Mucuna Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Mucuna (Mucuna pruriens), the velvet bean or cowhage, is a vigorous annual climbing legume of the legume family, Fabaceae, native to tropical Africa and Asia and grown as a green manure and fodder crop across the tropics. It climbs 3-15 m with large trifoliate leaves and hanging clusters of dark purple or white pea flowers. The curved, S-shaped pods are covered in loose orange hairs that come off at a touch, the reason for the name "itchy bean", and hold shiny, mottled black, brown or white seeds. We extract the dried seed.