Chaga dual extract tincture
What are these special ingredients?
The most important active ingredients of chaga are beta-glucans (a type of polysaccharides)and betulinic acid.
Chaga also contains phytosterols (mostlyinotodiol and lanosterol) plus an extremely large level of melanin.
Melanin is a natural antioxidant that gives chaga its external black color, but, more importantly, provides the highest level of antioxidants found in any food.
What do these ingredients do?
Beta-Glucans/Polysaccharides
Beta-glucans are often found within medicinal mushrooms, and scientific research has shown that they normalize and balance the immune system.
Quite simply, they keep us healthy by regulating the body's immune system. Due to these immune-regulating properties, we can also say that the chaga mushroom contains both anti-viral and anti-inflammatory qualities.
Betulinic Acid
Betulinic acid found in Chaga comes from the birch trees from which it grows and gives chaga additional health benefits. Most notably, it normalizes the body's cholesterol levels
Also, research has shown that betulinic acid is able to remove cancerous cells without negatively affecting healthy cells. However, how it does this is not yet fully understood. Therefore, more research is required before we fully understand the properties and benefits of betulinic acid.
When you combine the immune-regulating properties of polysaccharides with the effects of betulinic acid, you have yourself a potentially potent anti-cancer supplement.
Antioxidants and Phytosterols
Furthermore, the phytosterols present within Chaga were found to contain potent anti-cancer properties. So when you have all 3 of these components (betulinic acid, polysaccharides, and phytosterols), you can see why Chaga is one of the most valuable health supplements out there.
But there's more still, its antioxidant properties! The melanin found within chaga provides protection against the tough environment in which it grows. The components of melanin were found to have protective and DNA-regenerating properties. Melanin can be compared to a natural "anti-rust" layer.
A measure of antioxidants is the ORAC score (oxygen radical absorbance capacity). Chaga has one of the highest scores ever found.
These antioxidants add anti-aging properties to the already impressive collection of Chaga's qualities.
Where chaga grows it's historicals value is revealed through various names:
Gift from God (Siberia)
Mushroom of immortality (China)
Diamond of the forest (Japan)
In norwegian the name is kreftkjuke which literally means cancer polypore.
Suggested use:
Use one tea spoon (5mg) 2-3 times daily before meals with water.
Storage:
Store in dark, cool place. Suggested to use within 1 month after opening.
Why alcohol?
Alcohol is the best at extracting naturally occurring components of chaga mushroom which has particularly low solubility. Alcohol soluble compounds are triterpenes (anti-inflammatory) properties, and sterols (anti-viral properties), as betulinic acid (anticancer properties) and ergothioneine (antioxidant). Water soluble compounds are polysaccharides that are omportant for immune system boosting and nourishing. Dual extractation method is linking up these compuonds and making it more rich and efficient than with other extractation methods.
- Alcohol helps preserve and maintain the cell integrity and ionization.
- Alcohol acts as a carrier and helps absorb faster into the bloodstream.
Amanita Nordica chaga is wild harvested and made with love in Latvia.
We also make chaga tea powder and chaga chunks and organize chaga drink degustations and workshops about proper chaga harvest preperation.
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