Mucuna Pruriens Extract

Mucuna pruriens (Fabaceae) is an established herbal drug used for the management of male infertility, nervous disorders, and also as an aphrodisiac. It has been shown that its seeds are potentially of substantial medicinal importance. The ancient Indian medical system, Ayurveda, traditionally used M. Mucuna pruriens is an annual climbing shrub with long vines that can reach over 15 metres (50 feet) in length. When the plant is young, it is almost completely covered with fuzzy hairs, but when older, it is almost completely free of hairs. Mucuna pruriens is a good source of crude protein (24–31.44%), crude carbohydrate (42.79–64.88%), crude lipid (4.1–14.39%), crude fibre (5.3–11.5%), ash (2.9–5.5%) [4] and its digestibility is comparable to that of other pulses like soybean, rice bean and lima bean [1,5].