Turmeric for Boils: Top Natural Remedy for Fast Healing

Hi, I have been faithfully using turmeric and switched to vegetarianism, but I have to tell you that I had five or six red spots in my arm pit and four red spots that remained after I got rid of a huge swelling on my face, none of these red spots would go away and we have ongoing acid rain spell in this area. I put some Walgreens Calahist calamine lotion on them last night and this morning, they have dried up and disappeared. I am sure you need to continue the turmeric and some sea salt, plus using the Walgreens calamine lotion. Make a list of the foods that cause bad outbreaks for you. I no longer eat bread, fewer eggs, almost no sweets. I prepare homemade veggie soups with extra fresh garlic, some turmeric (ALWAYS) a little sea salt, rosemary, oregano oil...Hope my information helps someone else...

I've been having the same boil come up about once every 3-4 months for the last 4 years and have never been to a doctor because I don't believe in putting a whole bunch of junk in my body that I don't even know what it is. For the last 3 years I've used Colloidal Silver, Chlorophyll and garlic to cure it and it usually got rid of it within 3-4 days. If I caught it in time it wouldn't even appear. However this last time I did that and it seems that my body is starting to resist it so I started looking for another way. I found your website that told me about Tumeric, so I went to Wal-Mart and bought the pills. I took one yesterday morning and one last night and then one when I got up today and it's almost gone! I couldn't believe it. With the other three I would probably still have it for another 3 days, I just can't have that. However instead of shrinking it grew, came to a head and drained out and now it's almost gone. This is totally awesome since it took less then 36 hours. More people need to know about this -- keep the word going.

Back again. My 10 year old son got another boil and we used the turmeric again. I am simply amazed at how quickly the turmeric cleared this stuff up... It was gone in four days. This time I only used the turmeric; Last time (I forget to add this in my other post) I also used tea tree oil on the boil and had him bathe in tea tree oil soap. I'm not sure if the tea tree oil helped or not but I know now the turmeric works like a charm. I can't recommend this stuff highly enough. It has saved us no telling how much money, and best of all we avoid the dangers of all those antibiotics.

Hi, I was on the alert today because we got real heavy rain. Sure enough, on my forehead there appeared a tiny new bump. All my other boils on my cheek were completely dried up and healed. I never stopped taking turmeric, sipping it all day in whatever I am drinking at the time. The new bump is very small and I attacked it immediately with iodine. I could see infection under my skin in the surrounding area because I am 64 and my skin is thin and I saw the dark large spot surrounding the small bump so I want to say it is important to douse the surrounding area also. Many people do not have skin thin enough to see through it so they need to know this. Also to be extremely careful not to allow any iodine drips to get into the eyes. I always hold a clean tissue while applying the iodine. Needless to say, I am going to double up on the turmeric. I bought three more containers of turmeric and a couple more bottles of iodine. This is not povidone iodine, but the tincture of iodine in the little bottles that cost about $1. Thanks to the owner of this website and to Ted, I am able to kill these boils rapidly. But I always have to be on the alert watching for new ones. And never stop the turmeric. Thank God for the people who run this website.

I forgot to mention that none of my boils reached the surface. I am an internet nut, so when the first boil appeared, I jumped onto the net and immediately found this wonderful site with information about turmeric. Thank God, I had a new bottle of turmeric powder on the shelf. I am going to keep up the turmeric for a couple of months and maybe longer... It may have been the turmeric instead of the iodine that caused the secondary boils to totally disappear overnight and reduce the mother boil to a tiny little lump under the skin surface. The iodine burns and stains my skin. I am very fair skinned but I put up with the pain, thinking it was killing the boils, but now I wonder if it is the turmeric. I put a teaspoon of the powder into my coffee and you can hardly taste it, anyway, who cares what it tastes like so long as it works. I sip the coffee all day and night until bedtime.

Your story sounds so similar to mine. I have been on antibiotics for almost two years-I can't even remember the last time I HAVE NOT had any boils in my arm pits. I had surgery in one armpit, which helped, but now it has moved to the other pit. I am inspired by what I have read on here and I am going on the hunt for the turmeric pills. Thanks everyone!

Re turmeric causing constipation - you might be right, but it can also be that some 'regularity' is the result of underlying inflammation in the bowels and that when the turmeric cleans that up your body has to readjust - certainly seen this as an outcome for some other herbals which uninflame the bowels. Just a thought - would be interested to hear what others taking it long term have to say.

