I remember few years back after my wife died, I was left alone with 3 kids. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with bipolar. Not until a friend recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment changed my life for better. I can proudly say i'm totally clean for 4years and still counting. Always look to nature for solution to tough problems, Shrooms are phenomenal.
I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing! Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source. 🙏
I’m a commercial Chaga harvester in northern Canada. I’ve been watching a couple conks that I left unharvested on the trees for over 20 years, they can grow very slow and the tree will tolerate them for a really long time before finally dying. My best day harvesting was 230 lbs, all in a single day and on snow shoes. The largest conk i’ve found was just over 33 lbs, but I’ve seen a picture of an even larger one.
One harvest in 20 years? The producer I'm buying my plugs from says that they will produce two or three harvest, first one taking 8-10 years and following harvests 5-8 years in between.
Can you reveal the Forest in ontario with a lot it birch trees? What we only see - few birch trees here and there in between maples and other trees, but not a Birch tree forests.
@@dilldill5947 Yes, certainly can get multiple harvests. What I was referring to is some trees I left unharvested to see how long individual conks can last. Those trees are still relatively healthy, the conks slowly growing, now 20 years on.
Our native people have been using Chaga for generations. I have been drinking it as a tea for years, I am glad to see people are becoming aware of it. 🇨🇦
What's funny, is that it's also used as "tinder fungus" in survival situations. If you place an ember on the gold part, it will smolder slowly for a long period of time. This allows you to carry fire, rather than have to make it by primitive means. You can make a fire with it, and then make a tea to drink when you get there. Amazing stuff.
They grow in Scandinavia too. I live in Sweden and have harvested chaga many years. You should not make any harm on the birch when harvesting chaga. You may also harvest chaga in the spring before the sprouts come. Chaga is a very sacred medicine and to harvest it is essential to do this with great care for the birch♥️
From treating depression to helping manage alcohol addiction," magic mushrooms and the microdosing caps have many potential benefits description to order for your well treated psilocybin mushrooms and other psychedelic,they provide in town/ local and overseas delivery (All discreet)-
When I was near the Baïkal Lake in Siberia, I bought a lot of шага from the locals, it keeps for years. Put a small chuck in simmering water for hours, cool then and drink. You can reusage it many times until taste and colour faints away. Then dry it and make tinder of it to start a fire with a flint 😉
The effect of Chaga is subtle, but definitely fortifies immune function and improves gut health. I would suggest that Chaga, perhaps an ethanol extraction of Chaga actually modulates immune function. I've been using 'Wildcrafted' Chaga since 2014.
@@sandtx4913 It only grows on the tree "birch". Not sure but I think you can harvest it all year around. Ive heard that it is the most nutritious in autumn and winter. Hope you find some brother!
@@Philips.Journey it's quite fascinating how much nourishment nature provides us and we just have to rediscover what we have forgotten. I'm looking forward to get back to my roots. Thanks for responding.
I never knew what this when I was as a kid while cutting wood. I used to see this all the time where I live. It's was everywhere. We would literally cut it off the wood for winter, and leave it where it stands. This crazy. Learned something new. Thank you.
I have my Chaga on low in my crock pot. I turn it on before bed and it's ready for morning. I just keep adding water and Chaga chunks and clean it out every few months. So blessed to have Chaga in my life 🥰
@@loveyoulikecrazyxoxo heat or alcohol extraction to get the best of both. The heat should never be on a boil and should be extracted at lower temperatures.
I use a cheese grater to grind it up and put it in my coffee percolator, and add my coffee creamer and it tastes just like coffee, great coffee substitute
It’s so loaded with minerals I just bought some powder of it! Between this and my Himalayan salt and nettle infusions I have a good variety of trace minerals coming into my body
You should try bamboo salt instead - it's far more nutritious and doesn't come with all the baggage that pink Himalayan salt has (namely from the huge corruption and exploitation of workers in the pink Himalayan salt industry)
Also of note is birch canker’s properties as a “true tinder fungus.” It will smolder for hours when you place a tiny ember in it. You can easily transport your campfire to your next camp.
Large enough it would act as the very earth encompassing fire. Makes one wonder about fungus in deep space. Especially if putting to use previous metals & stones, jewels & each. Especially considering what it is to have a world all your own. ✨🌀👣🫂🛌🧘🏻♂️🥷🏻⚜️
I've been taking Chaga for a month now!! I take it with cordyceps, turkey tail, lions mane, maitake and reishi, half a teaspoon each, 1 to 3 times a day. I mix them all in room temp water and drink it... It tastes like hell, but eventually, I got used to it haha. Thanks for the video! I just subbed x)
how did this change in diet affect your digestion food? WOndering, cause fungi produce protein lectins as defense against other fungi and predators.....thus, general mushroom consumption mayb impact your digestion of food. Wondering?
@@glen.simpson Hey thanks for the question. I've been dealing with stomach issues for a while, most supplements woundn't work but there is something about this mushroom complex that gives me energy and clarity, things that I have when my stomach is working good! 95% of serotonin is in the gut, so helps a lot with depression too =) - Just a reminder: the company that sells them advise not to take them all together (which sometimes I do), so do some research before committing to a daily supplement and when you starting taking them: listen to your body.
Great 👍 that your using these medicinal mushrooms .. you don’t have to drink them like that tho haha 😂 make them more tasty - add to hot chocolate or something , also take them alone to find out how they do the inner magic in your body .. they all Can do different things and nice to work them out individually and then together for optimum efficiency:)
I would recommend using a saw as opposed to an axe if harvesting wild Chaga. An axe could potentially do more damage to a Birch tree, and safer too then standing on a ladder swinging an axe...bad things can happen.
Boom! Just bottled my first batch of dual extracted Chaga tincture. 1 month in Vodka, strained the bits and simmered for 2 hours in water. I'm saving the bits to dry then powder to make my own capsules. I can't imagine throwing the bits away. Mush love
this is super helpful! I have been looking into Chaga, Polypore etc. recently for my outdoors classes and it's super interesting! thank you for this awesome video!
