Turmeric
Turmeric is made of the curcuma root, a poor relation of ginger, and a source of curcumin, used in traditional medicine in India for more than 6 thousand years.
Curcumin acts as an antioxidant and prevents cardiovascular diseases. It has an antitumour effect protecting from the formation to the evolution of tumours, it is anti-inflammatory, anti-ageing, antidepressant, wound healing, and it also helps losing weight and body fat.