How To Get Beautiful Skin + Healthy Breasts With Turmeric Powder

If you love Indian and South Asian food, then you know the distinctive aroma and taste of powerful yellow-orange turmeric powder. In India culture, this colorful spice has been used for many, many generations, as a wonderful food enhancer, but also as a healing agent.

And now researchers are closely studying turmeric powder for its ability to revitalize skin and also protect against breast cancer. Just adding some to your diet, can give you smooth, supple skin in the years to come.

So, what's in this little spice?

Many good things. To begin with, turmeric powder is an anti-oxidant, anti-septic, and anti-inflammatory-acting spice. It also has iron and potassium in it, and belongs to the ginger family.

Ayurvedic healers consider turmeric to be a varnya herb, which means, enhances your complexion. Its strong anti-bacterial properties fight pimples and breakouts. And many women lighten or even out their skintone with a paste containing turmeric powder.

Dr. Andrew Weil talked about the powerful, anti-cancer benefits of turmeric powder in an article at his website back in 2003:

"Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is the yellow spice most familiar in Indian cooking and American-prepared mustard. Not only do I think that it is safe to take after breast cancer treatment, I think it would be helpful. The reason is that turmeric affects hormones that promote inflammation and cell proliferation, processes that seem to underlie most cancers.

Turmeric is being studied widely for its powerful anti-cancer effects. However, women being treated for breast cancer may be advised to avoid it during chemotherapy because of evidence from laboratory and animal studies suggesting that it may inhibit the action of certain chemotherapy drugs.

I often recommend New Chapter's Turmericforce; take one capsule twice a day. You can also safely add ginger, another natural anti-inflammatory, to your diet by eating crystallized ginger or the pickled ginger that comes with sushi."

By the way, turmeric should not be used if you have gallstones or bile obstruction. Though turmeric is often used by pregnant women, it is important to consult with your doctor before doing so because turmeric can be a uterine stimulant. And if you take coumadin, do not take turmeric, since coumadin is a blood thinner, and does not react well with the spice.

If you dislike the taste of turmeric, it can be taken in powder or pill form. It is available in pill form in most health food stores, usually in 250-500mg capsules.