Stevia is a Brazilian shrub also cultivated in the orient and used in many countries as a sweetener.
It is used in South America to help diabetics. It has been banned in the U.S. we feel because the FDA wanted no competition for the chemical poison, aspartame, that is disastrous for the diabetic. The FDA refused to allow it through customs but what has been in the country has been sold. We have always had a Stevia resource on our auto-responder because of its beneficial affect on diabetics and because aspartame is disastrous for them. This causes metabolic acidosis.