[YEA]  09/03/2008: Sonja from Swanley, UK: "I had knee pain for years. My knees were so swollen I could not even see them. The doctor prescribed NSAIDS, but I am not sure how much difference it made. I bought various things for arthritis, but nothing really helped. It did no harm. Then I started to read up on it, and most things i took contained Ginger, tumeric and others. I started taking Tumeric on its own 3 capsules a day and within 7 days my knees were almost pain free!!! i would recommend tumeric to anyone.."

05/15/2011: Martinick from Alexandria, Va, United States replies: "I do not take turmeric inside - but use cream: it contains turmeric and other herbs and is very helpful in joint pain relieving"

04/14/2009: Kelly from San Francisco, CA replies: "I study Ayurvedic Medicine and find it very interesting that there are comments about people noticing that they are sweating alot... This makes total sense as inflammatory responses are liver related and a pitta or fire symptom/response in the body. The tumeric must be reducing the inflammation but the fire has to move somewhere, and so the skin is taking over (probably to help relieve the liver's load as the skin and liver work together and are both channels for the body to detoxify). The fire is moving out the skin in the form of sweat! So I would say, yes it would seem normal to me in a body with excess heat."

05/19/2013: Mike Giller from Denver, Colorado: "Cayenne is the king of herbs and turmeric is the queen of herbs. A famous naturopath doctor who is an expert in indian herbals says turmeric is the best ayurvedic remedy as a rejuvenating herb. It turns on genes that make enzymes. The potency of the dried powder is negligible. The potency of the whole root is very high. You can get raw whole root turmeric at both whole foods and vitamin cottage also you can get red whole root turmeric, more potent than yellow, online from a farm in hawaii: 10 lbs shipped for $80. Put a week's worth in the fridge and freeze the rest or it will rot. Amazon has fermented turmeric. The acids in the ferment preserve the medicinal properties. Curcumin extracts are not effective because they lack cofactors the flavonoids in turmeric require oil to function properly as do all flavonoids."

[YEA]  11/19/2009: Sow_b from Sydney, Nsw: "Hello!

Firstly, your site is amazing!!! Thanks.

I cured my bleeding gum problem of many years by using turmeric powder as a toothpaste. I would first brush my teeth normally with toothpaste and then wash out and then my next round of brushing I use tumeric powder and apply it to the brush and start brushing away. The turmeric kills of any bacteria that lives in the gums which cause the bleeding and its great for your mouth as a whole. Whenever I used to ask my dentist how to cure my bleeding gums he would just tell me to come into his surgery for a scale and clean for the teeth which costs almost $200 australian dollars. I ignored it and it struck me that turmeric is a great anti-bacterial so that should fix my problem. I now brush this daily and my gums have never bled since, and it costs just a few dollars. Be warned, turmeric stains yellow and although this HARDLY ever affects the color of your teeth but if you want to be super sure then finish the last round of brushing using pure baking soda, this will remove any small turmeric leftover, keep your mouth in an alkeline state and super brighten your teeth!

Best of luck! Email me (sowrabh@digital-soul.com.au) any questions"

[YEA]  04/15/2011: Adolfo from Miami, Florida replies: "You can also use Sea Salt to eliminate bacteria and brighten your teeth. You know it works when people begin asking you what you are doing because your teeth are lighter now."

[YEA]  03/22/2011: Tanny Abad from Paris, France: "Recently I've experienced to have a clusters of boils which is very painful especially those underneath my butt and armpit, it's really a pain in the ass and a real sucker. Sometime ago, while browsing the internet, Turmeric pop-up and it gives me an idea and I read it, I was amased the benefits of it, so went immediately to the supermarket to look for turmeric, but I can't find it, I live in Paris which is a different language, so turmeric is known here as Curcuma. I bought it right away and drink it 3 times a day, After 1 day I noticed that my boils started to drain and the pain is gone, Before reaching the 4th day my skin glows and skins that experienced boils peeled off automatically, for the meantime my skin changes a lot and for the better, It brings back my self-esteem and confidence, thanks for this wonder herb called TURMERIC..."

[YEA]  08/15/2011: Isabel from Sydney, Nsw replies: "Our 2 year old suffers from boils on his bottom. Very sore and aggressive. Read about turmeric and it works! I put some calendula cream on bandaid and then sprinkle on the turmeric tape it on over night and I see improvement over night. They shrink and dry out. Takes about 3 - 4 days of application, but they have always gone. I also give him turmeric in warm rice milk ( and cinnamon too ). He loves this."

