We start from room temperature m(H) presented as orange symbols in Figure . The negative slope confirms the diamagnetic character of turmeric, although a small near zero feature indicated that a small amount of ferromagnetic (FM) component is present. This may well be a contamination due to preparation of the spice at its place of origin. From the slope of this m(H), we evaluate the diamagnetic susceptibility as turmeric  -3. In order to accurately separate the PM signal in our turmeric sample, we invoke the fact that in most cases it is only the PM component that is responsible for changes of m(H) at low temperatures, a condition met in many magnetically composite systems in which the technique presented below worked with a very high precision . The diamagnetism should not depend on T, so should most of the FM contaminations, as latter are typically characterized by a very high spin coupling temperatures. Indeed, the m(T) dependence does not indicate any magnetic phase transition below 300 K. In such circumstances the calculated difference between the experimental points obtained at these two low temperatures should only reflect the change in the PM component-all other contributions get canceled. The magenta filled area and the corresponding symbols in Figure represent this difference. The required information on the spin state is obtained from fitting of this difference by the theoretical formulae describing the difference of the two Brillouin functions taken at 1. this transition metal dominates by far the other transition metals in turmeric . This analysis quantifies the dominant contribution; it does not preclude the presence of other unpaired spins in the material. Commercial magnetometers are volume probes and are not element specific, so they are limited in this respect. However, although this result cannot be regarded as a standard for the turmeric powder, it is only the employment of the C-CSH that makes such as analysis quantitative. It has to be noted that, as shown in Figure , the capsules themselves do exhibit PM properties, and this PM of capsules would mar the results of the analysis presented above. In contrast, the self-compensation of the magnetic properties of capsules in the C-CSH assembly eradicates this detrimental property, as documented for both kinds of capsules in Figure in the T-domain and in Figure in the H-domain.