Off Topic Coronavirus

I am Staines, but born, bred & raised in London.

Turmeric has many medicinal characteristics. I've never heard of it being rubbed on the feet though.

It's the stuff that makes your fingers go yellow when dipping your naan bread in curry.

 

I guessed so mate. Yeah the ‘aunties’ seem to use it for everything where I am, but I was a bit taken aback by the feet thing . Only seen it once and didn’t quite get why....I didn’t like to argue though and just let her get on with it while we worked further up
And they always offer a cup of tea.....though I have to mostly decline as my bladder is weaker these days

 

Good luck Totally ... hope you and your family come through well at the end of this.

 

As you probably gather I act as a scientific advisor to a national charity on autoimmune diseases...and about once every few months we get asked about tumeric.

It seems to have genuine antiinflammatory properties. And our patients do actually take it in tablet form to decrease their inflammatory responses... And undoubtedly in powder form too in food
We don't promote it or even sanction it as we cannot in anyway control their intake...but some patient swear by it.

 

My wife's Auntie, born in Kenya but of Indian heritage also swears by it. She gave her something similar in a tin (will have to check what it is) to add to her food. A sprinkle here and there. Judging by her sleeping pattern it's probably amphetamine!

 

If it’s a cure for everything in ‘aunties’ eyes....it’s gotta be Tumeric

 

mrs kiwi takes turmeric every night
along with lots of other capsules and pills designed to keep her alive long enough to outlive me

 

Massive distrust from the black and Asian community apparently 9’s.

 

Hope you all kick its arse and are feeling better soon.

 

What you mean them not getting it ? I hadn’t read that and saw a report on the news a couple of days ago saying it was still the case.

 

https://www.ft.com/content/9019eddf-6d65-4b8d-b7b3-241578dc6e4f

That was from 3 days ago

Damn don’t think it can be accessed. However was say the distrust still exists

 

I really don’t know why this seems to be the case to be honest. Funny I was talking to my Mrs about it and she said it was a general mistrust in her opinion. Talked about some of the experiments on black people in the states with syphilis and how figures show that a disproportionate amount of black women die in childbirth......I didn’t look it up but she reckons those sort of things are known about in the black community.
Luckily her dad her no reservations, which is fortunate as he hasn’t been very well recently. I was pleased when she told me he’d had it.

 

Afraid so mate....look up the ‘Tuskegee Syphilis Study’ when you get a chance...truly horrific and something most haven’t heard about.

Night fella.

 

Was half watching something on vice last night and it said 3 times as many black women die in childbirth compared to white women in the good old US of a
Was looking at something else so I don't know the reasons given
Might look at it again later