Turmeric is a perennial herb and its plants like ginger plant. Its smell is sweet, fragrant like the pollen of mango. The root has beautiful captivating golden complexion, when taken out of ground. This is then dried in the sun and is known as turmeric. According to Hakeem Hashmi, the stringent and sour tasted turmeric is a time-tested beauty aid and a nourishing herb which not only gives natural gloss, royal glow and luster and also imparts vigor and youthful vitality to the entire body.
Turmeric has numerous medicinal virtues.
The rhizomes of root are aromatic, stimulant and a tonic. It is useful in relieving flatulence. It corrects the disordered process of nutrition and restored the normal function of the system. It is also useful in curing period attacks of hysteria and convulsions. Turmeric is a very effective intestinal antiseptic.