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The other day I delivered a talk to some second year medical students in Winnipeg and I would like to share one very powerful question that arose. Sometimes it takes only one question to strike at the heart of what is holding back our collective evolution and I think this is one of them.
Before we rush to the question, however, let’s explore a key principle in holistic philosophy
Chaga, Inonotus obliquus (Ach. ex Pers.) Pilát is a conk living on birch trees throughout the northern hemisphere. It is considered a sterile conk, but does produce small fruiting bodies that appear after the tree has fallen down, for up to six years. It has been widely used in folk medicine in Russia, Poland and other Baltic countries for a wide variety of gastric problems, cancer, tuberculosis, as well as heart and liver concerns.
Did you hear the one about the fungus and the algae?
They took a “lichen” to each other.
Lichen comes from the Greek leiko to lick or lick up, a habit of the “plant” to lap its tongue all over the host. However, “lichen” may come from the Greek “leprous, wart or eruption,” as Dioscorides thought they resembled the skin of afflicted people, and used the Doctrine of Signatures as an attempted cure. The French scientist, Tournefort named them around 1700 AD.
Wilderness on the Edge Gallery
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Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 10th largest lake in the world. 2011. The Nature of Things reveals how a perfect storm of agriculture, hydro practices, sewage run-off, flooding and marsh destruction has devastated Lake Winnipeg.
There are many amazing medicinal mushrooms found in nature, but the chaga mushroom is very near the top of the list.