As we strive to live longer and stay younger, we deal with the reality of a rapidly growing health care crisis. As the first of millions of "Babyboomers" are about to reach retirement age and overwhelm our already overloaded health care system.
As we lose faith in our health care system as well as the safety of pharmaceutical medications, our search takes us closer to natural cures and effective medicinal herbal compounds. Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent on pharmaceutical research to find "cures", yet little in comparison is spent on prevention and anti-aging.
Why? Because unless pharmaceutical companies can patent new chemical compounds, there is no financial motivation. And who funds most of the research? The big pharma companies. And they can't patent nature.
Nevertheless, researchers and scientists at the forefront of research are finding great promise in botanical curative substances like Chaga. Science is confirming folk medicines such as Chaga, which have been known for centuries for their superb healing and anti-aging properties.
Our superior Wildcrafted Chaga Extract is the all-natural solution to anti-aging. It is the richest of all foods and oils in anti-oxidants, which are needed to fight free radicals. Free radicals damage our cells - setting the stage for disease and aging.
Chaga also contains:
Polysaccharides which enhance the immune system, treat cancer, liver, HIV virus and other anti-bacterial and viral infections.
Betulinic acid which helps counter viral infections and tumors.
Triterpenes which helps lower cholesterol, improve digestion, detoxify the liver, treat hepatitis, chronic bronchitis, coughs and asthma.
Germanium, which helps cleanse the blood, normalize blood pressure and prevent tumors.
Melanin, which enhances the appearance of hair, skin and eyes, and restores a more youthful appearance.
Important Nucleosides, Phytonutrients, minerals and amino acids such as Saponin, Magnesium, Chromium, Iron, Kalium, Beta-glucan, Inotodiol, Isoprenoid and others, all offering tremendous health benefits. .
King of the Herbal Adaptogens
Chaga belongs to the group of herbs distinguished as "adaptogens." It normalizes all kinds of vital functions inside your body, raising low levels up to normal, or lowering high levels down to normal. The word Chaga derives from indigenous languages which are spoken around the entire Arctic Circle, and in North America native people use it for medicine and call it Tiaga or Tsi Aga. The Nez Perce people used it in pemmican and were immune to diseases brought in to them by early trappers.
Soviet research on Chaga also showed a potent mixture of Adaptogens. The word adaptogen, coined by Russian Scientist Dr. Nicolai Lazarev in 1947, refers to a natural herb product that increases the body's resistance to stresses such as trauma, anxiety and bodily fatigue. Adaptogens can help the body adapt better to its environment, whether that environment be one of many harmful chemicals or simply one of rapid change. The guidelines Lazarev created for an herb to be considered an adaptogen are:
It must cause only minimal disorders in the body's physiological functions
It must increase the body's resistance to adverse influences not by a specific action but by a wide range of physical, chemical, and biochemical factors
It must have an overall normalizing effect, improving all kinds of conditions and aggravating none.
It is claimed that adaptogenic herbs are unique from other substances in their ability to balance endocrine hormones and the immune system, and they help the body to maintain optimal homeostasis. Most herbal adaptogens that have been identified are used in either Ayurveda or Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). These herbs and other adaptogens have been proven in clinical and laboratory studies to help us adapt to the rapidly changing conditions in our modern, often synthetic environment.
The Russian scientist, G.M. Barenboim stated:
"For the first time in the history of human civilization the biological potentialities of the human body have failed to meet the requirements imposed on it by the epoch. One witnesses an unusual 'epidemic' of fatigue aggravated by the powerful action of man-made, external chemical and physical environmental factors. Like the drugs that saved the world from numerous bacterial and viral epidemics that cost millions of lives in the past, the adaptogens are needed to help man withstand the diverse stresses of today."
