these links provided much needed information. thank you so much for sharing:>) my prurien bean plants look wonderful, no pods yet, but they are climbing quickly and should be producing soon, i hope. these 100 degree days and hand watering every 3rd day may not produce the abundance and quality i would like. i am excited to try the testing method mentioned below for levodopa content . thanks again for your help... patti cg On Jun 30, 2009, at 9:02 PM, Jim Slattery wrote: > For those interested in growing and/or eating vicia faba and/or > mucuna pruriens beans as a supplementary or alternative treatment > for Parkinson's Disease, there is some information that might be > useful on the following web sites: > http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1738871 > http://www.neuroassist.com/Fava-Bean.htm > http://forum.parkinson.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1737 > http://home.cogeco.ca/~allan/beans.html > http://home.cogeco.ca/~allan/medicinal_beans.html > > For professional and ethical reasons, I can't make any > recommendations one way or the other. > > Jim > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn