Correct and safe use of chaga

Beneficial features

Chaga tea has a wide range of healing properties, so it is actively used:

• to strengthen the immune system;
• to stabilize blood pressure;
• to restore the functioning of the nervous system;
• to improve the digestive process, eliminate flatulence;
• for weight loss;
• for the treatment of viral and fungal diseases.

The benefits of chaga tea also include preventing the development of dysbiosis caused by long-term use of antibiotics, as well as some other gastrointestinal diseases. Due to its beneficial properties, the use of birch chaga mushroom helps:

• lower blood sugar levels;
• reduce pressure, both arterial and venous;
• normalize redox processes in the body.

It is recommended to drink this healing drink for various diseases. In case of oncology, chaga should be brewed and not infused, as in other cases. The regimen for taking it depends on the type of disease.

To treat gastritis, it is more correct not to brew chaga, but to infuse it. There are several tips on how to take chaga for gastritis, but taking the infusion three times a day is considered the most effective. You should drink it daily. This course of treatment is ideal for treating the stomach, as well as for the prevention of certain diseases.

Chaga should be brewed in a special way when treating oncology. Several pieces of crushed tinder fungus should be poured with warm water and left for 5 hours. Place 1 part of the slightly soaked raw material in a thermos and add 5 parts of hot water. Leave for two days, then strain the infusion, add water and take a glass of the drink three times a day an hour before meals.

For cancer, chaga should be brewed and taken in a mixture with rose hips, wormwood, pine buds, licorice root, and St. John's wort. The mixture should be placed in 3 liters of water and simmered on fire for 2 hours. then strain. Mix the liquid with honey and aloe juice. You should take the prepared mixture:

• during the first 6 days, take a teaspoon three times a day a couple of hours before meals;
• during the rest of the period - 1 tablespoon three times a day, an hour before meals.

Preparing chaga tea for oncology takes a lot of time, but the result is highly effective.

Benefits and properties of the mushroom

In folk medicine, it is often used to treat a large number of diseases, including even oncology. This can be not only a therapeutic agent, but also a preventive one. Many people believe that this formation on the tree is a parasite that only destroys it. But it’s worth looking at all this from the other side. It collects those juices and beneficial elements that it receives from its owner. Preparation of miraculous substances based on it will help to transfer them to a sick person.

The beneficial properties of chaga birch for men are that it is a powerful stimulant that normalizes hormonal levels. This is very important, because it is during this period that the amount of testosterone is disrupted, which leads to a decrease in potency. The components that it contains also have a positive effect on men's health. Among them are:

• molybdenum – it prevents the development of impotence;
• zinc – helps increase desire, maintains erection and prevents inflammation in the prostate gland;
• copper – helps maintain male strength and libido.

But the main problem is based not only on normalizing the amount of testosterone in the blood, but also on regulating other aspects. What are the benefits of chaga for men? It consists in exerting the following influence on the body of a representative of the stronger sex:

• antispasmodic;
• diuretic;
• anti-inflammatory;
• regenerative;
• normalizing the functioning of the nervous system.

Contraindications

Like any medicine, chaga tea has its limitations in use and contraindications for use. In order not to cause harm to the body, while drinking the drink, you must stop smoking and drinking alcoholic beverages. You should also avoid taking antibiotics, including penicillin, and refrain from intravenous glucose injections.

Knowing the benefits and harms of chaga tea, you should avoid drinking it in the following cases:

• for colitis;
• for dysentery;
• for intestinal dysfunction.

Despite the wide range of medicinal properties of birch chaga tea, it is prohibited to consume it during pregnancy and lactation. People who are hypersensitive to any components of the raw material should drink the drink with caution.

Side effects and warnings

There is no evidence of negative effects of chaga tea. If you are taking medications or are simply sensitive to various side effects, then you need to take this fact into account and not self-medicate.

People who have diabetes, autoimmune diseases, or those taking blood thinning medications should not drink it. Not all aspects have been studied yet, so pregnant and breastfeeding women should be extremely careful.

When can you collect chaga on a birch tree?

You can collect medicinal mushrooms at any time of the year, but it is advisable to do this in early spring or late autumn.

