Probably each of us has encountered mushrooms at least once in a lifetime. We are taught to distinguish edible species from grebes from an early age. But there are among the mushroom variety and those that can not be found on store shelves, in dishes, in dried or canned form. And the first time you won’t understand whether the mushroom is in front of you or something else. It is to these exceptions that the real tinder (larch) belongs. What it is and “what it is eaten with” - you will learn from the article.
The real tinder
What kind of mushroom is this, tinder fungus? In botany, it is defined as a perennial parasite mushroom that feels great on beech, oak, alder, aspen and birch. Outwardly, it looks like a growth, which eventually acquires new layers.
Among the people, the tinder fungus has several names - "blood sponge", "larch sponge", "deciduous tinder". The mushroom was not given such a definition in vain - in folk medicine it was often used as a hemostatic agent. Its pores absorbed blood well, creating a kind of cork or bandage. Another tinder fungus is often called chaga, especially if they find it on birch trunks. It is not right.
Chaga is a variety of tinder fungi, however, it should not be confused with a hardwood tinder. They are too different in their properties. But this fungus was not called a parasite by accident - a real tinder fungus destroys lignin or cellulose (the wood of the tree on which it grows).
The benefits are
Although the mushroom is called a parasite, its use in medicine is undeniable. How useful is a real tinder? The healing properties of it, according to centuries of experience, are very extensive. The mushroom was used for therapeutic purposes in imperial times. The mushroom was so famous in Russia that at some point it even began importing it into other countries.
He even won the honorary title of “king of all medicinal potions, ” being an average of more than 1600 years. In antiquity, it was known under the name Agaricus albus, which translated means "cleansing", "hinny", "white agarik."
Great love won the tinder in Greece. The famous Greek healer Dioscorides considered him a panacea, prescribing its use for all internal diseases. The doctor was sure that the tinder fungus was the best way to regain strength, to get rid of the blues and depression.
The recipe for King Mithridates
The ancient Romans and Greeks sacredly believed in the healing properties of this mushroom species. A real fungus mushroom was very expensive, it was not possible for mere mortals to buy it.
A unique proof of the value of the mushroom is the famous recipe of King Mithridates. It was this ruler who found out that if you constantly take a drug made on the basis of a tinder fungus, you can protect your body from poison.
During his reign, the king constantly drank a medicine, and the best proof of its effectiveness was the moment when, depressed, Mithridates decided to take his own life and took a large dose of poison. Oddly enough, the poison not only did not work, but did not even cause simple food poisoning. Needless to say, the recipe was kept in strict secrecy.
Tinder fungus is able to remove toxins
How Mushroom helps prevent poisoning, King Mithridates told the world. But the ability of the fungus to remove toxins from the body has already been established by modern scientists.
The experiments were carried out on rats and mice, to which powdered tinder powder was poured into food. The results were shocking - mercury dichloride, arsenic compounds, as well as many other dangerous poisons that accumulated there over the years, began to leave the rodent organism. Later, the reason was also established - the whole thing lies in the unique agaric acid, which simply has no analogues in its properties.
Treat liver
The second property of tinder fungus is liver repair. Siberians were well aware of this - they collected a real tinder fungus and ate it in the form of tinctures and powders, which, in turn, made it possible to produce an enzyme that breaks down protein. Girls more often used tinder fungus as an ideal means for losing weight.
By the way, as a means for losing weight, the tinder funk was advertised by the Japanese. Quickly realizing that you can make a lot of money from this, many pharmacological companies began producing tons of pills and infusions based on the mushroom in tons, buying huge quantities of tinder fungus in Russia. The Japanese, on the other hand, found the polysaccharide lanophil in the fungus, which makes the liver secrete the necessary enzymes for its normal functioning.
What are the important enzymes?
Probably, many paid attention to the fact that young children are often chubby. The explanation for this is simple - the liver begins to form only from the age of five, and until that time, the protein accumulated by the body does not break down - precisely because of the lack of the mentioned enzymes.
Real tinder treatment is to help the liver. The absence of enzymes allows you to break down proteins to fatty amino acids, which are then also absorbed by the liver. In fact, their withdrawal from the body does not occur. And this leads to the accumulation of fat cells. Tinder fungus, according to studies, helps to produce an enzyme that removes split amino acids, preventing the body from overgrowing with fat.
However, this is not all that the real tinder is capable of. Applying it, judging by the reviews of doctors, is also popular for treating lungs.
Learning to breathe freely
Tinder fungus is a truly unique mushroom, as patients say, and its spectrum of action is quite large. Funds prepared on the basis of tinder fungus can be taken both from a simple cough, so in cases when a person is seriously ill. This is pneumonia and cancers, which can sometimes be simply impossible to get rid of.
According to doctors, the first aid is tinder and tuberculosis, and very neglected cases can be treated. In China, drugs developed on the basis of this fungus have a variety of directions - starting, as mentioned above, from a simple cough, and ending with impotence.
Only doctors themselves do not recommend experimenting with doses - the tinder fungus is an excellent remedy for constipation, and improper use of it can lead to endless diarrhea.
