g'son's GI actually suggested that we might try this supplement on my g'son....   It was her suggestion....   I was suprised to hear a med specialist suggest a herb!   After reading up on Curcumin, I have ordered some.

Nana, I noticed a paper recently on an obscure Crohn's forum specialising in microbiology ( very quiet forum ) that stated the essential oil in cinnamon had anti-inflammatory effects. Cinnabinol I think was what it was called; this was purely a research paper so no therapy or dosage was suggested, I don't think they were even testing it on MAP, but you might find that you can get a supplement with that in it too. I have the feeling that Dr Mercola, bless his hard-selling cotton socks, might do something along these lines.
I'm pretty sure that Methotrexate is related to curcumin - I certainly remember reading in New Scientist magazine a year or two back of how it was one molecular twist away from a common herb, which a research trial had just shown outperformed it ! I'll bet it was fitted in at all the <insert company name here> sponsored conferences...and that's why everyone knows of it.

Fresh grown ground turmeric is very good for crohns, UC, IBD and all other related problems. I have posted lots of details on the same in some of my posts. Infact, lots of members on this forum have tried this and have found the same to be very beneficial. You may find my posts of UC forum. I have also provided the names of stores in the US where one can find turmeric. How to grow turmeric. How to use it and other issues about the same.

Hey Snohare

Thanks for the compliments. I appreciate it.

In case you are looking for treatment for low Hb - I would suggest you take paste of fresh mint leaves. You can also take red carrot and beat root juice. Pomegranate Juice.

For acidity, ulcers, gastro issues, inflamation, etc. you may try fresh green pumpkin juice. Quite effective.

Turmeric, in any case is the mother of all antiseptics.

Eat Banana for acidity, carbohydrates, protein.

I use these that is why I am recommending. Once you have grown Turmeric, please do inform me, I would like to visit you and take a handful of the same from your farm house.

Well thanks for the update on dreaded bunnies. Turmeric can be grown in pots. You can hang them (not the bunnies, the pots). I grow turmeric in pots.

Hb is Hemoglobin blood count. As you may be aware for a healthy male the Hb count is between 13 to 17 and for female it is between 11 - 13.

In case of bleeding, the Hb count goes down, and one has to have blood infusion or else have iron supplements, natural supplements.

Scottish Highlands and the Balmoral Castle seem to be so tempting like Austria's Vienna. Well once you have grown turmeric, then we will finalize the visit.

Do you know Becoming, I was pretty much joking when I said it would be my next challenge, but I do believe I could grow it here ! The temperature here in a bad winter nowadays rarely falls below - 10O C, I think the problem would probably be our lousy summers - lots of rain and not much in the way of very hot days. (I know there are a lot of people who would give their eye teeth for that, but they are not growing plants covered with fungal diseases. )
I already have some ginger rhizomes, but didn't know how to go about getting them to grow - the one I tried last year rotted in the ground, it was a dreadfully wet summer. With the info on those pages you linked to, I think I now have a better chance.
Delhi, you are a mine of useful information. Not least because I had not thought of pots as a way of saving my plants from the rabbits - until I get the fence repaired they will eat just about everything. I am still in the process of moving in, so I am trying to start things growing without actually being there to tend them much of the time. With rabbits and slugs around, that is usually fatal. Still, I can always think of it as a way of fattening up my evening meal.... ( No, I don't mean the slugs :smilewinkgrin
That Hb problem is one that I am likely to have, I think. Whenever I have a flare for a certain length of time, I start finding I am breathless when going upstairs, as well as the usual fatigue that comes with illness. (Fatigue is my biggest symptom with CD.) I have always thought that this is probably anaemia, caused by the inflammatory reaction attacking blood cells. I usually just add a little molasses and as much dark green leafy food to my diet as possible, but now I maybe understand why I get a craving for carrots when I am tired like that...

Hi Nana

Hope your grandson is feeling much better now.

Snohare, if you are having fatigue and feeling lethargic, it may be a sign of your being anaemic (low Hb). You may please consider fresh carrot and beat root juice. Its' a different thing that even rabbits are too fond of carrots, that is how they can do so much running around. Ha ha ha.
Jokes apart carrot juice would really help you in getting rid of anaemia. You can eat banana too. That also helps in anaemia. So far as protecting your garden is concerned, you may have to protect the ground too with hen mesh, as the rabbits tend to dig burrows under the earth.

Hi Ozone: I have heard about Reishi Mushroom powder/extract. It is supposed to be good for immune system. I had tried it once or twice. Infact, one of my clients is manufacturing and marketing Reishi Mushroom Powder in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, USA and Phillipines.