Recently my wife and I were walking in the woods when I spotted a rotting birch tree. All over the decaying trunk were clusters of a gnarly black growth, which I quickly recognized as chaga (Inonotus ...

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers investigated the mechanisms behind the anti-tumor activity of Chaga mushroom extracts in HSC-4 human oral cancer cells. Study: Chaga ...

Chaga mushrooms have seen some use in traditional medicine with claims that they are toxic to cancer. They contain anti-inflammatory chemicals but research is still ongoing to explore how the ...

All over the world, people swear by the nutritional benefits of chaga, a mushroom that has become popular in teas and supplements. The United States mostly imports the product, but one Maine couple is ...

Garrett Kopp learned to harvest wild chaga alongside his grandmother in the Adirondack Mountains of New York when he was a teen. In 2015, at 16 years old, his first stop after getting his driver’s ...

Join mycologist and FUNGI Magazine editor Britt Bunyard for an exciting talk on the most up-to-date discoveries and uses of Chaga. Inonotus obliquus--chaga--is currently the "it" fungus. It has been ...

If you wanted to find some “Chaga,” you would tromp through a forest looking for a birch tree with an unusual growth on its trunk. Although it is classified as a mushroom, Chaga doesn’t look like one.

There’s a new ‘shroom coming out of the storied grounds around the Woodstock Festival 1969 site. It comes in tea form, and it will hit the shelves of New York City health food stores and gourmet delis ...

LOS ANGELES – The Shroom Room looks exactly the way something called the Shroom Room ought to. The tiny space, which is used as a showroom for mushroom powder purveyor Four Sigmatic, looks like a ...

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