Editing Turmeric (section)

===Traditional uses===
[[File:Khandoba temple Pune.jpg|thumb|[[Khandoba]]'s newer temple in [[Jejuri]], where devotees shower turmeric powder (''bhandara'') on each other]]
In 2019, the [[European Medicines Agency]] concluded that turmeric herbal teas, or other forms taken by mouth, on the basis of their long-standing traditional use, could be used to relieve mild digestive problems, such as feelings of fullness and [[flatulence]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=14 February 2019|title= ''Curcuma longa'' L., rhizoma|url=https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/herbal/curcumae-longae-rhizoma|access-date=19 November 2020|publisher=European Medicines Agency}}</ref>

Turmeric grows wild in the forests of South and Southeast Asia, where it is collected for use in classical Indian medicine (Siddha or Ayurveda).<ref name=nelson/> In Eastern India, the plant is used as one of the nine components of {{Transliteration|sa|nabapatrika}} along with young [[plantain (cooking)|plantain]] or banana plant, [[taro]] leaves, [[barley]] ({{Transliteration|sa|jayanti}}), [[Aegle marmelos|wood apple]] ({{Transliteration|sa|bilva}}), [[pomegranate]] ({{Transliteration|sa|darimba}}), ''[[Saraca indica]]'', {{Transliteration|sa|manaka}} (''[[Arum]]''), or {{Transliteration|sa|manakochu}}, and rice paddy. The Haldi ceremony called {{Transliteration|bn|[[gaye holud]]}} in Bengal (literally "yellow on the body") is a ceremony observed during wedding celebrations of people of Indian culture all throughout the Indian subcontinent.<ref>{{cite news |first=Maheen |last=Khan| title =A Bangladeshi Wedding Journal – Gaye Holud: Pre-Wedding Ceremony |newspaper =The Daily Star |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/a-bangladeshi-wedding-journal-49457 | date= 11 November 2014 | access-date= 22 February 2017}}</ref>

In [[Tamil Nadu]] and [[Andhra Pradesh]], as a part of the Tamil–Telugu marriage ritual, a dried turmeric tuber tied with a string is used to create a [[Thali necklace]]. In western and coastal India, during weddings of the [[Marathi people|Marathi]] and [[Konkani people]], [[Kannada people|Kannada]] [[Brahmins]], turmeric tubers are tied with strings by the couple to their wrists during a ceremony, ''Kankana Bandhana''.<ref name=maha>{{cite book|last1= Singh K|first1=S |last2= Bhanu| first2= BV |title=People of India: Maharashtra, Volume 1| year= 2004| publisher= Popular Prakashan |isbn= 9788179911006 | page= 487}}</ref> In many Hindu communities, turmeric paste is applied to the bride and groom as part of pre-wedding festivities known as the haldi ceremony.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ramadurai |first=Charukesi |title=India's original "turmeric latte" |url=https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200623-indias-original-turmeric-latte |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en}}</ref>

Turmeric makes a poor fabric [[dye]], as it is not [[Colour fastness|light fast]], but is commonly used in Indian clothing, such as [[sari]]s and [[Kasaya (clothing)|Buddhist monks' robes]].<ref name="merriam-webster"/> During the late [[Edo period]] (1603–1867), turmeric was used to dilute or substitute more expensive [[safflower]] dyestuff in the production of {{Transliteration|ja|[[shibori#Beni itajime|beni itajime shibori]]}}.<ref name="Beni itajime">{{cite journal |last1=Arai |first1=Masanao |last2=Iwamoto Wada |first2=Yoshiko |date=2010 |title=BENI ITAJIME: CARVED BOARD CLAMP RESIST DYEING IN RED |url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=tsaconf |format=PDF |journal=Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings |publisher=University of Nebraska |location=Lincoln |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102105415/https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=tsaconf |archive-date=2 November 2021}}</ref>{{rp|1}} [[Friedrich Ratzel]] reported in ''The History of Mankind'' during 1896, that in Micronesia, turmeric powder was applied for embellishment of body, clothing, utensils, and ceremonial uses.<ref>{{cite book|last= Ratzel| first= Friedrich|title=The History of Mankind|publisher=MacMillan| place= London| year=1896|url=https://archive.org/details/historymankind03ratzgoog}}</ref> [[Native Hawaiians]] who introduced it to [[Hawaii]] ({{langx|haw|{{okina}}ōlena}}) make a bright yellow dye out of it.<ref>{{cite web|title=Making dye from native and canoe plants|publisher=Mānoa Heritage Centre|date=27 May 2020|first=Zoe |last=Welch|url=https://www.manoaheritagecenter.org/2020/05/kaaipu-kakou-9/|access-date=28 October 2022}}</ref>