Chaga is the black, crusty “birch conk” of the northern forests, brewed for centuries into a dark, earthy tea in Siberia, Scandinavia and Indigenous North America. Here’s where it comes from, what the research actually shows so far, and the kidney caution everyone should know before trying it.
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