I am writing here about the recent New York Times article about the lack of efficacy for Turmeric in medical studies done in Canada in some surgical patients. What they had actually studied was Curcurmin in their patients with the presumption that curcurmin is THE active ingredient in turmeric responsible for all it’s beneficial effects. The same mistake has been made in medical studies before wherein a natural product in this case turmeric is pooh-poohed when an ingredient that makes up less than 5% of the whole natural product -curcurmin is studied and the results are presumed to be applicable to the natural ingredient well accepted and known to be widely beneficial in Ayurveda in the first place. It is likely the reason curcumin was studied was that it has an enormous cost premium as compared to the natural turmeric powder widely available. Two prior similar mistakes come to mind - walnuts and carrots Walnuts consumption had been found to be helpful in some way for vascular di