Chaga - sibir. Birkenpilz - betulinic acid
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1. In 1960, the U.S. National Cancer Institute
 noted  a report that a decoction of Chaga had been used successfully to
 treat cancer  in Australia.  Well known for stimulating the immune 
system, Chaga was approved for public use  against cancer by the Medical
 Academy of Science in Moscow in 1955. 
    
2. John Pezzuto of the University   of Chicago
 is quoted as "the activity of the Betulinic acid is one of the most  
promising discoveries amongst 2500 plant extracts studied." The 
Betulinic  acid contained in Chaga covers the full spectrum of immune 
stimulating effects  found in similar medicinal mushrooms such as 
Maitake and Shiitake mushrooms.
    
3.
  Russian and Japanese medical professionals both contend Chaga is many 
 times more effective than Ganoderma Lucidum or Phellinus Linteus. The  
International Agriculture Development Institute in Korea confirms such 
claims. 
    
4.
 The  Japanese Cancer Society claims Chaga plays an important role in  
combating cancer and it jointly used with pharmacology drugs and  
chemotherapy diminishes their side effects.
    
5.
 "It is a fact  that Chaga, placed into a birch bark casket, acquires 
more expressed  therapeutic properties. Bioactive substances of the 
white part of birch bark  having triterpenic bonds - betulin, lupeol, 
betulinic acid, etc. - possess  anti-cancerous activity, 
causing apoptosis (programmed cell death) of  cancerous cells and this 
is transfered to Chaga, thus strengthening its  properties..", says Galina
  Mikhaylovna Fedoseeva the Chairman of the Department of Pharmacognosy 
and  Botany of Irkutsk State Medical University, professor, Doctor of 
the  pharmaceutical sciences.
    
6.
 Numerous studies also  indicate a 50% reduction in glycemic peaks are 
achieved due to the Beta Glucan  effects on blood sugar levels. There 
are over 1000 research papers on Beta  Glucan activity including studies
 from Harvard  Medical School, National Cancer Institute, the Department of Agriculture
 and others. These studies prove Beta Glucan are external 
immunomodulators to  keep one's immune system in a highly prepared 
state. 
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