In Conversation: What to choose for your cough & cold — turmeric milk or paracetamol? Dr Abby Philips answers

Dr Philips stresses how Paracetamol is safe and how using turmeric as a medicine for colds can be potentially toxic.

BySumit Jha

Published May 11, 2023 | 2:47 PMUpdatedMay 11, 2023 | 3:50 PM

Hepatologist and Clinician-Scientist Dr Cyriac Abby Philips debunks the popular usage of turmeric in Indian households to combat the common cold.

In Conversation with South First reporter Sumit Jha, Dr Philips stresses on how Paracetamol is the ‘safest’ medicine in the world and shares his views on how using turmeric as a medicine for colds can be potentially toxic.