How does your mother take it?
She puts a teaspoon in a cup with some almond oil with her vitamins and lets the vitamins dissolve then ... spoons it out I guess. blech! I can't account for her way of doing things but her sense of taste is pretty bad so I suppose it doesn't bother her.
The way I TOLD her to take it is an old Ayurvedic recommendation. One tspn of turmeric, one tspn of almond oil in a cup of warm milk. The Indians use/used ghee (clarified butter) instead of almond oil. It is supposed to take the turmeric deeper into the tissues.
The lumen of the gut does take oils like that directly into the bloodstream. I'm not sure how the milk is supposed to help but it may have to do with the protein in it. Since she doesn't sleep well I tell her the warm milk before bedtime might be helpful for that too.
I like the taste of it that way. I find it to be rich and smooth.