Ebook: The Molecular Targets and Therapeutic Uses of Curcumin in Health and Disease

Curcumin is derived from the root of the plant Curcuma longa (also called turmeric) and its medicinal uses have been described for over 5000 years. More than 1500 papers published within last half a century has revealed that curcumin has a potential in the treatment of wide variety of inflammatory diseases including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, Alzheimer, psoriasis etc, through modulation of numerous molecular targets. This is the first monograph to deal specifically with this subject.

Curcumin is derived from the root of the plant Curcuma longa (also called turmeric). Its medicinal uses have been known and described for more than 5000 years. In the last half-century, more than 1500 published research papers have revealed that curcumin is potentially useful in the treatment of wide variety of inflammatory diseases, through modulation of numerous molecular targets. This includes cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, Alzheimer’s, psoriasis and more. This is the first monograph to deal specifically with this subject. It will be of interest to researchers, scientists, professionals, clinicians, physicians, graduate students in the fields of immunology, cancer biology, microbiology, infectious disease, virology, pharmacology, food science/food microbiology, and medicine.