With its statement, the Research Center "Vector" alarmed the whole world, although research has not even begun yet.
In Ryazan, they say, mushrooms with eyes, but here in Siberia - with a vaccine! And not from any flu, but from HIV. The same one that scientists around the world have been unsuccessfully trying to treat for 30 years. At least such a loud statement was made by Novosibirsk scientists from the Center for Virology and Biotechnology "Vector". This center is quite famous - there, for example, a smallpox strain is stored and studied - only two laboratories in the world can boast of this. Therefore, the world took the words of the scientists of "Vector" seriously, although not without skepticism …
“A mushroom in Siberia is an ancient remedy for the treatment of colds,” writes the respected Western edition of The Daily Mail. - And now Russian scientists argue that one of their mushrooms, called chaga, can be used to create new antiretroviral drugs for the treatment of not only influenza, but also HIV.
Interestingly, the famous chaga mushroom itself is a parasite - it feeds on tree bark. But only one that grows on a birch is considered curative. Chaga itself is not unique - many mushrooms grow in Siberia, exactly the same and also healing ones.
“However, chaga attracted the attention of scientists for its low toxicity and especially strong antiviral effect - such properties are attributed to it by the high content of betulinic acid,” British journalists write. - By the way, even in the novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn "Cancer Ward" it is mentioned that such mushrooms can cure cancer!
In general, a miracle, not a mushroom. But its medical effect has been proven so far only in the treatment of colds and flu, and not HIV. Therefore, Western scientists are in no hurry to agree with their Siberian colleagues.
- Experts from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York said no clinical trials have yet been conducted, so it remains to be seen whether chaga is a safe and effective disease prevention tool.
Scientists of "Vector" themselves are also in no hurry to blow into copper pipes - they modestly declare that they are not going to start with a cure for HIV, but with a harmless supplement …
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“In the next three years, our center will develop dietary supplements based on chaga - it will be an immune stimulating supplement, invaluable during epidemics,” Raisa Martynyuk, an employee of the “Vector” center on public relations, puts all the dots on the “i's”. - In addition, the supplement will be useful in the prevention of tumor diseases - possibly cancer. As for AIDS, it is too early to talk about the timing of drug development, but work in this direction is really underway.
Oh, how many times scientists have already encouraged the world with statements about the invention of a cure for the scourge of the 20th century. Perhaps the Siberian mushroom will indeed become salvation for humanity?
DOSSIER "KP"
The tinder fungus, currently known as chaga, is mentioned in one of the handwritten editions of Russia in the 16th century. At home, various infusions and decoctions are prepared from chaga. For example, for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, including stomach ulcers, the following infusion is used: 100 g of chaga is poured for 3 - 4 hours with warm water, then the mushroom is crushed or passed through a meat grinder, 500 ml of warm water is poured and heated to 40 - 50 degrees. The solution is infused for two days, after which the mass is wrung out, and water is added to the resulting infusion, in which the mushroom was initially soaked. The infusion is taken in 1 glass 3 times a day half an hour before meals.