What is Turmeric

What is turmeric? For some foods like this, it is actually a plant belonging to the ginger family. Turmeric can actually help to sober up and prevent hangovers. It has been widely used among the Japanese people since a long time ago, and the effect is very obvious. We also need to know more about and understand this kind of knowledge.

What is turmeric? In fact, in our daily diet, we regard it as a panacea, like a treasure. In modern life, medical research shows that turmeric not only has the effect of sobering up and preventing hangovers, but also has a wide range of pharmacological effects. It has very good anti-inflammatory and anti-pathogen effects. Of course, it also has very obvious antioxidant, lipid-lowering, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular protection effects.

The effect of lowering blood pressure. Turmeric alcohol extract showed a hypotensive effect in anesthetized dogs, and this effect was not affected by the injection of atropine and the removal of the vagus nerve. If ergot fluid extract is injected in advance, the antihypertensive effect can be reversed to a pressor effect (similar to the reversal effect of coptisine), and the antihypertensive effect of the ether extract is extremely weak.

Antibacterial effect. Curcumin and its volatile oil have good antibacterial effect against Staphylococcus aureus. Turmeric water extract has varying degrees of inhibitory effects on a variety of skin fungi in test tubes. The decoction can prolong the survival time of inoculated mice, but it is ineffective against chemical (carbon tetrachloride) liver damage on the basis of hepatitis. In addition, turmeric preparations can kill flies.

It has the effect of sobering up and protecting the liver. 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 ketone, zingiberene, borneol and sesquiterpenoids all have choleretic effects, can increase the production and secretion of bile, and promote gallbladder contraction. Among them, curcumin has the strongest effect.

What is turmeric? Turmeric is widely used in people's lives. If you want to sober up and protect your liver, using turmeric is the most practical way. The curcuminol, curcumin and volatile oil contained in turmeric have obvious effects in lowering plasma total cholesterol. Therefore, it is very beneficial to people's health.