Ancient and Great History of Chaga Mushroom
Dubbed the "gift of God" or "king of herbs," the chaga mushroom (Inonotus obliquus) has been revered for millennia throughout Russia, Korea, Eastern and Northern Europe, the northern United States,…
Chaga has been used in folk and herbal medicine throughout Eastern Europe since the 16th century. Chaga is a birch fungus and grows on living trunks of mature birch trees…
To get the history of Chaga, let’s find the origin of name. The name chaga (pronounced "cha-ga") comes from the Russian word for mushroom (czaga), which is derived from the…
The use of chaga in Chinese medicine dates back thousands of years, when local people in the mountainous region of Siberia drank chaga tea daily, inhaled chaga, and used it…
Medicinal mushrooms to promote health
The International Society for Mushroom Science (ISMS), in its online article Medicinal Mushroom Products as a Good Source for Dietary Supplements, suggests that mushrooms may be useful as nutraceuticals -…
Research also suggests that mushrooms, cultured molds, mycelia, and lichen may have antiviral, antimicrobial, anticancer, antihyperglycemic, cardioprotective, and anti-inflammatory properties.
Medicinal mushrooms are classified into two types: edible or extracted. Chaga is an extracted species. The extraction process is necessary to make at least some of the active components bioavailable,…
Like all natural materials, whole mushrooms have great variability in quality and utility. Individual chemicals can have intense reactions and thus undesirable side effects.
“Nutriceuticals, i.e. extracted products, occupy a middle ground between these extremes and have proven to be very useful. However, it is of paramount importance to receive a high quality and…
Possible health benefits of chaga
Researchers in Japan and China have studied the anti-cancer properties of the polysaccharides found in some mushrooms, including chaga, and found similar effects to chemotherapy and radiation, only without the…
In 1958, researchers in Finland and Russia found that chaga may offer anti-cancer benefits in breast, liver, uterine and stomach cancer, as well as high blood pressure and diabetes. The…
David Winston, herbalist and ethnobotanist with nearly 40 years of training in Cherokee, Chinese, and Western herbal traditions, points out that chaga is the most potent anti-cancer medicinal mushroom available.…
Chaga's medicinal properties span centuries and continents. Today, its use in promoting health is supported by a long list of peer-reviewed scientific research.
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Article Sources:
Inonotus oblique. (2012, October 31). in the Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved November 5, 2012 at 5:48 p.m.
Chang, ST"Product from Medicinal Mushrooms as a Good Source for Dietary Supplements." International Society for Fungal Science.
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