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I also believe that the best effect of mucuna is other than that of l-dopa. I take one mucuna (400 m g) a couple of hours before going to bed --and again one if I awaken too early in the morning (no MAOI scrutiny). In addition to producing a brief l-dopa effect, mucuna seems to have two or three other effects within me. It keeps me limber. And it promotes good sleep. I also feel as it it lowers the content of l-dopa, or levels off, gently in the evening. It may be the reason as to why I feel I sleep better, falling into deep sleep and staying there. It does not matter even if it happened to be a placebo effect! It works for me. I do not have scientific evidence to justify this (I wish someone would study it in a clinical setting). I just go by how I feel. I was under the impression that India is the country where mucuna pruriens is really used... Ansa Ojanlatva ----- Original Message ----- From: mschild <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:53 am Subject: Re: turmeric and mucuna pruriens/Moneesha To: [log in to unmask] > > Just received mucuna pruriens capsules 200 mg- would you recommend them? > > > normally you take mucuna instead of a dose of ldopa, not on top. > John tried it, found it was effective but not always easy to get. > Some articles said the effect of mucuna was quicker and longer lasting > than > sinemet. Everyone is different. > I remeber reading somewhere that they thought the effect of mucuna was > not > really due to the ldopa it contains but due to some other natural components > > maryse > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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