Turmeric component disrupts cancer cells - Organic Consumers

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> ... Another great argument for dahl and subji and gauranga potatoes! It

> would have been interesting to find out if cancer rates are lower in

> countries where turmeric is widely used, such as India.

 

An article I submitted to Chakra about a week ago:

 

Potent Spice Works To Block Growth Of Melanoma

 

by Madhava Gosh

 

Curcumin, the pungent yellow spice found in both turmeric and curry powders,

blocks a key biological pathway needed for development of melanoma and other

cancers, say researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer

Center.

 

The study, to be published in the August 15, 2005 issue of the journal

Cancer, but available on line at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on Monday, July 11,

demonstrates how curcumin stops laboratory strains of melanoma from

proliferating and pushes the cancer cells to commit suicide.

 

It does this, researchers say, by shutting down nuclear factor-kappa B

(NF-kB), a powerful protein known to promote an abnormal inflammatory

response that leads to a variety of disorders, including arthritis and

cancer.

 

Full Article at:

 

http://www.bio.com/newsfeatures/newsfeatures_research.jhtml?cid=12400037

 

Please note, that gorging yourself on Gauranga potatoes and thinking you won

't get cancer because it has a lot of turmeric in it would fall under the

category of being in illusion. Similarly, if diagnosed with cancer, to

simply add more turmeric to your existing diet and ignore other modalities

of treatment would probably amount to a slow, painful, suicide. Turmeric

helps your odds, but lots of other factors, like genetic predisposition or

exposure to environmental toxins may be overpowering.

 

Still, it is another of the cultural gifts Srila Prabhupada brought us when

he taught his early disciples how to cook, and we should all be grateful. I

think that this study shows that regular use of turmeric should be part of

any overall preventative holistic health approach.

 

TRANSLATION

 

Putting on washed clothing, being always pure and being adorned with

turmeric, sandalwood pulp and other auspicious items, before breakfast one

should worship the cows, the brahmanas, the goddess of fortune and the

Supreme Personality of Godhead.

 

PURPORT

 

If one is trained to honor and worship the cows and brahmanas, he is

actually civilized. The worship of the Supreme Lord is recommended, and the

Lord is very fond of the cows and brahmanas (namo brahmanya-devaya

go-brahmana-hitaya ca). In other words, a civilization in which there is no

respect for the cows and brahmanas is condemned. One cannot become

spiritually advanced without acquiring the brahminical qualifications and

giving protection to cows

 

Srimad Bhagvatam 6.18.52

 

So whole material world is nothing but tejo-vari-mrd-vinimayah, exchange of,

elementary, this earth, water, and fire. The same principle here also:

taste. Just like we cook the same oil, ghee, and salt and turmeric, but we

prepare different preparations, hundred, two hundred preparation, simply by

the process of mixing earth.

 

Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.26.42 -- Bombay, January 17, 1975