You need to stock up on a sharp long knife or a small hatchet. The mushroom must be trimmed at the base, while separating the soft, unusable part.

The mushroom tends to become almost stone-like after it is cut. Therefore, it is necessary to immediately cut it into small pieces. You will have to do this anyway before drinking chaga. This will make processing easier in the future.

Some tips for collecting chaga:

• You should not cut off a mushroom that grows at a height of less than one meter above the ground.
• Only chaga from birch trees that are at least 20 years old is considered medicinal.
• Chaga should only be collected from a living tree.

Having cleared the mushroom from the top layer and unnecessary loose material, the middle of the mushroom is cut into pieces of 4-6 cm. Then dried under natural conditions. You can use an oven preheated to 60 degrees for drying.

The mushroom must be stored in a dry, clean container with a closed lid. It is not worth harvesting a lot of chaga, since the healing properties of the collected mushroom are retained only for 4 months.

Cut the mushroom

Rules for collecting chaga

To get full-fledged, healthy tea from chaga, you need to know the rules for collecting the raw materials.

1. Tinder fungus can be collected throughout the year, but it is most valuable in early spring or late autumn.
2. The mushroom should be cut with a sharp knife or a small hatchet with a sharp blade.
3. Only the hard part is considered suitable; the pulp is not of high value.
4. After cutting, the tinder fungus should be immediately broken into small pieces, since it has the property of quickly hardening in air.
5. The collected and crushed raw materials should be dried in the oven at a temperature of 60° or under natural conditions.
6. Dried raw materials should be stored in a dry, tightly closed container.

Chaga is suitable for herbal tea only for 4 months, since then it loses its healing properties. Therefore, experts do not recommend procuring large volumes of raw materials.

Preparation of chaga

Preparation of birch chaga.

Chaga storage

In order for chaga to retain its beneficial properties, you must adhere to some rules:

1. The best place for storage would be paper bags or cardboard boxes.
2. The room in which the containers will be located must be well ventilated and dry.

Interesting fact! It is not recommended to store the product in jars with screw caps, as... the mushroom will not breathe and will spoil.

There is debate about how long chaga can be stored; some argue that if stored properly, it can retain its properties for many years, but all biologically active substances have a shelf life, and for the mushroom it is 2 years.

What is Chaga?

Chaga mushroom - what it helps against and what diseases it will protect against.
Chaga is a sterile form of the species Inonotus obliquus . It belongs to the genus Inonotus, division Basiodymycetes. Due to the fact that it is most often found on birch, it is also called "birch mushroom", but it can occasionally be found on rowan, beech, elm, maple and alder.

Chaga is a sign that the tree is sick. The spores of this fungus take root only in places where the tree bark has been damaged, for example, cracked in winter due to severe frosts, or destroyed by humans or animals. Infection with chaga spores causes white heart rot of wood. First, light yellow spots and lines appear in the false nucleus, gradually expanding and merging with each other. A light brown protective zone is formed along the perimeter of the rot, black lines are visible inside, and rusty-brown inclusions of mycelium are visible at the fracture sites. The incubation period of infection lasts approximately 3–4 years, after which a dark, irregularly shaped growth appears on the bark - the fruiting body of the fungus. Its shape will depend on the nature of the damage on the tree bark. Chaga grows for a long time and destroys the tree gradually - over several decades. After thirty years of continuous growth, it can reach up to 40 cm in diameter, thickness up to 15 cm, and weight up to 5 kg.

Chaga mushroom – what it helps against and what diseases it will protect against

The outer surface of the growth is black and covered with numerous cracks, the inner surface has a dark brown tint, which turns into brown-red near the tree trunk itself. The entire growth is permeated with whitish veins consisting of colorless mycelial hyphae.

Over time, a spore-bearing layer of the fungus develops under the bark, the hyphae of which spread along the trunk in all directions for a distance of up to a meter. In the last stage of growth, ridge-like projections called “thrust plates” appear, which once break through the tree bark, exposing the brownish-brown spore-bearing layer. The spores are thick-walled, with droplets of oil inside, at first colorless, and then acquiring a pale red color.

