{"id":191,"date":"2009-02-17T17:27:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T00:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/mucuna-pruriens.php"},"modified":"2015-02-13T08:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:25:58","slug":"mucuna-pruriens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/mucuna-pruriens\/","title":{"rendered":"Mucuna pruriens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as Velvet Bean.\u00a0 Mucuna pruriens is used in Ayurvedic medicine as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17385342\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aphrodisiac and treatment for\u00a0nervous disorders<\/a>.\u00a0 Velvet bean is used as <a href=\"http:\/\/jnnp.bmj.com\/content\/75\/12\/1672.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an alternative treatment in Parkinson&#8217;s Disease<\/a>, as it&#8217;s high in l-dopa, the precursor to the neurotransmitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=14345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dopamine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mucuna pruriens allegedly increases growth hormone output, although this claim (which appears in a <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&amp;r=2&amp;p=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;d=PTXT&amp;S1=(%22Mucuna+pruriens%22+AND+%22growth+hormone%22)&amp;OS=&quot;Mucuna+pruriens&quot;+and+&quot;growth+hormone&quot;&amp;RS=(&quot;Mucuna+pruriens&quot;+AND+&quot;growth+hormone&quot;)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">patent<\/a>) needs to be substantiated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as Velvet Bean.\u00a0 Mucuna pruriens is used in Ayurvedic medicine as an aphrodisiac and treatment for\u00a0nervous disorders.\u00a0 Velvet bean is used as an alternative treatment in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[589,672,739,968],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}