Chaga Extract Powder(phaeoporus obliquus)

Chaga is an irregularly shaped mushroom that commonly grows in northern regions on birch, alder and beech trees. It is not cultivated but wild crafted. It has been used for centuries in Russia as a cancer cure, often stomach and lung cancer, as well as for common stomach ailments such as gastritis, ulcers and general pain. Water decoctions have even been used in colonics for lower bowel problems. Scientific research regarding the effects of chaga have centered around its common folk uses.

Chaga is used as a health-improving and antiinflammatory remedy in the treatment of stomach-intestinal tract diseases and as a palliative remedy for tumours of different location (f.e., in stomatology for larynx tumour). Chaga and its preparations ("Befungin") are used to cure skin diseases, especially in the case when they are combined with inflammatory diseases of the stomach-intestinal tract, liver and biliary colic. When chagaI is taken, it is recommended to use milk and vegetable diet, to limit the consumption of meat and fat, to exclude the consumption of tinned food and smoked products, as well as spiced dressing. When treated with chaga, it is not allowed to take penicillin and glucose intravenously. Chaga is included in Russian State Pharmacopoeia XI as an officinal raw material. Officinal forms Infusion, concentrated extract ("Befungin").