Treading Lightly: Institute for Ayurvedic and Naturopathic Treatments
Alternative healing based on an ancient Indian tradition
Curry for all!
The most recent issue of Gut, the very un-British title of the British Medical Journal's publication about Gastroenrology, reports that "Curcumin improves sclerosing cholangitis in Mdr2−/− mice by inhibition of cholangiocyte inflammatory response and portal myofibroblast proliferation." Now that sounds a bit more British. Translation: Eating tumeric may help slow liver diseases such as cirrhosis.
Austrian scientists fed curcumin (the substance that gives tumeric its yellow color) to mice with liver issues and found it reduced instances of cell damage, blockage and scarring. A team of researchers led by Michael Trauner of the Medical University Graz, saw results after feeding the mice curcumin for four or eight weeks.
Tumeric, which has long been known to have anti-inflammatory properties, has been used by Ayurvedic healers to help digestive problems for centuries upon centuries.
So the short answer is: eat curry! Otherwise, if you know what it means that curcumin "blocked proliferation and activation of portal MFBs by inhibiting ERK1/2 phosphorylation," you can go ahead and read the entire journal article in all its scientific glory.
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