Chaga - The Tree Fungus Herbal Powerhouse! | Full Herbal Lesson
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There's a parasitic fungus growing on your birch trees...and you should be really excited! I'm talking about Chaga, a black, woody lump that really can change your life.
In the world of herbal remedies, few species can claim the same level of medicinal diversity and utility as the Chaga mushroom, scientifically known as Inonotus obliquus. Nestled in the Hymenochaetaceae family, Chaga goes by many monikers, including clinker polypore, cinder conk, black mass, birch mushroom, and true tinder fungus ( Not to be confused with all those PRETEND tinder fungi!). This enigmatic mushroom, with its myriad health benefits, is taking the wellness world by storm.
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I was told by the naturopath at City Of Hope to take 5 different kinds of mushrooms, including chaga during chemo to help my immunity. 😮
We use chaga a lot as it grows prolifically in our area here in Alaska. I typically take it as a tincture but do also make tea out of it. I haven’t tried adding ground chaga to my smoothie yet but I’m going to try that soon. My friends an family use my chaga tincture for immune support and to assist in reducing inflammation. They swear by it! Thank you!
Im also in Alaska. I add a tsp to my coffee when I brew it
@@DutchAlaskagirl Hello fellow Alaskan! I’ll have to try that, thank you
I have some that are about 1 inch chunks. How would I go about powdering it? It seems to be quite hard
@@cherylmerideth5143 Put it in a tote and crush with hammer and then grind if you have a strong blender. Or you can cook the chunks on low in a crockpot for a day and make a tea which will be stronger than just adding it to your coffee as it brews.
I don’t know who takes a look at that thing growing on a tree and says “hey! Why don’t we eat that and see what it does?” It nasty looking! Great info Doc, thanks!
It's beautifull inside.
Thank you for the helpful info!
I do wish there were more medical professionals with knowledge of herbs as well as pharmaceuticals so patients could have a wider variety of remedies to choose from.
Thank you for sharing about chaga! We harvest and use it here in WV. In our home, we keep a crock pot of chaga "tea" (I think it drinks more like coffee--yum!) going all winter long. We dry the chaga and carefully chip it into pieces of about 1-2" and use a few of those in a 6-7 quart crock pot of water.....kept on low or warm setting. We have been drinking it for several years and enjoy it.
Wait, so you keep it cooking all winter? Or do you strain it and bottle it up? I’m confused 😂
@@zitiboylilo5789 We put a few small chunks in a large crock pot of water on warm. When the water level gets low, we add more water and keep going--adding new pieces when the brew becomes weak. Occasionally I clean the pot and start over completely. I am home all day so I am ok with keeping the crock pot on--but you could always refrigerate the tea and re-warm.
I wonder if you could share how much chiagga…in 1-2” pieces…that you put in your 6-7 quart crockpot? My crockpot is 10 quarts! Also, if able to chip the bits smaller, the smaller the bits the more surface area that is exposed so the more benefits will be infused. Your method reads similar to how we drank sassafrass tea!
@@elleartisa5990 For 1-2" pieces, maybe 4 pieces for a 6-7 qt. crock pot, maybe 2-3 more pieces for a 10 qt pot. Yes, you could definitely use smaller chunks/bits as you mentioned....probably adjust to equal for the 1-2" pieces. Best wishes!
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I love powdered chaga in my coffee. It adds a depth of coffee flavor without the acidity. When I want a break from coffee/caffeine, I add it to my decaffeinated coffee. I love it both ways. I alone consume about 6oz per year in my coffee. I feel it helps keep me healthier and less "cold/seasonal allergy" type of symptoms. I live in Central TX and it's been a huge help. Seasonal Allergies are a daily occurrence here.
We are trying to see if we can afford for my wife to take your herbalist courses so we want to find out what type of payments can be made prior to purchase but when I go to checkout, and clicked on “affirm” to see if we can afford the payments AND for any stipulations, it says that I have to click that I read the terms and conditions but the terms and conditions aren’t showing up.
I don’t want to buy anything without knowing what I am signing. Thank you, in advance, for your reply.
My wife and I are old, but it’s never too late to learn and we FINALLY woke up to the knowledge that all these plants are a gift from God!!! I thought that most things were weeds until now. Hallelujah that we now know!!!
