Facts about Chaga You Didn’t Know
♦ Chaga grows only on living trees, unlike many other medicinal mushrooms that grow on dead trees
♦ Chaga is a wild medical mushroom that grows in a wild forest, unlike many medicinal mushrooms, grown in greenhouses on compost
♦ Chaga grows over 15-20 years, unlike most annual medicinal mushrooms
♦ Chaga is the most powerful natural immunomodulatory mushroom
♦ There are more than 1700 research articles describing the health benefits of chaga
♦ Chaga is often called the forest diamond in Japan and the Far East
♦ Chaga is an everyday adaptogen
♦ 90 % of the world's stocks of chaga come from Siberia
♦ In early 1950s, chaga was introduced into the USSR State Pharmacopoeia, i.e. was officially recognized as a medicinal plant
♦ Chaga connoisseurs who live in China prefer the Siberian chaga, considering it the most useful
♦ The antioxidant value of chaga mushroom extract described in ORAC units is: 148,300 μ mol TE/100g
♦ North Europeans have been using chaga in folk medicine for 400 years
♦ Chaga contains 29 different derivatives of polysaccharides, and possibly the strongest among medicinal mushrooms, which is used in folk medicine for cancer
♦ 300% increase in the activity of natural killer cells with chaga
♦ Unlike other plants chaga DNA is 30% closer to human DNA
♦ 1700 studies have identified more than 200 healthy chaga substances
♦ Finns have been using chaga as a substitute for decaffeinated coffee for more than 60 years
♦ Chaga helps fight against premature aging with a multiple increase in SODs
♦ More than 50 drugs with chaga betulin and betulinic acid are made in the world
♦ Chaga has 50 times more superoxide dismutase (SODs) than in any other medicinal mushroom
♦ Chaga contains zero toxic components
♦ Since the 11th century chaga has been known in Russia as a therapeutic agent
♦ The Beta-D-Glucans can penetrate into an acidic environment, detect cancer cells and cause their apoptosis
♦Chaga has been the main component of BEFUNGIN for more than 70 years