______________________________________________________________________
Excerpts of scientific research on chaga:
“…extracts of chaga has inhibitory activity against human colon cancer cells. The results suggest that chaga would be useful as an antitumor agent…”
2009 – Lee SH, Hwang HS, Yun JW, Dept. of Biotechnology, Daegu University, Republic of Korea
“The mounting evidence from various research groups across the globe regarding anti-tumor application of mushroom extracts, unarguably make it a fast tract research area worth mass attention.”
2012 – Patel S, Goyal A., From PubMed Central
“Extract of chaga exhibited a potential anticancer activity of melanoma cells…”
2009 – Youn MJ Kim K, Park SY, VestibuloCochlear Research Center and Dept. of Microbiology, South Korea
“Betulinic acid (found in alcohol extracted chaga) has been reported to induce cancer cell death in human melanoma. Betulinic acid (found in chaga) in human neuroblastoma showed classic cancer cell death (apoptosis). Betulinic acid could be a useful anticancer agent because it to date has no recognized toxicities”
2010 – M.L.Schmidt , K.L. Kuzmanoff Dept. of Pediatrics, College of Medicine Chicago, Ilinois
“Chaga has high nutritional and medicinal value, especially in treating malignant tumors, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and AIDS…”
2009 – Zhong XH, Ren K, Lu SY DEpt. of Pathology, Jilin Medical College China
“Melanins found in chaga exhibit high antioxidant and gene-protecting properties, preventing DNA damage and increasing DNA repair… The complete safety of chaga preparations administered in therapeutic doses was also confirmed by numerous clinical tests with continuous much year (chaga) administration in patients with stage 4 cancer… Chaga produces pain relieving action…and is especially effective in combination with traditional methods. The long term administration of chaga significantly improved the general condition of patients with stage 3 and 4 cancers by decreasing or eliminating their pain within 3-4 weeks, which allowed the administration of narcotic pain drugs to be stopped. Chaga made possible the successful treatment of psoriasis… Chaga extract is most effective in small doses….”
2006 – M.Ya. Shashkina, P.N. Shashkin, and A.V. Sergeev Medicinal Plants, Chemical and Medicobiological Properties of chaga
“Chaga mushroom treatment affords cellular protection against DNA damage… Chaga has been used primarily in Russia, Eastern Europe and Japan to treat early stages of stomach and lung cancer and it has no documented side effects”
2004 – Yoo Kyoung Park, Dept. of Medical Nutrition South Korea
“Betulinic acid ( in chaga) is a novel anticancer drug…”
2005 – Perumal Yogeeswari, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India
“Chaga may offer a possibility as a therapeutic supplement for the normalization of blood glucose levels in humans with hyperglycemia, and have beneficial effects in patients with non insulin dependent diabetes… Antiproliferative (inhibits cell growth) effect of chaga extract was observed in human lung cancer cells….”
2010 – Polish Phamaceutical Society
