In a recent trial for ulcerative colitis, a multicenter, randomized, placebo - controlled, double - blind study found that more than 50 percent of patients achieved remission within just one
month on curcumin compared to none of the patients who received the placebo.
This study investigated the influence of chronically administered
curcumin on normal ageing - related parameters: lipid peroxidation, lipofuscin concentration and intraneuronal lipofuscin accumulation, activities of the enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), and Na (+), K (+), - adenosine triphosphatase (Na (+), K (+), - ATPase) in different brain regions (cerebral cortex, hippocampus, cerebellum and medulla) of 6 - and 24 -
month - old rats.