If you like the floor turmeric imparts on the food you cook use. If your reasoning is its supposed health benefits your thinking is in error.
Forget what you’ve heard: Turmeric seems to have zero medicinal properties
Turmeric has done the full circle: from ancient remedy to hipster Western drink. Even today, Indians readily apply it on fresh wounds, chicken-pox scabs, and insect bites. Medical professionals prescribe it for urological diseases, worm infections, and even cancer. Such has been the hype that the yellow-golden spice is widely touted as a validation of traditional medicine.