I was on a Reddit bender a few weeks ago when I came across a variety of commenters extolling the benefits of a drug called “dopa mucuna.” The subthread was headed: “Mucuna pruriens (L-Dopa) makes me ...

A type of supplement known as the "dopamine bean" can contain very high levels of levodopa -- in some cases, higher than prescription formulations used to treat Parkinson's disease, researchers found.

Tânia Maria de Moura, Nelson A. Zamora, Gwilym P. Lewis, Vidal de Freitas Mansano and Ana Maria G. A. Tozzi A new species of Mucuna (Leguminosae) from Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia is described and ...

A new research letter published in the journal JAMA Neurology has reported some dietary supplements can contain extraordinarily high levels of a molecule called levodopa, which is often used in drug ...

Dopamine drops naturally as we age. In fact, according to a report in the journal Oxidative Medicine and Cell Longevity, each decade we lose up to 10% of the cells that produce and process dopamine. 2 ...

In advance of a comprehensive systematic study of New World Mucuna, we provide a taxonomic revision of the species of Mucuna that occur in Brazil. A new species, Mucuna analucianae, endemic to eastern ...

Aug. 8 (UPI) --Mucuna pruriens, a bean that naturally contains traces of levodopa, or L-dopa, which converts into dopamine in the brain, has been long used in Ayurvedic medicine for issues ranging ...

MANILA, Philippines - Every January, Hawaii’s Lyon’s Arboretum features one of their favorite exotic plants: The Philippine Black Mucuna: Mucuna nigricans (Lour.) Steud. Introduced during the early 90 ...

Mucuna pruriens is a member of the big family; Fabaceae. It is a lofty climber with pubescent stems. The flowers are deep purple to almost black. The fruit is densely clothed with rusty stinging hairs ...

India (Deccan): seeds eaten. Malawi (southern region): seeds eaten. Cooking process reported laborious. Mozambique (Macossa district): seeds/ beans, which have fallen to the ground, are boiled. The ...