"Turmeric: A Cancer Cure?" by Ryder Management Inc. describes the amazing health AND beauty benefits of turmeric.
Did you know that 'Ole Miss" was granted a patent on their so called invention of turmeric's healing abilities but then subsequently had their patent revoked when India challenged it?
"Ole Miss" also known as the University of Mississippi has the "R1' status as determined by the Carnegie system. ("Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education" is a ranking of Universities providing research and R1 is the highest)Turmeric, also called 'haldi' in India, is known as the 'sine qua non' of food and medicine (sine qua non can roughly be translated to mean 'without which, there is none').
The biopiracy of turmeric occurred not long after the attempted biopiracy of 'neem'. The question is 'how can anyone be granted a patent - intellectual property right' on something which has been the collective wisdom of an indigenous population since antiquity?'
Turmeric is a spice included in curry. It is also a dye and is responsible for the color of the mustard we put on hot dogs. Turmeric is related to ginger and comes from the root of the curcuma longa plant
The health benefits of turmeric is long, however, the benefits of using a paste of turmeric powder with coconut oil as a facial mask is nothing short of amazing.
A haldi paste, applied to the body, is a ritual in traditional Hindu weddings. It is usually made with equal parts of gram flour and raw milk. Gram flour is also known as besan, chick pea flour and garbanzo bean flour and is a staple on the Indian subcontinent.
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