Adaptogens may show the following health benefits:
Eliminate the Effects of Stress
Support Immune Function & Strengthen Immune System
Improve Mental Clarity
Improve Physical Perforation Aging Effect
Regulate Function of Muscles and Nerves
Reduce Fatigue
Improve Resistance to Disease
Improve Sleep
Recent studies have shown that Chaga has extremely high antioxidant compounds. Hundreds of research studies overwhelming confirm the health benefits of antioxidants. These antioxidants protect the body against agents of disease called "free radicals", which cause chemical reactions (oxidation) that destroy cells and damage tissues. Oxidation is thought to be not only one of the most common mechanisms of disease, but also the basis of the aging process. Free radicals cannot be avoided: ultraviolet light, for example, is a common source.
The FDA has recommended that people should increase their antioxidant consumption to 7000 ORAC units a day to help lower their risk of Cancer.
What is ORAC?
ORAC stands for "Oxygen Radical Absorbent Capacity", a USDA recommended standard for measuring antioxidant capacity. The measurement of ORAC analyzes how a certain food helps your body fight diseases like cancer and heart disease. The Higher the ORAC score, the more the food will help you.
This is a scale that measures the amount of free oxygen radicals in your body that a food or supplement can absorb. Free oxygen radicals are formed in our body from normal daily living, electricity, pollution, sun exposure and various other unavoidables. These free radicals bounce around our body beating up on our cell structure and organs, making us more susceptible to diseases. Cigarette smoke is full of free radicals. Ever notice how much older smokers look?
Researchers have also discovered that consumption of foods with a high ORAC score help protect against premature aging and age-related memory loss. Chaga has the highest reported ORAC score in natural foods or oils. Chaga also has Polysaccharides, that other medicinal mushrooms contain, and Triterpenes only found elsewhere in Ganoderma.
ORAC Test Results for Leading Medicinals
As you can observe from the graph and table below, Wildcrafted Siberian Chaga from Chaga International demonstrates superior antioxidant values compared to superior class medicinal mushrooms and other popular anti-oxidant juices available..
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Chaga Health Benefits
In Asia, Chaga's folklore applications are diverse, including building up the immune system; combating influenza, viruses and bacteria; detoxifying the liver, kidney and spleen; stimulating the central nervous system; improving skin color and elasticity and restoring youthful looks. Today, in Japan, Chaga has become very popular among women as a remedy for pigment spots and wrinkles, thanks to the new fundamental researches of the Chaga or birch-tree-fungus made by Japanese scientists.
For thousands of years "Siberian" Chaga was revered throughout the known world particularly in China, Japan, Russia, Manchuria and Asia Minor. Chaga is documented in the earliest known journal of Oriental Medicine, "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" in 100 BC as "The King of Herbs" and a "Gift from God". This journal is now considered the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Chaga is also referred to in Asian culture as the "Mushroom of Immortality".
Chaga was used for centuries in many Eastern European countries including Russia, as a folk remedy for many forms of cancer, tuberculosis of the bones, diabetes, arthritis, stomach and digestive ailments, blood disorders, bronchitis, hypertension, tumor growth and viral infections.
The international scientific community has begun significant research of Chaga's immense health benefits. Medical research has shown Chaga to be effective as an anti-tumor agent. In 1958, scientific studies in Finland and Russia found that this mushroom provided an epochal effect in uterine, liver, breast, and gastric cancer, and hypertension and diabetes.
The Gandodelan A-B is responsible for blood sugar maintenance. Chaga activates the immunity system and arrests the excess production of allergen. Gandodelan A-B does lower blood sugar content quickly in white mice clinical studies by 60-89% in seven hours.
In Russia and Eastern Europe, Chaga is approved by the Russian Medical Research Council and has been used for centuries for its effects on good health, immunity, metabolism, tumor growth, blood pressure, cholesterol, and numerous forms of cancer. Mushroom extracts can be considered some of the first nutraceuticals - food concentrated into medicinal form.
Siberian Chaga is considered by many medical researches as one of nature's perfect medicinal herbs. For the past 44 years, modern scientific studies and clinical trials based around pharmaceutical Chaga based products have demonstrated efficacy on the hormonal, immune, oncological, aging, diabetes, ulcers, and central nervous system disorders. It is estimated that over 40 cancer drugs extracted and base their formulary origin to Chaga and similar mushroom species that contain AHCC, Lentinan, D-Frantion and Betulin.
