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.