I've been drinking chaga tea daily for 4 years now. I havnt had a cold or the flu (or covid) in over 4 years now. I just harvested a year to two years worth, and found another two trees with another 3-4 years worth. Good luck to anyone on the hunt for it, it's out there.
I spoke with an arborist about chaga and he said that it can grow on birch and elm trees. One in about every two hundred trees will have it if you find one in an area. He suggested not to over harvest it if you want it in the future.
I’m new to the mushroom community and have been looking for a coffee alternative for energy. Also noting the upcoming research on how histamine and inflammatory markers are now being connected to mental health illnesses and long term brain degeneration - it makes sense to look to mushrooms for their healing properties. Honestly having chaga and lions main in my coffee has made such a difference! Who knew these little spores packed such a huge punch. Another point for Mother Nature
I wanted to disagree. Than went into my kitchen prepared it by bewing it up. And drank it. Even its already an old harvest its still very potent. The problem we have as a society is that we do overconsume caffeine and even energy drinks that those traditional herbs we probably used for hundreds or thousands of years dont have any noticeable effects anymore. Luckly i quit caffeine for two moths and could feel the difference in energy clearly.
Easiest way to make chaga tea is in my opinion as follows. The small pieces of fresh chaga can be dried in or besides an oven under 60 degrees celcius for a couple days. I grind the dry pieces with electric meat mill to powder. About one big spoonful of powder is mixed with one liter of boiling water in an insulated thermos bottle and left to stay for several hours. After that you can pour the tea to a cup and drink it.
I harvest chaga here in West Virginia late winter. We've been making tea and drinking a glass a day. FYI you can freeze the chunks and use them several times
@@shanefogelsanger7542 I have a location in WV that I can find several pound in about an hour. But I only take what I need and it's like a prized fishing/hunting spot. I ain't Tellin nobody 😎
@@pamspencer5733 west Virginia? Most shrooms are in Florida but if you add chagall, lions mane it helps open pathways in the brain and turns all your Crap into a joke, lol Good medicine, RUclips paul stamets
@@pamspencer5733 shit happens in life and in the end, you realize it was a learning experience.. I wish you the best of all things and may your life take a happier path. I'm turning 50 and freaking out about So, I'm getting my pilots license and a airplane that will go anywhere because then.... I can fly free with the birds
Chaga is incredibly high in oxalates As are kale and other leafy greens. And I have heard that they can for mineral deposits in the kidneys especially people that drink too much milk or other things high in calcium and other minerals.
I just started Chaga tea last week.My girlfriend says how good it is for us so thought I;d try it. Its strangely funny cause my favorite kind of natural soda pop is Birch Beer, hard to find in stores but when I do I get so excited!
Just so everyone knows that it all depends on the company producing the in house organic grain based products that dictates how beneficial they are. There are steaming techniques that make constituents bio-available as well so the product does not have to be simmered and the grain is a food source not an ingredient, on top of that the length of time,temperature and other factors play into the way they grow in an Organic environment and there for not everyone produces a crappy mycelium based Organic product!
A lot of people are vitamin D deficient and mushrooms make Vitamin D2 when exposed to the sun. This vitamin is fat soluble so since people often consume Chaga with coffee, the lipids in the coffee likely dissolves a lot of that D2 vitamin and give people a much needed dose of Vitamin D. I would be curious to find out much vitamin D there is in Chaga coffee.
Thanks for the info. I was taking Chaga tincture every day, it helped me get through a dark Winter.💜 First time I saw 1, it looked like a huge brown loaf growing out of a tree. Didn't know then what it was , I remember where. It's important when wild harvesting , take only what you need , always leave plenty to grow.🙂♏🏴
Appreciate you guys getting rid of the terrible bags, and putting them in hard containers! :D If you could offer bigger containers (I.E 8oz-1lb) so we can buy in bulk, it'd help a lot + less waste and shipping waste. Thanks for the videos and the products!
psychedelic is actually what kept me from being depressed for the past 7years,I was so Fucking depressed and got to a point of losing my life,but after I got introduced to a HealerMan who really has the best psychedelic,and all depression was no more,I feel so new and rebooted in my life right now...healermanchris on instagram you go check him out for his good stuffs.. His delivery are discreet and unnoticed i can vouch for him
@@nurulstanley2081 you really put ur mans whole business out there. i respect that you're trying to help but good lord. if you're new to buying drugs, we usually don't tell strangers who the plug is lmao
@@SuperSolidRichard2222 I'm sure that was the intention. I've seen many of these posts, they're basically an advertisement. It seems odd to some of us but times are a changing.
I use chaga a lot but all I do is add crushed chaga to my tea. Like when using willow bark for pain you have to boil it for awhile. I only boil it for bout 5-10 min. though then I add my other tea ingrediants depending on what I feel like. Dehydrated strawberry is my favorite with honey this is a nice treat.
I'm an Alaskan and chaga grows all over the place in my area. I don't support damaging trees so I "harvest" it but it's really cool to me intellectually.
При сборе чаги не удаляйте чёрный слой-он содержит много антивирусных веществ.Это маленький секрет:)Перемалывайте и заливайте спиртом от 86% и выше,уровень в ёмкости уровень спирта должен быть на 30% больше,чем гриб.Через месяц,лучше два сливаем в отдельную ёмкость настойку.Тот же гриб промыть,залить водой и кипятить на медленном огне 8 часов,доливая испарившуюся воду.Смешиваем 1:2 спиртовой и водный экстракты и всё готово.Спирт можно выпарить на водяной бане.По чайной ложке утром и вечером.Анти-вирус,анти-онкология.Будете здоровы,как русские медведи:)))
I e known about chaga for about 15 years when my brothers and parents were drinking it. I couldn't stomach the taste during that time. Fast forward to about a week ago, my brother hands me a half of conch (weighing in at around 3bls) of wild harvested chaga, tells me to make a tea with it and shows me the method. Been drinking it every evening, just before or after dinner. I enjoy the taste now, and add a little simple syrup made with raw sugar(because I have no honey) and an antioxidant tea bag for flavor. Hoping to start seeing some changes here in a few weeks. Great video!
