Tea Mushroom Secrets

It is safe to say that the birch is an unofficial symbol of our country. Poets dedicated poems to it, craftsmen made ware and decorations from its wood, and our distant ancestors used birch bark for their manuscripts. Birch is indispensable in everyday life: its logs were used for heating oven, branches were used to feed livestock or to make birch brooms for sauna, and in springtime we drank birch sap and saturated the body weakened after a long winter with vitamins. The birch tree also shares another of its riches with us – chaga.

You have probably seen birch trees with black growths of varying sizes on their trunks while out in the countryside. These growths are caused by a parasitic fungus that has penetrated the tree at a crack or fracture. The growth can last for over 20 years and always results in the death of the tree. It is these growths that are called chaga (or birch fungus).

We think that many people have a reasonable question: how can a parasitic fungus, which kills the tree, be healthful for people? Meanwhile, chaga has been appreciated and used by the inhabitants of the Ancient Rus.

The secret of chaga lies in its chemical composition. For many years, it absorbs all the healthful substances that the birch produces for protection against parasites. Birch mushroom contains polysaccharides, organic acids, fiber, lipids, steroids and pterine compounds, many trace elements: aluminum, calcium, magnesium, sodium, barium, iron, zinc, manganese, copper, calcium, as well as alkaloids and acids such as silicic acid, oxalic acid, formic acid, acetic acid, butyric acid and others.

Such a rich composition has resulted in the fact that chaga has a beneficial effect on the entire body as a whole. One of its main properties is to cleanse the body of toxins. Inappropriate and unsystematic diet, poor ecology – all these factors lead to the accumulation of harmful substances in the body, and thus to a failure in its work. That is why it is so important to clean it, thereby preventing the development of many diseases.

Chaga effectively helps to cope with chronic fatigue syndrome. Chaga infusion normalizes sleep, helps to get rid of insomnia, and improves the nervous system.  

Birch mushroom enhances the body defenses and significantly strengthens the immune system. It also normalizes the intestinal microflora, contributing to better digestion of food and maintaining proper functioning of the digestive tract. 

Such an impressive list of healthful properties of chaga led to the fact that we decided to create a new line of products based on it:

• herbal teas
• vitamin complexes
• oil