Mucuna pruriens

=== Chemistry ===

=== Chemistry ===

The seeds of the plant contain about 3.1–6.1% {{Nowrap|[[L-DOPA|<small>L</small>-DOPA]]}}.<ref name="toxicology">{{cite book |last1=Dart |first1=Richard C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qDf3AO8nILoC&q=%22mucuna+pruriens%22+alkaloids&pg=PA1679 |title=Medical Toxicology – Google Book Search |year=2004 |publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |isbn=978-0-7817-2845-4 |access-date=2008-03-15}}</ref> ''M.&nbsp;pruriens'' var. ''pruriens'' has the highest content of {{Nowrap|{{sm|l}}-DOPA}}. An average of 52.11% degradation of [[L-DOPA]] into damaging [[quinone]]s and reactive oxygen species was found in seeds of ''M.&nbsp;pruriens'' varieties.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Pulikkalpura H, Kurup R, Mathew PJ, Baby S |date=June 2015 |title=Levodopa in ''Mucuna pruriens'' and its degradation |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=11078 |bibcode=2015NatSR...511078P |doi=10.1038/srep11078 |pmc=4460905 |pmid=26058043}}</ref>

The seeds of the plant contain about 3.1–6.1% [[L-DOPA]].<ref name="toxicology">{{cite book |last1=Dart |first1=Richard C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qDf3AO8nILoC&q=%22mucuna+pruriens%22+alkaloids&pg=PA1679 |title=Medical Toxicology – Google Book Search |year=2004 |publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |isbn=978-0-7817-2845-4 |access-date=2008-03-15}}</ref> ''M.&nbsp;pruriens'' var. ''pruriens'' has the highest content of L-DOPA. An average of 52.11% degradation of L-DOPA into damaging [[quinone]]s and [[reactive oxygen species]] was found in seeds of ''M.&nbsp;pruriens'' varieties.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Pulikkalpura H, Kurup R, Mathew PJ, Baby S |date=June 2015 |title=Levodopa in ''Mucuna pruriens'' and its degradation |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=11078 |bibcode=2015NatSR...511078P |doi=10.1038/srep11078 |pmc=4460905 |pmid=26058043}}</ref>

== Taxonomy ==

== Taxonomy ==