Okay I'm around alot of chaga It's everywhere. It seems like it grows where the birch tree is hurt or damaged. I think it grows to heal the tree. Alot of the nutrition from the tree rush to the damaged area and badaboom badabing chaga
I love Chaga. After I simmer it I add Dandelion root powder and Kickstart or some other cocoay product. Delicious with a little added sweetener. And I love it cold the best with a bit of added cream.
Absolute amazing guide to the Chaga! I am very impressed! Your lecture is just the best I ever listen to! So a very big and warm THANK to you, sir, for your outstanding and excellent guide to the benefits of this unique mushroom of Chaga! Wishing you the very best and please stay blessed and healthy! Greetings from Sweden!
Chaga is also found on beech, poplar, and alder. Mainly on birch in a braid sense but oddly enough through some study and communication with the local big ten college, chaga is found on some of our poplar trees locally. I always thought only birch until the past year
Chaga is a lot of fun to forage. Went out with the kids and got almost four pounds worth today. processed and ground up almost 3 half gallon mason jars of powder Chaga. Now to dehydrate and start processing into tinctures...
@@strawberryme08 I'm sure you've already had your question answered but just in case anyone else wanders by..you can definitely capsule it but you'd probably have to take many capsules to get the serving dosage. I'd seperate out a dosage, capsule that out so u know how many capsules is a dosage or if you have a proper scale you could figure it out that way. It's also great in coffee.
Why is everyone always talking about cube's on here?. I respect that people are getting out and sharing the important information on them. Its just not really this dude's mission, as far as I can tell. Rather an advocate of psilocybin, or just a casual forager..we need people of this specific caliber who will inspire a general interest in the public, and educate in a 110% non controversial way.
Thank you so very much for your information and your compassion. My husband is using Agarikon mushrooms for his Hepatitis c and milk thistle. His viral numbers are coming down!!!!!!!!!!! His doctor is very interested in this! He will not take the pills!!! He also uses lionsmaine to help with his TBI, it has been shown to regrow the synapses in his brain 👍! He uses psybicilin mushrooms for his PTSD and Post Concussion Syndrome!!!! Thanks again for the wonderful info 👍✌
My God poor husband n clever people,n a doctor who listens,and dosent just write you off all positive ,,where can I get these mushrooms for my old ladies daughter, to try to help stop her cancer,,,could you anyone do me a list
@@lynlawley8903 please research mushrooms for cancer and read, read, read. You will learn what you need to look for like best types of mushrooms, an extracted product from fruiting bodies, dosage, 3rd party testing, etc. then you can go onto Amazon and order.
Super, THANK YOU!!!, well done with great info that is needed to harvest chaga correctly & considerately as well why its usefulness & benefits in the diverse human applications....great job :) IMAO
When my old neighbor poisoned my dog I give chaga and it cured him in 4 days he went from just lying on the floor shallow breathing waiting to die back to himself in 4 days it's been 2 years now he still alive
Just don't over consume Chaga as it can be taxing on the renal system due to the high oxalate content it picks up from it's birch host. I drink about a tea spoon three times a month to limit oxalate exposure. You can get myco derived β-d-Glucan's from just regularly consuming fungi in general to make up the gap.
Iive in Maine I have found chaga but I'm more interested in other fungus I love giant puffball I slice it bout half inch take 2 slices put provolone slices in between bread and fry and make a puffball parmesan Found a few hen of the woods I like better than chicken of the woods One of my favs is coral mushroom love the smell and flavor
Hey wonderful video. I am new to mushrooming stuff. Love it passionate about finding new fungi & absolutely LOVE that a friend of mine has used Lions Maine to kill her stage 4 cancer (amongst aLOT a LOT more efforr like no sugar or alcohol or caffeine etc!!!!) Still myself & my partener have between us serious cognative issues due to my partner being on ECMO machine for 5 weeks. (Extra corporeal membraine oxygenation) basically your body shuts down, is cooled down, the machine pumps your heart & lungs it does what them pumping does for you. He died 3 times! Once for 21 minutes but a Buddhist nurse massaged his heart untill my love came back. Also he had half of a lung removed. All because he had flu which he then caught pnumonia! He remembers being "under the knife" he felt no pain he just felt " Like they had just opened me uo like the Vikings so called blood eagle! I could feel that I was 'open' i felt my lungs exposed & I was on my front with my ribs nit there, but they were but nit in the right place! I gelt so vulnreble byt in & oyt of it all the time." Also bless my live has a part of his learning centre of his brain has an inactive "hole" . His cognative abillity has imparements which come n go. I also have damage to my brain n cognative issues. I looked into Lions Maine. I heard ut can affect a mans hard.on. niether if us want that but we both need the helo from Lions Maine! Any advice on that? Habe yiu heard of that or is raht such a small non problem? Thanks!
I was taking Chaga for a few weeks and it gave me crazy heart palpitations and extreme vertigo. I went off of it to see if that was it and it slowly went away. About a month later I bought the super food creamer that had Chaga in it and again those symptoms reappeared. So I know now Chaga is not good for my body. Be aware of side effects and medication interactions. I'm otherwise healthy so it was a very scary experience for me to go through that.
@@andrefecteau my experience was not cool lol. It was pretty scary and went to the doctors because the vertigo was extreme and I thought I might have a heart attack 😬
@@kmnnap yeah I hear ya...first time I grew a bunch of Lion's Mane? Cooked it up into a sandwich...? Same, was body tripping for over a month, did some chaga? Same...not like was out of it, but clearly body tripping, I'm used to taking stimulants so I didn't freak, but I can see how someone could....not sure why there's not more discussion on this.
