DOLICHOS PRURIENS OR MUCUNA PRURIENS
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DOLICHOS PRURIENS OR MUCUNA PRURIENS BOTANICAL NAME: Mucuna pruriens Baker FAMILY: Leguminosae COMMON NAMES: English-Cowhage, Horse-eye; French-Pois velus; German-Juckbohme; Hindi-Kawanch. DISCRIPTION: An annual twining herb. Leaves 3-foliate. Leaflets ovate or rhomboid. Flowers in elongated racemes., purplish in colour. Pod 5-6 seeded. DISTRIBUTION: Throughout the plains of India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. PART USED: The hairs carefully scraped from the epidermis of pod HOMOEOPATHY USES. Mucuna pruriens is the best-known natural source of L-dopa, so used in the treatment of Parkinsonism. Skin, intense itching without eruptions. Haemorrhoids, bleeding. Pain in throat, below right angle of jaw, as if splinter were embedded vertically. POTENCY: Mother tincture, 6 th potency.