What are the functions and effects of Curcuma?

Curcuma is a common plant in life. It also contains certain medicinal value. It can cool the blood, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. It can also be used as medicine to treat some physical diseases. The liquid extracted from Curcuma can also effectively lower blood pressure and lipids. It is good for the body and can also improve the body's immunity.

The effects of turmeric

Curcuma zedoaria, mainly distributed in provinces and regions from southeast to southwest China, is a plant of the ginger family. Curcuma has the effects of promoting qi and relieving depression, cooling blood and removing blood stasis. It can be used to treat chest, abdominal, and flank pains, insanity, fever, coma, hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria, hematuria, retrograde menstruation in women, jaundice and other symptoms.

1. Promote blood circulation and relieve pain

Curcuma is pungent in taste and can both move and disperse. It can both invigorate blood circulation and promote the flow of qi. It is good at treating pain caused by qi and blood stasis.

2. Relieve depression and open up the mind

Curcuma is pungent and dispersing, bitter and laxative, can relieve depression and open the orifices, and is cold in nature and enters the heart meridian, can clear heart heat. It can be used to treat coma caused by phlegm and turbidity obscuring the heart orifices, and heat trapped in the pericardium.

3. Cooling blood, lowering qi and stopping bleeding

Curcuma is pungent, bitter and hot, and its bitter taste can descend and drain. It enters the blood of the liver meridian and can cool the blood, lower qi and stop bleeding. It is used for vomiting blood, epistaxis and retrograde menstruation caused by upward flow of qi and fire.

4. Protect liver and promote bile secretion

The volatile oil of Curcuma has a restorative effect on damaged mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum of liver cells. Therefore, Curcuma has the effect of protecting the liver and promoting bile secretion.

5. Lowering blood lipids

The turmeric extract in turmeric can significantly reduce high cholesterol, indicating that turmeric has a certain therapeutic effect on lowering blood lipids.

6. Calming the nerves

Curcuma has the function of inhibiting the central nervous system and achieving a calming effect.

7. Anti-cancer

Curcuma has certain anti-cancer effects.

8. Improve immunity

Curcuma has the effect of improving immunity.

Nutritional Value

The main components of the volatile oil in Curcuma are curcumene, sesquiterpene alcohol, camphor, and camphene. It also contains curcumin, demethoxycurcumin, and curcuminone.

1. Curcuma dione in turmeric can prolong the sleep time of animals and has a significant inhibitory effect on their central nervous system.

2. Curcumin in turmeric has the effect of inhibiting liver cancer cells in vitro. It can significantly inhibit the invasion of liver adenocarcinoma cells; curcumin has the effect of promoting bile secretion.

3. Curcuma decoction can stimulate gastric acid and duodenal secretion, reduce whole blood viscosity, inhibit platelet aggregation; and has an inhibitory effect on a variety of fungal skin infections.