Curcumin as an adjuvant therapy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
By Jaysonn Vel, MS3, UTMB and Samuel Mathis, M.D., UTMB Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is an increasingly common intestinal condition characterized by a relapsing and remitting course of abdominal pain with a change in bowel habits. It affects millions of individuals and has severe effects on quality of life with an increase in morbidity and risk of colorectal cancer. There are two variants of IBD that are defined according to location and depth of intestinal...