“…It is native to India and Southeast Asia and has been used to treat a broad range of common ailments, especially inflammatory diseases, as an oral and topical medicine, in Indian Ayurvedic medicine for at least 4000 years, as well as in Chinese, Arabic and other traditional medicines [146] . Its beneficial effects on IBD were observed in animal models [147] , through in vitro assays [148] and clinical trials [149] , [150] . The main effects attributed to curcumin are related to anti-inflammatory and anticancer activities [136] , however in analyzing Table 1 , we can observe that curcumin, alone [151] , [152] , or in combination with other plants such as Gingko biloba [153] or compounds like aminoguanidine [154] , show important antioxidant effects, like decrease of LP, and of RONS production, as well as increase of antioxidant enzymes.…”