I was first introduced to Chaga (under another name), over a campfire talk by a Cree Elder from Northern Alberta, in the late 1980s. I was one of several instructors in a survival course on the lovely Kootenay Plains. We were gathered to put on a weeklong course on various primitive technologies that could be
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I have used this mushroom almost every day for over 10 years. Why? It is the best of the immune champions I have found over the years. Let’s face it, a Clinical Herbalist has an occupational hazard of ‘catching’ colds, flus and other contagious diseases, with clients often coughing in our face, day after day.
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I have been using mushrooms as Foods, Super Foods and Medicines for over 20 years now and as stated in my last blog, I find that these categories cannot be sharply divided. I realize the Canadian Government’s Food and Drug Act is intended to create these categories. This doesn’t always sit right with me. What
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As a Herbalist I find it part of the job description to find foods that can also work as medicines. No category fits better into this area than mushroom or the Fungi Kingdom. This is an area I have spent a lot of time researching, both academically and in the clinic, with tens of thousands
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