far as Hawaii and the Easter Islands (Bakhru, 1997).
Apart from its daily use in the kitchens as a condiment and spice, turmeric has been widely implicated
in a number of ailments by the traditional medicine practitioners of South Asia. Turmeric has been used
in coughs, fever, jaundice, liver and urinary diseases, wounds, inflammatory troubles of the joints,
itching, eczema, parasitic skin diseases and cold