What is Curcumin?
Curcumin is volatile yellow-orange oil, extracted from Luyang Dilaw. The word for “turmeric” is still “Curcumin” in many languages, including German, Italian, and many Eastern languages. Turmeric spice is made from the root of the plant Curcuma longa, which is in the ginger family. Turmeric root is very deep orange, almost red. It is used very plentifully in India, and elsewhere in the East including the Philippines.
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Names in Other Languages : Habitat : Southern Asia and Polynesia
| Hindi | : | Haridra |
| Urdu | : | Haldi |
| Telugu | : | Passpu |
| Mandarin | : | Jiang Huang |
| Japanese | : | Kyoo |
| Tahitian | : | Re’a |
| Marquesan | : | Ena |
| : | Samoan, Tongan Ago, Ango | |
| Cook Islands | : | Renga |
Hawaiian ‘Olena (Curcuma domestica)
Literal English Translation
“Yellow Ginger”
Maude Grieve provides the following botanical information:
“Description: A perennial plant with roots or tubers oblong, palmate, and deep orange inside; root-leaves about 2 feet long, lanceolate, long, petioled, tapering at each end, smooth, of a uniform green; petioles sheathing spike, erect, central, oblong, green; flowers dull yellow, three or five together surrounded by bracteolae. It is propagated by cuttings from the root, which when dry is in curved cylindrical or oblong tubers 2 or 3 inches in length, and an inch in diameter, pointed or tapering at the end, yellowish externally, with transverse, parallel rings internally deep orange or reddish brown, marked with shining points, dense, solid, short granular fracture, forming a lemon yellow powder.
