Mucuna Pruriens for Parkinson’s disease
This is the initiation of an important Forum on the value of Mucuna Pruriens’s for patients with Parkinon’s disease. Patients are invited to share their experiences at the bottom of this article thus share it with other users.
Mucuna Pruriens is a plant whose components are part of at least 200 different ayurvedic preparations. In India, Mucuna Pruriens known as Kapikachhu. All parts of the plant are known for medicinal uses. There is a variety of familiar applications, ranging from potency increase, improvement of fertility in men, antidote for snake bites and, last but not least for Parkinson’s disease. The plant is also known by the names Pica Pica, Kapikachu, Yerepe, Yoruba, Atmagupta, Common Cowitch, Velvet bean, Velvet bean and Cowhage. Especially for patients with Parkinson’s disease is very interesting this preparation.
Mucuna pruriens preparations are already hundreds of years used in traditional ayurvedic medicine. The preparation has an obvious effect on various systems for transmission of nerve impulses (neurotransmitter systems), including the dopamine system. In 2004, the first major treatment results of a placebo-controlled clinical study published.The study was reporting the effects of 15 and 30 grams of a preparation of these seeds in patients with Parkinson’s disease. The results were encouraging. We share with you our knowledge on this treatment, its efficacy and its safety.
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