Tamarind Institute Albuquerque

Tamarind Institute Albuquerque

Tamarind Institute Albuquerque

Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease by Bharat B. Aggarwal, PhD, with Deborah Yost (Sterling Publishing, New York, 2011) is a helpful guide to matching food flavorings and taste enhancements to ailments that many people would like to minimize or avoid all together.

Melding modern science and traditional medicine

Dr. Aggarwal has a long list of credentials, beginning with his doctoral degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, his work in endocrinology and molecular biology, his professorship in cancer research, and his current directorship at the Cytokine Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston Texas. He also has his heritage of growing up in Punjab, India, where he learned traditional medicinal practices from his mother, who kept a “giant spice cabinet” and considered spices both a food and a medicine.

Dr. Aggarwal has authored hundreds of papers on topics in his field. They have been published by leading scientific journals and carried on official websites. For example, the U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health offers several of Dr. Aggarwal's articles on its website, including “Prostate cancer and curcumin: add spice to your life.”