Scientists worldwide are now discovering the healing abilities of this ancient and noble remedy. In this century, there are over 1400 clinical and scientific research publications, and in vitro controlled studies devoted to Chaga and its effects, supporting medicinal mushrooms as an alternative to over-the-counter drugs and prescription medications.
Wild Siberian Chaga:
Contains 215 Phytonutrients
Contains Ergo sterol (Vitamin D2) not found in vegetables
Contains complex immune activating compounds
Contains Beta Glucans (Complex Carbohydrates or Polysaccides)
Contains 29 Beta functions
Contains Saponins, Sterols, Triterpenes, Butilinic Acid, SOD (super oxide) and Protein
Contains Amino Acid Complexes and other trace minerals
Contains compound Melanin, which restores a youthful appearance
Has the highest antioxidant value ever recorded for a food or product
Has been shown to increase human Natural Killer (NK) Cell activity by up to 300%
Chaga is rich in minerals such as: Vitamin B1, B2 and B3 as well as Amino Acids. It contains Ergosterol (Vitamin D2), which is not found in vegetables and has low Caloric Value and High in Dietary Fibers.
Chaga contains a complex "cocktail" of phytonutrients and immune activating compounds such as Beta Glucans (Complex Carbohydrates) or Polysaccharides found in Algae, Yeast, Oats, etc. Chaga contains high levels of Beta Glucan - polysaccharides, a proven and potent anti cancer agent. Many clinical studies attest to its potent anti viral and anti tumor effects. The Beta Glucans are powerful immune boosters, not by killing virus or cancer cells directly, but by stimulating the body's ability to setup cellular defenses. Beta Glucans are largely responsible for warding off tumors, immune deficiencies, viral, bacteria and parasitic diseases, as well as hormonal imbalance and the prevention of oncogenesis.
Siberian Chaga has 29 beta functions. It contains Saponins, Sterols, Triterpenes, SOD, Protein and Amino Acid Complexes and other Trace Minerals. Siberian Chaga contains 215 Phytonutrients as compared with Lingzhi or Reishi with 180, and has direct synergy with chemotherapy in preventing tumor metastasis.
All information contained on this website is based on research and testing to date and is for informational and educational purposes and is not intended to make any unsupported medical claim or the claim that any product is intended to cure or prevent any disease. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Any serious health concern should be treated by a qualified medical practitioner. Pregnant or nursing mothers should consult their physician prior to using any nutritional supplement.
For thousands of years "Siberian" Chaga was revered throughout the known world particularly in China, Japan, Russia, Manchuria and Asia Minor. Chaga is documented in the earliest known journal of Oriental Medicine, "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" in 100 BC as "The King of Herbs" and a "Gift from God". This journal is now considered the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Chaga is also referred to in Asian culture as the "Mushroom of Immortality".
Chaga was used for centuries in many Eastern European countries including Russia, as a folk remedy for many forms of cancer, tuberculosis of the bones, diabetes, arthritis, stomach and digestive ailments, blood disorders, bronchitis, hypertension, tumor growth and viral infections.
The international scientific community has begun significant research of Chaga's immense health benefits. Medical research has shown Chaga to be effective as an anti-tumor agent. In 1958, scientific studies in Finland and Russia found that this mushroom provided an epochal effect in uterine, liver, breast, and gastric cancer, and hypertension and diabetes.
The Gandodelan A-B is responsible for blood sugar maintenance. Chaga activates the immunity system and arrests the excess production of allergen. Gandodelan A-B does lower blood sugar content quickly in white mice clinical studies by 60-89% in seven hours.
In Russia and Eastern Europe, Chaga is approved by the Russian Medical Research Council and has been used for centuries for its effects on good health, immunity, metabolism, tumor growth, blood pressure, cholesterol, and numerous forms of cancer. Mushroom extracts can be considered some of the first nutraceuticals - food concentrated into medicinal form.
