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The plant Mucuna pruriens (Fabaceae) is an established herbal drug, widely known as "velvet bean," a vigorous annual climbing legume originally from Southern China and Eastern India, where it was at one time widely cultivated as a green vegetable crop. It has been shown that its seeds are potentially of substantial medicinal importance. The ancient Indian medical system, Ayurveda, traditionally used M. pruriens, even to treat such things as Parkinson's disease. M. pruriens has been shown to have antiparkinson and neuroprotective effects, which may be related to its antioxidant activity and used for the management of male infertility, nervous disorders, and also as an aphrodisiac.

Performance, haemato-biochemical indices and antioxidant status of growing rabbits fed on diets supplemented with Mucuna pruriens leaf meal

“…Phytochemicals in the phytogenic feed additives were reported to exhibit various biological activities that can influence the functions of the intestinal tract (Valenzuela-Grijalva et al, 2017). In particular, saponin, one of the detected phytochemicals in MLM, was linked to the reduction of cholesterol uptake in the gut (Yilkal, 2015). Recently, Oloruntola et al (2016a,b) recorded reduction of serum cholesterol level in rabbits and broiler chickens fed on diets containing 50 or 100 g/kg alchornea leaf meal.…”

Effect of Mucuna pruriens (Velvet Bean) Seed Meal Diet at Varying Levels on Blood Profile and Reproductive Performance of Rabbit Bucks

“…This is further supported by the stability of the total protein; creatinine and bilirubin concentration in the rabbits fed the various experimental diets supplemented with varying levels of MSM. The presence of some phytochemicals at the therapeutic level [53,54] may be responsible for these observations in this study.…”

Bioactive Components of Magical Velvet Beans

“…Numerous studies on antioxidant activity and phytoconstituents content of Mucuna seeds, leaves and roots were performed previously [4,7,19,30,31,[59][60][61][62]. Optimization of different solvents for the extraction of antioxidants was done by Aware and Patil et al [9,10,26].…”

“…l-Dopa is a precursor of dopamine used in the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders. Various scientists studied the potential of Mucuna to produce l-dopa as a source of anti-Parkinson's drug [8,19,75]. l-Dopa with other phytochemical compounds has a cumulative effect on the management of Parkinson's disease.…”

“…Thus, it was consumed universally for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Traditionally, in Ayurvedic science, Mucuna (velvet bean) plant is widely used to treat numerous diseases including parkinsonism [17][18][19][20][21] due to its l-dopa content as one of the principal constituents [9]. All parts of Mucuna have a great medicinal value in the ancient traditional medicinal system, and hence, it has a prodigious demand in the international and the Indian market [7,22].…”