For thousands of years, Chaga (Inonotus Obliquus) has been revered throughout the known world (Eurasia), where it has been referred to as a precious "Gift from God" and nature's "King of Herbs". Documented back well before the time of Christ, ancient Asian folk medicine practitioners relied upon Chaga, a medicinal mushroom, to maintain a healthy life energy balance ("Chi"), preserve youth, promote longevity, and boost the body's immune system to fight viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic maladies. As a folk medicine, Chaga was ingested by the local people of the Siberian mountain regions in tea or powder form, inhaled from smoke as a remedy for lung and respiratory disorders, and applied to the skin for healing of injury or rash. Indigenous people from that area had low incidence of chronic diseases, including cancer, and have been documented to live beyond 100 years of age.

Documented in the first recorded oriental medicinal book "The Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" in 100 B.C., the Chinese Monk Shen Nong proclaimed Chaga as a superior class medicinal herb, because of its diverse and complete medicinal properties. The entry reads "A Precious Gift of Nature" and "The King of the Herbs". His work Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, was the first of the three ancient medical books that serve as the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

For centuries, Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners have applied Chaga as a remedy for human viral diseases including influenza, lung afflictions, anti-inflammatory treatment of stomach disorders, the arrest and reversal of chronic degenerative conditions, balancing the endocrine system as an anti-oxidant to detoxify the body, and as a daily supplement for the overall balancing of the body's immune system and increasing longevity.

Historically, some Russians drank Chaga as a daily beverage just as we do coffee or tea. It has been found that there is a dramatically lower incidence of chronic degenerative disease among these groups. These people were unknowingly taking a preventive medicine while enjoying a cup of tasty and inexpensive tea.  Today, Chaga tea is commonly used in Russian cultures as a family cupboard remedy to support a healthy immune system.

Early Russian culture embraced the medicinal use of Siberian Chaga, and its use has spread westward to the Urals and Baltic regions of the European continent. In the 12th Century Tzar Vladimir Monamah was treated with Chaga (for symptoms most probably of lip cancer).

Siberian Chaga, received acclaim and notice by the Western world when Nobel Prize winning Russian novelist Alexandr Solzenitsyn introduced it in his 1968 novel about cancer patients. In The Cancer Ward, he talks about the medicinal tea from the birch tree mushroom and its curative powers against cancer. This novel is largely autobiographical since the author himself was a Chaga tea user and cancer ward patient. After being told his cancer was terminal and inoperative, Solzhenitsyn, was awed by the healing powers of Chaga to treat cancer during the 1950s in his investigative research of patient treatment in provincial Siberia. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn survived and credits Chaga with curing his cancer.  

According to thousands of years of testing in Traditional Chinese Medicine, medicinal mushrooms including Chaga, can preserve youth and increase longevity, improve health, and boost life energy or "Chi."  The biochemistry of these mushrooms is complex and is still being studied.  After 40 years of research, the publication of over a thousand clinical, in vivo and in vitro studies, research science is only beginning to understand the healing properties of these medicinal mushrooms.

In 1982, Mr. J. T. Osugi, an expert chemist and industrial engineer, immigrated to the Asian Continent to guide developing nations in the design and construction of water purification and reclamation systems. While there, he sought acceptance by a Qigong Master to study Acupuncture and the art of Chi, inlcuding its underlying principle that a balanced body is impenetrable to harmful viruses or disease. At the end of the fifth year of study, the Qigong Master offered his dying words to Mr. Osugi: "I will be departing upon a spiritual journey. You will receive a precious gift in your midlife - you have the responsibility to use it wisely".

Twenty years later, Mr. Osugi, trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine, traveled to the Mountain regions of Siberia, where he found local people harvesting and using the legendary Chaga mushroom to protect themselves from illness, disease, and the effects of aging. Observing the lifestyle and longevity of the villagers, Mr. Osugi recognized Siberian Chaga as the "precious gift" prophesized by the Qigong Master.

Mr. Osugi then dedicated his professional efforts to bring Siberian Chaga to the global community so that everyone can benefit from the healing powers of Chaga.

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