Siberian Chaga is considered by many medical researches as one of nature's perfect medicinal herbs. For the past 44 years, modern scientific studies and clinical trials based around pharmaceutical Chaga based products have demonstrated efficacy on the hormonal, immune, oncological, aging, diabetes, ulcers, and central nervous system disorders. It is estimated that over 40 cancer drugs extracted and base their formulary origin to Chaga and similar mushroom species that contain AHCC, Lentinan, D-Frantion and Betulin.
Scientists worldwide are now discovering the healing abilities of this ancient and noble remedy. In this century, there are over 1400 clinical and scientific research publications, and in vitro controlled studies devoted to Chaga and its effects, supporting medicinal mushrooms as an alternative to over-the-counter drugs and prescription medications.
Wild Siberian Chaga:
Contains 215 Phytonutrients
Contains Ergo sterol (Vitamin D2) not found in vegetables
Contains complex immune activating compounds
Contains Beta Glucans (Complex Carbohydrates or Polysaccides)
Contains 29 Beta functions
Contains Saponins, Sterols, Triterpenes, Butilinic Acid, SOD (super oxide) and Protein
Contains Amino Acid Complexes and other trace minerals
Contains compound Melanin, which restores a youthful appearance
Has the highest antioxidant value ever recorded for a food or product
Has been shown to increase human Natural Killer (NK) Cell activity by up to 300%
Chaga is rich in minerals such as: Vitamin B1, B2 and B3 as well as Amino Acids. It contains Ergosterol (Vitamin D2), which is not found in vegetables and has low Caloric Value and High in Dietary Fibers.
Chaga contains a complex "cocktail" of phytonutrients and immune activating compounds such as Beta Glucans (Complex Carbohydrates) or Polysaccharides found in Algae, Yeast, Oats, etc. Chaga contains high levels of Beta Glucan - polysaccharides, a proven and potent anti cancer agent. Many clinical studies attest to its potent anti viral and anti tumor effects. The Beta Glucans are powerful immune boosters, not by killing virus or cancer cells directly, but by stimulating the body's ability to setup cellular defenses. Beta Glucans are largely responsible for warding off tumors, immune deficiencies, viral, bacteria and parasitic diseases, as well as hormonal imbalance and the prevention of oncogenesis.
Siberian Chaga has 29 beta functions. It contains Saponins, Sterols, Triterpenes, SOD, Protein and Amino Acid Complexes and other Trace Minerals. Siberian Chaga contains 215 Phytonutrients as compared with Lingzhi or Reishi with 180, and has direct synergy with chemotherapy in preventing tumor metastasis.
All information contained on this website is based on research and testing to date and is for informational and educational purposes and is not intended to make any unsupported medical claim or the claim that any product is intended to cure or prevent any disease. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Any serious health concern should be treated by a qualified medical practitioner. Pregnant or nursing mothers should consult their physician prior to using any nutritional supplement.
Wild Siberian mushroom - Chaga extract
Documented as early as 4600 years ago, ancient Asian folk medicine practitioners relied upon Chaga, a medicinal mushroom, to maintain a healthy life energy balance (“Chi”), preserve youth, promote longevity, and boost the body’s immune system to fight viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic maladies. As a folk medicine, Chaga was ingested by the local people of the Siberian mountain regions in tea or powder form, inhaled from smoke, and applied to the skin for healing of injury or rash. Indigenous people from that area have been documented to live beyond 100 years of age.
The Chinese Monk Shen Nong, in his work Shen Nong Ben Cao Jin, the first of the three ancient medical books that serve as the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, proclaimed Chaga as a superior class medicinal herb, for its diverse and complete homeopathic properties . Since then, Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners have applied Chaga as a remedy for serious human virus and disease, including anti-viral applications such as influenza, anti-inflammatory treatment of stomach ulcers, the arrest and reversal of tumor growth, balancing the endocrine system in the treatment of diabetes, anti-oxidant uses in detoxifying the body, and as a daily supplement for the overall balancing of the body’s immune system and genoprotective properties increasing longevity.
