To get more turmeric into your diet, try making this tea.

Turmeric Tea

  1.  Bring four cups of water to a boil.

  2.  Add one teaspoon of ground turmeric and reduce to a simmer for 10 minutes.

  3.  Strain the tea through a fine sieve into a cup, add honey and/or lemon to taste.

 If you like add a little ginger too!

[symple_highlight color=”yellow”]Turmeric is best known as a culinary spice.  Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, have valued its medicinal properties and warm, peppery flavor for more than 5,000 years. Curcumin — the pigment that gives turmeric its yellow-orange color– is the active ingredient behind many of the emerging health benefits …[/symple_highlight]

Curcumin is most known for its potent anti-inflammatory properties.  Curcumin is the principal curcuminoid of the popular Indian spice turmeric, which is a member of the ginger family.The compound has been shown to influence more than 700 genes, and it can inhibit both the activity and the synthesis of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX2) and 5-lipooxygenase (5-LOX), as well as other enzymes that have been implicated in inflammation.

With all that said, which is “greek speek” to most of us.

There is plenty of evidence that this brightly colored spice is a promising disease-preventive agent, outperforming many pharmaceuticals in its effects against chronic, debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer’s, arthritis, cancer and even possibly depression – all with virtually no adverse side effects, except, like mustard, you don’t want it to spill on any of you light colored clothes, It stains.