Mucuna Pruriens Powder

Product Description

What is it?

Mucuna Pruriens is a plant from India, the Caribbean or Arfica. It is a climbing shrub that has the ability to grow white, lavender, or purple flowers and causes itching upon physical contact with the outer hairs and skin. Like most herbal supplements, it possess an anti-oxidant content.

Mucuna is actually a legume, and thus has a caloric content. Beside the nutraceutical content below, mucuna (velvet) beans contain 20-35% protein by total caloric content. Mucuna also contains protein digestive enzyme inhibitors, which can be reduced with processing. Soaking in bicarbonate (following by autoclaving or cooking) has been shown to reduce a wide variety of anti-nutrients in Velvet beans, but also reduces levodopa content, the active ingredient.

Mucuna Pruriens contains L-DOPA, also known as Levodopa. This is a dopamine precursor and sometimes used as a pharmaceutical to treat Parkinson’s Disease (alongside another compound known as Carbidopa).

How to use?

Supplement-wise, 5g of Mucuna Prurients dried powder has been used with efficacy in some human studies on Parkinson’s Disease and Fertility. This dose or doses upwards of it should be a good starting point.

If your supplement is standardized for L-DOPA and you are supplementing for an effect attributed to L-DOPA, then start with about 1/2 the L-DOPA equivalent and work up if needed (this is due to the same amount of L-DOPA in Mucuna being more bioactive relative to isolated L-DOPA without carbidopa).

Mucuna Pruriens can be eaten isolated as a food product, but cooking is required to destroy trypsin inhibitors in the beans (so protein absorption is not hindered) yet cooking also destroys L-DOPA.

Ingredients

Mucuna Pruriens Powder

Origin: India

Health benefits

Mucuna pruriens have been long used to increase the sexual libido in both men and women.

The beans of Mucuna pruriens is being also used on sportspersons to increase their muscle mass. These seeds also help in improving the memory power and help to gain weight which is lost due to excessive exercise.

Prolactin is a hormone released by the pituitary gland which is considered to be the cause for erection failure in men. The beans of Mucuna pruriens are known to release L-dopa which combines with dopamine to restrict the release of prolactin hormone by the pituitary glands. Oral intake of Mucuna pruriens seed helps in promoting fertility and improves erection. Some people also use Mucuna pruriens seeds for treating intestinal gas, diarrhea, cough, rheumatic disorder, muscular pain, diabetes, menstrual pain and tuberculosis.

The main constituent of Mucuna pruriens seeds is L-dopa or Levadopa which acts as a natural dopamine.

The seeds of velvet bean are high in protein (20-29 %), lipids (6-7%), dietary fiber (8-10%), ash (3%), carbohydrates (50-60%) and minerals. Also they are extremely rich in alkaloids, saponins, and sterols. Mucuna seeds (as well as the seeds of all Mucuna species) contain high concentration of L-dopa (7-10%) – a direct precursor of the neurotransmitter dopamine. The hairs of the seed pots contain the phytochemical mucunain, the very constituent that irritates the skin when in contact. The serotonin is also has been found in the pod (as well as in the leaf and fruit).

Main use of the plant are following:

• It contain L-Dopa which is used as anti-Parkinson’s, help increases testosterone
• Aphrodisiac – increases libido and it is very good for impotency and erectile dysfunction
• It is used to stimulate growth of hormone – anabolic/androgenic
• It help reduces spasms and relieves pain – analgesic/ antispasmodic
• Help lowers blood sugar and blood pressure (hypo tensive)
• It increases urination (uterine stimulant), help reduces fever (febrifuge) and it is a good cough suppressant
• It calms nerves (nervine), reduces nerve pain (neurasthenic)
• It help lowers cholesterol (hypo cholesterolemic)
• it act as a weight loss aid
• It reduces inflammation – anti-inflammatory

Other important Mucuna properties:

• It help prevents or eliminates kidney stones (antilithic)
• It help kills parasites (antiparasitic) and expels worms (vermifuge)
• It expels gas (carminative)
• It is a menstrual stimulant
• It is a central nervous system stimulant
• Better sleep (promotes deep sleep)
• Reduces body fat, and decreases cellulite and wrinkles
• Improves skin texture and appearance
• Helps maintain bone density
• Increases lean muscle mass
• Improves sense of well-being
• Enhances libido and sexual performance
• Increases energy levels
• Favorably modulates blood lipids
• Improves adrenal and kidney health — builds Jing energy
• Strengthens the immune system
• Provides L-Dopa, which converts to Dopamine