Turmeric, can it relieve pain and help with cancer?

One guys post is as follows...

Berkana <--- He posted this.

It's also a simple remedy for cancer, according to some cancer survivors:
http://margaret.healthblogs.org/life-with-myeloma/ ...
My friend's mom was dying of the side effects of chemotherapy for her cancer when she got off of chemotherapy and went onto curcumin therapy (curcumin is the active substance in turmeric) three years ago. The cancer is now undetectable in her blood, and she is still alive today. Curcumin causes cancerous cells to go into apoptosis (cell death) without harming healthy cells--most conventional chemotherapy drugs can't even do that. But it is only ever prescribed by alternative medicine practitioners (of which many are quacks, I must admit), in part because big pharma won't support the expensive studies needed to make it officially prescribable as a medicine because curcumin threatens their profits.

Worth reading more???
[Here is a link to the thread]

Medicinal uses

Turmeric plant

Main article: Curcumin

In Ayurvedic practices, turmeric is thought to have many medicinal properties and many in South Asia use it as a readily available antiseptic for cuts, burns and bruises. It is also used as an antibacterial agent.

It is taken in some Asian countries as a dietary supplement, which allegedly helps with stomach problems and other ailments. It is popular as a tea in Okinawa, Japan. Pakistanis also use it as an anti-inflammatory agent, and remedy for gastrointestinal discomfort associated with irritable bowel syndrome, and other digestive disorders. In Afghanistan and North West Pakistan, turmeric is applied to a piece of burnt cloth, and placed over a wound to cleanse and stimulate recovery. Indians, in addition to its Ayurvedic properties, use turmeric in a wide variety of skin creams that are also exported to neighboring countries. It is currently being investigated for possible benefits in Alzheimer's disease^[4], cancer and liver disorders.

Hidradenitis Suppurativa or Acne Inversa, an uncurable and debilitating disease, is also treated with Tumeric Powder. It is unknown why it works, but people that have suffered from HS for 30–40 years have reported almost an immediete improvement after comsuming 1 teaspoon in 1/4 of warm water 3x a day. Within 1 week of using Tumeric, these same people have reported almost a complete reduction of boils and purple scarring.

Turmeric rhizome

In the latter half of the 20th century, curcumin was identified as responsible for most of the biological effects of turmeric. According to a 2005 article in the Wall Street Journal, research activity into curcumin is exploding. In that year supplement sales increased 35% from 2004, and the U.S. National Institutes of Health had four clinical trials underway to study curcumin treatment for pancreatic cancer, multiple myeloma, Alzheimer's, and colorectal cancer. Curcumin also enhances the production of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF, which supports nerve growth.^{[citation needed]}

There is evidence that piperine, found in black pepper, improves the absorption of turmeric. In 1998 researchers at St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, India found that curcumin taken with 20 mg of piperine increased the absorption of curcumin by 2000%, with no adverse effects.[1] This means that a low dose of curcumin (or turmeric for that matter) could have a greater effect in terms of health benefits when combined with piperine than a large dose of curcumin or turmeric would.

Dosages between half a teaspoon three times a day of a mixture of 16 parts of turmeric powder to 1 part of ground black pepper, and two teaspoons of turmeric powder and half a teaspoon of ground black pepper per day have been recommended.^{[citation needed]}

Turmeric has also been demonstrated to contain curcumin, a selective monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) of type MAO-A. Taken from Wiki's page ---> [HERE]