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Mucuna pruriens: Vetiver خس Khus Chrysopogon zizanioides: Wall flower seeds تخم تودری سرخ Tukhm-e-Todri Surkh Cheiranthus cheiri: Walnut tree bark دنداصہ Dandasa Juglans regia: Water lily flower گُل نیلوفر Gul-e-Neelofer, Kanwal Ka Phool Nymphaea alba: White beeswax دیسی موم سفید Desi Moom Safaid Cera alba ...
Itching powder was created from Mucuna pruriens in the early-19th century as a cure for lost feeling in the epidermis. When a person would lose feeling on their skin in conditions such as paralysis, the powder (mixed with lard to form an ointment) was used as a local stimulant believed to treat the condition. [9] [10]
Mucuna is a genus of around 114 accepted species of climbing lianas (vines) and shrubs of the family Fabaceae: tribe Phaseoleae, typically found in tropical and subtropical forests in the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, southern, southeastern, and eastern Asia, New Guinea, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
Mucuna pruriens is a tropical legume native to Africa and tropical Asia and widely naturalized and cultivated. [2] Its English common names include monkey tamarind , velvet bean , Bengal velvet bean , Florida velvet bean , Mauritius velvet bean , Yokohama velvet bean , cowage , cowitch , lacuna bean , and Lyon bean . [ 2 ]
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The word mucuna is the vernacular name for Mucuna urens in an indigenous language of Brazil, and in 1763 this word was chosen by the French botanist Michel Adanson in his Familles naturelles des plantes to be the generic epithet for this genus of legumes, [3] [4] although M. urens was itself known as Dolichos urens until being transferred to Mucuna many years later.
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The hairy pods of Mucuna poggei. The proteolytic enzyme mucunain is a protein in the tissues of certain legumes of the genus Mucuna, especially velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens). [1] [2] [3] In these species the mucunain is found in stiff hairs, or trichomes, covering the seed pods. When the hairs rub off and come in contact with skin they cause ...