Turmeric: 1,489 Peer-Reviewed Biomedical Studies Supporting Its Use as a Medicine

Its official!  We have just completed our two week long project of reviewing all 3,866 studies on Turmeric (and its major phenolic compound curcumin) on MEDLINE and we have published our results on the GreenMedInfo.com Turmeric page.  We believe that this page (which will take a minute to load, due to the voluminosity of data) is the worlds’ most extensive biomedical resource on the subject of this herb’s benefits and we encourage you to share it with others and link to it.

We have found no less than 1489 studies indexed across 152 pharmacological actions indicating its therapeutic value in the prevention or treatment of 564 Diseases.  All of these are now freely available on our database.

Below you will find a screenshot showing the top diseases (37 visible) that Turmeric compounds that the evidence demonstrates have therapeutic value in preventing or treating.*

We determine these disease rankings according to both the number and quality of studies that exist supporting its use.  We call this rating  “evidence density,” and it attributes greater value to human, animal, and test tube (in vitro) studies, in that descending order. (Click here to learn more about evidence density)

As you can see there are 168 studies indicating it has antioxidant activity, 29 on its potential value for Alzheimer disease, and 51 on its value for inflammation.

*Due to the FDA’s unconstitutional gag order against our first amendment right to speak truthfully about the science indicating the therapeutic value of natural substances in disease prevention and treatment, we have created an algorithm which generates a statement about a substance’s “evidence density” based on the quantity and quality of research on our database that exists to support it.  To learn more about evidence density go here.

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Quick Summary: 564 Diseases

Name	Evidence Density	Article Count	Focus Articles
Oxidative Stress	242	168	select
Alzheimer Disease	55	29	select
Inflammation	50	51	select
Liver Fibrosis	46	30	select
Cancers: Drug Resistant	45	42	select
Pancreatic Cancer	45	24	select
Chemically-Induced Liver Damage	44	32	select
Breast Cancer	43	61	select
Prostate Cancer	43	42	select
Lung Cancer	42	39	select
Colorectal Cancer	38	23	select
DNA damage	37	52	select
Colon Cancer	31	52	select
Pulmonary Fibrosis	30	12	select
Cancer Metastasis	29	35	select
Diabetes Mellitus: Type 2	29	19	select
Memory Disorders	28	13	select
Cancers: All	26	28	select
Colitis	26	17	select
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases	26	12	select
Endothelial Dysfunction	25	15	select
Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Toxicity	25	35	select
Tumors	25	25	select
Aflatoxicosis	22	16	select
Lipid Peroxidation	21	37	select
Osteoarthritis	21	9	select
Parkinsonism	21	2	select
Arsenic Poisoning	20	10	select
Cancers: Multi-Drug Resistant	19	26	select
Diabetes: Cardiovascular Illness	19	11	select
Multiple Myeloma	19	11	select
Bladder Cancer	18	16	select
Neurodegenerative Diseases	18	13	select
Aging	17	11	select
Brain Ischemia	17	11	select
High Cholesterol	17	9	select
Irritable Bowel Syndrome	17	6	select
Liver Cancer	17	24	select
Melanoma	17	22	select
Chemotherapy-Induced Toxicity: Bleomycin	16	8	select
Dementia	16	4	select
Insulin Resistance	16	9	select
Diabetes Mellitus: Type 1	15	9	select
Arthritis: Rheumatoid	14	6	select
Coronary Artery Disease	14	3	select
Diabetic Retinopathy	14	4	select
Endotoxemia	14	8	select
Glioma	14	13	select
Hyperthyroidism	14	5	select
Leukemia	14	23	select
Parkinson Disease	14	10	select

Quick Summary: 152 Pharmacological Actions

Name	Evidence Density	Article Count	Focus Articles
Apoptotic	297	305	select
Antioxidants	276	226	select
Antineoplastic Agents	216	257	select
Neuroprotective Agents	197	110	select
NF-kappaB inhibitor	186	183	select
Antiproliferative	177	202	select
Anti-Inflammatory Agents	122	80	select
Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) Alpha Inhibitor	117	87	select
Hepatoprotective	104	80	select
Enzyme Inhibitors	91	95	select
Chemopreventive	57	75	select
Cell cycle arrest	56	90	select
Cyclooxygenase 2 Inhibitors	52	57	select
Cardioprotective	43	36	select
Chemosensitizer	42	48	select
Renoprotective	42	31	select
Interleukin-6 downregulation	39	22	select
Anti-Angiogenic	36	33	select
Anticarcinogenic Agents	33	73	select
Hypolipidemic	33	14	select
Matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) inhibitor	26	24	select
Anti-metastatic	25	31	select
Interleukin-1 beta downregulation	24	17	select
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A Inhibitor	22	19	select
Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 Upregulation	21	34	select
Radiosensitizer	19	14	select
Anti-Proliferative	16	15	select
Hypoglycemic Agents	15	11	select
Anti-Fibrotic	14	13	select
Proteasome Inhibitors	13	11	select
Anticonvulsants	12	6	select
Gastroprotective	12	8	select
Immunomodulatory	12	13	select
Analgesics	11	5	select
Matrix metalloproteinase-3 (MMP-3) inhibitor	11	6	select
Antiviral Agents	10	14	select
Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) inhibitor	10	10	select
Anti-Bacterial Agents	9	13	select
Anti-Ulcer Agents	8	6	select
Nitric Oxide Inhibitor	8	12	select
Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) inhibitor	8	3	select
Interleukin-10 downregulation	7	6	select
Interleukin-8 downregulation	7	9	select
Prostaglandin PGE2 downregulation	7	11	select
Radioprotective	7	22	select
Anti-Allergic Agents	6	8	select
Antiparasitic Agents	6	4	select
Bcl-2 protein down-regulation	6	8	select
Genoprotective	6	17	select
Anti-Apoptotic	5	5	select
Anti-Platelet	5	4	select

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