DOLICHOS PRURIENS OR MUCUNA PRURIENS
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, 6th potency.
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