Chaga Mushroom: The King of Medicinal Mushrooms

Chaga (Inonotus Obliquus), the "king of medicinal mushrooms," has been used for centuries by Siberian tribes for its healing properties. Paired with ceremonial cacao, it offers powerful immune support.

Discover the Power of Chaga Mushroom

There are many types of mushrooms but Chaga is Unique!

For thousands of years, Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) has been revered by Siberian shamans and northern tribes as the “King of Medicinal Mushrooms”. Known also as the “Diamond of the Forest” and the “Mushroom of Immortality”, Chaga has long been treasured for its extraordinary healing powers.

Today, paired with ceremonial cacao, this sacred mushroom offers profound support for the body, mind, and spirit. Strengthening immunity, restoring balance, and awakening vitality.

What is CHAGA

Chaga is a unique fungus that grows on birch trees in the northern forests of Europe, Russia, Canada, and Alaska, where it's been used for thousands of years by Siberian tribes and shamans as a medicinal plant.

Chaga has an appearance of a rock or burnt charcoal and doesn't taste like traditional mushrooms. Instead, they have a bitter, yet vanilla taste. Unlike other mushrooms, it is not a fruiting body but a hardened mass of mycelium called a sclerotium, rich in melanin that gives it its dark, charcoal-like appearance.

Chaga is classified as a functional mushroom (non-psychedelic). This fantastic fungi is extremely potent in antioxidants and immune-boosting chemicals.

Chaga Mushrooms are a extremely potent adaptogenic. Traditionally brewed into teas or used in shamanic rituals, Chaga is now celebrated worldwide as one of the most powerful adaptogenic herbs and fungi that help the body adapt to stress and restore balance.

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Key Benefits of Chaga

Chaga is renowned for its wide spectrum of healing compounds: High in antioxidants, polysaccharides, alkalines, phytonutrients, flavonoids, vitamins, phenols, enzymes, amino acids, organic acids, beta-glucan, minerals - calcium, zinc, magnesium, chromium, over 215 important trace minerals and microelements. Together, these support resilience, longevity, and spiritual awakening.

  • Potent immune system support (immune modulation)
  • Anti-inflammatory and Anti-viral properties
  • Highest known antioxidant concentration of any food (5x stronger than other superfoods)
  • Blood sugar and cholestrol regulation
  • Support for skin, cellular repair, and healthy aging
  • Liver protection and detoxification
  • Pineal gland decalcification & third eye awakening

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Chaga # Nr.1 Antioxidant

While cacao is well-known for its high antioxidant content, it pales in comparison to Chaga. Measured by the ORAC scale (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity), Chaga mushrooms hold the highest antioxidant score of any known food.

ORAC (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) is a method to measure the antioxidant activity of foods. Basically, researchers set a bunch of free radicals (bad) against a sample of a food and see how well the antioxidants in the food can disarm the free radicals. 

Chaga mushrooms rate as the highest among all other natural foods in the world!

It is especially rich in SuperOxide Dismutase (SOD) and melanin, a group of enzymes that play an important role in protecting our body against the destructive effects of uncontrolled oxidation and free radicals. These compounds help protect our DNA, fight free radicals, and even support fertility and neurological health.

Chaga also contains high levels of Melanin (an antioxidant that protects and repairs your DNA and fights radiation). Melanin is a complex compound that gives the skin, hair and the iris (coloured part of the eye) their colour.

Ageing, genetics and environmental factors such as exposure to the sun a common contributing factors to poor production of these colour pigments.

Regardless of the melanin state in your body, chaga mushrooms can help in maintaining healthy levels of the pigments, help in protection against ultraviolet rays, reduces the risk of skin cancer, supports fertility health, helps to prevent folate depletion (folate is vital for fertility and fetal development), supports many metabolic processes in the body and helps in the prevention of serious neurological disorders, these include inborn defects of the brain and the spinal cord (neuro-tubal defects)

Where cacao is already beloved and well known for her high amount of antioxidants, Chaga takes this to another level. Together, they create a divine blend for strength and resilience.

Chaga & Ceremonial Cacao

Divine Strength

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Divine Strength

Immune Boosting

Besides being a powerful antioxidant, this unique mushrooms is on of the most potent immune regulating mushrooms out there.

One of the most important components found in Chaga is Beta-Glucans. Beta-Glucans is a well studied type of polysaccharides that help the body to regulate the immune system, either in suppressing an overactive immune system or in helping to build up a damaged immune system.

This is important, as the immune system function is truly at the core of what makes one healthy or sick. Beta Glucans stimulate the immune system by activating macrophages and natural killer cell function (macrophages are those white blood cells that attack and remove foreign particles and pathogens).

When lymphocytes and macrophages are activated it causes increased production of cytokines, which are the messengers of our immune system.

This immune modulatory effect means that Chaga can benefit people needing immune support and people with autoimmune disorders

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Vaya!

Si pensabas que el cacao ya tenía un alto contenido de antioxidantes, entonces nunca habías oído hablar del Chaga... ¡¡¡El Chaga tiene el mayor contenido de antioxidantes en comparación con cualquier otra fuente de todos los alimentos!!!

Además de ser un poderoso antioxidante, es uno de los hongos reguladores inmunológicos más potentes que existen.

Chaga for Skin, Longevity & Radiance

Your skin is the largest absorption organ in your body and when free radicals become too abundant in your body due to mall nutrition, pollution or stress, your skin tends to suffer in many ways, including the onset of ageing. 

Chaga does an awesome job of fighting these free radicals to help slow the aging process down. 

Rich in betulonic acid, melanin, and enzymes, Chaga protects the skin against UV damage, supports cellular repair, and slows visible signs of aging.

There are historical records documenting the use of chaga for skin irritation by Alaskan and other Native American tribes. By reducing irritation and inflammation, chaga’s anti-inflammatory properties may help to combat breakouts(1) Chaga has some of the highest forms of pigment and melanin available. Melanin is an important component that does a great job of shading and shielding your skin against sun rays and dangerous UV beams, providing an immense amount of UV protection.

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Chaga as an anti-inflammatory

When the body is fighting off an illness, inflammation acts as a defense mechanism against infection. However, sometimes inflammation can damage the body or even develop into a chronic condition, such as rheumatoid arthritis, heart disease, or autoimmune diseases. Even depression may be partly linked to chronic inflammation.

Chaga  can help prevent the production of harmful cytokines — specialized proteins that regulate the immune system — Chaga stimulates white blood cells, which are essential for fighting off harmful bacteria or viruses. As a result, this mushroom could help fight infections — from minor colds to serious illnesses.

The Mystical Properties of chaga

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Chaga, the Third Eye & Spiritual Awakening

Pineal Gland Detoxification

Chaga is deeply connected to the pineal gland the “seat of the soul,” also known as the Third Eye. This small organ, located at the centre of the brain, produces DMT, a compound believed to play a role in mystical states of consciousness. DMT is found in almost all plants and animals and has long been regarded by indigenous and ancient tribes as a key to our spiritual gateway.

For most people today, however, the Third Eye is calcified and dormant. The pineal gland plays a vital role in the production of both melanin and melatonin. Melanin is considered a primary nutrient for the pineal gland, while melatonin, a neurotransmitter produced by tryptophan, regulates our sleep/wake cycle and biological rhythms.

Chaga holds a rare and concentrated source of melanin, making it a powerful ally for pineal decalcification. By replenishing melanin, Chaga supports healthy melatonin production, protects subtle energy flow, and restores harmony to the body’s natural rhythms.

Melanin Magic

Melanin itself creates the pigment in our eyes and skin, and is produced by the amino acid tyrosine. Meanwhile, melatonin governs cycles of rest and renewal. Unfortunately, many toxins present in our food and environment contribute to pineal calcification, blocking its proper function and leading to decreased melatonin and natural DMT production.

Because Chaga is the most naturally dense source of melanin known, it offers a profound nutritional support for awakening the Third Eye. For shamans, Chaga has always been far more than medicine; rather, of being a sacred teacher and ally in visioning, ritual, and opening mystical states of consciousness.

Chaga has been revered by Siberian shamans and indigenous cultures for centuries, used in rituals, medicine, and to open the third eye, symbolising ancient wisdom.

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Shamanic use of chaga

Chaga tiene una larga y famosa historia de uso tanto en Europa del Este, Rusia como por los pueblos indígenas de Siberia y el norte de Canadá durante cientos e incluso miles de años.

Los chamanes siberianos lo llamaban “el regalo del cielo”. Tradicionalmente, Chaga se convertía en un té medicinal, que se usaba para iniciar incendios llevando un carbón de Chaga encendido, que se utilizaba como tinte, y se convertía en tambores. Los chamanes y curanderos reconocieron que el hongo Chaga contenía sabiduría antigua, además de proporcionar una fuente esencial de nutrición humana que incluye fitoquímicos y un rico contenido en minerales.

En Rusia y Siberia occidental, el pueblo Khanty ha utilizado Chaga como medicina natural desde el siglo XIII.

Además del uso medicinal para combatir infecciones, los chamanes también remojaban piezas quemadas de Chaga en agua, que luego se usaba para ceremonias rituales de limpieza. En el Taoismo se sabe que Chaga nutre tanto al jing (energía primordial) y shen (aura espiritual).

Hasta hoy los chamanes del hemisferio norte utilizan Chaga como herramienta en sus rituales sagrados para abrir el tercer ojo.

¿Sabías que...?

El escritor ruso Alexander Solzhenitsyn describió en su libro semiautobiográfico "El pabellón del cáncer" cómo S.N.Maslennikov, un médico de provincias, descubrió e investigó el poder curativo del chaga.

El propio Alexander Solzhenitsyn se recuperó de un cáncer en 1957, y se sabe que no sólo se sometió a cirugía, sino que también tomó chaga. Esto no es una prueba tan sólida de la eficacia del chaga, sin embargo, así es como el chaga se dio a conocer en todo el mundo.

MEDICINA TRADICIONAL CHAGA FOLCLORE

En Estonia, Finlandia, Rusia y América del Norte y Canadá, el chaga se conoce y se consume desde hace muchos siglos.

El chaga se ha utilizado como "medicina popular" en Estonia, Finlandia, Rusia y Norteamérica y Canadá al menos desde el siglo XVI para tratar enfermedades gastrointestinales, cardiovasculares y diabetes.

Si hablas estonio o utilizas Google Translate, aquí puedes leer lo que dicen los usuarios sobre el chaga: Medicina folclórica estonia con Chaga.

En Rusia, se afirma que el chaga también se ha utilizado para aliviar la tuberculosis y se emplea en el tratamiento de varios tipos de cáncer, como el de mama inoperable y el de labio, glándulas salivales, pulmón, piel y colorrectal. Supuestamente, el gobernante ruso Vladimir Monomahh se curó de cáncer de labio en el siglo XII.

En la medicina popular finlandesa, el chaga se ha utilizado para tratar la diabetes, la gastritis, la enfermedad de Crohn, la colitis ulcerosa, la psoriasis, el asma y otras afecciones. Antiguamente, los sami bebían té de chaga a diario. El chaga también se utilizó en Finlandia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, siendo preparado y distribuido por la empresa Paasivaara con el nombre comercial de Tikkatee ("té del pájaro carpintero").

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Mitología y leyendas

chaga's Mythology & Legends

En una búsqueda en los Alpes en 1991, dos alemanes encontraron los restos de un hombre congelado de 5300 años ahora llamado "Otzi el Hombre de Hielo". La evidencia científica indica que Otzi llevaba "hongo" de la materia negra en su bolsa de transporte que se usaba para encender fuegos.

Otra historia fascinante que circula entre los fanáticos de los hongos es que creen que los hongos podrían haber venido del espacio exterior. La leyenda dice que las esporas de hongos transportadas por vientos cósmicos posiblemente desde planetas distantes, se abrieron paso a través de la atmósfera hace posiblemente millones o incluso miles de millones de años y encontró su camino en nuestra tierra y agua, donde se desarrolló para ayudar a evolucionar a la humanidad. Esta historia ganó popularidad gracias a Terrance McKenna, el conferenciante número uno sobre hongos mágicos.

Una cosa es segura, el reino de los hongos es espectacularmente fascinante y ha existido desde que los humanos vivieron en este planeta, posiblemente incluso más tiempo.

Extracto de Chaga

La mayor parte de los poderes medicinales y espirituales de los hongos Chaga sólo se obtienen de un extracto de alta calidad hecho con intención, amor y cuidado. Desafortunadamente, la mayoría de los polvos de Chaga que se encuentran en el mercado son simplemente una versión pulverizada de los trozos de Chaga, secados por aspersión en China y elaborados en un laboratorio.