Heat boils are caused due to intake of foods which generates heat inside your body. In India, we take food as per climatic conditions. Chicken and eggs are foods that can produce heat in your body. So, if you continuously get heat boils, use turmeric inside and outside and try to avoid all types of food that generates heat. You can take milk, butter, citrus fruits and vegetables. Especially, turmeric is a wonderful medicine for most of the ailments and we in India, add turmeric to most of our food preparations. This will prevent many types of cancers.

Ok the way I see it there is something you are eating, drinking, or washing with that is making your system sick,,,,

1. check your foods and oils and do not eat any soy,,most prepard, boxed, baged foods have soy,,do not eat it,,checke your pets food also-no soy

2. checke for conola oil,,google 'what is canola oil made from' you do not want to eat it.

3. For about a week eat only fresh cooked vegtables with salt and olive oil, bread, fruit juice, fresh fruit, salads, with light oil dressing and herbs, and leamon juice,,,no meat, no animal products, no sodas, only juice, water, black coffee, unsweet tea.

After one week your digestive system and blood should be better, if not I suggest you continue the diet for another week,,also eating a lot of garlic is good,,it is called the Russian antibiotic. Eat natural, healthy, quick fixes in food preperations will make you sick.

Boil Treatment: I have been plaqued by these things all my life and at 42 it is nice finally find something that might help. I have been told countless times by Doctors there is nothing you can do, yur just one of those 1000 that are stuck gettting them. I'm going to try the tuneric tonnight becuse I have three of them that wont go away. I will let you know how it works.

i have had many boils in my life & about 2 yrs ago it started going through my grandkids like a house on fire, my youngest almost died from it, spent 8 days in intensive care.........i ended up getting it again from them, thus starting a huge cycle again, which i hadn't had to deal with in quite a while.......& because my health is not as good as it used to b, i caught the germ again...........it's a staff infection...........i have since then ran across this web site & with other investigation, found that candida surrounds staff & makes it very hard to get rid off.........anti-boitics may be able to help u get over the boil itself, but the staff stays in the body.........& since u said that sometimes u feel as if u r getting one again & the turmeric helps it stop, u probably still have the stuff floating around, waiting for a weak point in ur body, to attack u again...........well, if u fight candida, this site has great info about that, then killing the candida, or controlling it, will help u stop have those times where it starts again.........i think it's the body's way of trying to protect u from the ravages of staff, that can kill...............and then an over growth of candida has it's own special horrors...........after my own outbreak of boils, with many cycles of antibiotics, i had a number of times where it felt like i was getting more.........but since i started controlling the candida, i don't have them anymore..........i do take turmeric & it is a really strong anti-inflamitory & anti-oxident...............which is probably why it has helped u............try working on the candida, check out the symptoms of it, u might b surprised, i sure was.................it's pretty awful, in & of itself...........hope this helps, chris.....

Thank-you so much for your information and your honesty. My husband, Butch has had boils much of his life he has had them on his face and cut them out to get to the core. He has so many scars on his face. I will go today and start him on a turmeric spice or pill. Thank-you so much, God Bless you, Jamie

i had a staph problem 4 close to 7yrs. of course i started with the doctors antibiotics ciprotab, peflotab etc. actually saw some alternative medical practitioners in my country taking one concotion or another for yrs with no remedy. i luckily had a good relief some 2 yrs ago after i was admitted with an anti biotic drip and took green vegetable juice locally called "ugwu" in my country but like a yr after some boils appeared and it came back.i came across this page on alkanizng ur body and i took the 3* a day teaspoon of baking soda mixed with 1/4 teaspoon of tumeric.i also took colloidal silver internally 3* a day,euchinicae 3* and a garlic tablet made by kwai 3* a day. i took the antibiotic ciprotab afterwards for a week and i felt very much relieved though i still have some mild movements in my stomach. 4 now i am taking the regular baking soda and tumeric mixed in half cup of water 2* daily, euchinicae once and the kwai garlic once. i feel very good but i am thinking of adding the colloidal silver to my supplements to keep it in check.

Thank you for your wonderful website! I tried your tumeric cure on my 8 1/2 year old son, who just recently had school sores (impetigo), and then started to develop a boil (which is exactly what happened last time he had school sores at age 5 - he then went on to have boils for about 4 months). I gave him a tsp of tumeric in a chocolate milkshake 3 x per day for two days and the boil totally dried up and didn't get big or painful...and, no more boils have developed after 1 week! Awesome!!

