Chaga: useful properties and uses of birch fungus

Chaga is an amazing creation of nature. Growing from a small spore to a huge size, the body of the fungus is saturated with useful substances thanks to birch sap and various components present in the tree on which it develops. Active components and microelements – such as, for example, potassium, zinc, iron, polysaccharides, etc. – are involved in all the processes of the human organs, when at least one of them is not enough in the body, a disease appears. You can replenish important nutrients by taking chaga mushroom remedies. Such a valuable natural medicine can treat diseases of the intestines, liver, and prevent cancer.

Botanical characteristics of chaga

Birch fungus belongs to the species “tinder beveled”. Most often, the fungus affects birch, alder, mountain ash, elm, maple. This sterile form of the fungus develops as a result of infection of a tree with spores of a parasitic fungus. Spores fall on damaged areas of the bark of trees, contain oil, ripening, form comb-like growths pierced by veins consisting of colorless hyphae. Irregular growths, black in color, with a surface covered with many cracks.

Chaga: useful properties and uses of birch fungus

Inside, the mushroom has a dark brown hue, closer to the wood, the pulp of the mushroom is reddish-brown. The fungus grows for 10–20 years, breaking through the bark, deepening into the trunk, and over time, the fruiting body of the fungus appears on the opposite side of the trunk. The tree dies over time. Chaga is distributed in birch groves and forests of Russia, in the taiga and forest-steppe.

The fungus can be seen on trees growing in the mountainous regions of North Carolina, in the northern United States, in Korea. The mushroom has an irregular shape, it is harvested at any time of the year, removed from a living tree, it cannot be cut from fallen trees and dead trees, since the activity of useful substances in such mushrooms is negligible. It is best to store the mushroom dried, in a tightly closed container, for this, large parts are crushed, because, when dried, the mushroom becomes hard.

Chaga larch – tree fungus, it consists of mycelium, which, penetrating tree trunks, forms a fruiting body. It lives for many years, has a hoof-like shape and weighs up to three kilograms. Larch chaga has a rough surface, covered with bumps and a strongly cracking crust. Such a fungus grows on Siberian cedar and fir in the northeastern part of Russia, the Far East and Siberia. For medicinal purposes, only young white mushrooms are used. Chaga larch is a good remedy against profuse sweating of patients with tuberculosis. It also has laxative, hemostatic, sedative and hypnotic properties.

It is effective to take mushroom remedies for infectious diseases, Graves’ disease, and neuralgia. A positive result of treatment is achieved in the treatment of kidney diseases, disorders of the liver, pancreas, gallbladder. In bronchitis and colds, larch chaga acts as a remedy for fever and makes breathing easier.

Video: collecting, harvesting and cutting chaga:

Application of fungus

Chaga: useful properties and uses of birch fungus

The use of chaga mushroom contributes to the prevention of many diseases. Good results from treatment are obtained with diseases of the joints, a decrease in immunity. The mushroom is shown in female and male diseases, many skin diseases are well treated.

Chaga inhalations for 5-7 minutes a day are effective and very useful for laryngeal swelling. Chaga improves breathing, swallowing, relieves hoarseness, relieves inflammation.

The mushroom is used to treat periodontal disease, eczema, psoriasis and frostbite. It is added to drugs used to increase immunity, improve metabolism, and lower blood sugar. With the help of chaga, blood pressure is stabilized, the heart rhythm is adjusted, and problems in the gastrointestinal tract are eliminated.

The following traditional medicines are most favorably combined with chaga-based preparations (each of these agents in itself has anticancer activity):

  • calendula;

  • plantain;

  • St. John’s wort;

  • calamus

If there is no specially compiled prescription, then you can simply take crushed dry grass in equal parts and brew it like tea. In the resulting broth, you need to add 2 teaspoons of infusion of birch fungus. It should be taken three to four times a day.

As a general remark, it can be added that there are two main methods of therapeutic courses based on chaga: short courses, repeated several times a year and having a long break between courses, and long courses (up to 3 months), having a short break (approximately week). With the first method, the therapeutic effect is expected longer, such courses are used to prevent metastasis and consolidate the results of treatment. In the treatment according to the second scheme, a therapeutic effect appears quite quickly.

Chaga oil

Chaga: useful properties and uses of birch fungus

At home, you can prepare chaga oil, which consists of olive oil and mushroom decoction. With such an oil solution, sinusitis is treated by lubricating the sinuses.

Chaga oil recipe: 2,5 tablespoons of olive oil must be mixed with 1 teaspoon of chaga infusion and insisted in a cool dark place for a day. Useful substances during this time saturate the olive oil with pterins, which have an antitumor effect, and other useful substances. This oil can lubricate painful areas of the skin, eliminate muscle pain, aching joints. It is effective in the presence of a capillary network and stars on the skin, helps to strengthen blood vessels. Lubricating trophic ulcers with oil, one can hope for a quick recovery from this unpleasant ailment.

Chaga-based oil preparations have found the widest use in the treatment of the following forms of malignant tumors:

  • uterine cancer;

  • mammary cancer;

  • skin cancer;

  • rectal cancer;

  • prostate cancer;

  • advanced forms of metastasis to regional lymph nodes.

These superficial forms of cancer can be treated with chaga oil and ointments. Ointments are prepared on the basis of infusion. Pork lard is used most often as an ointment base. It is necessary to mix the infusion of chaga and fresh fat in a ratio of 1: 1. The mixture is put on a slow fire and constantly stirred. You need to bring the mixture to a boil. Next, the resulting mass must be removed from the fire and wrap the container, cover with a lid and insist for a day. Then the mass is filtered. The resulting ointment should be stored in the refrigerator.

Chaga in oncology

Chaga: useful properties and uses of birch fungus

People have long been saying that in those areas where it is customary to drink chaga decoction instead of tea or add it to tea, people suffer from malignant neoplasms much less frequently. Also, for a very long time, people have been widely using birch fungus to treat diseases of this type. In some cases, it is even used as an independent tool. As an auxiliary method of treatment, chaga is also used and a fairly stable effect is observed. It is not for nothing that scientific clinical medicine has officially recognized birch fungus as a treatment for cancer. The first preparations based on chaga have already been released.

Moreover, they are non-toxic. Such drugs do not have pronounced side effects if the recommended regimens and dosages are observed. Rarely enough, allergic reactions to birch fungus occur.

But it is important to note the results of the same study found that some patients may develop increased excitability of the autonomic nervous system. In most cases, if the patient is treated for a long time and continuously chagoy. However, after the abolition of the drug based on the fungus, these symptoms disappear almost immediately.

Chaga: useful properties and uses of birch fungus

In the treatment of cancer, you need to know the degree of the patient’s condition and the duration of treatment, in order to determine exactly which remedy to use. While taking prepared remedies from birch fungus, a quick recovery or a long one can be observed. In any case, the patient’s condition improves, tumor growth slows down, which leads to a decrease in metastasis. A decoction of chaga is drunk for stomach cancer.

[Video] Dr. Evdokimenko – CHAGA for GASTRITIS and stomach ulcers, for oncology, for IMMUNITY and recovery from illness:

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