Chaga

The Chaga is a long-term mushroom, parasitizes on trunk bark of birches, concerns to family of trutovy.

The Chaga lives, most often, on the cut-down or old birches. Meets in forest and forest-steppe areas in all European territory. The homeland of this mushroom is far Siberia from where the plant gradually extended to many regions, and now it grows everywhere. The chaga belongs to the parasitizing mushrooms and grows on white trunks of birches. Outward of a mushroom is similar to a dark dense outgrowth on birch bark. Life of a chaga proceeds about twenty years, and the birch feeding it gradually perishes.

In Russia in the 11th century used tinctures and broths of this plant, and now useful properties of a chaga found the application at treatment of many diseases. Ancient manuscripts describe treatment cases broth of this mushroom of cancer diseases and an enanthesis, and in the 18th century the real facts of an izlechivaniye of patients from oncological diseases by treatment of chagy were specified.

Structure and useful properties of a chaga

Medicinal properties of a chaga, birch mushroom, are caused by its impressive chemical composition. At its structure there are many important components:

• Water-soluble chromogens;
• Guminopodobny chagovy acid;
• Polysaccharides;
• Lignin;
• Cellulose;
• Steroid connections;
• Purine connections;
• Organic acids;
• Triterpenovy acids;
• Free phenols;
• Silicon salts.

Microelements as a part of a chaga mushroom:

• Aluminum;
• Iron;
• Silicon;
• Potassium;
• Calcium;
• Cobalt;
• Magnesium;
• Manganese;
• Copper;
• Sodium;
• Nickel;
• Silver;
• Zinc.

Thanks to such huge set of microelements, the chaga has strong medicinal properties and exerts beneficial influence on a human body.

Useful effects which the chaga has:

• Antimicrobic;
• Styptic;
• Antiinflammatory;
• Spasmolytic;
• Diuretic;
• Wound healing;
• Anesthetic.

Use of a chaga for treatment

The useful properties of a chaga caused by its chemical composition increase protective functions of an organism, stimulate activity of nervous and neurohumoral systems of an organism. Important property of a chaga at its use is its ability to improve a metabolism in an organism, and, at the same time, the metabolism and in brain fabrics becomes more active. Also, use of a chaga in treatment allows to recover and activate the slowed-down fermental systems.

Medicinal properties of a chaga are caused by beneficial influence on a condition of circulatory and cardiovascular system. So, regular use of a mushroom of a chag with its properties allows to increase the level of leukocytes in blood, to stimulate a hemopoiesis and to regulate work of all cardiovascular system.

The Chaga at treatment has antiinflammatory effect. This effect becomes obvious both at outside, and at internal use.

Use of a chaga helps to detain growth of tumors including malignant. Besides, use of a chaga at cancer therapy is very effective. This mushroom has unique ability to increase activity of the drugs used at oncological diseases. The Chaga increases body resistance and recovers its protective functions, helping with fight against malignant new growths. The weakened functional properties of an organism considerably increase that allows to normalize life activity of bodies and fabrics. Curative action of a chaga can prolong life of oncological patients up to several years if there is no expressed exhaustion.

Use of a chaga allows to normalize intestinal microflora, to adjust work of bodies of digestive tract, leads to scarring of an ulcer of a duodenum and stomach ulcer. Therefore, the chaga in the form of broth is applied to treatment of diseases of a stomach and intestines, effective use of a chaga at fight against polyps and gastritises of a stomach.

Use of a chaga is recommended as fortifying means, after the undergone operations and serious illnesses.

Broth of a chaga brings out of an organism not only harmful substances, slags, but also and radioactive connections (heavy metals, radionuclides). Such influence of useful properties of a chaga recovers endocrine system, and cell regeneration accelerates that leads to natural rejuvenation of all organism.

Body resistance to infectious diseases after use of drugs from a chaga increases.

Use of useful properties of a chaga helps to remove stressful and depressions, the dream normalizes and completely saves from sleeplessness. Removes a susceptibility to external irritants and strengthens a nervous system of the person.

Use of a chaga allows to normalize gradually balance in an organism, at disbolism. The mushroom of a chag is especially useful to treatment of obesity.

Simple tea from a chaga will help to calm the pains caused by spasms of various internals in the presence of inflammatory process in them. And broth from a chaga will have powerful effect, having strengthened protective functions of all organism, normalizes activity of internal systems, work of a liver, spleen.

Use of a chaga allows to stabilize pulse and to lower the arterial pressure therefore the chaga is recommended to hypertensive persons.

External use of a chaga for treatment found application at many skin diseases:

• Psoriasis;
• Eczema;
• Herpes;
• Leukoplakia;
• Skin inflammations;
• Burns;
• Frostbite;
• Wounds and injuries of an integument;
• Youthful eels;
• Skin peeling;
• Stings of insects.

On a mucous oral cavity the chaga will also help to cure inflammatory processes. The excellent effect of a chag gives at dental diseases:

• Periodontosis;
• Periodontal disease;
• Stomatitis;
• Dentagra.

Contraindications to use of a chaga

It is impossible to combine treatment of penicillinic group, chagy using drugs, which are in this case antagonists. Also, for the period of use of a chaga it is necessary to exclude intravenous administrations of glucose. It is recommended to keep to a milk and vegetable diet and to completely exclude smoked products, preserved foods, hot spices, to limit meat dishes and animal fats. During this period it is better to exclude alcohol and nicotine, and it is better, in general to leave off smoking.

As contraindication to use of a chaga serves disturbance of work of intestines, colitis and dysentery. Do not recommend to accept this means during pregnancy and feeding of the child a breast.

The individual intolerance of the microelements which are its part can be a contraindication to use of a chaga. Therefore, use of a medicinal plant of a chag is recommended to be carried out under observation of the doctor.