Topical turmeric (curcumin)?

[shaddow]

Anyone know if I can make a topical solution out of turmeric? I've got bursitis in my elbow and I was thinking about trying this out. Any thoughts?

 

[PowerHouse555]

Yes i believe turmeric to be about the' single best herb to take....no matter how many times they study it it always proves to be effective from joint-to-cancer. I dont belive there is a tropical and if there was i wouldnt waste my time...take it oraly.

 

[shaddow]

I'm already taking it orally, but you're saying you don't think it would have a better localized response if taken topically?

 

[LG Sciences]

Dude you would be so yellow it wouldn't be possible. I spilled it once and it was a total nightmare. Plus, I don't think curcumin is small enough to pass, but I would have to look to be sure.

 

[AnonyMoose]

it stains very bad - not sure if this is what you are looking for additionally as bursitus would be deeper in and not as localized for a topical solution.

best -

 

[Vegking]

I heard it is not very bioavailble, how do you get around that issue?

 

[boxmeman]

Dude you would be so yellow it wouldn't be possible. I spilled it once and it was a total nightmare. Plus, I don't think curcumin is small enough to pass, but I would have to look to be sure.

lol he'd look as if he had contracted a disease...

 

[Wanderlei]

Piperine vastly increases the oral ba of curcumin, I think claims were by 2000%. Also dissolving it in olive oil should help qutie a bit. No point in using it topically or as a transdermal. Most available transdermal formulas result in systematic deliver since they cannot penetrate all layers of the skin and reach target tissues.

 

[lbarber]

I tried it topically once... Terrible idea.

 

[Outside Backer]

i was gonna say

"isnt this yellow" you'd have jaundice of the elbow"

 

[shaddow]

LOL. Ok, point taken.

 

[bioman]

I made an olive oil suspension out of it once to try to increase it's bioavailability..didn't taste too terrible but man, you couldn't even look at it without staining something.