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We are bulk suppliers of Mucuna extracts (L-Dopa), Mucuna powder and Mucuna seeds from India. Our integrated manufacturing project looks after the collection of herb, processing, extraction, packing and marketing. This entire previewing guarantees product quality, as we deal from herb to drug. We develop all our resources through cultivation only, which in long run will save precious natural resources and echo balance. We specialize in Mucuna all grades used in food and pharma industries. We supply Mucuna Pruriens to various traders, manufacturers and distributors of USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Middle East, Australia, South East Asian countries. Demand for Mucuna in the world market is growing as Sports Nutrition Supplement. Mucuna is also popular as a Health supplement for Parkinson's disease, Nervine tonic and Aphrodisiac. Our Mucuna undergoes strict quality control, and is free from any pesticide and heavy metal residue. There is strict microbiological testing to ensure that our Mucuna confirms to WHO standards.
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Cowhage
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LATIN NAME : MUCUNA PRURIENS
FAMILY : LEGUMINOSAE
COMMON NAME : Cowitch, Cowhage, Velvet Bean, Cow-itch, Buffalo bean
SANSKRIT NAME : Kapikachhu, Atmagupta
PARTS USED : Seeds, Root, Legumes.
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INTRODUCTION : Mucuna has been used for generations in India to treat Parkinson's disease. Mucuna pruriens contains L-Dopa. L-dopa is used to make dopamine, an important brain chemical involved in mood, sexuality and movement. Mucuna pruriens has antioxidant properties.
Mucuna pruriens is one of the popular medicine of India and it constituent more than 200 indigenous drug formulations. All parts of Mucuna posses valuable medicinal properties. After the discovery that Mucuna seeds contain L-dopa, an anti-parkinson’s disease drug, its demand in international market has increased many fold.
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PLANT DESCRIPTION : Mucuna pruriens is an annual vine that grows up to 30 ft. The leaves are alternate with three large, rhomboid-ovate leaflets. The flowers are large white to dark purple color and hang in long racemes. Mucuna pruriens produces clusters of pods that are curved, 4 to 8 cm long covered with very small velvety hairs of reddish-orange color. The pods hairs are readily dislodged and can cause intense irritation to the skin. Each pods contain 2-6 seeds.
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HABITATE : Cowhage is widespread over most of the subcontinent and is indigenous to India as a popular medicinal plant and can be found in bushes, hedges and dry-deciduous, low forests throughout the plains of India.
DISTRIBUTION : Mucuna Pruriens is used as a minor food crop and medicinal bean in India, West Africa, and Central America.
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HISTORY : Mucuna is a native of India, West Indies, tropical America, Africa, and the Pacific Islands. Travellers in the tropics know Cowhage well on account of their nasty experience of skin irritation by the stinging hairs which are easily shaken off the pods upon touch. In history, Mucuna has been used as an aphrodisiac. It is still used to increase libido in both men and women, and can help with erectile dysfunction. It was also used to treat depression, nervous disorders, and to help improve mental alertness.
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CHEMICAL COMPOSITION : Mucuna prurienes has been found to contain L-DOPA about 40 mg/g of the plant. Mucuna prurienes contain the bioactive alkaloids mucunine, mucunadine, mucuadinine, pruriendine and nicotine, besides B-sitosterol, glutathione, lecithin, oils, venolic and gallic acids. The seed coat contains a number of bioactive substances such as tryptamine, alkylamines, steroids, flavonoids, coumarins, cardenolides. The pods of the Mucuna have hair that contains mucunian and serotonin. Upon contact with skin causes itching, blisters, and dermatitis.
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PHARMACOLOGY : Mucuna Pruriens and neurotransmitters
Mucuna pruriens influences the domapine system. A study was designed to elucidate the long-term effect of Mucuna pruriens on neurotransmitters in various regions of the rat brain. The failure of Mucuna pruriens endocarp to significantly affect dopamine metabolism in the striatonigral tract along with its ability to improve Parkinsonian symptoms in the 6-hydorxydopamine animal model and humans may suggest that its anti-parkinson effect may be due to components other than levodopa or that it has an levodopa enhancing effect.
ACTION : Anthelmintic, Aphrodisiac, Nervine, Astringent, Rejuvenative, Analgesic, Carminative.
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USES OF MUCUNA PRURIENES :
The young pods are used as vegetables mostly the immature seeds are eaten after purification process.
Farmers use Mucuna as a cover crop, a fodder or a green manure.
Toasted ground seeds are used as a coffee substitute.
Ayurveda Classical text describes this herb as a powerful nervine tonic and aphrodisiac, applicable to the treatment of disorders of the male or female reproductive system.
A clinical study confirmed the efficacy of the seeds in the management of spasms associated with Parkinson's disease for its high L-Dopa content, the precursor to the neurotransmitter dopamine.
Mucuna prurienes increases the production of HGH (Human Growth Hormone) and testosterone levels. This in turn increases the body's ability to build lean muscle and break down fat. Mucuna can be a very beneficial supplement for bodybuilders.
Infusion of the pods is a good remedy for dropsy. Cowhage has also been used for fevers, edema, and elephantiasis.
The seeds are used in leucorrhoea, menorrhagia, spermatorrhoea, Cowhage is one of the best tonics to improve vitality.
The hairs or bristles of cowhage pods are employed as a vermifuge, and seem to act against the several species of worms, except the tape-worm. The pods are anthelmintic and the root powder a laxative.
This herb is being investigated as a possible remedy for AIDS.
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