Turmeric (Curcumin) Helps Patients with Dyspepsia and Acid Reflux

Scherger, Joseph E. MD, MPH

Core Faculty, Eisenhower Health Family Medicine, Residency Program, Eisenhower Health Center, La Quinta, CA; Clinical Professor, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Financial Disclosure: Dr. Stephen Brunton, physician editor, reports he is on the speakers bureau for AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi; is a retained consultant for AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi; and is a stockholder with Paracrine. The relevant financial relationships listed have been mitigated. None of the remaining planners or authors for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Internal Medicine Alert 45(20):p 153-154, October 30, 2023.

SYNOPSIS: In a randomized, controlled trial, curcumin demonstrated comparable efficacy to omeprazole in treating dyspepsia and acid reflux.

SOURCE: Kongkam P, Khongkha W, Lopimpisuth C, et al. Curcumin and proton pump inhibitors for functional dyspepsia: A randomized, double blind controlled trial. BMJ Evid Based Med 2023; Sep 11: bmjebm-2022-112231. doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2022-112231. [Online ahead of print].