Efficacy and Safety of Curcumin in Major Depressive Disorder:

Curcumin is an extract from turmeric (Curcuma longa), the amazing yellow spice, popular in Asian cooking and it now has yet another string to its bow.

 

A Randomized Controlled Trial involving 60 patients presents the first study to show the spice can be used safely and effectively in people with major depression (Sanmukhani, et al, 2013).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23832433

Other research on this amazing herb show its ability to induce cell apoptosis in prostate cancer (Guo et al, 2013), HPV-16-mediated cervical cancer (Shukla et al, 2013) and its ability to slow the progression of Alzheimer's Disease (Ahmed and Gilani, 2013) among many others.