The shapeless black growths of the chaga, growing from under the damaged bark of old birches, 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 of chaga, the use of birch mushroom is quite common in traditional and traditional medicine. Chaga is part of 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;
- contribute to lower blood sugar;
- stimulate metabolism;
- lead to normal blood pressure and stabilize heart rate.
Chaga and preparations created on its basis 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 prophylaxis 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 cancer
Chaga treatment in folk medicine
Traditional healers have long been using the ability of this parasitic fungus to cure various diseases. Chaga preparations - infusions, decoctions, ointments and oils - often treat many ailments along with medications, including prostate adenoma, herpes, varicose veins, arrhythmia, sinusitis, arthritis, atherosclerosis, bronchitis, hemorrhoids, hypertension, glaucoma.
As an example, we give a recipe for the treatment of chaga diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, which consists in the use of infusion, which is prepared as follows. 100 g of chaga are poured with warm water, after 3-4 hours the mushroom is taken out, chopped on a grater, poured with boiled water (0.5 l) and heated to 50 degrees - the temperature at which the active substances of chaga remain active. The composition is insisted for two days, filtered, the raw materials are squeezed out and water is added, in which the birch mushroom was originally infused. The resulting drug is given to the patient to drink a glass three times a day for half an hour before eating. Thanks to the correct use of the infusion, chaga manages to cope with various problems of the gastrointestinal tract, especially in cases where the disease has not yet been started.
Chaga treatment is carried out in accordance with some dietary recommendations. You should abandon alcohol, fatty, spicy foods and limit the consumption of meat. The patient’s diet should be based on dairy products and vegetables. Chaga, the treatment of which takes quite a long time (from 3 to 5 months), is a reliable and proven tool for solving the problems of the digestive system.
Contraindications Chaga
Chaga and preparations from it are contraindicated in chronic forms of colitis and dysentery. You can not combine treatment with chaga injections of penicillin and glucose.