{"id":554,"date":"2009-08-06T08:39:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:09:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T21:09:42","slug":"curcuma-longa-extract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/curcuma-longa-extract\/","title":{"rendered":"Curcuma longa Extract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A perennial plant\u00a0belonging to\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/ginger\/\" target=\"_blank\">ginger<\/a> family.\u00a0 Dried Curcuma longa is used as a spice: turmeric.\u00a0 Turmeric is also used in Asian folk medicine as an anti-inflammatory agent, as well as for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2576304\/?tool=pubmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indigestion, hepatitis, jaundice, diabetes, atherosclerosis and bacterial infections<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 The best-researched component of turmeric is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/curcumin\/\" target=\"_blank\">curcumin<\/a>, which has therapeutic potential for <a href=\"http:\/\/lpi.oregonstate.edu\/infocenter\/phytochemicals\/curcumin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">treating\/preventing cancer, Alzheimer&#8217;s\u00a0and inflammatory diseases<\/a>.\u00a0 Turmeric\u00a0has also shown\u00a0hypoglycemic\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/action\/cookieAbsent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-obesity<\/a> effects in animal experiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A perennial plant\u00a0belonging to\u00a0the ginger family.\u00a0 Dried Curcuma longa is used as a spice: turmeric.\u00a0 Turmeric is also used in Asian folk medicine as an anti-inflammatory agent, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[118,320,321,951],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}