Yesterday I brewed up a lard bucket full of Chaga mushroom. Its a pretty good medicine for all that ails you. Kinda bitter though but I generally cut it with water and drop a spoon or 2 of maple sugar in it.
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Inonotus obliquus, commonly known as Chaga mushroom (a Latinisation of the Russian term 'чага'), is a fungus in Hymenochaetaceae family. It is parasitic on birch and other trees. The sterile conk is irregularly formed and has the appearance of burnt charcoal. It is not the fruit body of the fungus, but a big mass of mycelium, mostly black due to the presence of massive amounts of melanin. The fertile fruit body can be found very rarely as a resupinate (crustose) fungus on or near the clinker, usually appearing after the host tree is dead. I. obliquus grows in birch forests of Russia, Korea, Eastern and Northern Europe, Northern areas of the United States, in the North Carolina mountains and in Canada. The Chaga mushroom is considered a medicinal mushroom that has a place in Russian and Eastern European folk medicine.
The name Chaga comes from the Russian word of the mushroom (anglicized from Czaga), which in turn is purportedly derived from the word for the fungus in Komi-Permyak, the language of the indigenous peoples in the Kama River Basin, west of the Ural Mountains. It is also known as the Clinker Polypore, Cinder Conk, Black Mass and Birch Canker Polypore.
In Norwegian the name is kreftkjuke which literally translates as cancer polypore, referring to the fungus' appearance or to its alleged medicinal properties.
In England and Canada it is known as the Sterile Conk Trunk Rot of Birch,, which refers to the growth of the fruiting bodies, which grow under the outer layers of wood surrounding the sterile conk once the tree is dead, in order to spread the spores. In France it is called the Carie Blanche Spongieuse de Bouleau (spongy white birch tree rot) and in Germany it is known as the Slate Inonotus (Schiefer Schillerporling). The Dutch name is Berkenweerschijnzwam (birch mushroom glow).
It has also been known by other Latin names, such as Polyporus obliquus and Poria obliqua
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Inonotus obliquus, commonly known as Chaga mushroom (a Latinisation of the Russian term 'чага'), is a fungus in Hymenochaetaceae family. It is parasitic on birch and other trees. The sterile conk is irregularly formed and has the appearance of burnt charcoal. It is not the fruit body of the fungus, but a big mass of mycelium, mostly black due to the presence of massive amounts of melanin. The fertile fruit body can be found very rarely as a resupinate (crustose) fungus on or near the clinker, usually appearing after the host tree is dead. I. obliquus grows in birch forests of Russia, Korea, Eastern and Northern Europe, Northern areas of the United States, in the North Carolina mountains and in Canada. The Chaga mushroom is considered a medicinal mushroom that has a place in Russian and Eastern European folk medicine.
The name Chaga comes from the Russian word of the mushroom (anglicized from Czaga), which in turn is purportedly derived from the word for the fungus in Komi-Permyak, the language of the indigenous peoples in the Kama River Basin, west of the Ural Mountains. It is also known as the Clinker Polypore, Cinder Conk, Black Mass and Birch Canker Polypore.
In Norwegian the name is kreftkjuke which literally translates as cancer polypore, referring to the fungus' appearance or to its alleged medicinal properties.
In England and Canada it is known as the Sterile Conk Trunk Rot of Birch,, which refers to the growth of the fruiting bodies, which grow under the outer layers of wood surrounding the sterile conk once the tree is dead, in order to spread the spores. In France it is called the Carie Blanche Spongieuse de Bouleau (spongy white birch tree rot) and in Germany it is known as the Slate Inonotus (Schiefer Schillerporling). The Dutch name is Berkenweerschijnzwam (birch mushroom glow).
It has also been known by other Latin names, such as Polyporus obliquus and Poria obliqua