Siberian Chaga, Inonotus Obliquus, naturally found in the black birch forests of the Siberian mountain regions is the most potent of all the varieties of Chaga mushrooms. Chaga is a parasitic carpophore that enters a wound on a mature tree then grows under the bark until it blisters through the bark forming a grotesque black charcoal-like conk on the tree trunk, hence the Latin epithet “Obliquus”. The Chaga conk grows with the tree over a 5 to 7 year period, thriving in the harsh Siberian winter environment, absorbing life-sustaining nutrients from the black birch tree, until the conk flower fully ripens, falling to the forest floor, followed shortly by the death of the host tree, completing a 20 year micro-ecological cycle.
Russian culture has embraced the medicinal uses of Siberian Chaga, and its uses have spread westward to the Urals and Baltic regions of the European continent. In the 12th Century Tsar Vladimir Monamah was treated with Chaga (for symptoms most probably of lip cancer). Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awed by the healing powers of Chaga to treat cancer during the 1950s in his investigative research of patient treatment in provincial Siberian hospitals in his famous work, The Cancer Ward. Today, Chaga tea is commonly used in Russian cultures as a family cupboard remedy to support a healthy immune system and as a powerful antioxidant.
The post-antibiotic world of Western Medicine is now beginning to study, evaluate, and test Chaga for the active compounds underlying its historically understood homeopathic benefits. As with many other natural medicinal foods and herbs, the modern medical and scientific community is coming to understand that whole supplements like Chaga, offer a complex balance of active compounds, delivery mineral structures, and co-agents, more effective to sustaining a healthy immune balance than isolated compounds synthesized from these natural products.
The primary active compounds discovered in Siberian Chaga are a variety of triterpenes and sterols, including Lanosterol, Ergosterol Inotodials, Saponins, and Polysaccharides. Modern research is now beginning to demonstrate that these compounds are effective for human maladies treated by folk medicine practitioners with natural products, without toxic side-effect, for millennia.
After being ignored for hundreds of years by western pharmacologists, Chaga is currently enjoying a resurgence as a possible treatment for a wide variety of diseases and health problems, including chronic fatigue syndrome, the flu, stomach problems, and even HIV and certain types of cancer. Recent studies in the U.S., Russia, and other countries have shown Chaga to have anti-tumor benefits related to the mammary glands and female sex organs; studies in Finland have demonstrated that inotodial, one of the most active ingredients in Chaga, was effective against influenza virus and various cancer cells; and Japanese research not only found similar antiviral activity, but also discovered that Chaga shows activity against HIV (protease inhibition). Chaga has even been classified as a medicinal mushroom under World Trade Organization (WTO) codes.
Arguably, the most well known western research conducted on the use of Chaga has been performed by Dr. Kirsti Kahlos and her team at School of Pharmacology, at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Dr. Kahlos’ team conducted studies validating the immuno-modulating impact of Lanosterol-linked triterpenes effective as a flu-vaccination and for anti-tumor applications.
Institutional studies at the University of Tokyo, Japan have determined effectiveness of Inotodials in the destruction of certain carcinosarcomas and mammary adenocarcinomas. The Melanin complex produced by the Chaga mushroom demonstrates high antioxidant and genoprotective effects ( Melanin Complex from Medicinal Mushroom Inonotus Obliquus, Journal of Medical Mushrooms, 2002, vol. 4) . The polysaccharide beta-glucan, also present in Chaga, is proven to be effective at inhibiting mutagenic and immuno-modulating effects of cancerous tumors by triggering immune system response (SP Wasser, 2002, Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel).
The following article was published by the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) a joint venture by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease
Chaga mushroom extract inhibits oxidative DNA damage in human lymphocytes as assessed by comet assay.
Park YK, Lee HB, Jeon EJ, Jung HS, Kang MH.
Department of Medical Nutrition, Kyunghee University, 1 Hoekidong, Dongdaemoonku, Seoul 130-701, South Korea.
The Chaga mushroom (Inonotus obliquus) is claimed to have beneficial properties for human health, such as anti-bacterial, anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities. The antioxidant effects of the mushroom may be partly explained by protection of cell components against free radicals.
