The birch mushroom was known for medicinal properties still in the very ancient time. Our ancestors called it a gift of gods and treated with its help many illnesses. It was mentioned in the treatises by great Avicenna.
Chemical composition
The structure of a mushroom abounds with useful acids: ant, acetic, vanillin, triterpenovy, oxalic, agaritsinovy and guminopodobny. Besides, polysaccharides, phenolic aldehydes, pitches, tannins, alkaloids, flavonoids, pigments, lipids and pterina are found. The mushroom is saturated with cellulose, steroid connections, water-soluble chromogens, silicon salts and purinovy connections.
The composition of natural medicine contains macro - and minerals: silicon and aluminum, iron and magnesium, calcium and manganese, zinc and nickel, sodium and copper, silver, potassium and cobalt. Thanks to such saturated structure of a chag has a wide range of application.
Whether you know? At such amount of useful properties is the parasite living on a tree and exhausting at it nutrients. Grib can live up to twenty years, during this time he will exhaust all vital juice from the donor on whom develops.
Than the mushroom of a chag is useful
The Chaga has a significant amount of useful properties, in medicine is used as the antibacterial, anti-virus, anti-inflammatory, spazmolitichesky, antimicrobic, soothing, wound healing, diuretic and regenerating means.
Treatment of chagy is carried out at gastrointestinal diseases, diseases of airways, skin diseases. It is noticed that the mushroom has property to slow down development of malignancies, strengthens the immune system, mobilizing all protective properties of an organism. Therefore the chaga is often used as supportive application at oncology. Properties of a mushroom are used in stomatology for treatment of infections and inflammatory processes in a mouth. Pharmacologists use a birch mushroom as raw materials of medicines for treatment of cardiovascular diseases, problems with arterial blood pressure, nervous system. It is capable to regulate sugar level, to improve a metabolism and brain activity.
Collecting, preparation and storage of a birch chaga
The Chaga is formed on an alder, a beech, an elm and a mountain ash, but for treatment use only a birch mushroom. Preparation takes place in the spring or in the fall, is exclusive from live trees.
Important! The mushroom growing on the dried tree or in the lower part of a trunk, in too big dampness old and all black does not suit for the medicinal purposes.
Raw materials are cut off a sharp knife with a big and wide edge directly under the basis, choosing a firm outgrowth. Then it is crushed on pieces by from three to nine centimeters and dry.
If warmly, it is possible to dry under a canopy, in cold time – in the dryer or an oven at a temperature no more than 50 degrees. The dried-up material has no certain smell, brown color. It is necessary to store raw materials in the aired, dry place about two years.
Application in traditional medicine
Chaga – the demanded product in traditional medicine, means is applied to treatment of colds, such as tonsillitis, flu; airways (tuberculosis, bronchitis, asthma) treat. National recipes help at psoriasis, eczema, skin ulcers and other skin problems. The mushroom is effective and at problems of a stomach and an intestinal path, with a liver and warm failures.
Whether you know? Despite the centuries-old history of treatment by a birch mushroom in the people, the official medicine of the USSR recognized it after the long researches only in the second half of the 20th century.
Tea
There are several ways how to make a chaga: the fresh mushroom is just crushed and trouble, having closed a cover as tea leaves; the dry product is soaked, and already then made or trouble. It is good to apply such tea to weight loss, for example, to fill in 20 g of a mushroom with boiled water (200 ml), to draw, add 2 g of propolis and a spoon of honey. To accept on an empty stomach, it is desirable to keep to a fruit and vegetable diet.
The birch mushroom in tea can be combined with many medicative herbs and berries. For maintenance of the immune system and at avitaminosis it is possible to add some dogrose berry.
Tea is not just tasty drink, but useful means for strengthening of an organism if to prepare it with application of curative plants and berries (a wild strawberry, currant, raspberry or a guelder-rose).
Oil
What does chaga oil treat? It is used at cold and cough, for strengthening of vessels. At cold the raw materials wetted for the night are crushed the meat grinder, filled in with warm vegetable oil in dark capacity, week is drawn. Then grease wings of a nose and its mucous. At cough apply a compress, and at joint pains pound a sore point.
Broth
Broth of a chaga is capable to reduce pressure. For this purpose 5 g of the crushed raw materials with the same quantity of a mistletoe (grass) fill in with a glass of water and on fire bring to boiling. Broth has to stand a couple of hours, drink a third of a glass three times a day, a course of treatment – about one month.
In traditional medicine for elimination of problems with pressure broths of curative plants are also used: corn, calendula or dogrose.
Infusion
Infusion of a birch mushroom: the outgrowth is filled in with cold boiled water so that to cover completely, insist till five o'clock. The wetted-through raw materials are got, wrung out and crushed. Water in which it infused is heated to 50 degrees and fill in the crushed mushroom in a proportion: 1 part of a product on 5 parts of water. Insist in cold of 48 hours.
Important! Here it is important to know how to accept a chaga: infusion is not poisonous, but at organism problems with a conclusion of liquid it is necessary to be careful and to accept only after consultation with the doctor.
Inside infusion is accepted at problems with a GIT. Also infusion helps at gynecologic diseases (inflammation or a cyst of ovaries, other inflammatory processes, menstrual violations and pains).
Tincture
Tincture of a chaga is taken at stomach ulcer, at gastritis and an ulcer of a duodenum in 30 minutes prior to food, three times a day, one tablespoon. Fill in with vodka in number of 300 ml 50 g of the dry, processed raw materials. It is necessary to insist in capacity from dark glass three weeks. At varicosity the dose is reduced to a teaspoon.
Extract
Chaga extract – the pharmaceutical name Befungin is useful to a metabolism, helps to heal GIT ulcers, increases appetite, normalizes a dream and strengthens nerves. Before the use the container with extract is heated to 70 degrees, standard daily rate by no more than 3.5 g, accept to food. The course usually lasts about three months.
Contraindications and side effects
The Chaga has no many contraindications: it is impossible to accept at colitis, pregnancy and to small children. Before drug intake from a birch mushroom the consultation of the doctor is necessary, it is impossible to combine treatment by a mushroom with antibiotics, with intravenous administration of glucose.
Important! It is not desirable to smoke and take during treatment by this product alcoholic drinks including low alcohol.
The Chaga can bring both benefit, and harm: at overdose of a product the excitability of nervous system is observed. Medical process of chagy should be combined with a dairy and vegetable diet, to avoid some spicy, salty and smoked food.
In Siberia it is called God's gift, in Japan – forest diamond, in China – the king of plants. Kind of did not call the different people a birch mushroom, all agree in one opinion: this outgrowth is capable both to revitalize and to prolong life.