We are very excited to announce that our Wildcrafted Siberian Chaga Extract is now being produced in the United States. Chaga International has been working on this transition with our supply chain for well over a year and on April 12th we began shipping this new product.
Since the beginning of time, mankind has had a mission to extend the lifespan of the human body. We've searched for the secrets to living longer, to turn back time, and to slow the aging process. We've searched for Eden, the Fountain of Youth and dreamed of immortality.
Today, we continue this search with natural dietary supplements. Some of the most powerful and promising discoveries relating to anti-aging and longevity have their roots in naturally-sourced herbs. Scientists are researching and finding amazing heath enhancing properties in these ancient, herbal supplements.
Of all the natural life-enhancing herbs, there is one that stands above them all - only one that has documented its effectiveness in scientific studies for immune and general health support on the human body. It is known as Chaga - one of nature's oldest documented and most revered herbs.
Touted for centuries throughout Asia as "The King of Herbs", "A Gift from God," and "The Mushroom of Immortality", Chaga is now available in its purest and rarest form, for the first time, in a powerful aqueous extract manufactured exclusively for Chaga International.
Our Wildcrafted Siberian Chaga Extract, raises the bar in the arena of life-enhancing herbal supplements. Historically revered, previously only available to the few, Chaga International has embarked on a global mission to share this superior Chaga extract with everyone.
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What is Chaga?
According to recent scientific research lending support to a wide range of historical references, certain mushrooms are now touted by many experts to have numerous health benefits including providing anti-aging antioxidants and phytonutrient coumpounds that support a healthy immune system. This botanical family of fungi have powerful nutrients to maintain our health and immunity.
One of the most powerful of all the mushrooms revered for their life enhancing qualities is a rare, precious mushroom called Chaga. With a mystical history, Chaga (Inonotus Obliquus) has been referred to for centuries as the 'King of Herbs". Siberian Chaga contains a unique and potent variety of antioxidants and phytonutrients when compared to other fungi or mushroom (see Fifth Kingdom).
For centuries, Chaga has been revered for its life enhancing properties. Chaga was ingested by the local people of the Siberian mountain regions in tea or powder form, inhaled from smoke, and even applied to the skin for its beneficial properties in promoting good health.
For millennia, Ancient Medical Masters, documented and revered mushrooms as the superior "King of Herbs" for creating "Chi" or life-energy balance, the key to general health and longevity. They often brewed Chaga tea from crushed granules to support good health and for the overall balancing of the body's immune system. Today, Chaga is wildly touted and sought after throughout Asia.
Chaga, is a polypore fungus (Polyporaceae or Gym enochaetaceae family), which grows on birch trees. The fungus produces a black perennial woody growth called a "conk" and is a member of the Basidiomycetes (true mushrooms). Chaga contains an extraordinary amount of phyto-nutrients such as beta glucans, (a unique family of sugars called polysaccharides known to be immune activators), special compounds such as betulinic acid, special pigments including melanins, amino acids and nucleosides.
Because of its irregular shape and the way it is harvested, until now Chaga has generally been sold as dried, cut pieces of varying size. To find high potency Chaga, it can only be harvested in the wild. Many attempts to grow Chaga under commercial harvesting techniques have failed to reproduce the viable potency and quality.
As Chaga becomes known to the Western world, it is now being artificially cultivated and often extracted in alcohol tinctures. The purest and most potent Chaga is not cultivated but rather "wild-crafted", or grown naturally in the wild.
Siberian Chaga, naturally found in the birch forests of the Siberian mountain regions, is the most potent of all the varieties of mushrooms. Chaga is a symbiotic fungus that enters a wound on a mature tree then grows under the bark until it blisters through the bark forming a grotesque black charcoal-like conk on the tree trunk; hence the Latin epithet "Obliquus". The Chaga conk grows with the tree over a 5 to 7 year period, thriving in the harsh Siberian winter environments, absorbing life-sustaining nutrients from the birch tree, until the conk flower fully ripens, falling to the forest floor, followed shortly by the death of the host tree, completing a 20 year micro-ecological cycle.
This superior grade of Chaga is harvested once every 20 years from selective birch trees. Out of 10,000 aged trees, perhaps only 2 or 3 will have Chaga growth. Birch trees make the most acceptable host for the symbiotic relationship between Chaga and birch tree.
Then out of 100 birch trees harvested for Chaga only 2-3 receive the designation and certification of "superior grade" Chaga. Siberian Chaga is harvested under contract provided by the province of Siberia and the Russian Health Ministry. Now, exclusively through Chaga International, a superior grade extract of the most revered mushroom has been created and made available to the global marketplace.
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