[PARKINSON'S] Dopamine precursor, L-dopa, and C-dopa in mucana beans and sprouted fava beans
Mucana
Mucana (velvet bean) is an ayurvedic herb. Sold in powder form and tablet form. Not available whole to make tincture. Making tincture with powder is difficult as it is difficult to strain the powder.
Fava beans
Simultaneous Determination of Levodopa and Carbidopa from Fava Bean, Green Peas and Green Beans by High Performance Liquid Gas Chromatography
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3708185/
www.favabeans.parkinsonsrecovery.com/
www.favabeans.parkinsonsrecovery.com/fava-l-dopa-tincture
www.blogtalkradio.com/parkinsons-recovery/2012/02/01/fava-bean-tincture
Green peas
Study investigated the amount of L-DOPA and dopamine in the leaves and roots of three species of legume family viz. Pisum sativum (garden pea), Phaseolus vulgaris (haricot bean) and Vicia faba (broad bean). Results showed all three cultivars accumulated different levels of L-DOPA and dopamine in leaves and roots.
Catecholamines are active plant-based drug compounds in Pisum sativum, Phaseolus vulgaris and Vicia faba Species by Mahdi Khozaei*, Fatemeh Ghorbani, Gashtasb Mardani, Rahman Emamzadeh / J HerbMed Pharmacol. 2014; 3(1): 61-65.
www.lifesciencesite.com/lsj/life1112s/009_26083life1112s14_55_63.pdf
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Posted Nov 16, 2015, 3:48 AM UTC · edited