Other names : Hebanthe eriantha, Brazilian ginseng. It’s commonly called Brazilian ginseng, suma powder, and the term ginseng can generically refer to suma root as well. The scientific name for the most commonly studied form of suma root is Pfaffia paniculata, although any plant with the prefix Pfaffia is a ginseng/suma root type of plant.
==Special Precautions of suma==
* a paper written in Food Chemical Toxicology in 2004 found that Brazilian medicinal herbs had unusually high concentrations of lead, and that regular consumption could potentially lead to health problems.