In our earlier article we have written about multiple Health benefits of Turmeric or curcumin and the way of home preparation of turmeric. You should know that curcumin is the key compound of turmeric and it plays the major rule in effectiveness of turmeric. It is obvious question is in mind that what percentage of curcumin, a specific amount of turmeric have? And what amount of curcumin will help in different health condition? We also mentioned that there are some critical factors in absorption and processing of curcumin in your intestine in our earlier article.Here we have picked some therapeutic dosage of curcumin or turmeric for health alignments.
Usually in two ways turmeric or cucumin is used, as preventive or wellness dosage and therapeutic dosage. Individual may use smaller dose a preventive or wellness dose.Therapeutic dosage is used when an individual requires special doses usually a higher dose than normal dose. For that reason one should not continue therapeutic dosage for long time.
Therapeutic dosage of curcumin or turmeric for health alignments: (1)
| Crohn Disease | 1.08 g/day, 1 month + 1.44 g/day, 2 months | Lower Crohn’s Disease Activity Index and inflammation |
| Ulcerative proctitis | 1.1 g/day for 1 month + 1.65 g/day for 1 month | Significant reduction in symptoms as well as inflammation |
| Rheumatoid arthritis | 1.2 g/day; 2 weeks | Improve joint swelling, morning stiffness, and walking time |
| Osteoarthritis | 0.2 g/day; 3 months | Efficacious in the management and treatment of osteoarthritis |
| 1 g/day; 8 months | Efficacious in the long-term management of osteoarthritis | |
| Cardiovascular health/Atherosclerosis | 0.5 g/day; 7 days | Reduced serum lipid peroxides and total serum cholesterol levels, and increased HDL cholesterol |
| Acute coronary syndrome | 0.045, 0.09, 0.18 g/day; 2 months | Reduced total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol, and increased HDL cholesterol and triglyceride |
| Diabetes | 1.5 g/day; 9 months | In type 2 diabetes mellitus Participants showed a better function of Beta cells in the pancreatic islets of the pancreas, with higher HOMA-β and adiponectin for regulating glucose, and lower C-peptide and HOMA-IR. Improves glucose/insulin interactions |
Remember therapeutic dose of curcumin or turmeric for health alignments is for specific health condition. And for that reason individual should not continue therapeutic dose more than recommended period. You may divide daily dose in three times in a day. And if you are using curcumin for intestinal purpose, you don’t need to combine with piperine or black pepper.
Curcumin to turmeric weight percentage puzzle:
Curcumin is the yellow pigment of turmeric. We have mentioned in earlier that curcumin is the most effective compound of turmeric. For that reason, many researches focus on curcumin rather than turmeric. You know how much curcumin, you should take in a day or at a time. But question is how much curcumin does turmeric has by weight?
One more crucial factor comes here, percentage of curcumin varies with turmeric. And it depends on facts including types of spices, soil of cultivation, process adopted by manufacturer. Nutrient loss also occurs in production process adopted by manufacturer and for all these reason you need to check certification of manufacturer or supplier.
For such reasons you can grow your own turmeric in garden to get fresh and better quality of curcumin. You can grow even in flower pot with a fertile soft soil. It hardly grows to 2-3 feet in height with a soft trunk. All you need a small spice of good quality turmeric root, put it in soil of a pot and moisten the soil at an interval. It will grow to a bigger bunch of root. And the root of turmeric is the subject of interest.
You can consider nearly 3% or above of curcumin by weight in turmeric as good. Pure turmeric powder had the highest curcumin concentration, averaging 3.14% by weight. (2)In that way 1.5 tsp of turmeric which is around 5 gm of turmeric that contain 3% of curcumin by weight contains 0.15 g of curcumin i.e. 150mg.
In fresh turmeric root there will percentage of water also. And for that reason percentage of curcumin in fresh raw turmeric root will be little lesser than turmeric powder.
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Disclaimer: Information provided here are generalised information for knowledge purpose, not intended to provide one to one health consultation/information. Different people may have different health condition. Having medicinal value, turmeric or curcumin may act differently on people with different health condition. Hence it has been advised to consult with health care provider before application of any of above guidelines.
Source: 1. Subash C. Gupta, Sridevi Patchva, and Bharat B. Aggarwa, Therapeutic Roles of Curcumin: Lessons Learned from Clinical Trials, The AAPS Journal, January 2013, Volume 15, Issue 1 2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6750391_Curcumin_Content_of_Turmeric_and_Curry_Powders
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