We evaluated the effect of aqueous Chaga mushroom extracts for their potential for protecting against oxidative damage to DNA in human lymphocytes. Cells were pretreated with various concentrations (10, 50, 100 and 500 microg/mL) of the extract for 1 h at 37 degrees C. Cells were then treated with 100 microM of H2O2 (Hydrogen Peroxide) for 5 min as an oxidative stress. Evaluation of oxidative damage was performed using single-cell gel electrophoresis for DNA fragmentation (Comet assay). Using image analysis, the degree of DNA damage was evaluated as the DNA tail moment.
Cells pretreated with Chaga extract showed over 40% reduction in DNA fragmentation compared with the positive control (100 micromol H2O2 treatment). Thus, Chaga mushroom treatment affords cellular protection against endogenous DNA damage.
The Siberian Chaga formula is extracted from premium grade Siberian Chaga harvested from black birch forests existing in the most extreme climactic conditions of Western Siberia. The extreme nature of the Siberian winters appear to be the environmental quality that yields premium Chaga mushrooms high in anti-oxidant value.
A low pressure aqueous extraction technique is used to ensure the preservation of the active compounds of the Chaga mushroom. To ensure the purity and preservation of natural compounds produced by the Chaga mushroom, energized Pi- water in the aqueous extraction process is used. The Pi-water (Pi-Water has the same function and energy as your body water), is uniquely suited to preserve the anti-oxidant value of the Chaga extract throughout the bottling process until consumption by the consumer. This formula is further enhanced with mineral compounds to facilitate delivery of anti-oxidant compounds to the cells.
NO ALCOHOL IS USED IN THE EXTRACTION PROCESS.
The Chinese Monk Shen Nong, in his work Shen Nong Ben Cao Jin, the first of the three ancient medical books that serve as the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, proclaimed Chaga as a superior class medicinal herb, for its diverse and complete homeopathic properties . Since then, Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners have applied Chaga as a remedy for serious human virus and disease, including anti-viral applications such as influenza, anti-inflammatory treatment of stomach ulcers, the arrest and reversal of tumor growth, balancing the endocrine system in the treatment of diabetes, anti-oxidant uses in detoxifying the body, and as a daily supplement for the overall balancing of the body’s immune system and genoprotective properties increasing longevity.
Siberian Chaga, Inonotus Obliquus, naturally found in the black birch forests of the Siberian mountain regions is the most potent of all the varieties of Chaga mushrooms. Chaga is a parasitic carpophore that enters a wound on a mature tree then grows under the bark until it blisters through the bark forming a grotesque black charcoal-like conk on the tree trunk, hence the Latin epithet “Obliquus”. The Chaga conk grows with the tree over a 5 to 7 year period, thriving in the harsh Siberian winter environment, absorbing life-sustaining nutrients from the black birch tree, until the conk flower fully ripens, falling to the forest floor, followed shortly by the death of the host tree, completing a 20 year micro-ecological cycle.
Russian culture has embraced the medicinal uses of Siberian Chaga, and its uses have spread westward to the Urals and Baltic regions of the European continent. In the 12th Century Tsar Vladimir Monamah was treated with Chaga (for symptoms most probably of lip cancer). Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awed by the healing powers of Chaga to treat cancer during the 1950s in his investigative research of patient treatment in provincial Siberian hospitals in his famous work, The Cancer Ward. Today, Chaga tea is commonly used in Russian cultures as a family cupboard remedy to support a healthy immune system and as a powerful antioxidant.
The post-antibiotic world of Western Medicine is now beginning to study, evaluate, and test Chaga for the active compounds underlying its historically understood homeopathic benefits. As with many other natural medicinal foods and herbs, the modern medical and scientific community is coming to understand that whole supplements like Chaga, offer a complex balance of active compounds, delivery mineral structures, and co-agents, more effective to sustaining a healthy immune balance than isolated compounds synthesized from these natural products.
