Curcumin and Diarrhea
The following is a classical Chinese article on the relationship between curcumin and diarrhea:
"Analysis of Turmeric"
On medicine in modern times, more than turmeric. Turmeric is yellow in color and fragrant in qi, and has been used in medicine for a long time. However, everyone suspects that curcumin can cause diarrhea?
The husband of turmeric is warm in nature and delicious. It may have many effects on the human body. However, there are different opinions about causing diarrhea. There is a cloud that turmeric can break the qi. If a healthy person takes curcumin, the qi is too much, and the stomach may move and cause diarrhea. Those who cover the stomach are happy and down and avoid chaos. The nature of turmeric, or promote the speed of gastrointestinal transportation and transformation. If the transportation and transformation are abnormal, and the water and valley cannot be satisfied in the intestines, then diarrhea will be caused.
It is also believed that turmeric has the power of promoting gallbladder, allowing bile to vent freely, or affecting the stomach. If the bile is vented too much, the digestion and absorption of the stomach are also affected by it, resulting in diarrhea. However, there are also weak people who use the warmth of turmeric to stimulate the spleen and stomach yang, and the spleen and stomach are healthy, and diarrhea can be stopped.
From this point of view, the relationship between curcumin and diarrhea is not universal. Whether it causes diarrhea or stops diarrhea is related to a person's physique and dosage. Doctors should carefully examine the individual's cold and heat, and weigh the advantages and disadvantages of turmeric in order to achieve the effect of removing diseases and avoid the risk of diarrhea.
