SUMA, Lift Yourself from the Pit

Suma Root – Suma or Brazilian Ginseng, has adaptogenic qualities and can help manage several diseases by normalizing and enhancing body systems, increasing resistance to stress and boosting overall function. Suma regulates many systems of the body acting as an immuno-stimulant, helping with exhaustion, chronic fatigue, impotence, arthritis, anemia, diabetes, cancer, tumors, mononucleosis, high blood pressure, PMS, menopause and other hormonal disorders and all types of stress. 

Suma Root is used as a general tonic for energy, rejuvenation, and as a sexual tonic.  It is popular as a general cure-all for many types of illnesses. Suma, in many cases, is also used as an aphrodisiac, a calming agent, and to helps sooth ulcers.  

Suma Root is employed as a cellular oxygenator and stimulates appetite and circulation, increases estrogen production, balances blood sugar levels, enhances the immune system, strengthens the muscular system, and enhances memory.  It helps increase the body's resistance to harmful influences by a wide range of physical, chemical, and biochemical factors and has a normalizing or restorative effect on the body as a whole.

In North America, Suma Root is used mainly used for exhaustion, chronic fatigue, impotence, arthritis, anemia, mononucleosis, high blood pressure, PMS, menopause, and hormonal disorders, and many types of stress.

In South America, specifically in Ecuador, Suma Root (Brazilian Ginseng) is considered a tonic and "normalizer" for the cardiovascular system, the central nervous system, the reproductive system, and the digestive system; it is used to treat hormonal disorders, sexual dysfunction and sterility, arteriosclerosis, circulatory and digestive disorders, rheumatism, and bronchitis. 

In Europe, Suma is used to restore nerve and glandular functions, to balance the endocrine system, to strengthen the immune system, for infertility, menopausal, and menstrual symptoms, to minimize the side effects of birth control medications, for high cholesterol, to neutralize toxins, and as a general restorative tonic after illness. 

This extract can be diluted 1:10 with pure water and used as a wash for open sores or wounds.

CONTRA-INDICATIONS: NOTICE:  Should NOT be given in high doses during the 1st and 2nd trimesters of Pregnancy. 

Suggested Uses: Standard dosage for Suma extract is 10-20 drops, 3 times daily and is usually taken 1 or 2 hours before meals with pure water or juice.