Turmeric use - Be Carefull!!

Hi

Posting this for members to avoid excessive use of turmeric.

I read here in the forum that people have been using turmeric so I started using it since January'13. It worked 1 teaspoon daily empty stomach... and then symptoms started coming back so I upped to 2 teaspoon daily ..one early morning and one at night in milk- it worked!
Now 3 months later i had terrible stomach issues and had to meet my GI. After increasing medicines I still feel gassy- burp whole day & acidity especially after I eat food. I searched and found that turmeric can cause diarrhea and stomach ulcers. Now I am worried that I have not increased my troubles after taking turmeric. Articles say " turmeric for long term" is bad and I dnt know if 3 months is long term.

I dnt know if turmeric was the culprit or was it just a flare up which was little different than usual.
Would love to hear if anyone has had any such issues with turmeric. Also, does anyone knows about stomach ulcers?

Post Edited (pady) : 4/2/2013 10:59:38 AM (GMT-6)

I have problems with oxalate crystals and tumeric can really cause these oxalates to produce crystals just about anywhere in the body, especially in the bowel and kidneys...Might look it up on line, could be a potential problem...

Not to hijack the thread but tell me about your Resistant Starch diet aguywithuc.


I tried Tumeric for a while but never saw a benefit

I tried turmeric too but did nothing for me. It did give me a bit of heartburn. It also made me lose weight. Now i avoid all spices, inc turmeric, as per chinese med diet.

scum1 said...
Not to hijack the thread but tell me about your Resistant Starch diet aguywithuc.


I tried Tumeric for a while but never saw a benefit

Resistant Starch diet has 4 sub-types explained on page 3 of this link

www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=2687863

The only thing that ever came close to working this well was Pysllium Seed Powder and this is 10 times better. No prednisone in about 24 hours, better get back on the program supposed to be on day 3 of 15 but may go to 10mg this weekend. Meanwhile stools are improving as I taper. Tried this a month ago before angiogram surgery and tapering without RS resulted in urgency and bleeding - I am on high dose blood thinner so there is every reason I should be bleeding like mad, I am also taking serrapeptase and nattokinase systemic enzymes to eat up the clot even though it says to absolutely not take with blood thinners yet no intestinal bleeding. I take them after commuting home so they are out of my system by morning commute time, I may need to clot if someone crashes into my vehicle and I have injuries which is what started all of this in February.