Could a mushroom hold the cure for HIV?

Chaga mushroom

Back in the middle of September, the media published what appeared to be one of the biggest developments in the race for a cure for HIV/AIDS in a very long time: 16 monkeys with simian immunodeficiency virus (similar to HIV) were tested with a new vaccine and nine were protected. More shocking, those nine animals were found to be completely cured of the disease three years later. “Three years later, you can’t tell them from other monkeys,” observed Dr. Louis J. Picker of the Oregon Health and Science University whose article appeared in Nature Magazine less than a week before. “It’s like their T-cells were turned into the East German secret police, hunting down infected cells until there were none left.”

Now, in what Russian scientists from the Vector Institute near Novosibirsk are claiming may be another route to a still-elusive cure, a small, unusual mushroom known as the Chaga mushroom (inonotus obliquus) is being hailed as a possible savior. “Chaga mushroom (inonotus obliquus) is a fungus that grows on birch and other hardwood trees. The variety that is found on the birch is believed to be the most potent because of its high concentration of betulinic acid which is toxic to cancer cells. Chaga is unusual in the mushroom world as it resembles porous wood and is black and hard – similar to lumpy charcoal. Natives of China, Siberia, Finland, Japan, Poland and North America have all recognised Chaga’s importance for centuries,” reports an article in NaturalNews.com.

‘Strains of these mushrooms demonstrated low toxicity and a strong antiviral effect’ against influenza, smallpox and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, said a statement from the scientists at Vector, a research base set up in the Cold War which today conducts pioneering work on deadly viruses, including those causing smallpox. Tests have established that the Chaga mushroom – often found on birch trees – is the most effective,” reports the Siberian Times. “We conducted research and for the first time we selected 82 strains of 33 types of fungi growing in South West Siberia,’ said a spokesman for Vector.

But despite these claims, The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York said ‘no clinical trials have been conducted to assess Chaga’s safety and efficacy for disease prevention or for the treatment of cancer.”

Furthermore, recent homophobic statements from the Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic may make harvesting the home-grown fungus problematic. Dacic has gone on record as saying that he could not accept that homosexuality is normal … “because it is not natural and if not natural, if it is minority and exception, then they must take care not to offend feelings of the majority.”

 

7 thoughts on “Could a mushroom hold the cure for HIV?

  1. What does homosexuals have to do with HIV?! I’m a heterosexual female and I have HIV! Stop with the “gays only have HIV when in reality, US heterosexuals carry it more than ANY other sexual orientation in the entire world!

  2. I should be dead by now but im stil alive. coze of this hiv figthers team. thank you DR.Eulade, and ur team for ur help to the community. I wish that u can get more surport and produce the more treatment even in tablets if posible

  3. Why do people think that hiv is STILL a homosexual disease when in other countries like AFRICA the statistics are heterosexual?? As hiv is on the ruse in HETEROSEXUAL sex and is decreasing in the gay community? It is NOT NATURAL to deny any human beimg from curing a disease if possible. It is HUMANE! Oh I forgot its only humane when you are straight and loaded with money otherwise you’ll be denied.

  4. In N. America, Chaga frequently grows on Beech and Wild Black Cherry trees. The Cancer Center and others are PAID not to assess Chaga and other effective natural hiv treatments—and there are MANY plants and mushrooms that will treat and even stop hiv.

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