Facts about Chaga

♦ 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

♦ Chaga has the highest ORAC value out of 148,300 known plants

♦ 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

♦ Chaga DNA is 30% more like human DNA than any other plant 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 11^th 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

♦ BEFUNGIN has had chaga as the main component for more than 70 years