For a host tree, the appearance of chaga on it, over time, ends in death - it breaks and falls, while the fungus can live for a long time on an already fallen and dead trunk.

Chaga mushroom – what it helps against and what diseases it will protect against

How to brew chaga

How to brew mushroom correctly and how to drink it? To begin with, dry chaga is washed, soaked in boiled water and left for 5 hours. After a while, the mushroom is taken out of the water (the water is not poured out, but heated to 50 degrees), crushed and filled with warm water in which it was lying in a ratio of 1:5. Leave to infuse for 2 days, after which the infusion is drained and the crushed particles are squeezed through a sieve. The chaga infusion is ready; you just need to bring it with boiled water to its original volume. Take half a glass before meals 3 times a day.

If you don’t have the time or desire to infuse for a long time, then you should know how to brew chaga. To do this, pieces of the root are poured with boiling water in a ratio of 1:4 and boiled for 15 minutes or left for at least one and a half hours.

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How to brew chaga correctly.

With serpentine root

For oncology, it is good to combine young chaga mushroom with serpentine roots. For this you will need:

• tinder fungus - 1 teaspoon;
• serpentine root - 1 teaspoon;
• water - 1 glass.

An anti-cancer decoction with tinder fungus is prepared according to the following instructions:

1. Place a teaspoon of crushed chaga and the same amount of green serpentine roots into a thermos and add 1 glass of boiling water.
2. Leave overnight. Take 1 tablespoon three times a day.
3. You can store the infusion in the refrigerator for 3-4 days.
4. Warm slightly before use.

With herbs

Chaga mushroom goes well with various herbs and spices. This gives the tincture an additional subtle aroma and taste. For preparation you need the following components:

• chaga - 1 tablespoon;
• linden blossom / lemon balm herb / peppermint / ginger - 1 pinch;
• water - 300 ml;
• honey - 1 teaspoon.

How to brew chaga mushroom:

1. Place 1 spoon of tinder fungus into an enamel container.
2. Add a pinch of linden blossom, a pinch of lemon balm or peppermint.
3. Pour 300 ml of warm boiled water and bring to a boil over very low heat.
4. Do not cook. Remove from heat only when characteristic bubbles appear on the surface of the water.
5. Let the solution sit for about half an hour. To prevent the drink from becoming cold, wrap the container in a warm blanket or towel.
6. Dissolve 1 teaspoon of honey in a glass of tea and drink.

With vodka

Chaga is a good remedy for cleansing the body. Many people use it in preparation for chemotherapy. For this recipe you will need:

• chaga - 100 g;
• vodka/moonshine/alcohol - 1 liter;
• honey - 100 g.

The recipe is as follows:

1. The ingredients are placed in a container and filled with vodka or alcohol tincture.
2. The drink is infused for 2 weeks.
3. Take 1 tablespoon three times a day before meals.

A camping method for preparing a drink from chaga

When there is not enough time to let the decoction brew, or there are no conditions for this, you can brew chaga as follows.

1. Chaga is not soaked for several hours, but is immediately finely chopped or grated.
2. Brew with boiling water. After a few minutes, you can drink the tea. This drink has excellent energy and tonic properties.

If we talk about how to properly drink chaga in the form of tea, then it comes down to drinking regular tea. You can add various berries and herbs to the drink. For example, currant leaves or raspberries, cloudberries, blackberries.

How to brew chaga as tea? At home, it is advisable to use the following recipe. Fresh mushroom needs to be grated, dried chaga will need to be soaked in hot water for several hours, and after the mushroom becomes softer, it needs to be grated. Some people use a meat grinder for chopping. It is better to use ready-made chaga raw materials; in powder form it is stored unchanged for 2 years.

You can prepare a drink from chaga without leaving the forest. To do this, take a fresh mushroom, break it into small pieces, which are thrown into boiling water. The value of chaga will decrease due to the use of boiling water, but small amounts of vitamins and nutrients will remain.

Tea for the poor

The densest inner part of the fruiting body, dried and crushed, has been used since ancient times in Rus' to prepare a kind of tea substitute.

