Jiang Huang found to be twice as effective as western drug Calcipotriol.

[Guest guest]

Sometimes it seems that the simpliest and common things are the best

for us. Tumeric (Curcumin Longae) the common kitchen spice and Chinese

herbal remedy (Jiang Huang), was shown to be very effective at

reducing the thick plaques of psoriasis. In fact the researchers who

did the study found that Tumeric was twice as effective as the western

drug calcipotriol, also known as Dovonex.

 

In the study, which was published by the British Journal of

Dermatology, topically applied curcumin yielded a 90% resolution of

plaques after 2-6 weeks of treatment in 50% of patients. The commonly

used drug Dovonex usually takes at least 3 months for best results to

occur. Curcumin's ability to relieve psoriasis is because it directly

inhibits phosphorylase kinase (PhK), a protein found to be elevated

with psoriatic activity. The researchers actually found that curcumin

lowered PhK by more than 50% compared to calcipotriol.

 

You can read the abstract for this study in the research section of my

website.

http://skin.health-info.org/research_terms/Psoriasis

(the abstract is at the bottom)

 

Trevor