This Ancient Golden Salve Is A Cure-All For Skin

Luckily, this new report—published in the journal BioDiscovers—showed that using a curcumin gel on burns and scalds reduced the severity of the injury, improved pain and inflammation, and helped with wound healing and scar prevention. And conveniently, most of us already have some turmeric in our kitchen.

Curcumin is the main ingredient in turmeric, a spice used in many Eastern countries for cooking and in beauty products, and for its potent healing properties. The author of this report is a doctor who has been using curcumin as a complementary treatment for burns—meaning she uses it in addition to the usual standard treatments. The report highlighted three specific patient cases, and the results were pretty staggering. For some of the patients, the curcumin gel was applied hourly, and many of the patients exhibited rapid healing, pain relief, and minimal or no scarring.

Recently, there's been a lot of debate about the ability of curcumin to be absorbed when taken orally, but it seems that putting it directly on your skin is a different story. This study suggests that a curcumin gel applied right away to mild or moderate burns could be extremely effective at speeding up healing and reducing symptoms... Excuse us while we prepare our own burn-ready turmeric salve.