@Nytram Nytram4348 people don't ask questions they don't already know the answer to...too much CNN bro, stop with the whiny baby complaining and negativity, you are doing nothing but being a troll and that takes no pills
I’d love to try Chaga again but I had a very horrible experience with it years ago. I know that it affects melanin and it caused really bad hyperpigmentation for me. I had dark splotches over my face which took many months to fade. I have been taking Reishi and Cordyceps everyday for years and then added Shiitake, Turkey Tail, Lion’s Mane and Chaga and then the hyperpigmentation happened. I suspected Chaga was the culprit so I stopped taking it but continued with the three other new mushrooms. My hyperpigmentation is gone so it was obviously Chaga. Do you know anyone else who experienced this?
Be carefull when sharing this one online and explain how to pick it without removing it from the tree. It is in danger of getting exstinct in norway, because people are picking it and selling online. Takes years for it to grow.
@@davidspahr4020 where on earth did you learn that? I thought chaga spores penetrated injured spots on birch trees. If you cut say 90% of that in an area, there will be lesser spores to reproduce new trees.
Chaga is a Sclerotia, sort of weird calling it a sterile conk… you rarely hear that term in mycology circles. It is also used as a tinder incense to clear the air and sickness in Indigenous lodges. It can also be smoked like many of the other polypores.
Obviously if you already have kidney problems you shouldn't take it! But most people mistakenly don't realise Chaga has similar Oxalate content to cereals, potatoes, bread, black tea, chocolate. Foods most people eat in a regular basis! Chaga actually has much less Oxalate levels than spinach and green beets. Most people won't develop any kidney stones taking Chaga. You would have to take an extremely high unrecommended dose daily!
But if I'm not mistaken you do not want to pick them when they are too small because they are not mature enough the bigger the cog the more medicinal it is
I take Chaga, Mataike, turkey tail, Agaricus, Reishi all in one capsule with my supplement. Also Chaga and Reishi as separate capsules. These medicinal mushrooms are "the truth". You just feel so robust and sleep better with these
I remember few years back after my wife died, I was left alone with 3 kids. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with bipolar. Not until a friend recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment changed my life for better. I can proudly say i'm totally clean for 4years and still counting. Always look to nature for solution to tough problems, Shrooms are phenomenal.
I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing!
Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I can't wait to get them too.
Really need a reliable source. 🙏
doctormaxshrooms is your guy, got all kinds of psychedelics.-:(
Where do I reach this dude? If possible telegram or TikTok
Yes he's doctormaxshrooms. I know few friends who no longer suffer ptsd and anxiety with the help of shrooms.
I’m a commercial Chaga harvester in northern Canada. I’ve been watching a couple conks that I left unharvested on the trees for over 20 years, they can grow very slow and the tree will tolerate them for a really long time before finally dying. My best day harvesting was 230 lbs, all in a single day and on snow shoes. The largest conk i’ve found was just over 33 lbs, but I’ve seen a picture of an even larger one.
33lbs wow. So like the size of my head?. I've got big head if that helps.
One harvest in 20 years? The producer I'm buying my plugs from says that they will produce two or three harvest, first one taking 8-10 years and following harvests 5-8 years in between.
Can you reveal the Forest in ontario with a lot it birch trees? What we only see - few birch trees here and there in between maples and other trees, but not a Birch tree forests.
@@dilldill5947 Yes, certainly can get multiple harvests. What I was referring to is some trees I left unharvested to see how long individual conks can last. Those trees are still relatively healthy, the conks slowly growing, now 20 years on.
@@ontherims3284 about the size 3 heads, give or take.
Our native people have been using Chaga for generations. I have been drinking it as a tea for years, I am glad to see people are becoming aware of it. 🇨🇦
Reply again when you are a healthy 99yr old! :) Do you notice you get less sniffles and less sick?
Ojibwe native from northeast minnesota and harvested quite a bit this past winter.
@@FitnessSheriff I have been very well for years, I will reply when I am 117 yesrs old lol.
@@RareAries323 that is good to hear. 😊
Gavin Peacock. She is 99.
What's funny, is that it's also used as "tinder fungus" in survival situations. If you place an ember on the gold part, it will smolder slowly for a long period of time. This allows you to carry fire, rather than have to make it by primitive means. You can make a fire with it, and then make a tea to drink when you get there. Amazing stuff.
wow. thanx for the knowledge.
Paul Stemets... Gave ted talk on this... Also.. plus about mushroom hat he wears.
I haven’t heard anything about the medicinal properties of porcini mushrooms?
@@theresarenee *stamets , sorry
They grow in Scandinavia too. I live in Sweden and have harvested chaga many years. You should not make any harm on the birch when harvesting chaga. You may also harvest chaga in the spring before the sprouts come. Chaga is a very sacred medicine and to harvest it is essential to do this with great care for the birch♥️
From treating depression to helping manage alcohol addiction," magic mushrooms and the microdosing caps have many potential benefits description to order for your well treated psilocybin mushrooms and other psychedelic,they provide in town/ local and overseas delivery (All discreet)-
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What is your contact @Gary Evans
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When I was near the Baïkal Lake in Siberia, I bought a lot of шага from the locals, it keeps for years. Put a small chuck in simmering water for hours, cool then and drink. You can reusage it many times until taste and colour faints away. Then dry it and make tinder of it to start a fire with a flint 😉
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so does the stem
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The effect of Chaga is subtle, but definitely fortifies immune function and improves gut health. I would suggest that Chaga, perhaps an ethanol extraction of Chaga actually modulates immune function. I've been using 'Wildcrafted' Chaga since 2014.
What is Wildcrafted?
@@dann5740to forage, find, harvest outside , out in the woods= wild craft
You can find alot of Chaga here in Sweden too. We call it "Sprängticka" :)
i live in Sweden and didnt know that, thanks! =) ( * heads to forest to pick chaga )
@@thegalhorowitz Hope you find some!
And if you do remember to dry it so it doesnt mold from the inside.
Happy hunting :)
@@Philips.Journey do you also wait till winter to harvest? I wonder if it grows in the Netherlands as well.
