Turmeric has been revered in India and China as both food and medicine for thousands of years, but the West has been very slow to embrace it. The ancient Greeks through Marco Polo were familiar with turmeric, but to them it merely served as a source for yellow dye. Up until the last few decades, even herbalists paid it little mind.
Today, turmeric is something of an herbal celebrity, as thousands of studies promising therapeutic benefits for a host of diseases have thrust the rhizome into the supplement spotlight.
