There is no Indian food without turmeric root of a plant grown in India. In food it is used for curcumin which contains a bright yellow pigment that colours the dishes. However, contemporary scientific research of the subject for many other reasons, because turmeric seems to possess virtues that, if known in the Ayurvedic tradition has always been of particular interest to the Western population in search of solutions to natural health problems.
Today, scientists demonstrated in laboratories that traditional Indian knowledge known for centuries. This research is essential to break the intellectual walls of some medical and pharmaceutical schools of thought that consider that by far the traditional remedies can actually bring in the treatment of various pathologies, or when the results are undeniable, they are trying at all costs stifling them by putting pressure on the supposedly independent government agencies that are funded.