@@sandtx4913 It only grows on the tree "birch". Not sure but I think you can harvest it all year around. Ive heard that it is the most nutritious in autumn and winter. Hope you find some brother!
@@Philips.Journey it's quite fascinating how much nourishment nature provides us and we just have to rediscover what we have forgotten. I'm looking forward to get back to my roots.
Thanks for responding.
I never knew what this when I was as a kid while cutting wood. I used to see this all the time where I live. It's was everywhere. We would literally cut it off the wood for winter, and leave it where it stands. This crazy. Learned something new. Thank you.
Ya ever wonder if it is still there?
Lordytrip got diffrent magic mushroom strains
You can contact them if you want to get that
I have my Chaga on low in my crock pot. I turn it on before bed and it's ready for morning. I just keep adding water and Chaga chunks and clean it out every few months. So blessed to have Chaga in my life 🥰
your actually not supposed to heat chaga
@@loveyoulikecrazyxoxo heat or alcohol extraction to get the best of both. The heat should never be on a boil and should be extracted at lower temperatures.
I use a cheese grater to grind it up and put it in my coffee percolator, and add my coffee creamer and it tastes just like coffee, great coffee substitute
It’s so loaded with minerals I just bought some powder of it! Between this and my Himalayan salt and nettle infusions I have a good variety of trace minerals coming into my body
Shilajit
You should try bamboo salt instead - it's far more nutritious and doesn't come with all the baggage that pink Himalayan salt has (namely from the huge corruption and exploitation of workers in the pink Himalayan salt industry)
U have enough for one more
I like this guy's energy and passion. Perfect video and I'll be taking on this practice in my routine. Thanks.
Super medicine! 30 days morning chaga tea and I m ok after 2 year digestive disease!!! Try it!
Ps: we found in Swiss alp to!!!
Do you still drink it? I been having gas issues,started to drink Chaga today after almost more than 1 year without drinking it
Also of note is birch canker’s properties as a “true tinder fungus.” It will smolder for hours when you place a tiny ember in it. You can easily transport your campfire to your next camp.
Large enough it would act as the very earth encompassing fire.
Makes one wonder about fungus in deep space. Especially if putting to use previous metals & stones, jewels & each. Especially considering what it is to have a world all your own.
✨🌀👣🫂🛌🧘🏻♂️🥷🏻⚜️
I've been taking Chaga for a month now!! I take it with cordyceps, turkey tail, lions mane, maitake and reishi, half a teaspoon each, 1 to 3 times a day. I mix them all in room temp water and drink it... It tastes like hell, but eventually, I got used to it haha. Thanks for the video! I just subbed x)
how did this change in diet affect your digestion food? WOndering, cause fungi produce protein lectins as defense against other fungi and predators.....thus, general mushroom consumption mayb impact your digestion of food. Wondering?
@@glen.simpson Hey thanks for the question. I've been dealing with stomach issues for a while, most supplements woundn't work but there is something about this mushroom complex that gives me energy and clarity, things that I have when my stomach is working good! 95% of serotonin is in the gut, so helps a lot with depression too =) - Just a reminder: the company that sells them advise not to take them all together (which sometimes I do), so do some research before committing to a daily supplement and when you starting taking them: listen to your body.
Put black seed oil in the mix with honey. Work it into a paste . Add honey until just right . Tastes excellent. Mmmmmmmm!
Great 👍 that your using these medicinal mushrooms .. you don’t have to drink them like that tho haha 😂 make them more tasty - add to hot chocolate or something , also take them alone to find out how they do the inner magic in your body .. they all
Can do different things and nice to work them out individually and then together for optimum efficiency:)
Have you experienced any excessive hair shedding?
I would recommend using a saw as opposed to an axe if harvesting wild Chaga. An axe could potentially do more damage to a Birch tree, and safer too then standing on a ladder swinging an axe...bad things can happen.
They have saws that can extend up two 30 feet safer then a later bought mine at costco.
I find it easily falls off when I hit it on the side with the back of an axe.
Like standing on a ladder with a saw is safe ?
A billhook is the best
Boom! Just bottled my first batch of dual extracted Chaga tincture. 1 month in Vodka, strained the bits and simmered for 2 hours in water. I'm saving the bits to dry then powder to make my own capsules. I can't imagine throwing the bits away. Mush love
The benefits portion begin at 6:20
this is super helpful! I have been looking into Chaga, Polypore etc. recently for my outdoors classes and it's super interesting!
thank you for this awesome video!
I've been drinking chaga tea daily for 4 years now. I havnt had a cold or the flu (or covid) in over 4 years now. I just harvested a year to two years worth, and found another two trees with another 3-4 years worth. Good luck to anyone on the hunt for it, it's out there.
How do you make the tea?
LOL...hope you have strong kidneys because Chaga contains significant levels of "oxalates"... might want to google that.
I spoke with an arborist about chaga and he said that it can grow on birch and elm trees. One in about every two hundred trees will have it if you find one in an area. He suggested not to over harvest it if you want it in the future.
I've never heard of it or seen it grow on an elm. Seen them on hawthorn and beech. Usually small and or dead.
I’m new to the mushroom community and have been looking for a coffee alternative for energy. Also noting the upcoming research on how histamine and inflammatory markers are now being connected to mental health illnesses and long term brain degeneration - it makes sense to look to mushrooms for their healing properties. Honestly having chaga and lions main in my coffee has made such a difference! Who knew these little spores packed such a huge punch. Another point for Mother Nature
Liam_spores
Do you worry about addiction?
@Missdiva555 I’m sure the modulating nature of adaptogens probably prevents addictive potential
I drink chaga tea too and put chaga powder in my coffee as well. The used grounds make a nice face/skin wash as well.
I wanted to disagree. Than went into my kitchen prepared it by bewing it up. And drank it. Even its already an old harvest its still very potent.
The problem we have as a society is that we do overconsume caffeine and even energy drinks that those traditional herbs we probably used for hundreds or thousands of years dont have any noticeable effects anymore.
