Mongolian tea made from chaga birch mushroom

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Mongolian tea made from chaga birch mushroom

Ingredients

Chaga 30 g
Hawthorn dried fruit 10 g
Irga dried berries 10 g
Boiled water, cooled to 80-90 degrees. 1 liter

Cooking method

  • Prepared chaga Mongolian tea made from chaga birch mushroomdry fruits of hawthorn and irgi - add at will (you can add other fruits and herbs) put in a thermos, pour boiling water, leave for 6-10 hours.
  • We filter, drink like tea, diluting with water in a 1: 1 ratio.
  • Attention: tea has a pronounced tonic effect! This is a tea drink!
  • For medicinal purposes, use after consulting a doctor and use a different preparation technology!

Note

We have been collecting chaga for a long time, we have in mind two live birches in the forest.
It is better to collect in autumn and spring, we collect in spring.
Chaga has three layers in its structure. Outside, it is black, has bumps and cracks. The middle layer is brown, granular. The inner one is loose.
Mongolian tea made from chaga birch mushroom

I chop the collected mushroom - very well with an ordinary garden pruner,
Mongolian tea made from chaga birch mushroom
dry in an electric dryer.

"Chaga or black birch fungus is a sterile form of the parasitic tinder fungus found on birches. Sometimes it settles on other growing trees such as maple, alder, elm, rowan, beech.

When collecting chaga, it must be distinguished from other tinder mushrooms. For example, the false tinder fungus has a convex top and a flat bottom. It is softer and has a gray velvety color. It grows more often on dry trees. There is also a real tinder fungus, which is attached only to the central part of the fruit and is easily separated from the tree. In shape, it is a grayish or brown semicircle with a smooth surface.

Chaga is not well studied chemically. It consists of about 12% ash, contains a lot of manganese, potassium and calcium, as well as acids (acetic, formic, oxalic, butyric, vanillic), polysaccharides, lignin, fiber, free phenols, etc. "

"People have known about chaga and its special medicinal properties for so long that it still remains a mystery - when and by what people this miraculous natural remedy was first discovered. It is also mentioned among the ancient Romans who imported birch mushroom from barbarian Europe, and scientific treatises of Avicenna, and in the ancient Russian annals and medical books.
The Eastern Slavs used this mushroom to treat many diseases, both external and internal. They treated a sore stomach, kidneys and lungs, rubbed joints and healed skin diseases in a bath, used it in gynecology, successfully used it to get rid of tumors and drank it just like tea - for general vigor of the body and spirit. A strong and affordable medicine, this folk remedy is not forgotten even now.

The birch mushroom has not been ignored by official medical science. So back in the fifties of the XIX century. In the clinic of the Moscow Medical Institute, doctor F.I.Inozemtsev conducted the first clinical trial of this widely known folk remedy. After that, the study of the birch fungus was carried out in Russia and in St. Petersburg, and in Moscow, and in Pyatigorsk, and in clinics of other large cities, while all researchers agreed that chaga preparations many times increase the defenses of the human body, regulate the activity of the digestive, nervous, cardiovascular and respiratory systems, in some cases, they slow down the development of tumors and improve the general condition of patients.

And already in the USSR, in 1955.After the completion of a comprehensive and versatile study of the birch mushroom, the Pharmacological Committee of the USSR Ministry of Health made a decision that the chaga mushroom should become an official drug. At about the same time, an attempt was even made to grow this valuable mushroom on an industrial scale by artificially infecting birch trees with fungal spores, but the researchers encountered some difficulties, and the question of the raw material base of the valuable mushroom was resolved by harvesting it in the forests. "

"Any medicinal products based on chaga are powerful biogenic stimulants. You should remember this and treat chaga with a certain degree of caution. Before taking chaga medications, you should definitely consult your doctor!
In addition, it must be remembered that under the influence of high temperatures, most of these beneficial properties of the mushroom are lost, so if you use chaga precisely as a biogenic stimulant, then in no case boil it and do not brew it with boiling water! Remember that 90-95 ° C is the maximum allowable temperature for birch mushroom preparations. Although, in some cases, chaga should be poured with boiling water or even made into a decoction. This is done when you want to fully extract other nutrients contained in the mushroom. "

Tumanchik
Olya, it was sucked right under the spoon !!!!
My grandmother was still a girl during the war. Child. Although now this age is no longer for children. Her parents were killed and almost all those close to her, and she hid in the forest. And she lived there. I went out to people only occasionally. A couple of times I froze in the swamp - they picked it out. She didn't particularly like to tell - she cried.
So what I mean, she knew very herbs. She loved and knew the forest. She told me a lot about chaga. But I was stupid ... it flew in here and ... did not stay. She respected this mushroom very much. She kept it in large pieces. Something else about burdock. Her legs were sore. I remember burdock and chaga. But she left .. and with her all knowledge was gone.
So I will master your technology. Thanks for the recipe.
lappl1
Olyahow much chaga passed me by! Eh ...
As students, we collected chaga, gouged out the middle, poured soil and planted climbing plants such as ivy or tradescantia there. Such pots hung very beautifully on the walls ... I knew it was a useful mushroom, but no one in my environment knew how to use it. It turns out that everything is so simple.
Thanks for the recipe, Olya. Maybe when I get into a birch forest. Then I certainly won't pass by the chaga.
MariV
Tumanchik, Ira, thank you very much for keeping the memory of your family! I think that the use of chaga gave strength during difficult times. I specially add hawthorn - to soften the effect of chaga gull. And then as I drank a cup of strong coffee - the same vigor!

I drink in the morning and before lunchtime, if by the evening - that's all, do not fall asleep!

lappl1, Luda, it's not chaga that passed you by ... it's a tinder fungus! Mongolian tea made from chaga birch mushroom or such Mongolian tea made from chaga birch mushroom
I also collected this for home crafts.

Chaga - like this Mongolian tea made from chaga birch mushroom
Chaga grows on birches in the middle and northern lane. In the south, in the heat - no!

My friends in Korea have a seriously ill mother - oncology. They asked me about this mushroom, because in Korea it costs some incredible money! My husband and I collected and dried a bucket of this chaga!
lappl1
Quote: MariV
it's not chaga passed by you ... it's a tinder fungus!
MariV, Olya, well, I'm still that nerd. Exactly, just like in the top photos, we made pots from these. And I didn't even pay attention to what was below, that is, chaga.
Quote: MariV
Chaga grows on birches in the middle and northern lane. In the south, in the heat - no!
Yes, it's hot here. And birches grow only in the city.
Quote: MariV
My husband and I collected and dried a bucket of this chaga!
Whoa! Well done what you and your husband are.
MariV
lappl1, Luda,!

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