International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Bio-Medical Science ISSN(print): 2767-827X, ISSN(online): 2767-830X Volume 01 Issue 07 October 2021 Page No:112-118 DOI: https://doi.org/10.47191/ijpbms/v1-i7-06 , Impact Factor: 5.374 112 Volume 01 Issue 07 October 2021 Corresponding Author: Md Sadique Hussain Health Benefits of Curcumin in the Prevention and Treatment of Diseases Gurleen Kaur 1 , Md Sadique Hussain 2 , Tanushka Kataria 3 , Anuska Deb 4 , Chandan Mohapatra 5 1,3,4 Department of Pharmaceutical Science, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, 144411 INDIA. 2,5 Department of Pharmaceutical Science, Jaipur National University, Jagatpura, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302017 INDIA. ABSTRACT ARTICLE DETAILS Medicines obtained from plants have portrayed the crucial involvement in both cultures’ health, ancient and modern times because of their inexpensive properties and belief of the people that natural products have less or no side effects. Curcuma longa (turmeric), a perennial shrub integrated from the family Zingiberaceae, was used fora long as a spice to alleviate inflammation, discomfort, healing of wounds, and digestive ailments in Asian food. In various forms, curcumin is recognized and utilized globally for many health advantages, mainly due to its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory actions. The therapeutic effectiveness of curcumin against many illnesses, including arthritis, cardiovascular, diabetes, neurological, Crohn's disease, and tumor have already been recorded. The therapy of curcumin has been validated in a variety of respiratory diseases, such as asthma, bronchial hyperactivity, and allergy, as well as for liver, anorexia, rheumatism, and diabetic wounds according to Ayurvedic medicine. It is used to treat abdominal pain-related disorders as in traditional Chinese Medicine. It was utilized as a treatment for sprains and swelling in ancient Hindu medicine. This review paper outlines many health advantages and activities of Curcumin. KEY WORDS: Antioxidant, Anti-inflammatory, Respiratory, Ayurvedic, Chinese medicine. Published On: 25 October2021 Available on: https://ijpbms.com/ INTRODUCTION Natural products are the source of various active pharmaceuticals ingredients. From early times, natural products containing certain active chemical constituents are used as medicine to treat numerous diseases (1, 2). Approximately ten thousand of them are isolated from higher plants, produced as secondary metabolites which provide shielding from infection and illness (3). In comparison to standard combinational chemistry, natural products are prolonged to provide solitary structural diversity. This provides various opportunities for the introduction of many novel compounds. For many years, plants have been well recorded for their medicinal purposes in the form of oil, traditional medicines, and lotions with many of these bioactive natural products still being unknown (4). Natural products playa vital role in drug discovery and development (5, 6). The pharmaceutical properties of plants are extensively documented in the traditional medicines of many other cultures (7). Concerning both ancient and modern times, plants derived medicines have a vital role in the welfare and health care of many cultures. No wonder in comparison to many exotic synthetic drugs, plant-based drugs is considered to be more suitable for medicinal human use. On average, natural products are more readily absorbed than synthetic drugs (3, 1). In recent times, approximately more than half of the clinically used pharmaceutical compounds are obtained from natural products. Plant-derived drugs are used to treat and control diseases and this has contributed to the discovery of the masses of modern pharmaceutical agents (8). CURCUMIN Curcumin, which is an active ingredient of turmeric is extracted from the roots of Curcuma longa. It is also known as diferuloylmethane and is a hydrophobic polyphenol. It is the yellow-pigmented fraction derived from turmeric. Chemically, these are desmethoxycurcumin (curcumin II)