Real tea was the drink of the rich, wealthy merchants and city slickers, and ordinary peasants replaced it with a strong drink made from chaga. In addition to its warming and restorative function, tea also served as a medicinal drink, since the healing benefits of chaga were popularly known. It is impossible to count how many lives chaga saved during the years of endless wars, famines and occupations that befell our country. Chaga still enjoys an impeccable reputation among the people - and this is all absolutely deserved.

Chaga mushroom – what it helps against and what diseases it will protect against

How to infuse chaga after brewing

Chaga tincture is a concentrated preparation that serves as a potent medicine for sick people. The infusion is kept in a thermos or other dense container. For this you need the following ingredients:

• fresh chaga;
• pure water.

How to prepare the tincture:

1. Fresh mushrooms are dried.
2. Several dried fruit bodies are soaked for 6 hours.
3. The water is heated to 50-60°C.
4. Dry tinder fungus is filled with water and stored in a thermos with a tightly closed lid for about two days.
5. Next, you need to strain the infusion and add water to the original amount.

Chaga mushroom tincture is used to treat a number of diseases. In order for the effect of using the product to be maximum, it is important to know how to brew birch chaga correctly. It is recommended to take tinder for no longer than 5 months and drink at intervals of 7-10 days.

Types of chaga birch

Related species of chaga birch are the radiata and bristle-haired polypores.

Polypore radiata, or inonotus radiata (Xanthopória radiata)

The fruiting body is annual, looks like a sessile, widely grown lateral cap; if there are several of them, they form a kind of “tile”. The length of the caps is about 5 cm, width 6-8 cm, thickness 5-20 mm. The caps are flattened, the edge is sharp, in young mushrooms the surface is velvety, from yellow to reddish-brown, later becoming bare, shiny, rusty or dark brown, wrinkled. The pulp is shiny, fibrous, light brown or red-brown in color. The fungus attacks the wood of deciduous trees, growing mainly on alder and rarely on birch trees. It is found in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere, in the Himalayas.

Bristle-haired polypore (Inonotus hispidus)

The fruiting body is annual, capped, sessile, solitary or 2-3 caps form a “tile” and grows widely to the substrate. The dimensions of the cap are 10x16x8 cm. The surface of young mushrooms is colored red-orange, later red-brown or blackish, velvety-hairy. The pulp is brownish in color, light at the edge and surface of the caps, radially fibrous. The fungus is common in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere, growing on broad-leaved trees, oaks, ash and apple trees, less commonly found on fir, maple, horse chestnut, alder, birch, hawthorn, beech, walnut, mulberry, pear, sycamore, poplar, plum.

How to drink chaga

It is equally important to know not only how to infuse chaga, but also whether the raw materials can be reused. How many times can you brew? A properly infused product can be brewed 3 times, and it is the last brew that is considered the most beneficial.

Using the product as tea, brewing occurs once, after which the used raw materials are thrown away. Those who decide to use infusions are wondering whether it is possible to drink chaga every day. In the absence of contraindications and individual intolerance, it can be consumed daily. The shelf life of the mushroom infusion when stored in the refrigerator is 4 days.

How many days can you drink chaga tea?

To achieve the desired effect, you can drink medicinal chaga tea in two ways:

1. This course of tea intake is designed for short periods of one or two weeks with long breaks. This scheme is used several times throughout the year. This method is suitable for the preventive treatment of cancer patients in the absence of disease relapse.
2. This method considers long-term treatment: from 2 to 5 months of drinking tea. The break between courses is from 7 to 10 days. This method is used to more quickly achieve the treatment effect.

Daily drink intake: 200 ml 2 times a day. The tea must be stored in the refrigerator.

Birch mushroom tincture with vodka for stomach cancer

• For a liter of vodka you will need about 150 g of dried mushroom and a little of the root part of the coil.
• pre-crushed dry parts of plants with a liter of vodka and place in a dark place for tincture for 3 days. The temperature of the room in which the tincture is stored should be room temperature.
• It is better to store the tincture in glass or ceramic containers. Strain the finished tincture and take orally according to the following scheme: 3 times a day, 1 tbsp. for 3 months.
• Then take a break and resume treatment with tincture again. It is necessary to use the tincture on your own only after consultation with a doctor and an accurately established diagnosis.
• It is also not recommended to violate the dosage of the medication and the dosage regimen. At the time of treatment, you can notice the first improvements in the condition within a couple of weeks.
• After 2 months of regular use, the patient’s condition changes in a positive direction: pain decreases and overall well-being significantly improves.

