Curcumin---

Where can I find curcumin, is it a spice or a pill supplement?

I tried to take it after I was first dx and got nosebleeds.  Has anyone else had this problem or heard of it happening?  It was listed as a SE.  I would certainly like to take it along with my other supplements.  

My integrative doctor has me on glutathione, msm, vitamin C (high doses) mushrooms, and Vit D-3.  I am also scheduled to begin getting Meyer's cocktail twice weekly which are vitamin infusions.  Also have changed my diet dramatically to veggies, mostly raw, protein, and no gluten. 

Thanks seashelly - I put it in my basket at amazon.  I did notice that puritan's pride turmeric said it contains black pepper which is supposed to help the turmeric work.  Has anyone tried this brand?

Bonjour everyone !

Flannelette: Well, it says curcumin on my spice bottle. In French turmeric & curcumin means the same thing, I'd never heard of turmeric before reading it in English. I googled in English and it says that curcumin is the major component of turmeric, anti inflammatory etc (curcumin-turmeric.net)

I didn't know curry was so beneficial, thanks girls for pointing that out :-)  Another spice I can use with extra joy. Marianna, your chickendish sounds great. Gumby, I'm pleased to hear, as we all are I suppose, that you get much help from the supplement version, there is so much talk whether supplements work or not (for the moment I stick to the spice version simply for the fact that I have a lot of time on my hands to cook and I love it, when I go back to work it will certainly be another story). That curcumin would allieve joint and bone pain is very interesting and encouraging. I don't avoid all soy either, but tempeh and other soy marinated food must be organic, otherwise I say no. I agree that it seems so overkill & too hardline to eradicate all spices, herbs & foods with supposed estrogenic activity (as long as they're not synthetic or xenoestrogens I tend to think maybe they balance our hormones). I really like something called seitan, it's wheatgluten, marinated in soy and miso. I don't eat it too often as I'm wary of too much gluten, but it's good & quite original. It replaces the meat, so to speak. 

"Gluten can be flavored in a variety of ways. When simmered in a traditional broth of soy sauce or tamari, ginger, garlic, and kombu (seaweed), it is called seitan" http://www.vrg.org/recipes/vjseitan.htm

Sorry if I was not clear.... she meant in cooking!!  She said it was easy to overdo it when you are putting Curcumin into a dish..... not in treating inflammation with BC!  Thus the bitter taste in food, when overused.