Chaga Mushroom

[bangkaew]

Has anyone seen or bought chaga mushrooms from a health food or herbal or TCM store in Phuket or Thailand?

it is supposed be anti cancerous...

[pasi]

I get my chaga from my friends back home (Finland). Chaga is probably the highest antioxidant known to man, it contains polysaccharides, betulinic acid, and a variety of other immuno boosting and modulating elements. It has been studied a lot under communist Russia. It is often claimed to be the world's most powerfull medicinal mushroom.

I work long days, chaga gets up my energy levels, totally removes the ulcer I'd normally sufffer from, and allows me to drink copious amounts of coffee, that my body had started suffering from. Knowing it reduces cancer is a nice bonus..

I get it for vegetarian friends, because it contains the complete protein, I get it for some girls who feels it helps their skin (high in melanin).

as a sidenote, it conflicts with antibiotics and intravenous serum, and no single preparation method gets all properties out. most common use is as tea, but for the betulinic acids, other methods are needed.