Oil emulsion

• Add 30 ml of birch mushroom tincture in alcohol to 40 ml of unrefined vegetable oil. Stir the mixture well and drink immediately.
• Take at the same time for 10 days.
• Daily dose: 3 times a day 20 minutes before meals. After completing the course, take a short break - for 5 days. And repeat the course of treatment again, after which the break will consist of 10 days.
• Treatment is carried out until the desired result is achieved. This method has a good effect on cancer of the duodenum, stomach, lungs and mammary glands.

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Ointment based on birch mushroom

• This method is suitable for the external form of cancer. The ointment is made by mixing one part of lard with a similar part of mushroom infusion.
• This ointment must be heated and brought to a boil, and then wrapped and allowed to brew for one day. Strain the finished mixture and store in the refrigerator.

Chaga for problems with the digestive system

• For gastritis and ulcers . Chaga infusion prepared according to the basic method normalizes intestinal functions and the acidity of gastric juice. It should be taken 1/3 cup 15 minutes before meals 3 times a day. The duration of the course is 14 days.
• With flatulence . Add 1 tablespoon of crushed birch chaga to 4 glasses of water, leave for an hour, then boil for 10 minutes, then strain. Drink a solution 3 times a day 40 minutes before meals, half a spoonful for 10 days.
• During attacks of colitis . Combine a tablespoon of mushroom with a spoonful of mint, pour 3 cups of boiling water over them and leave for half an hour.
• For chronic constipation . To 0.5 cups of licorice infusion, add 0.5 teaspoons of mushroom tincture. Take the medicine 3 times a day. The duration of the course is 1 week, then take a break for a week and resume taking it.
• For various diseases of the stomach and intestines . Mix 50 gr. rose hips and yarrow, add 100 gr. mushroom and a liter of water. Leave for 40 minutes, then keep the mixture in a water bath for 2 hours, without letting it boil. Cool slightly and combine with 200 gr. honey and 100 ml. freshly squeezed aloe juice. Leave for half an hour and strain. Use the product 3 times a day before meals, a dessert spoon for 2 weeks.

Treatment of cough and bronchitis with chaga

• When coughing with sputum . Take 1 tablespoon of chaga infusion 40 minutes before meals for 5 days.
• For dry cough . Mix the infusion of wild rosemary with the infusion of chaga in equal proportions. Take the product 40 minutes before meals for about a week 3 times a day.
• For bronchitis . Combine 2 tablespoons of black radish with a teaspoon of chaga powder, a tablespoon of kefir and cranberry juice. Take the product 4 times a day before meals.
• For chronic bronchitis . In 100 gr. honey, place a spoonful of chaga tincture and 2 tablespoons of aloe juice. Take a dessert spoon of the mixture, diluting it in a glass of hot milk, an hour before meals, 2 times a day.

Chaga mushroom for oral problems

• For toothache . Every half hour, apply gauze soaked in chaga infusion to your cheek for 5 minutes. To relieve pain, you can rub chaga oil into your gums. In case of severe pain, apply a cotton pad soaked in chaga tincture to the tooth.
• For gum diseases . Rinse your mouth with chaga infusion or massage your gums with mushroom oil.
• For bleeding gums . Pour two glasses of boiling water over a spoon of chamomile and a spoon of chaga, leave for 4 hours, strain. Rinse your mouth with the product 2 times a day for about a week.

For high blood pressure

For high blood pressure, mix grated Chaga in equal proportions with Mistletoe herb and pour boiling water over it. Then this mixture must be infused for 3 hours. You need to drink the resulting Chaga decoction one-third of a glass 4 times a day for two to three weeks. During this time, the pressure should normalize.