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I find that after takeing 25 To 50 % of the conk and then i revisit next season or 2 and have found that it grows back quicker and bigger some of my biggest harvests have been revisiting trees i harvested from years ago 🍄❤️
I've been foraging chaga , reishi , and artist conks for years and use them all. I make and sell tinctures of all of these also. I've probably shipped medicinal mushroom to every state including Hawaii. Made a lot of friends and hopefully helped some people. I've had big players try to recruit me to supply their chaga factories but always turned them down. Right now I do it to suppliment my income and supply myself with fresh safe mushrooms. Teaching myself to grow the ones I can't find in the woods also.
Similar story friend. I only recently started selling my tinctures at the local flea market. Currently i sell my own chaga that i harvest here in NB, and the other i do buy Chinese Reishi and sell that too. As of yesterday i had ordered some Cordyceps that's the next one currently brewing. It's a great thing making a little extra money, well selling something you use and love. God is good. cheers.
Love that sentence "If you take drugs and herbs, don't do it without talking to someone who understands both". Unfortunately, I never met anyone (except you) who does. I think it is best to avoid doctors and pharmaceuticals.
I agree
@@Winter_Homesteadyes look how many have been harmed by the Covid jab when people could have boosted their immunity and then caught it and gained natural immunity.
I find it helps my type 1 diabetes (autoimmune) just take i few units less of insulin on days i make my chaga rieshi turkey tail tea this tea has helped so many health conditions and after years of drinking chaga I've never had any negative affects
I had a guy that wanted to start giving me this this weekend I’m a diabetic on metformin I’m glad I started following and learning from you what a mistake that would have been I also have fibromyalgia
I'd never heard of it until friends bought a small rural property and found it in their woods.
Thanks for the information Doc. I’ll show this to my husband so when he’s out cutting wood on our property he can be on the lookout for some. I’m taking your herbal course and I’m learning so much, it’s very interesting.
MUD WTR Gold has Chaga and other mushrooms in it. I drink it every morning.
Great video! Wonderful info.
A forager friend of mine slipped me a "dime bag" full of Chaga awhile ago and I feel much more confident in using it now! 😊
Thank you so much Dr Jones. I shared this on my Facebook page as I always do.
God bless Dr Jones!!! God save our hero !!! Thank you thank you thank you Dr Jones!!! Once I finish one of my degrees next year I am going to take this course !!!
In Germany we make a difference between the "Birkenporling" that grows on birch trees (Birken) and the much more potent Chaga, that grows on trees in very cold areas like Finnland or Sibiria (Sibirien).
Chaga is more powerful than the Birkenporling.
My sister in law took Birkenporling that she took from the birch woods here, but it didn't prevent her from dying of cancer.
I drink chaga tea during the winter in combination with white or green tea as a prophylactic then give it a break for summer in favor of Topo Chico. Cheers!
Thanks Doc. Great info
Thank you for your videos. 😊
Cant wait to watch this later today. Thanks Dr Jones :).
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I love learning from you!!
Thanks for the informative video!
Thanks Doc 😎👍
Great information
Thanks for diving into chaga, I love this stuff and was my 1st mushroom to tincture up.
Thank you, Dr. Jones! Hoping to find some Chaga growing around me one day.
Great knowledge site , love your videos I look forward to the newest weekly Thanks Dr.
I need more patients, I googled the antilipidemic and then you explained it. Not gonna be my word of the day
Thanks for this wise way to look at taking herbs.
Thank you for this one. Is taking it in tea for as useful
Also great pest control in garden use when watering plants or diluted in spray bottle
I stick a wooden spoon in the center to make a hole, then fill it with ketchup, bbq sauce or salsa, depending on what flavor profile I added. The hole disappears & the sauce is absorbed in the meat. Then i slice it & fry it to get a good crust on it. Delicious. ❤
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Love all your content! I was under the impression chaga was a immune modulator not a stimulate?
it is a modulator. If your immune system is weakened or under performing chaga will stimulate it.
I've been using chaga for a couple of years in my morning decaf coffee along with ceylon cinnamon, maca & collagen...its more like an elixir than coffee ;). I think it's important to take about dual extraction as water and alcohol extractions for both buying and making tincturesm They each pull different things and have different health benefits. When buying a tincture, I would only buy one that us dually extracted :). David Wolfe did a great video on the differences many years ago..I don't know if it is still around.
Will Aspen work, too?
Dr Jones, off topic….. my dog has MCT, I’m using Benadryl and milk thistle as well as mushrooms. My question 🙋🏼♀️ is are there more natural remedies??!
What would be your go to for prevention of Norovirus on a cruise?
