Shapeless black outgrowths of chaga growing from under the damaged bark of old birch trees are called a unique natural laboratory. The substances that make up their composition have anti-inflammatory, analgesic, bactericidal and diuretic effects. Due to the medicinal properties that chaga has, the use of birch fungus is quite common in traditional and folk medicine. Chaga is part of the drugs that:
- normalize the activity of the gastrointestinal tract in various pathologies and digestive disorders;
- strengthen the body's defenses;
- activate the activity of the central nervous system;
- help lower blood sugar;
- stimulate metabolism;
- normalize blood pressure and stabilize heart rate.
Chaga and preparations based on it,have the ability to slow down the division of cancer cells. For this reason, treatment with chaga is part of symptomatic therapy aimed at alleviating the suffering of patients with cancer. The fact that chaga is an effective means of antitumor prevention is known not only to oncologists. It has been established that in those regions of Russia where instead of ordinary tea they drink a drink brewed on a birch mushroom, people are less likely to get sick with oncological diseases
Treatment with chaga in folk medicine
Folk healers have long used the ability of this parasitic fungus to cure various diseases. Chaga preparations - infusions, decoctions, ointments and oils - often along with medications treat many ailments, including prostate adenoma, herpes, varicose veins, arrhythmia, sinusitis, arthritis, atherosclerosis, bronchitis, hemorrhoids, hypertension, glaucoma.
As an example, we will give a recipe for the treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract with chaga, which consists in the use of an infusion, which is prepared as follows. 100 g of chaga is poured with warm water, after 3-4 hours the mushroom is taken out, ground on a grater, poured with boiled water (0.5 l) and heated to 50 degrees - the temperature at which the active ingredients of chaga remain active. The composition is infused for two days, filtered, the raw material is squeezed out and the water is added, in which the birch fungus was originally infused. The resulting drug is given to the patient to drink a glass three times a day half an hour before meals. Thanks to the rightthe use of infusion of chaga manages to cope with various problems of the gastrointestinal tract, especially in cases where the disease has not yet started.
Chaga treatment is carried out in accordance with some dietary recommendations. You should give up alcohol, fatty, spicy foods and limit the consumption of meat. The basis of the patient's diet should be dairy products and vegetables. Chaga, the treatment of which takes quite a long time (from 3 to 5 months), is a reliable and proven remedy for solving problems of the digestive system.
Contraindications to the use of chaga
Chaga and preparations from it are contraindicated in chronic forms of colitis and dysentery. Chaga treatment cannot be combined with penicillin and glucose injections.