Luckly i quit caffeine for two moths and could feel the difference in energy clearly.
Vids getting better every day! Great information thank you!
thank you thank you!
I absolutely love this channel! Its always easy to understand and very entertaining. Thank you!
Easiest way to make chaga tea is in my opinion as follows. The small pieces of fresh chaga can be dried in or besides an oven under 60 degrees celcius for a couple days. I grind the dry pieces with electric meat mill to powder. About one big spoonful of powder is mixed with one liter of boiling water in an insulated thermos bottle and left to stay for several hours. After that you can pour the tea to a cup and drink it.
I harvest chaga here in West Virginia late winter. We've been making tea and drinking a glass a day. FYI you can freeze the chunks and use them several times
As a nomad, I've found chaga in west Virginia more than any other state in the country... shhh... don't tell anyone
@@shanefogelsanger7542 I have a location in WV that I can find several pound in about an hour. But I only take what I need and it's like a prized fishing/hunting spot. I ain't Tellin nobody 😎
@@therealwilliammullins3356 I don't want to see it disappear like the ginseng down there, to many people sengin
@@pamspencer5733 west Virginia?
Most shrooms are in Florida but if you add chagall, lions mane it helps open pathways in the brain and turns all your Crap into a joke, lol
Good medicine, RUclips paul stamets
@@pamspencer5733 shit happens in life and in the end, you realize it was a learning experience..
I wish you the best of all things and may your life take a happier path.
I'm turning 50 and freaking out about
So, I'm getting my pilots license and a airplane that will go anywhere because then.... I can fly free with the birds
I'm having chaga tea as I watch this. Very earthy flavor.
This is an awesome video. So informative and helpful. Really appreciate all the work you put into your channel!
Great video. It’s a pleasure to listen to you. You’re a natural teacher.
Chaga is incredibly high in oxalates As are kale and other leafy greens. And I have heard that they can for mineral deposits in the kidneys especially people that drink too much milk or other things high in calcium and other minerals.
I just started Chaga tea last week.My girlfriend says how good it is for us so thought I;d try it. Its strangely funny cause my favorite kind of natural soda pop is Birch Beer, hard to find in stores but when I do I get so excited!
great transitions!!
thanks! glad you like them :)
This video starts at 5:15 - for answering the title of the video xx
Just so everyone knows that it all depends on the company producing the in house organic grain based products that dictates how beneficial they are. There are steaming techniques that make constituents bio-available as well so the product does not have to be simmered and the grain is a food source not an ingredient, on top of that the length of time,temperature and other factors play into the way they grow in an Organic environment and there for not everyone produces a crappy mycelium based Organic product!
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I wear a chuga necklace (Like Otzi the iceman) and we dry mushrooms and breathe their healthy molecules great video
Thank you! This was very informative.
This was interesting and informative. Thank you. I just started my chaga journey today and wanted to learn more. Will update.
@HarryLionel-my9jx This video is not about psychedelics. My comment is not about psychedelics. Please don't spam me.
A lot of people are vitamin D deficient and mushrooms make Vitamin D2 when exposed to the sun. This vitamin is fat soluble so since people often consume Chaga with coffee, the lipids in the coffee likely dissolves a lot of that D2 vitamin and give people a much needed dose of Vitamin D. I would be curious to find out much vitamin D there is in Chaga coffee.
Prolly negligible
That was a pretty sick mushroom transition at 8:25
Awesome vid
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I dont know why i didnt suscribe before, i really want to be a mycologist when im older so ill definately watch all your vids in time
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It burns too. A year ago when I retired I started making my own chaga tincher. It's very cost effective. I use Teto's vodka.
It was originally used by siberians for stomach problems as well as starting a 🔥 fire.
I bought my chaga chunks from a Canadian company through Amazon. It comes in a sealed black plastic bag.
I've harvested it this past winter here in northeast minnesota.
Thanks for the info. I was taking Chaga tincture every day, it helped me get through a dark Winter.💜
First time I saw 1, it looked like a huge brown loaf growing out of a tree.
Didn't know then what it was , I remember where. It's important when wild harvesting , take only what you need , always leave plenty to grow.🙂♏🏴
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Appreciate you guys getting rid of the terrible bags, and putting them in hard containers! :D
If you could offer bigger containers (I.E 8oz-1lb) so we can buy in bulk, it'd help a lot + less waste and shipping waste.
Thanks for the videos and the products!
glad you like the new format! one day we may have a bigger one, thanks for your suggestions!
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@@SuperSolidRichard2222 I'm sure that was the intention. I've seen many of these posts, they're basically an advertisement. It seems odd to some of us but times are a changing.
I use chaga a lot but all I do is add crushed chaga to my tea. Like when using willow bark for pain you have to boil it for awhile. I only boil it for bout 5-10 min. though then I add my other tea ingrediants depending on what I feel like. Dehydrated strawberry is my favorite with honey this is a nice treat.
SUBSCRIBED! This knowledge needs to be more mainstream!
I'm an Alaskan and chaga grows all over the place in my area. I don't support damaging trees so I "harvest" it but it's really cool to me intellectually.
Can you make a tutorial on how to dual extract Chaga please? I have about 2 pounds laying around, have only been making tea :)
При сборе чаги не удаляйте чёрный слой-он содержит много антивирусных веществ.Это маленький секрет:)Перемалывайте и заливайте спиртом от 86% и выше,уровень в ёмкости уровень спирта должен быть на 30% больше,чем гриб.Через месяц,лучше два сливаем в отдельную ёмкость настойку.Тот же гриб промыть,залить водой и кипятить на медленном огне 8 часов,доливая испарившуюся воду.Смешиваем 1:2 спиртовой и водный экстракты и всё готово.Спирт можно выпарить на водяной бане.По чайной ложке утром и вечером.Анти-вирус,анти-онкология.Будете здоровы,как русские медведи:)))
Thankyou for your brilliant condensation of chaga wisdom!😅
Эксперт уровня "Вишневский"? ;)
Ладно, шучу. Сам так же делаю...
