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Curcuma longa: Use for Skin Disease Care

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Bioactive Dietary Factors and Plant Extracts in Dermatology

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Curcuma longa is commonly known as turmeric and has been described in Ayurvedic medicine for treatment for various respiratory conditions, liver disorders, anorexia, rheumatism, diabetic wounds, runny nose, cough, and sinusitis. Different formulations containing C. longa is commonly used in the treatment of ringworm, obstinate itching, eczema, and other parasitic skin diseases. Turmeric is applied to facilitate the process of scabbing in chicken pox and small pox. Topical application of C. longa has been useful in external cancerous skin lesions, psoriasis, and wound healing and plays a very key role in both aging and the main age-related chronic degenerative diseases. However mild irritative contact dermatitis was reported in few subjects in clinical study. In case of subchronic toxicity study hepatotoxicity in mice and rats was observed similarly in acute toxicity study of mice was observed.

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  1. Interactive Research School for Health Affairs, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Medical college campus, Off satara road, Dhankawadi, Pune, 411 043, Maharashtra, India

    Anand A. Zanwar

  2. Department of Pharmacology, PE Society’s Modern College of Pharmacy, Sector 21, Yamuna Nagar, Nigadi, Pune, 411044, Maharashtra, India

    Sachin L. Badole M.Pharm., Ph.D. (Pharmacology)

  3. Department of Dermatology and Dermato-Oncology, Medical School of Wuerzburg, Julius Maximilian University, Josef-Schneider Strasse 2, Wuerzburg, 97080, Germany

    Farid Menaa

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Zanwar, A.A., Badole, S.L., Menaa, F. (2013). Curcuma longa: Use for Skin Disease Care. In: Watson, R., Zibadi, S. (eds) Bioactive Dietary Factors and Plant Extracts in Dermatology. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-167-7_36

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