(08-10-2015, 07:50)char Wrote: Woa! They sent that brown powder and called it PM? Hmmm. I don't think so, either. The first stuff that I ever got, that I was very sure is PM (still have some) is not quite white. It is a light tan/khaki/beige color. I later got some "PM" that was like white powder. I was really upset about that order, because the seller got away with it. But I believe it is kudzu root, so that is a pretty healthy and easy thing to take, anyway.
Yeah Kudzu and B.superba are quite often marketed as P.mirifica in China and from what I hear even some places in Thailand make this mistake. It's unfortunate that there is nothing more done to correctly label these products. This has got to be the most obscure herb that I have encountered, obscure not because it is difficult to get, but because there's a bunch of incorrectly labelled products under the same name making the real thing harder to find.
Although I do have to say that Biovea has a good customer relations department, so who knows maybe they will do some further testing to correctly identify their product in case it is indeed something other than PM.