[YEA]  12/26/2011: Kasra from Tehran, Terhan, Iran replies: "I also had a perianal abscess, I went to doctor and he prescribed me cephalexin 500 every 6 hours and I tried it for one week, the pain subsided but the abscess got the same size as it had, when I first tried turmeric I was worried about surgery and honestly I didm't think that it would help me with this abscess but miraculously the abscess got smaller day by day and after one week it gone totally .

Thank you earth clinic for this wonderful web site and everyone else for sharing such a great priceless experiences."

04/18/2012: Amanda from Alexandria, Virginia replies: "I have been suffering a tremendous amount of stress unlike any other time in my life. Normally I exercise, but I don't have time to do that as I'm trying to find a job after being laid off, keep my house from being taken by the bank, and I'm dealing with a discrimination lawsuit that is so massive that it would eclipse Tom Cruise's movie 'A Few Good Men' if made into a movie. Life is tough sometimes.

Because of all the stress, I've never had folliculitis quite like what I've suffered recently. Before my boyfriend visits from out of town, I shave my female 'danger zone'. However, as I get more stressed out, the hair follicules get more infected. It's led to a few painful abscesses deep below the surface of my right labia majora. I don't have insurance and really don't want to go to a doctor that will charge hundreds just to give me something that may not work. The infection turned into 2 painful abscesses the size of grapes that I could feel beneath my skin. However, I couldn't get the infection to drain. It stayed there and hurt more and got larger. I read they shouldn't be lanced because it's a staph infection and that's asking for trouble.

I ingested a bit of turmeric, but I needed something to work faster to alleviate the pain. I couldn't wait anymore because it hurt when I walked and I wanted to visit my bf in Florida in a week. I decided to mix the 99% pure DMSO liquid (comes in a blue and white plastic bottle I got off Amazon) with water, then mix in some turmeric. Last night I put the mixture on my skin with a Q-tip, then put a bit of an old rag dampened by the solution on top of the area (labia majora) and placed some plastic over it all and secured it with surgical tape. I went to sleep with the heating pad turned on high and as the heat rose, the bumps throbbed more and more. By morning a tiny bit of the infection rose to the top of my skin surface from deep below the hair follicle. The abscesses had subsided substantially with the pain reduced about 60%. I tried this process in the afternoon again, pressing down on the painful areas with a Q-tip and holding it there so the turmeric could reach the troubled areas. By the evening, all the lumps were gone! No more pain. I started to wonder if I was imagining the abscesses. Then I looked down and saw my lady area was bright yellow. I wasn't imagining it. :)

Tomorrow I will start taking turmeric capsules regularly to fend off future infections and hopefully clear up my skin because I'm also suffering acne at 41, which is NOT the funnest!

Good luck. I'd highly recommend this as a super fast way to rid yourself of abscesses or boils. I used tap water, but as always, distilled is always recommended to be best."

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10/27/2010: Suemccartin from St. Petersburg, Fl, Usa replies: "My friend shrimps in the gulf around Florida, both himself and many others on the boat keep developing huge boils on several parts of their bodies (forearms and legs mostly). They are convinced it's from the "fish" they handle. I've seen info online (very little) about sea water boils aka saltwater boils. Supposedly caused by the enclosed arms of the rubber coats and the large amounts of fish goo on the rubbers that come in contact with the skin at some point. In the case of shrimpers I also saw something that says they are caused from handling the sludge from the bottom that comes up in the nets with the catch. (A shrimper manually digs through all the seaweed and thus also comes into contact with the sludge out of the nets. )

I'm glad I found this, going to try the turmeric for him... He's been getting antibiotics for them but I'm a huge believer in staying natural and avoiding western medicine if you can, especially in the case of antibiotics which tend to have diminishing effect as the problem critters get immune to it. He believes same, he's into a lot of Chinese medicine but didn't know of anything for boils right off. Just an FYI: a historical fact to file away. Turmeric was used as a yellow die in the middle ages in Europe and probably other parts of the world as well. The spice came over the trading routes (I don't think it was ever cultivated anywhere in Europe). Due to the imported nature of turmeric it was as expensive if not more expensive, than the tyrian shelfish dyes (red, yellow, purple depending upon mordanting and if it was an exhaust dye), from the vicinity of Greece. So that... Ladies & gents, is why your skin goes yellow when you use it. I've had bad skin most of my life and allergies, especially sinus infections around weather change (summer to winter). I was using nettle for the sinuses but since someone figured out it's great for urinary tract issues the price of the tincture has gone from 3 bucks a bottle to 16 bucks a bottle in the US. I'm going to try out the turmeric myself. I can get a pound of powder on ebay for about 6 bucks plus shipping (sounds like a bargain but I'll check the local health food store first). Great site, glad I found it."