Table 3.

Medicinal properties of Mucuna pruriens

Activity	Extract	Therapeutic effects	References
Aphrodisiac effect	Methanolic	Increase in the mounting frequency, ejaculation latency and decrease in the mounting latency, post-ejaculatory interval and interintromission interval	Suresh et al. (2009)
Antioxidant effect	Ethanolic Methanolic	Antilipid peroxidation property Inhibition of ascorbate-induced peroxidation. Decrease in the levels of lipid peroxidation and increase in the levels of glutathione, superoxide dismutase, and catalase	Tripathi and Upadhyay (2002) Kumar et al. (2010)
Antitumor effect	Methanolic	Decreased tumor volume, packed cell volume and viable cell count Prolonged the mean survival time. A decrease in WBC count and an increase in RBC count	Rajeshwar et al. (2005)
Antidiabetic effect	Aqueous	Reduced the blood glucose levels	Bhasker et al. (2008)
Antibacterial effect	Methanolic	Broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity against Gram-positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus and Gram-negative Proteus vulgaris	Verma et al. (2014)
Antiprotozoal effect	Methanolic	Eradicate Licthyophtirius multifilis infection in goldfish	Ekanem et al. (2004)
Anti Snake venom effect	Ethanolic	Protects rat heart and liver blood vessels against cobra venom-induced damages. Neutralize the lethalities of Naja sputatrix venoms	Fung et al. (2010)
Analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect	Ethanolic	Increased the pain threshold and decreased body temperature. Inhibits carrageenin-induced edema and showed anti-inflammatory activity	Tan et al. (2009)