About turmeric (circumin), it may raise acetylcholine.
I'll repost my post and Rick's from the sticky thread:
A good article about mucuna pruriens:
http://www.parkinson.org/site/pp.asp...JLPwB&b=184301
Zandopa (HP200) source:
http://mall.coimbatore.com/bnh/zandu/zandopa.htm
This was ordered 10/4 and arrived from India on 10/13.
Herbal Powers has their mucuna extract back in stock. It's 60% L-Dopa, and a couple of posters use it with great benefit:
http://herbalpowers.stores.yahoo.net...apruriens.html
This arrived within three days of ordering.
FROM RICK:
mucuna experience
i've been using it for a year or so. some thoughts--
1- this is a real drug. treat it with respect.
2- the higher the level of ldopa the less mucuna. this is not necessarily a good thing since mp is a veritable chemical warehouse and our knowledge of its safety is based on the whole bean powder. herbal powers product is too good for me. i am currently using "dopabean" by solaray at 15% ldopa.
3- if you take it with sinemet and carbidopa enzyme inhibitor expect a different effect than if you don't.
4- don't take it if pregnant.
all that being said i still trust it more than sinemet.