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Botanical Profile

Suma

hebanthe eriantha

Medicinal Actions

Conditions Treated

Anemia Cancer Diabetes EBV Fatigue Immunodepression Melanoma Menopause Sickle Cell Anemia Stress Tumor Virus

Safety & Contraindications

Class 1. Not covered. Once a well-known published author offered me a generous consulting fee to go through the Spanish and Portuguese literature and summarize the folk literature and information on suma for him. I had written on the plant long ago for the Flora of Panama, where Pfaffia also occurs. He came from one of the four main entry disciplines to ethnobotany and herbal medicine and medical botany, anthropology, botany, chemistry, and pharmacy/pharmacology but I’ll not divulge. I gave him 4 days worth of work and found nothing. He reneged because my report was negative. Today, that scientist continues to publish, often copying without citing other ethnobotanical writers’ data. And he is, what I call, one of the paid hypsters who will write a positive opinion page on a worthless herb, for a fee. Then an