General Introduction:

Chaga mushrooms have been utilized in Eastern European and Korean folk medicine for several centuries. At least as early as the sixteenth century, Eastern Europeans, Koreans, and Russians used Chaga mushrooms to cure everything from tuberculosis to cancer. Today, the medicinal uses of Chaga mushrooms are being explored by medical researchers. Chaga is an irregularly shaped mushroom that commonly grows in northern regions on birch, alder and beech trees. It is not cultivated but wild crafted. It has been used for centuries in Russia as a cancer cure, often stomach and lung cancer, as well as for common stomach ailments such as gastritis, ulcers and general pain. Water decoctions have even been used in colonics for lower bowel problems

Applications of Chaga mushrooms:

1) Chaga mushrooms are used as a remedy in stomach-intestinal tract diseases and as a palliative remedy for tumors of different location.

2) Chaga mushrooms are used to cure skin diseases, especially in the case when they are combined with inflammatory diseases of the stomach-intestinal tract, liver and biliary colic.

Function and benefit of Chaga mushrooms:

1) Anti-aging (rich S.O.D.) & anti-tumor agent

2) Treatment of cancers and diabetes mellitus

3) Boosting the immune system

4) Lowering blood pressure

5) Helpful for liver and heart ailments and skin diseases

6) Treating stomach diseases

7) Improved endurance, better vigor and general feeling of well-being