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Mashelkar was shocked, because he knew that using turmeric that way was a well known remedy in traditional Indian medicine. had apparently filed a patent for using turmeric to help heal wounds. Raghunath Mashelkar was in his office in New Delhi when he came across a puzzling story in the newspaper. How one man fought a patent war over turmeric : Planet Money Back in the 1990s, Dr.

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