The key component of curry — turmeric helps to protect liver from the diseases caused by alcohol. This spice that giving curry its specific yellow color eliminates the affection caused by alcohol abuse, a bunch of Finnish and American scientists considers.
Turmeric has already shown its antioxidant and anticarcinogenic power. However the result of the new research doesn’t mean in the least that the fact of using curry for eating permits to drink alcohol as much as you like. The promising results have been revealed during experiments on rats, though, and the rats were dosed with much higher amount of that used in cookery.
According to the task group, turmeric blocks the activation of a certain molecule that operates the response circuit leading to tissues swelling and destruction. During the experiment, scientists have been giving rats with cod-liver oil with dextrose and spirit for 4 weeks. The rats that have been given with turmeric have not shown traits of the liver adiposity, necrosis or swelling, found among the rest of the rats.