Currently making a dual extraction chaga tincture for the first time. I want to take it daily and I hear tincture is best. Cant wait. 😊
I e known about chaga for about 15 years when my brothers and parents were drinking it. I couldn't stomach the taste during that time. Fast forward to about a week ago, my brother hands me a half of conch (weighing in at around 3bls) of wild harvested chaga, tells me to make a tea with it and shows me the method. Been drinking it every evening, just before or after dinner. I enjoy the taste now, and add a little simple syrup made with raw sugar(because I have no honey) and an antioxidant tea bag for flavor. Hoping to start seeing some changes here in a few weeks. Great video!
Okay
I'm around alot of chaga
It's everywhere.
It seems like it grows where the birch tree is hurt or damaged.
I think it grows to heal the tree.
Alot of the nutrition from the tree rush to the damaged area and badaboom badabing chaga
nah doesnt heal the host...eventually kills is ..its a parasitic tree killer..
I love Chaga. After I simmer it I add Dandelion root powder and Kickstart or some other cocoay product. Delicious with a little added sweetener. And I love it cold the best with a bit of added cream.
Absolute amazing guide to the Chaga! I am very impressed! Your lecture is just the best I ever listen to! So a very big and warm THANK to you, sir, for your outstanding and excellent guide to the benefits of this unique mushroom of Chaga! Wishing you the very best and please stay blessed and healthy! Greetings from Sweden!
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Chaga is also found on beech, poplar, and alder. Mainly on birch in a braid sense but oddly enough through some study and communication with the local big ten college, chaga is found on some of our poplar trees locally. I always thought only birch until the past year
I use it to start fires. It is amazing at taking a spark. There's lots of it in Northern Michigan near Charlevoix.
UP Michigan?
Chaga is a lot of fun to forage. Went out with the kids and got almost four pounds worth today. processed and ground up almost 3 half gallon mason jars of powder Chaga. Now to dehydrate and start processing into tinctures...
I've heard so many wonderful things about magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some, Is there any realiable source I can purchase from??
I did two grams last time, it was a thrilling experience and I enjoyed it.
This whole thing is pretty new to me, can I try 3grams?
@@jameshook7135 How did it go? Is this person reliable? I’m in the same boat as you. I want so bad to try it.
@@jameshook7135 Does he ship to NY?
@@patriciakate 😁😁😁
thank you so much this is a great video
Great information! Thank you! One question - does it makes sense to buy a powdered Chaga for dual extraction since it gets oxidized ? Thanks 🙏
I just bought the powder can I just add to water and drink? Or put it in capsules
@@strawberryme08 I'm sure you've already had your question answered but just in case anyone else wanders by..you can definitely capsule it but you'd probably have to take many capsules to get the serving dosage. I'd seperate out a dosage, capsule that out so u know how many capsules is a dosage or if you have a proper scale you could figure it out that way. It's also great in coffee.
Thanks for the excellent information.
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Why is everyone always talking about cube's on here?.
I respect that people are getting out and sharing the important information on them.
Its just not really this dude's mission, as far as I can tell.
Rather an advocate of psilocybin, or just a casual forager..we need people of this specific caliber who will inspire a general interest in the public, and educate in a 110% non controversial way.
Thank you for putting this video together. It was very informative and easy to follow. Job well done! Keep up the good work.
Thank you so very much for your information and your compassion.
My husband is using Agarikon mushrooms for his Hepatitis c and milk thistle. His viral numbers are coming down!!!!!!!!!!!
His doctor is very interested in this! He will not take the pills!!!
He also uses lionsmaine to help with his TBI, it has been shown to regrow the synapses in his brain 👍!
He uses psybicilin mushrooms for his PTSD and Post Concussion Syndrome!!!!
Thanks again for the wonderful info 👍✌
My God poor husband n clever people,n a doctor who listens,and dosent just write you off all positive ,,where can I get these mushrooms for my old ladies daughter, to try to help stop her cancer,,,could you anyone do me a list
@@lynlawley8903 please research mushrooms for cancer and read, read, read. You will learn what you need to look for like best types of mushrooms, an extracted product from fruiting bodies, dosage, 3rd party testing, etc. then you can go onto Amazon and order.
Super, THANK YOU!!!,
well done with great info that is needed to harvest chaga correctly & considerately as well why its usefulness & benefits in the diverse human applications....great job :)
IMAO
When my old neighbor poisoned my dog I give chaga and it cured him in 4 days he went from just lying on the floor shallow breathing waiting to die back to himself in 4 days it's been 2 years now he still alive
Ya, but did your neighbor survive?? You said Old neighbor🤣😂 Glad your fur-baby is good now.
I really enjoyed this one perhaps my favorite one you've done
Just don't over consume Chaga as it can be taxing on the renal system due to the high oxalate content it picks up from it's birch host.
I drink about a tea spoon three times a month to limit oxalate exposure.
You can get myco derived
β-d-Glucan's from just regularly consuming fungi in general to make up the gap.
You get oxalate from almost any food you eat.
My Chaga Tea is Delicious. I mix approx. a tablespoon of chaga powder with a little raw honey.... yay to health!
Thanks for the fungi, parasite education. Love the mushroom 🍄 pillow.
Iive in Maine I have found chaga but I'm more interested in other fungus
I love giant puffball I slice it bout half inch take 2 slices put provolone slices in between bread and fry and make a puffball parmesan
Found a few hen of the woods I like better than chicken of the woods
One of my favs is coral mushroom love the smell and flavor
Hey wonderful video. I am new to mushrooming stuff. Love it passionate about finding new fungi & absolutely LOVE that a friend of mine has used Lions Maine to kill her stage 4 cancer (amongst aLOT a LOT more efforr like no sugar or alcohol or caffeine etc!!!!)
