What is it?
common name: kapikachu, atmagupta, kaunch, velvet bean
botanical name: mucuna prurient
part used: seed
mucuna pruriens, also known as cowhage, and velvet bean contains a very powerful neurotransmitter pre-cursor l-dopa. Mucuna pruriens is a reputed remedy of ayurveda in nervous and sexual diseases. Traditionally, mucuna pruriens is commonly used as carminative, hypertensive and hypoglycemic agent.
what is in it?
seeds contain l-dopa (4-3, 4-dihydroxy phenyladaline) gluthione, lecithin, gallic acid, glycosides, prurenine, prurenidine, dark brown viscous oil. Alkaloids mucanine, tannic acid, resin, lecithin
it has anthelmintic, diuretic, aphrodisiac, nervine, astringent, rejuvenative, analgesic, carminative properties.

What is it?
common name: kapikachu, atmagupta, kaunch, velvet bean
botanical name: mucuna prurient
part used: seed
mucuna pruriens, also known as cowhage, and velvet bean contains a very powerful neurotransmitter pre-cursor l-dopa. Mucuna pruriens is a reputed remedy of ayurveda in nervous and sexual diseases. Traditionally, mucuna pruriens is commonly used as carminative, hypertensive and hypoglycemic agent.
what is in it?
seeds contain l-dopa (4-3, 4-dihydroxy phenyladaline) gluthione, lecithin, gallic acid, glycosides, prurenine, prurenidine, dark brown viscous oil. Alkaloids mucanine, tannic acid, resin, lecithin
it has anthelmintic, diuretic, aphrodisiac, nervine, astringent, rejuvenative, analgesic, carminative properties.