Posted on 01/03/2018 6:56:28 AM PST by Red Badger
A woman who battled blood cancer for years without success finally halted the disease with turmeric, it has been reported.
Dieneke Ferguson is now leading a normal life after giving up on gruelling treatments that failed to stop it.
Doctors say her case is the first recorded instance in which a patient has recovered by using the spice after stopping conventional medical treatments.
With her myeloma spreading rapidly after three rounds of chemotherapy and four stem cell transplants, the 67-year-old began taking 8g of curcumin a day – one of the main compounds in turmeric.
The cancer, which has an average survival of just over five years, was causing increasing back pain and she had already had a second relapse.
But it stabilised after Mrs Ferguson, from north London, came across the remedy on the internet in 2011 and decided to try it as a last resort.
The tablets are expensive – £50 for ten days – but as kitchen turmeric contains just 2 per cent curcumin it would be impossible to eat enough to get the same dose.
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It is true that I rarely get any aches and pains I can’t attribute to the previous day’s workout. Maybe it is helping me and I don’t even know. Not stopping taking it, that is for sure.
I have heard it is pointless to take turmeric without piperine from pepper. The supplement link in my previous definitely has that assist to help the body take in the nutrients.
A truly therapeutic dose is very difficult to acquire orally, period. People have tried transdermal patches with some limited success, but as you can imagine it’s very messy with yellow staining. The most promising self-administered dose is via sublingual drops (you put the drops underneath your tongue for absorption) of liposomal curcumin with bioperine. You mentioned Gaia Herbs, they do a fine job with high quality organic herbal supplements but for therapeutic benefit, and by that I mean anything approaching the sort of dosages used in clinical trials for cancer, etc. you’d need to move to something a little more advanced. It’s fine as a general tonic and for aches and pains, though. I use some Gaia Herbs supplements myself, they’re practically local to me here in NC.
We just fill the gelcaps up.
Thanks for the interesting thread, RB.
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I eat turmeric for my back pain.
My doc said there is no fatal dose, and eat as much as possible, knowing it tastes nasty.
I put 2 heaping spoons in a glass of waster and force it down.
It indeed tastes nasty. I get it is bulk from India, so who knows what all is in there. The ground up bones of small animals? Who knows, but the price is right.
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