We pride ourselves on using only the best possible ingredients and that is why we forage the Chaga fruit personally in Scotland. With us you get a Dual Extract Tincture made using 100% mushroom fruiting bodies, foraged by us, and extracted using locally produced alcohol then freshly distilled water, hence a dual extraction*. This gives you a guarantee of quality and provenance which is unavailable in many imported products on the market. We use only natural methods, environmentally friendly packaging and no chemical inputs of any kind. Very few westerners had heard of Chaga before Solzhenitsyn introduced it in his 1968 novel ‘The Cancer Ward’. The protagonist, Oleg Kostoglotov, is a political prisoner. When released from a prison camp he finds that he has developed cancer. He is sent to a clinic for the only treatment available at the time, high-dose radiation.  He knows that his prognosis is next to hopeless. In the chapter entitled “The Cancer of the Birch Tree” Oleg tells his fellow cancer sufferers on Ward 13 a tale about “the birch fungus. ”He has their rapt attention since “all longed to find some miracle doctor or some medicine that the doctors here didn’t know about . . . or a herbalist or some old witch of a woman somewhere, whom you only had to find and get that medicine from to be saved“.