{"id":2003,"date":"2020-10-20T20:23:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2020-10-23T10:21:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T09:21:25","slug":"from-natures-pharmacy-chaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/?p=2003","title":{"rendered":"From Nature\u2019s Pharmacy: Chaga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chaga or birch fungus, Latin name: Inonotus obliquus, is a famous folk medicine from Russia, mainly Siberia and has been used by local people for centuries. Already in the 12th<\/sup> century Chaga is mentioned to cure tumors already in the 12th<\/sup> century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It became more known in the West thanks to the book by Alexander Solzhenitzyn: \u201cCancer Ward\u201d, where Chaga is often mentioned as an effective substance against cancer.(2) In the former Soviet-Union it is even labeled as an official medication since 1955, called Befungin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all: of course academic medicine often ridicules folk medicine, but folk medicine delivers good epidemiological data. First of all, when a product does not work, people will no longer use it. Secondly: when people get sick or die when using a natural product, they will stop using it, the cure cannot be worse than the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So most likely when centuries of use of a specific product are recorded, there must be something special to it. One of the famous examples is the use of digitalis or fox glove. Still one of the most used heart medications around. When a doctor, William Withering, in 1776, not being able to help a patient with edema he visited a herbal medicine women. She told him she uses the leaves of the digitalis plant as a cure for edema. More than 200 years later, millions of patients around the world still owe their life to the use of this \u201cfolk medicine\u201d.(3)  And there are many more examples in ridiculed folk medicine that later prove to be of great use and are now used in conventional medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Chaga has more applications than just support in cancer therapy (4). Modern research has shown Chaga to be useful for: (5,6,7,8,9)<\/p>\n\n\n\n