Turmeric is a spice that has been used extensively used in the different food sectors as a flavoring and coloring agent, in almost every cellular biological event, process includes in the gene expression, signaling and regulation. The bioactive polyphenol present in the turmeric is curcumin, which plays an important role in the anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anticarcinogenic, anti-invasive as a mediator of chemo resistance, radio resistance, chemopreventive agent, and as a therapeutic agent in wound healing, dyspepsia,diabetes and cardiovascular ailments, rheumatism, body ache, hepatic disorders, skin diseases, intestinal worms, constipation, diarrhoea, intermittent fevers, urinarydischarges, inflammations, biliousness, leukoderma, amenorrhea, and colic.