Birch chaga for skin diseases

• For eczema . Take an alcoholic tincture of the mushroom 3 times a day, a tablespoon, diluted with water. Apply chaga infusion to damaged areas before going to bed as a lotion.
• For psoriasis . Apply compresses with chaga infusion to the affected areas 2 times a day. Such procedures must be carried out daily for at least two weeks. Baths with chaga are also useful for psoriasis. To prepare them, add 0.5 liters of mushroom infusion to warm bath water. Carry out the procedures 2 times a day until you feel better.
• For different types of skin diseases . Mix a decoction of plantain leaves and chaga infusion in equal proportions. Moisten the affected areas with the resulting solution and leave them to dry naturally.
• For fungal diseases . Mix 2 drops of alcoholic tinctures of oregano, calendula and chaga. Add 3 tablespoons of water and treat the affected areas with the resulting product 2 times a day.

Chaga in gynecology

• The anti-inflammatory and wound-healing properties of birch mushroom, as well as the ability to influence the body’s immune system, have been evaluated in the fight against gynecological diseases.
• Treatment of cancer of the female genital tract is especially beneficial. A number of methods are used for this: tinctures, decoctions and chaga tea have a general strengthening effect, and ointment has a wound healing effect.

Chaga for mastopathy

• Birch mushroom can be used both externally and internally for the treatment of mastopathy. Chaga decoctions and tinctures are suitable for this: you can use ointment and rub it on your chest, or make compresses from water solutions.
• Mushroom tea will have a general strengthening effect up to 3 glasses per day. Divide the daily dose into several small doses.

Application in cosmetology

The healing properties of chaga can naturally be used as a cosmetic product.

Chaga mushroom – what it helps against and what diseases it will protect against

Mask for the face

The mask fights wrinkles, tones, cleanses and tightens the skin.

• Pour 2 tablespoons of chopped mushroom into 100 ml of cream.
• Heat the mixture for 15 minutes in a water bath.
• Strain and filter.
• Soak a napkin in the mixture and keep it pressed tightly to your face for 15 minutes.

Hair and scalp mask

This mask helps strengthen hair roots, regulate scalp oiliness and eliminate dandruff, as well as restore hair volume.

• 2 tbsp. spoons of dried mushroom are poured into 70 ml. olive oil.
• The mixture is kept in a cool, dark place for a week.
• Gently and thoroughly rub the prepared mixture into the scalp and keep it on your head under plastic wrap and a towel for an hour.

Chaga double extract

So, if you want to get the maximum benefits from chaga at home, use the double extraction method. In principle, this method works not only with chaga, but also with any other dried medicinal mushrooms. And yet, more often it is used for those of them that are difficult to grind into powder at home due to increased hardness or fibrousness (chaga, multi-colored, flat and ordinary tinder fungi, reishi, etc.).

Double extraction implies two successive stages of processing, which are necessary in order to extract the entire complex of active substances from the mushroom, not only to the maximum, but also in optimal proportions. At the first stage, chaga is soaked in pure or slightly diluted alcohol (at least 80%) for 20 to 40 days (try to get alcohol; good double-distilled moonshine will also work).

The smaller the pieces into which the chaga is chopped, and the higher the alcohol strength, the less time you can infuse. We know that at a strength above 60-65%, alcohol begins to work as a preservative for many organic substances (which is why strong alcohol tinctures are not always “full”), but for fat- and alcohol-soluble components, alcohol is an ideal “extractor”.

The most valuable alcohol-extractable components of chaga are triterpenoids (anti-inflammatory activity), sterols (antiviral activity), ergothioneines (antioxidants). All these substances are inaccessible for digestion: hot water has practically no effect on them.

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After receiving the alcohol tincture, the pieces of chaga need to be removed from it, rinsed with cold water, transferred to a hot place and boiled. This will give us the opportunity to extract water-soluble polysaccharides - the second main group of medicinal components of the mushroom. Don’t be afraid of boiling - the polysaccharide complexes of mushrooms are not destroyed at 100 ° C, but their extraction is much more efficient: remember - sugar dissolves in hot water much faster than in cold water, but remains sweet sugar.

Why, you ask, extract substances from chaga sequentially, if part of the mushroom can be put into alcohol, and the other part into boiling water? The fact is that after treatment with alcohol and removal of fat-soluble components, water-soluble ones are pulled out most completely with hot water, since the pieces of fruiting bodies are already “prepared” and somewhat loosened with alcohol.