The primary active compounds discovered in Siberian Chaga are a variety of triterpenes and sterols, including Lanosterol, Ergosterol Inotodials, Saponins, and Polysaccharides. Modern research is now beginning to demonstrate that these compounds are effective for human maladies treated by folk medicine practitioners with natural products, without toxic side-effect, for millennia.
After being ignored for hundreds of years by western pharmacologists, Chaga is currently enjoying a resurgence as a possible treatment for a wide variety of diseases and health problems, including chronic fatigue syndrome, the flu, stomach problems, and even HIV and certain types of cancer. Recent studies in the U.S., Russia, and other countries have shown Chaga to have anti-tumor benefits related to the mammary glands and female sex organs; studies in Finland have demonstrated that inotodial, one of the most active ingredients in Chaga, was effective against influenza virus and various cancer cells; and Japanese research not only found similar antiviral activity, but also discovered that Chaga shows activity against HIV (protease inhibition). Chaga has even been classified as a medicinal mushroom under World Trade Organization (WTO) codes.
Arguably, the most well known western research conducted on the use of Chaga has been performed by Dr. Kirsti Kahlos and her team at School of Pharmacology, at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Dr. Kahlos’ team conducted studies validating the immuno-modulating impact of Lanosterol-linked triterpenes effective as a flu-vaccination and for anti-tumor applications.
Institutional studies at the University of Tokyo, Japan have determined effectiveness of Inotodials in the destruction of certain carcinosarcomas and mammary adenocarcinomas. The Melanin complex produced by the Chaga mushroom demonstrates high antioxidant and genoprotective effects ( Melanin Complex from Medicinal Mushroom Inonotus Obliquus, Journal of Medical Mushrooms, 2002, vol. 4) . The polysaccharide beta-glucan, also present in Chaga, is proven to be effective at inhibiting mutagenic and immuno-modulating effects of cancerous tumors by triggering immune system response (SP Wasser, 2002, Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel).
The following article was published by the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) a joint venture by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease
Chaga mushroom extract inhibits oxidative DNA damage in human lymphocytes as assessed by comet assay.
Park YK, Lee HB, Jeon EJ, Jung HS, Kang MH.
Department of Medical Nutrition, Kyunghee University, 1 Hoekidong, Dongdaemoonku, Seoul 130-701, South Korea.
The Chaga mushroom (Inonotus obliquus) is claimed to have beneficial properties for human health, such as anti-bacterial, anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities. The antioxidant effects of the mushroom may be partly explained by protection of cell components against free radicals.
We evaluated the effect of aqueous Chaga mushroom extracts for their potential for protecting against oxidative damage to DNA in human lymphocytes. Cells were pretreated with various concentrations (10, 50, 100 and 500 microg/mL) of the extract for 1 h at 37 degrees C. Cells were then treated with 100 microM of H2O2 (Hydrogen Peroxide) for 5 min as an oxidative stress. Evaluation of oxidative damage was performed using single-cell gel electrophoresis for DNA fragmentation (Comet assay). Using image analysis, the degree of DNA damage was evaluated as the DNA tail moment.
Cells pretreated with Chaga extract showed over 40% reduction in DNA fragmentation compared with the positive control (100 micromol H2O2 treatment). Thus, Chaga mushroom treatment affords cellular protection against endogenous DNA damage.
The Siberian Chaga formula is extracted from premium grade Siberian Chaga harvested from black birch forests existing in the most extreme climactic conditions of Western Siberia. The extreme nature of the Siberian winters appear to be the environmental quality that yields premium Chaga mushrooms high in anti-oxidant value.
A low pressure aqueous extraction technique is used to ensure the preservation of the active compounds of the Chaga mushroom. To ensure the purity and preservation of natural compounds produced by the Chaga mushroom, energized Pi- water in the aqueous extraction process is used. The Pi-water (Pi-Water has the same function and energy as your body water), is uniquely suited to preserve the anti-oxidant value of the Chaga extract throughout the bottling process until consumption by the consumer. This formula is further enhanced with mineral compounds to facilitate delivery of anti-oxidant compounds to the cells.
NO ALCOHOL IS USED IN THE EXTRACTION PROCESS.
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