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Category: > Remedies > Turmeric Fights Cancer and Inflammation: Here’s How Much You Should Take Every Day

Turmeric Fights Cancer and Inflammation: Here’s How Much You Should Take Every Day

Oct 17, 2017 Carly Fraser Post contains aAffiliate links Save For Later Print

Last Updated: Oct 30, 2018

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By now you probably know that inflammation is considered to be the root cause of a majority of health ailments (everything from allergies, to cancer and autoimmune disorders).

This might explain why turmeric has become one of the most popular culinary herbs over the last couple years. As research expands on the health benefits of turmeric, it’s becoming more and more clear why it should be included in our diets on the daily.

Before it became widely popular in the West, turmeric was used for over 4,000 years as a medicinal remedy in East India for countless conditions. Researchers today claim that turmeric is not only a powerful anti-cancer, anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory agent, but also a great remedy for digestive and skin issues (which go hand in hand, considering our digestion is closely tied into the health of our skin).

How Much Turmeric To Take?

When you’re deciding on how much turmeric to take, or what type of turmeric to take, things can get a little confusing.

Depending on the reason you are using turmeric, and the form in which you take it, the dosing for turmeric will change. The specific guidelines below from well-established experts and health professionals will help you decide just that.

The first thing you need to know is that there are two types of dosing: preventative and curative.

Preventative dosing is lower than curative dosing in that it is taken for as long as needed, or even indefinitely.

Curative dosing is a much higher dose than preventative, as it is used for a specific diagnosis. Large doses of turmeric should not be taken indefinitely, but only until the issue is resolved.

Turmeric should also be taken with a little bit of black pepper (or if you’re taking a supplement, there should always be piperine (the active ingredient in black pepper) included), because it significantly increases the bioavailability of curcumin. The same is true if you take it with coconut oil – but black pepper is best.

The Forms of Turmeric

There are different forms of turmeric, too. They come in the following:

Fresh Cut Root: fresh cut turmeric root can be found in most Asian food stores and health food stores, although I would recommend you opt for the organic fresh form in health food stores. You can add this to foods such as salad, smoothies, or even vegetable dishes. It is recommended that you do not cook the fresh root, as it will destroy the valuable nutrients.

Dried Root: this is turmeric powder. Don’t just opt for a standard turmeric powder at your local grocery store, always get a high-quality organic turmeric powder. Supplements are typically made from turmeric powder. Curcumin (the active component in turmeric that makes it so amazing) is extracted from the turmeric and then concentrated to make standardized powders

Fluid Extract: this is typically a liquid form of the active ingredients in turmeric (namely, curcumin) mixed with vegetable glycerin and water (in my opinion, this is better than the alcohol-tincture form described below).

Tincture: tinctures are made with alcohol as the delivery method, and often vary in strength. The ingredients are typically turmeric curcuminoids, water, and 20% alcohol.

Tea: turmeric root is also available as a tea – some people like to add a little coconut oil and black pepper to the tea, as well as honey to sweeten it up a bit.

Ideal Dosage

The ideal dosage of turmeric for adults, according to the University of Maryland Medical Centre, are as follows:

• 5-3 grams fresh cut root, daily
• 1-3 grams dried powdered root, daily
• 400-600 milligrams, curcumin (standardized powder), three times daily
• (1:1) 30-90 drops, fluid extract, daily
• (1:2) 15-30 drops, tincture, four times daily

According to Dr. Weil, 400-600mg curcumin (standardized) should be taken 3 times daily.

According to WebMD, the following turmeric dosages should be taken for each ailment:

• Osteoarthritis: 500mg of curcumin extract that contains 95% standardized powder (twice daily)
• Rheumatoid arthritis: 500mg of curcumin extract that contains 95% standardized powder (twice daily)
• Upset stomach: 500mg of turmeric (four times daily)
• High cholesterol: 1.4 grams of turmeric extract, in two divided doses, daily for three months
• Itching (pruritus): 1500 mg of turmeric in three divided doses, daily for eight weeks

Dosing instructions will obviously vary, depending on whether you are taking it for prevention or if you’re trying to cure something. It will also depend if your condition is temporary or severe (such as pain for instance).

Taking turmeric at the higher end of the dosing spectrum would be best if you’re wanting to get something under control until you are feeling better (in which case, once you’re feeling better, return back to standard dosing).

Turmeric Dosing and Cancer

Here is an 8-week regimen for turmeric dosing when trying to fight cancer:

Week 1: start with a small dose of 1 gram of curcumin per day. If you see no side effects, take it for a week and then proceed to the dosage of week 2.

Week 2: increase the dosage of curcumin to 2 grams per day. Again, check for any issues, side effects, etc. If everything seems to be going fine, take it for a week and proceed to dosage of week 3.

Week 3: Double the dosage again to 4 grams per day. If everything looks fine, proceed to week 4.

Week 4-8: Double the dosage to 8 grams per day, and continue for 5 weeks.

How Safe is Turmeric?

Turmeric is generally very safe. Side effects rarely occur, and when they do, it is usually when extremely high doses are taken for an extended period of time.

If you are taking high doses, consult a health practitioner, especially if you’re wanting it to be taken in the longer-term.

For possible side effects of large, long-term turmeric doses, check out the advice below:
– Turmeric can lower blood sugar, so diabetics and individuals with hypoglycaemia should consult their doctor before taking.
– Do not take turmeric with other herbs that have blood-sugar-lowering effects (or with drugs such as anti-hypertensives that artificially lower blood pressure).
– Never take turmeric if you’re on cholesterol-lowering medications, since turmeric also lowers LDL (bad) and raises HDL (good) and can boost the effect of these drugs.
– Turmeric is a natural blood thinner and should not be taken in conjunction with blood thinners such as warfarin, coumadin, clopidogrel, or aspirin, or with herbs such as ginkgo biloboa or garlic (all have blood thinning properties).
– If you’re going for surgery, stop taking turmeric at least a week prior. It things the blood, and can make it harder to stop bleeding during medical procedures.
– Turmeric can cause nausea if taken on an empty stomach.
– Turmeric increases bile production, so people with gall bladder or gall stone problems should avoid therapeutic (high) doses.

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Carly Fraser

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Carly Fraser has her BSc (Hons.) Degree in Neuroscience, and is the owner and founder at Live Love Fruit. She currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with a determined life mission to help inspire and motivate individuals to critically think about what they put in their bodies and to find balance through nutrition and lifestyle. She has helped hundreds of thousands of individuals to re-connect with their bodies and learn self-love through proper eating habits and natural living. She loves to do yoga, dance, and immerse herself in nature.

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  1. Dawn Raper says

    Oct 28, 2018 at 10:24 pm

    Hello Carly#
    My husband is on home hospice with Laryngeal cancer. I have on hand some powdered turmeric root that I got from the Asian market. Yesterday I gave him a capsule of it with a tiny bit of black pepper also from my kitchen. It may have been my imagination but he seemed a tiny bit perkier today so I gave him another one this morning and another this afternoon. Then I googled it and found your instructions. Now I plan to only give him one capsule daily for one week and increase from there. Also I removed the 81 mg aspirin from his pill minders. Thank you for posting!

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    • support says

      Dec 1, 2018 at 2:38 am

      Get him laetril, rick simpson thc oil, intravenous vit C, black seed oil, broccoli and brussels sprouts, high dose vit D, vit K2, thymus protein extract, brazil nuts, switch his diet to keto-anticancer, start regular fasting, do hyperbaric oxygen therapy and many more. google all of it and attack it on all fronts

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