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ORIGIN Chaga is a most remarkable medicinal mushroom that grows on the bark of living trees. Chaga makes the powerful medicinal wood of birch trees edible for humans. Chaga mushrooms grow most abundantly in nearly all species of birch found in the circumpolar temperate forests of Earth’s northern hemisphere. The medicinal super-powers of the Chaga mushroom are well known across the world. Used for centuries in Siberia as a traditional medicine to boost immunity and improve overall health; shamans recognised the Chaga Mushroom as the ‘King of all Mushrooms’. Their Latin name is Inonotus obliquus. A Chaga mushroom is ...
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ORIGIN Have you ever wondered which came first? The fruit or the colour? The colour was named after the fruit. The earliest recorded use of the word orange was used in the 1300s from the Old French orenge, adapted from the Arabic nāranj, from the Persian nārang, from the Sanskrit nāranga which translates to “orange tree.” During the Age of Discovery, oranges saved lives. As oranges are rich in vitamin C and don’t spoil easily, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch sailors planted citrus trees along trade routes to prevent scurvy. Christopher Columbus brought the first orange seeds and seedlings to the New World on his second voyage in 1493. You ...
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ORIGIN Although mushrooms are often considered a vegetable, they are actually fungi that grow above the ground. They were most likely cultivated for the first time around 600AD in Asia. Archaeological evidence does show that many cultures around the world used mushrooms for ritualistic and sacred practices. The earliest depiction of entheogenic mushroom consumption dates around 5,000 BC, it is in a cave painting found in the upper Tassili plateau of northern Algeria. In the 17th century, edible mushrooms were introduced in Europe. In the early years, the mushroom was very exclusive and only available to the elite. A great ...
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