Herbal Cacao colabora con una pequeña familia que lleva generaciones utilizando el extracto de Chaga con fines espirituales y medicinales. El Chaga utilizado en la mezcla de Herbal Cacao proviene directamente de esta familia y es un potente extracto "liofilizado" de >30% de Polisacáridos,- lo que significa: El hongo Chaga se cuece durante 24 horas para obtener los potentes nutrientes solubles en agua [antioxidantes y polisacáridos] y luego se liofiliza para mantener todos los poderes medicinales y espirituales de Chaga, por lo que es 100% soluble y un Extracto de Chaga 15 veces más potente que la versión RAW en polvo.

High-quality Chaga extract from Herbal Cacao, freeze-dried for 24 hours to preserve potent antioxidants and polysaccharides, ensuring 15x more potency than raw powder.
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¿Quién debe tener cuidado al consumir Chaga?

Chaga es un potente modulador inmunológico y si estás tomando medicamentos inmunosupresores puede contrarrestar su efecto, por lo cual se debe evitar consumir Chaga en este caso.

Si ya está tomando un medicamento como la insulina, es importante consultar con tu médico para obtener asesoramiento profesional si Chaga es el suplemento dietético adecuado para ti. Esto asegurará que tus niveles de azúcar en sangre no se vean afectados al incorporar suplementos dietéticos del hongo Chaga en tu cuerpo.

Las investigaciones sugieren que Chaga puede tener propiedades anticoagulantes. Las personas que toman warfarina u otros medicamentos anticoagulantes deben evitar el Chaga.

No hay suficiente investigación científica sobre la seguridad para mujeres embarazadas y niños pequeños, por lo que se sugiere que no deben consumir Chaga sin consultar primero a un médico.

Chaga es un adaptógeno muy poderoso, por lo que si tomas medicamentos recetados debes hablar con tu médico antes de consumir Chaga como suplemento, ya que puede interactuar con medicamentos en tu sistema.

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POR QUÉ el extracto de Chaga de Herbal Cacao?

A Herbal Cacao le encanta apoyar y por eso solo trabaja en conjunto con pequeñas familias que trabajan las tierras de manera sustentable y 100% con un profundo amor y respeto por nuestra "Madre Tierra"

El Chaga utilizado en el "Immune Support" proviene de una pequeña familia de Estonia que vive en el bosque y todos comparten una profunda pasión por este fascinante hongo. El Chaga se cosecha de forma sostenible en bosques nacionales puros y limpios, lejos de ciudades y carreteras transitadas y sólo en "Zonas de Agricultura Ecológica Desicanada", donde los productos fitosanitarios y los pesticidas están prohibidos por ley. Su principal objetivo es respetar el entorno natural de Estonia para cosechar Chaga de la forma más sostenible y promover este potente hongo como parte de un estilo de vida saludable.

Todos comparten un profundo respeto por el bosque y el abedul, especialmente por su increíble regalo, brindandonos
el extracto de chaga 100% europeo, certificado como y sin aditivos, cosechado de forma sostenible y de la mejor calidad.

Al comprar tu Chaga de Herbal Cacao, estás apoyando la agrosilvicultura y sostenible y ayudando a los pequeños agricultores familiares a continuar compartiendo el amor por nuestras tierras con mucho respeto y rompiendo la cadena de la gran cooperación e invirtiendo de nuevo en las personas y la tierra. ADEMÁS te proporcionamos un producto premium de alta calidad que mejora la conexión de tu cuerpo, mente y alma.

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*scientific sources about Chaga & Ceremonial cacao

If you feel called to dive deeper into the science and ancestral wisdom behind Chaga, here are some resources we love and trust.

1. Scientific Research on Chaga Mushroom
  • PubMed: Peer-reviewed studies on Chaga’s antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and immune-regulating properties.
    PubMed Chaga Studies
2. Traditional Medicine References
  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH): Information on traditional uses of mushrooms in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Asia.
    NCCIH on Medicinal Mushrooms
3. Health Benefits & Antioxidant Information
4. Ceremonial Cacao Research & Benefits
5. General Mushroom Health Benefits
6. Immune System Support
7. Adaptogens & Stress Regulation
  • WebMD: Information on adaptogens and their role in balancing stress and immunity.
    WebMD on Adaptogens
8. Cognitive Health & Neuroprotection
  • Harvard Health Publishing: Articles on neuroplasticity and brain health, relevant to Chaga’s antioxidant and anti-inflammatory support.
    Harvard Health on Brain Function
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