The boiling time depends on the size of the chaga pieces (the larger the longer) and takes from 12 hours to a day . You can cook in any container; the water temperature during cooking is 80-100° C.

For both alcohol and water extracts to be most effective, the chaga pieces should take up one-third to one-half of the volume filled with alcohol or water. After receiving the tincture and decoction, you can use them as you wish - individually and in a mixture, in pure form or adding them in varying proportions to other foods or drinks. The optimal ratio for mixing alcohol and water extracts is 1:2. A tablespoon of this “potion” per day will have the maximum physiological effect.

If you don’t want to bother with all of the above, but still want a double extract, go to any pharmacy and buy two drugs: befungin and chaga tincture. Befungin is an aqueous extract, chaga tincture is an alcohol extract. Mix them in a 1:2 ratio, and you have a more or less acceptable double extract. Of course, the alcoholic part of the extract in this case was obtained at an alcohol strength lower than recommended (70, not 80%), and you won’t check the quality of the raw materials either, but overall everything should be very good. Note

If you are an opponent of strong alcohol in moral and aesthetic terms, or alcohol is not indicated for you for some medical reasons, then after infusing and removing the chaga, you can evaporate it by placing the tincture on medium heat. Moreover, alcohol is not the only possible solvent, and instead you can use other more or less effective extractors for triterpenoids - glycerin or vinegar. Just keep in mind that glycerin will subsequently no longer mix normally with the water infusion if you want to prepare a mixture of triterpenoids and polysaccharides.

Extract or extract

In medicine, plant extracts are prepared by extraction, that is, by extracting or extracting healing components and substances from medicinal raw materials, using special devices.

There are several folk ways of preparing chaga extract at home, here is one of them:

Take 2 teaspoons of crushed chaga, pour 150 ml. warm boiled water and leave for two days. The solution is of very high concentration, which is taken one tablespoon at a time 10 minutes before meals. Treatment lasts up to six months, after every 2 weeks of treatment, a break of 10 days is required. Traditional medicine treats circulatory disorders with this extract.

Rose hips with chaga

The combination of tinder fungus and rose hips helps against cancer. Many people are interested in how to brew tea from birch chaga

, to which we add rose hips so that such a brew will help fight a serious and deadly disease?

To cure cancerous tumors, you need to take:

• tinder fungus – 200 g;
• rosehip berries – 100 g;
• pine buds – 100 g;
• St. John's wort flowers – 20 g;
• licorice rhizome – 10 g;
• wormwood bitter herb – 5 g.

Mix the herbs and pour three liters of cold water, put on low heat, and boil the brew for two hours, leave the mixture for a day, but the place should be warm. Strain, pour in 200 grams of aloe juice and half a kilo of honey. Mix thoroughly and leave to infuse for several hours. Take the healing remedy for a week, a small spoon before meals. Then we change the scheme, take a tablespoon and consume it before meals twice a day.

You can buy chaga tea

at the pharmacy. There is a collection “Rosehip on Chaga”, the remedy is taken during colds, to strengthen the immune system and to replenish the body with valuable microelements.

Shichaki tea, fireweed, rose hips, and chaga are easy to buy in pharmacies or specialized stores. This collection will give you energy for the whole day, increase your immunity, and also help in the process of losing weight, as it has a positive effect on metabolism.

Ivan tea with chaga

Ivan-tea with chaga is also sold in pharmacies

, which will have a beneficial effect on metabolic processes. Also, if you have health problems, you often get sick, then such a drink will not harm you either. It is especially useful to take it after a course of antibiotics. In this case, suppressed immunity will quickly recover.

If you drink Ivan tea with chaga every day, the benefits

from such a drink there will be no doubt. You just need to know how to brew it correctly. Take 2 tsp. raw materials, pour a glass of boiling water, leave to simmer over low heat for about 10 minutes. Remove from the burner and leave for 10 minutes.

Making tea from birch chaga

It’s a simple process, but there will be a lot of benefits from such a drink.

Expert opinion

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