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Mucuna pruriens extract: the velvet bean concentratedMucuna pruriens is a climbing annual legume in the pea family (Fabaceae, also written Leguminosae). The literature traces the species to southern China and eastern India, where it was once grown on a large scale as a green vegetable crop, and it is now cultivated across much of the tropics. Its pods are what people remember. On the wild forms they are covered in long stinging hairs that contain serotonin and a protein called mucunain, and...
Mucuna pruriens extract: the velvet bean concentratedMucuna pruriens is a climbing annual legume in the pea family (Fabaceae, also written Leguminosae). The literature traces the species to southern China and eastern India, where it was once grown on a large scale as a green vegetable crop, and it is now cultivated across much of the tropics. Its pods are what people remember. On the wild forms they are covered in long stinging hairs that contain serotonin and a protein called mucunain, and...