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Offline jamie

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Re: chaga fungus (with photo)
« Reply #15 on: January 01, 2010, 06:34:06 am »
i added a pic on the first post
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Re: chaga fungus (with photo)
« Reply #16 on: January 01, 2010, 11:47:24 pm »

     Jamie, thanks.  I googled it the other night, and went to the wikipedia site, and then down to the research site.  Amazing stuff.   I thought that Tea Tree Oil was amazing, but wow, I will have to try to get some of this stuff.  I hope it grows in Montana.  I am pretty close to the Canadian boarder, about two and a half, to three hours away.  I will definitely be on the lookout for it, when I am in the woods !  Wish I had some of it earlier, maybe I wouldn't have had to have an inch and a half of my right ear sliced, for skin cancer.  Squamis cells.  Nasty stuff.  Tends to travel.  Well I will see if any of the health food stores here have it.  Thanks for showing it. ;)

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Re: chaga fungus (with photo)
« Reply #17 on: January 02, 2010, 09:19:00 am »
jamie how do you prepare the tea and what strength ???  I have one good sized chunk laying around, know where more is but its a 2 or 3 mile trip in on snowshoes :)
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Re: chaga fungus (with photo)
« Reply #18 on: January 02, 2010, 01:47:11 pm »

     Well ya know Dana, ya could send da wife fer it...... ::)  Ooooh, I forgot she reads this too...... :o  Dana, go to Google, and look it up, and then go to the wikipedia, and go down to research, and it will tell you all about it, and there are also venues on how to prepare it.

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Re: chaga fungus (with photo)
« Reply #19 on: January 03, 2010, 07:45:39 am »
dry the conk so it doesnt mold up. two ways ive made it. grind it and use twice the amount of cgaga as you would coffee and use the coffee machine. my favorite. one gallon of water boiling throw in a handful or two of chaga chunks and simmer for an hour then turn off and let it sit for a day. dont throw away chunks. you can get 2 or 3 more brews out of em.
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Re: chaga fungus (with photo)
« Reply #20 on: January 03, 2010, 08:39:36 am »
Thanks jamie this stuff is hard as rock on the tree, can't imagine it molding
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Re: chaga fungus (with photo)
« Reply #21 on: January 04, 2010, 05:19:47 am »
after making tea from it dana i usually throw the chunks back in the dehydrator to dry. one time i didnt by the afternoon the mold spores had already grown. now who knows that mold may be good for ya but i aint gonna be the one to find out right now.
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Re: chaga fungus (with photo)
« Reply #22 on: January 04, 2010, 11:36:41 am »
Ya big wussy ;) :D
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Re: chaga fungus (with photo)
« Reply #23 on: January 11, 2010, 11:27:22 am »
chaga is awesome, I have a few pounds of it, I too make tea from it, nice earthy stuff. Let it dry out and can use it in your fire piston or as insence. It does vary as too hardness, I like the softer pieces for the piston.

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Re: chaga fungus (with photo)
« Reply #24 on: January 11, 2010, 11:38:36 am »
jc my kids and friends call it "dirt tea".  ;D
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Re: chaga fungus (with photo)
« Reply #25 on: January 11, 2010, 11:47:08 am »
you aint kidding, They tried it but used alot of honey and mint or lemon. I like it. I wouldnt be suprised it does have an effect on tumor growth and cancers , yet we will never hear of it because that means the gov`t cant make money off of it.

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Re: chaga fungus (with photo)
« Reply #26 on: January 11, 2010, 12:46:54 pm »
I haven't found any here in a long time. It grows at high elevations here on yellow birch, but it's rare. I've tried using it for tinder, but never medicinally. I'll have to keep an eye out for some more.
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Re: chaga fungus (with photo)
« Reply #27 on: January 22, 2010, 08:23:07 am »
Huh, you learn something new every day.  I've seen it plenty in Vermont and New York, and in Alaska as well, so I assume it probably grows anywhere in between you find birches.  As far as I know, no fungus that grows off the side of a tree is poisonous.  Now the ones growing on the ground are another story, got sick as a dog once from something I thought was a puffball, before I learned that puffballs should always be white in the center.  They were tasty though.
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Re: chaga fungus (with photo)
« Reply #28 on: January 22, 2010, 10:09:17 am »
ground ones i stay away from , too many uh-ohs can happen with em.
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Re: chaga fungus (with photo)
« Reply #29 on: January 22, 2010, 01:46:28 pm »
Jude, there are definitely several fungi that grow on trees that are poisonous, including at least one deadly one. Even some edible ones can be toxic if they're growing on the wrong kind of tree.
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