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I thought Alder was a type of Birch? We have tons of Alder here in NW Washington state. It would be nice if I could harvest Chaga off of them, if I could find it 🙂
Is pineapple tincture a thing? I want to make some.
How much Chaga is good to take for a virus coming on
Given what he says about fighting free radicals and virus replication, chaga might also be helpful to the mRNA vaccine impaired.
Thanks Doc Jones!
I’ve had some Chaga stored for a few years. How long do you think it can store. Do you think it still might be good? I had it in a closed container. I’m wanting to get back into making tea again and hopefully can use what I have.
I have some also that’s old Wondering the same thing.
Me too
if it was properly dried and stored in a glass container it will last for years. If no mold it should be good. I'd crack it open and check for good color.
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Thank you. That’s what I suspected.
It has been stored in glass. No mold.
I’ve been eating in coffee for years.
Birch doesn't do well where I am.
So I have chaga that is 10 years old, will it still be any good?
What about diabetics who are on ozympic or a similar drug and can't get it due to supply chain issues or other SHTF scenarios? Can we then take chaga as a replacement for the Invokana/Ozempic meds?
Love fungi--Have you written a book yet? My goodness the best medicinal herbs and when NOT to take them with pharmaceuticals would be a first wouldn’t it???
Unfortunately I get kidney stones from drinking chaga tea. Is there anyway I can take chaga without this happening?
Ist seems like, along with all the other tinctures and powders, there need to be a pregnancy pack for keeping the Mommy to be healthy
Hi , I had leukaemia and a stem cell transplant 2and a half years ago and I’ve been taking Chaga tincture for a few weeks now I’m only on aciclovir which is a anti viral do you think it’s ok to be taking chaga ? Thankyou
Can you tell me when you put it in a kettle and brew it.. 1. How much time do you brew it to get the most benefits from it? 2. Does boiling it ruin it? How much chaga in a 2 qt kettle do you need? 3. How long can you brew it for.. couple days .. a week…? 4. Is there any benefits to powdering once you’ve brewed it? I guess that’s it for now! LOL
Thank you so much for the warning Dr. Jones! I think the Lord perhaps intended for me to see this video in order to warn me. I have a dog now who sees an holistic vet 'long distance' for liver/kidney disease. We just started seeing this holistic vet this year. In between visits we see a 'traditional mainstream' vet near where we live. I will have to think twice if there is an emergency where a immediate surgery is needed and we might have to bring him to mainstream vet, I'll think twice because my girl is on a whole bunch of herbal remedies from holistic vet!! I also wonder how you as a holistic vet would have treated my other dearly departed dog who is in heaven now..... He had terminal Immune Mediated disease, Or Mediated Immune disease. The vet mainstream specialist vet immediately told me he has never seen any dog recover from that disease.....and my boy didn't 😭. According to testing it was probably 'not' tick born illness. I often wonder if we had know a holistic vet to bring him to at that time, if my boy might have had a chance of surviving?....
Do you know about banana skins? Wow now there's a head shaker...I've used them several times now right after an injury. Not broken skin...just nasty bruising sorts. I always take bananas to work parties just in case.
There is an illness/virus going around and it’s killing some dogs. I would like you to see this video and tell us what we can do to protect our animals.
I could not download the video I collected from the news, but this illness has everyone concerned. Need your help!
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My chaga is more red and cork like. Can i still use it?
are you sure it's chaga?
I thought chaga was anti inflammatory? Seems like Chaya would help AI because AI is inflammation.
Unfortunately I am in hot Alabama and Birch trees will not survive the humid heat.😂
We ve got quite a bit of chaga around here in Finland 😊 over the years i ve had quite a few liters of chaga tea simmering in my kitchen 😛
Does anyone know what chaga tastes like ? I'm thinking bitter and yuck??
No bitterness at all, the flavor tastes like a mild tea to me, I have a chaga coffee mix and can only taste the coffee. I make chaga tea and drink it cold like ice tea and it tastes fine. I make batches of chaga tea with and add different tea blends to add more flavor and to give a bit of caffeine kick. Chaga alone doesn't taste bad at all.
weak , poor quality coffee? I use it cold mixed with cranberry juice. Counter acts the tartness. Mixed with coffee and chickory root is a tasty alternative too.
its almost tasteless. More of a pleasant taste than a bad one
There’s no bitter taste. But that aside generally most things that are bitter are probably really good for you. 😊👍
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God bless, watch this videos daily as a part of my morning routine.