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 ...

The de novo transcriptome analysis was performed using leaves of the selected M. pruriens mutant T-IV-9 during maturity. The putative L-DOPA pathway and its regulatory genes were retrieved from ...

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 ...

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 ...