Chaga Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) is not a plant but a fungus of the Hymenochaetaceae family, found on living birch trees across the cold northern forests of Russia, Scandinavia, Canada, and the northern United States. What is harvested is not a mushroom with cap and stem but a sterile conk, a hard, irregular, black, deeply cracked mass that erupts through the bark and looks like burnt charcoal; inside it is rusty yellow-brown and corky. The conk grows slowly over 10 to 20 years, and the true fruiting body appears only after the host tree dies. Dried chaga has a mild, earthy, slightly vanilla-like taste. We extract the dried whole mushroom.