Turmeric's cancer-fighting properties are called curcumin. [4] Turmeric's anti-cancer effects are not news. [5] Turmeric (Latin scientific name: Curcuma longa L.) is also known as: yu Jin, Baoding xiang, hao Ming, yellow ginger, etc. Turmeric plantain order, ginger, curcuma perennial herbaceous plant, plant height 1 ~ 1.5m, the rhizome is very developed, the root is stout, the end is swollen into a root; Leaf blade oblong or elliptic, apex shortly acuminate; Bracts ovate or oblong, pale green, apex blunt, corolla pale yellow; Flowering is August. Turmeric can break blood stasis and relieve pain. Indications chest and abdomen pain, shoulder and arm pain, heartache, postpartum blood pain, the beginning of the sore tinea, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, fall injury. Yellow food dye can also be extracted; Curcumin can be used as an analytical chemical reagent. The rhizome of this kind and turmeric are the commodity source of Chinese herbal medicine "turmeric". Turmeric: pick up impurities, soak in water, scoop up, moisten and then slice and dry. Piece turmeric: pick out impurities and residual fibrous roots, brush mud debris, dry. [3] For medicinal use, qi can break blood stasis, relieve pain. Indications chest and abdomen pain, shoulder and arm pain, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, fall injury. Yellow food dye can also be extracted; Curcumin can be used as an analytical chemical reagent.