Finally, the researchers have unravelled the secret behind the much hyped therapeutic power of the main component in turmeric, a spice regarded as auspicious and antiseptic in India.

The study was conducted by Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, professor of biophysics, University of Michigan and his fellow workers.

The research indicated that turmeric has been used in various ways for hundreds of years in Indian folk medicine in order to heal injuries, infections and other troubles related to health.

Whilst many researchers in recent years have conducted research on its main constituent ‘curcumin’, no details had been discovered as to how curcumin works inside the body, thus far.

But now, researchers by making use of a hi-tech device termed solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy found that curcumin’s molecules act like a biochemical disciplinarian.

The molecules of curcumin insert themselves into cytomembranes and make the membranes more stable and methodical in a manner, which raises cells’ resistance to infectivity by disease-causing bugs.

The results of the study on tumeric ingredient, curcumin, appeared in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.