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Turmeric and brain. 薑黃和大腦
一種使用薑黃來治療阿爾茨海默氏症(老年痴呆症, 腦退化症 )的方法.
怎麼樣薑黃香料來治療?
一系列令人興奮的案例發表在2012年.
用薑黃來治療三個患者,他們的症狀有所下降,減輕他們的照顧者的負擔。
案例一:
83歲的女人,開始失去了她的記憶,漸漸迷失了方向。然後,她開始有自我照顧的問題,漫無目的地流浪,大小便失禁。服用薑黃後,她的激動情緒,焦慮,煩躁都和緩。她減少了意外。此外,她又開始笑了,又唱歌,又編織。後服用薑黃超過了一年,她開始認出她的家人,現在過著平靜的生活, 沒有癡呆症的顯著行為或心理症狀。
案例2相似,但有額外的幻覺和妄想和抑鬱症,薑黃似乎緩解了這症狀。她開始重新認識她的家人. 現在住在一個寧靜和平的生活。
和第三案例,有類似的效果,以及包括認知的改善。
這是薑黃可以有效和安全治療癡呆阿爾茨海默氏症患者的行為和心理症狀的第一個示範。他們稱之為藥物,但薑黃只是一種常見香料。你可以走進任何雜貨店, 只需花幾塊錢去買。
每天一茶匙,成本僅15仙。
你可以用薑黃粉加入到日常食品內,
例如,
土豆菜式, 咖喱雞, 米飯, 燕麥粥,
番茄湯或番茄汁,等等.
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Transcript: Treating Alzheimer’s with Turmeric
What about treating Alzheimer's disease with the spice turmeric?
An exciting case series was published in 2012. Three Alzheimer's patients treated with turmeric, and their symptoms declined, along with the burden on their caregivers. Let me show you what these data mean in real lives.
Case number one: 83 year old woman, started losing her memory, getting disoriented. Then she started having problems taking care of herself, wandering aimlessly, incontinent. After the turmeric though, her agitation, apathy, anxiety, and irritability were relieved and she had less accidents. Furthermore she began to laugh again, and sing again, and knit again. After taking turmeric for more than a year she came to recognize her family and now lives a peaceful life without a significant behavioral or psychological symptom of dementia.
Case 2 was similar, but with hallucinations and delusions and depression, which appeared relieved by turmeric. She began to recognize her family again and now lives in a peacefully serene manner.
And the third case, similar as well, including an improvement in cognition.
This is the first demonstration that turmeric may be effective and safe for the treatment of the behavioral and psychological symptom of dementia in Alzheimer's disease patients. They call it a drug, but it's just a spice you can walk into any grocery store and buy for a few bucks. They were giving people like a teaspoon a day, which comes out to be about 15 cents.
Two trials using curcumin supplements rather than turmeric, however, failed to show a benefit. Curcumin is just one of hundreds of phytochemicals found in turmeric. Concentrated into pill form at up to 40 times the dose, no evidence of efficacy was found. Why didn't they get the same dramatic results we saw in the three case reports? Well, those three cases may have total flukes, but on the other hand turmeric, the whole food, is greater than the sum of its parts.
There is a long list of compounds that of been isolated from turmeric, and it's possible that each component in the mixture of curcumin-like compounds plays a distinct role in making it useful against Alzheimer's disease, and hence a mixture of compounds might better represent turmeric in its medicinal value better than curcumin alone. But why concoct some artificial mixture when Mother Nature already did it for us with turmeric? Because you can't patent the spice. And if you can't patent it, how are you going to charge more than 15 cents?
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