Q.Explain the following :
Turmeric powder can be used as antiseptic.

Traditional medicine, refined over centuries of observed use, is an increasingly important starting point for modern drug discovery, and India's medicinal traditions have documented uses for a very large number of native plants. The chapter pairs six such plants with their traditional property and the specific active ingredient modern chemistry has since identified: turmeric (antiseptic, curcumin), wintergreen (analgesic, methyl salicylate), cinnamon (antimicrobial for colds, cinnamaldehyde), clove (antimicrobial and analgesic, eugenol), citrus fruits (antioxidant, vitamin C/ascorbic acid), and Indian gooseberry/amla (antidiabetic, antimicrobial, antioxidant -- vitamin C and gallic acid). The real-world importance of prote …