I remember trying turmeric once before, when I first got this and was still working at the health food store. I tried it for about a month or six weeks, but I don't recall it really helping any at all. I've been thinking about trying it again now though. Do you guys use the plain straight turmeric formulas, or the standardized extracts of curcumin, the active component?

I've always had mixed feelings about standardized herbal extracts. I mean, Mother Nature designed things with a certain balance of phytochemicals in mind, so tampering with them by extracting just one component over the others doesn't always seem like a good idea to me.

Just curious if anyone has ever tried both, and whether one helped more than the other...?

Thanks.