I read about the turmeric cure last nite and bought turmeric to drink...it tasted EWWW but now my enormous boil on my inner thigh has popped and the pain is no more I am so relieved. Going to continue taking turmeric till it dissapears took less than a day for it to make my boil go POP.

Ok, so I first got my boil about less than a week ago on my hip. Then I started getting them everywhere like my bum, my stomach, thighs, back, neck, ear, nose, and face. I mean it spread like crazy. I just had a UTI and was put on cipro, so I am sure that exacerbated the boils break out. I never have it before. Anyway, I came upon this site because I have been desperate to get rid of these nasty things. I bought the turmeric from my local grocery store for $5. I took 3 tsp w/ 4 oz of room temp water 4x yesterday. I took a hot shower w/soap. I lanced the boils that had a white tip and were ready w/ cotton pads drenched w/ bactine. I put neosporin w/ turmeric on the boils and wore clothes I didnt care about staining. Went to bed and woke up right now and looked at my boils. They are flat and scabbed over! and the pain is 80% gone. the biggest one the size of a large grape was on the back of my thigh and I can stretch and walk w/o feeling pain. It is amazing. Thank you so much for this site. I hope I never get boils again, but if I do I know what to do. I will continue to use the turmeric until it completely resolves. My boyfriend told me to make some curry w/ the leftover turmeric. I think from now on, turmeric will be in my diet. I hope that it can prevent future boils. I am a 26 y/o Female and this is very, very embarassing! I am sure it is for everyone as well. Also, the taste isnt that bad. I had juice as a chaser.

Tumeric, magnesium & zinc rids boils. Since June of 07 I started getting very painfull boils every few weeks about 20 in total. After several courses of antibiotics failed I began heavy research. Discovered the three ingredients when taken during the first 12 hours stop the bacteria chain which causes the boil from developing. I immediately apply a magnesium/zinc based lotion - found "LaCure Dead Sea foot lotion" works best. It contains, salts, minerals including magnesium & zinc plus it is a natural antibacterial and anti fungal lotion. I apply it 3 times daily. Then I take magnesium with zinc supplements orally 200-400mg daily and also drink a hot tumeric tea 2-3 times a day until the bump is cleared. Usually takes 2-4 days. Since doing this any bumps that appear never advance to full blowm boils and I no longer get the pain that was accompanied. This website helped me alot.

Checked this site for boil help and tried tumeric. It works just as the other posts indicated. After one day, pain and swelling subsides. After a few more days, newer boil gone, older stubborn boil 95 percent gone. I took capsules. Highly recommended.

I was looking online for a natural remedy for boils and came across your site with very little hope but to go the doctor. OMG!! I tried the turmeric powder in a glass of warm water 3x's a day and after the first day seen results. I have had this boil on the upper part of my gential area for about a month after suffering from a yeast infection. It has popped and drained 3x's and still would not heal until I started taking the Turmeric and using Neosporin ointment. This is great!! In the future I will look for a more natural healing process versus running straight to the doctor's office. Thanks again for giving me this option..

I read the testimonials and was convinced to try turmeric for a boil. I had just had one lanced and packed with gauze, and had to take a quadruple dose of antibiotics for ten days, despite which I still developed a fever from the infection. by the ninth day the packing strip was out and the incision was healing but the swelling and tenderness were coming back; either the same boil had a recess isolated from the initial drain or another one had formed in almost exactly the same place. when that boil was almost as big as the first one, and still no sign of coming to a head despite warm compresses daily, i tried drawing salve, to no effect. but it felt somewhat better after one dose of turmeric, and after one full day of taking it, the boil had almost disappeared. the pain is almost gone - only when i press in certain areas do i feel sore. the swelling is totally gone. however, the boil never did come to a head or drain so i am a bit concerned that it has not fully retreated. i am going to keep taking the turmeric and hope it continues to prevent future boils! as a side effect, i did experience diarrhea today. but i am hoping the anti-inflammatory properties will be able to help my colitis and eczema in the future - i wish i had known about this years ago! It's about the cheapest remedy you could ask for, if you buy in bulk. i have been mixing the turmeric with water and lemon juice, but i'm eager to try other ways. it has stained my toothbrush orange :)

RE TURMERIC -- HAD A HUGE BOIL ON MY BUTT, TOOK THE PILLS AND 24 HOURS LATER IT STARTED TO DRAIN, LAST 2 NEEDED TO BE LANCED.....AMAZING