Still myself & my partener have between us serious cognative issues due to my partner being on ECMO machine for 5 weeks. (Extra corporeal membraine oxygenation) basically your body shuts down, is cooled down, the machine pumps your heart & lungs it does what them pumping does for you. He died 3 times! Once for 21 minutes but a Buddhist nurse massaged his heart untill my love came back. Also he had half of a lung removed. All because he had flu which he then caught pnumonia! He remembers being "under the knife" he felt no pain he just felt " Like they had just opened me uo like the Vikings so called blood eagle! I could feel that I was 'open' i felt my lungs exposed & I was on my front with my ribs nit there, but they were but nit in the right place! I gelt so vulnreble byt in & oyt of it all the time."
Also bless my live has a part of his learning centre of his brain has an inactive "hole" .
His cognative abillity has imparements which come n go. I also have damage to my brain n cognative issues. I looked into Lions Maine. I heard ut can affect a mans hard.on. niether if us want that but we both need the helo from Lions Maine! Any advice on that? Habe yiu heard of that or is raht such a small non problem? Thanks!
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That’s pretty amazing. Thank you for sharing that. I had no idea.
I was taking Chaga for a few weeks and it gave me crazy heart palpitations and extreme vertigo. I went off of it to see if that was it and it slowly went away. About a month later I bought the super food creamer that had Chaga in it and again those symptoms reappeared. So I know now Chaga is not good for my body. Be aware of side effects and medication interactions. I'm otherwise healthy so it was a very scary experience for me to go through that.
yeah, it can really give you a "body trip"...not sure why more don't feel that, but I did, was cool with it, but clearly not for "lightweights"
@@andrefecteau my experience was not cool lol. It was pretty scary and went to the doctors because the vertigo was extreme and I thought I might have a heart attack 😬
@@kmnnap yeah I hear ya...first time I grew a bunch of Lion's Mane? Cooked it up into a sandwich...? Same, was body tripping for over a month, did some chaga? Same...not like was out of it, but clearly body tripping, I'm used to taking stimulants so I didn't freak, but I can see how someone could....not sure why there's not more discussion on this.
Some people are allergic to mushrooms.
@Nytram Nytram4348 people don't ask questions they don't already know the answer to...too much CNN bro, stop with the whiny baby complaining and negativity, you are doing nothing but being a troll and that takes no pills
Son and I found a junk size of basketball when trout fishing. Here in Maine it seems to favor yellow birch.
I’d love to try Chaga again but I had a very horrible experience with it years ago. I know that it affects melanin and it caused really bad hyperpigmentation for me. I had dark splotches over my face which took many months to fade. I have been taking Reishi and Cordyceps everyday for years and then added Shiitake, Turkey Tail, Lion’s Mane and Chaga and then the hyperpigmentation happened. I suspected Chaga was the culprit so I stopped taking it but continued with the three other new mushrooms. My hyperpigmentation is gone so it was obviously Chaga. Do you know anyone else who experienced this?
Please help! I found some chaga today yay🎉 and i rinsed it and was chopping it up and found a woodworm or woodborer. Is it still edible?
Be carefull when sharing this one online and explain how to pick it without removing it from the tree. It is in danger of getting exstinct in norway, because people are picking it and selling online. Takes years for it to grow.
THIS!"!!!
Chaga conk has no role in reproduction. It makes no spores. Also, it grows back (if the tree doesn't die).
@@davidspahr4020 where on earth did you learn that? I thought chaga spores penetrated injured spots on birch trees. If you cut say 90% of that in an area, there will be lesser spores to reproduce new trees.
Its so nice to find this channel on You Tube. Great information. Thank you.
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Well hello handsome!! Many thanks for opening my eyes to so many exotica mushrooms!! Keep up your important work,💯👍👍💙💙👏👏
He's so handsome! 🥰
Information is power!
I feel like someone asked a specialist: "What is this?"
and he answered: "I don't know this, Oblivious"
and they were like: "oh Inonotus Obliquus "
Liam_spores.
really love all the information you provide. thank you
Chaga is a Sclerotia, sort of weird calling it a sterile conk… you rarely hear that term in mycology circles. It is also used as a tinder incense to clear the air and sickness in Indigenous lodges. It can also be smoked like many of the other polypores.
I use conks that are not fit for consuption for smudge. They do smell nice. I didn't know indigenous peoples used it.
I put a few cinnamon sticks in the pot to simmer with the chaga…..it’s great
"The Chaga mushroom had extremely high oxalate content" - think twice if you already have kidney stones.
Obviously if you already have kidney problems you shouldn't take it!
But most people mistakenly don't realise Chaga has similar Oxalate content to cereals, potatoes, bread, black tea, chocolate. Foods most people eat in a regular basis!
Chaga actually has much less Oxalate levels than spinach and green beets. Most people won't develop any kidney stones taking Chaga. You would have to take an extremely high unrecommended dose daily!
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What is a good way to metabolize oxalates?
@@ottercuttlefish780for kidney stones drink lots of lemon water works great
I have low blood pressure. Does anyone know if chaga will lower blood pressure. Thank you for this information.
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Regards UK
Thank you so much for sharing this information! Blessed
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But if I'm not mistaken you do not want to pick them when they are too small because they are not mature enough the bigger the cog the more medicinal it is
This was a great source of information, thank you!
I put a tablespoon in my French press of coffee and it caused a massive hypoglycemia attack, so use with caution!
A tablespoon is kind of a lot
Wait wha????
I bought the powder one as well and I think I put more this morning. Can u tell me what u mean ???
I’m pretty sure I put a tablespoon as well
@@priscillarodriguez2748 you’re probably fine but I wouldn’t use a whole tablespoon next time. Maybe a teaspoon
very nice presentation....
your mushroom pillow needs to be turned so they are all growing straight up and not laying down!! :)
Awesome video keep mushrooming 👍🏽
I take Chaga, Mataike, turkey tail, Agaricus, Reishi all in one capsule with my supplement. Also Chaga and Reishi as separate capsules. These medicinal mushrooms are "the truth". You just feel so robust and sleep better with these
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