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Rn (Oscoda, Mi) on 09/14/2011

Being a nurse, I see firsthand the flawed medical model here in the United States. It seems the current trend is... Visit the doctor.... Get a prescription... If that doesn't work... Visit the doctor again... Get another prescription! If that fails... get a referral to a specialist....arrrgh!

We are our own best doctors and I am very grateful to people who know this and share their stories here at this wonderful website.

Ground turmeric 1 tsp twice a day worked to clear up my daughters' rash in only a weeks time! She has been suffering for 6 months from a bumpy flesh colored rash which started on her thighs and buttocks. She saw a doctor 3 times and was given several different prescriptions which didn't help, in fact the rash had spread to her abdomen, chest, arms and scalp. The intense itching was driving her crazy at night. She has tried, oral steroids, steroid creams, antibiotics and many over the counter creams. She swallowed benadryl to help with the itching. She was going to see a dermatologist for a possible biopsy when I discovered this site.

After some investigation and critical thinking, my daughter had suffered boils of her skin in the past few years. MRSA is what was diagnosed. I believe this itchy rash was a form of MRSA. In the medical field it is one of the fastest growing disorders and problems.

I am forever grateful to Earth Clinic and their very awesome homeopathic remedy of turmeric. You have renewed my faith in homeopathic medicine, thank you!!

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Replied By Robert1699 (Lincoln, Nebraska) on 06/13/2012

(yea) If I get stressed enough, I sometimes have a staph infection (MRSA??) that breaks out on my thighs. I have found that turmeric tea and turmeric paste really helped to clear everything up in about 5 days for me. I make a tea by making a turmeric paste. First I heat 1 tablespoon of coconut oil with 1/8 teaspoon of black pepper in the microwave. Then stir in enough turmeric to make a paste. Let set, covered, for about an hour. Then to make the tea I use one teaspoon of paste in a 1/4 cup of hot Acai green tea, stir in the teaspoon into the turmeric paste, then add 1 teaspoon of honey stir until dissolved, and then 1/4 cup of soy milk. I like the woody taste of the turmeric.

I would say to folks to start off with small (maybe only the tip of a teaspoon) amounts of turmeric and work your way up to whatever level you are interested in being at. One teaspoon of turmeric yields about 220 mg. (a 1/5 of a gram) of curcumin, the active ingredient in turmeric. The black pepper (active ingredient piperine) plus the oil (many folks use olive oil) greatly increase the bioavailabilty of the curcumin. I also use the paste directly on the sores, cover with a bandaid, however I pick clothes that I don't mind staining turmeric yellow.

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Replied By Charlotte (Texas) on 08/28/2015

I don't mean to be rude to point this out, but "homeopathic" is not the right word for using turmeric, an actual medicine. Homeopathy is a debunked, unscientific system, created by a German scientist in the 1700's, which posited that the less the actual medicine is present, somehow, the more effective it is.

I realize that many people have come to use this term as interchangeable with "natural medicine", but it isn't. Homeopathy, the opinions of a single man, does not compare to folk medicine traditions which are thousands of years old, such as Ayurveda, in which turmeric is used.

Again, I do not mean to be rude. It's just that I hear so many people make this confusion, and it does not help the "scientific-minded" skeptics to learn to accept natural medicines, when they are thinking "oh, they said 'homeopathy', and I know that's nonsense! "

No offense to people who like homeopathy: if it works for you, go with it. Just please, don't use the word as a replacement for "natural medicine", if you don't really mean a specifically homeopathic remedy.

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