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[captain kirk]

I was browsing a Korean esl site and, in the buy and sell, saw an ad. A Russian (Siberian) company was selling Chaga birch tree mushroom for 400 dollars U.S., a year's supply for one person, they say. I looked up Chaga and it's a super anti-oxidant. Best substance in the world for having body cleansing, pollution fighting properties at a cellular level for the body. It was a hassle to buy, having to sign up for a UPS account and so on. They only sell bulk, as well (expensive).

But, as an alternative, I thought about the Korean 'Young-guy' mushroom. Which is also, is seems, called Leishi or Reishi (Reishe is also the name for Siberian Chaga). If not as super powered as the Chaga I think it has the same health improving/protecting anti-oxidizing properties.

And it's dead cheap at Namdemun market in Seoul. Five thirty gram bottles of extract (take one gram a day) for twenty dollars. At one gram a day that's enough for five months. Each individual jar is glass, then a small wooden box. The 'suggested price' on one bottle (the label says, on one bottle) is 27,000 won. Korea farms this mushroom. Heavy wire is strung up between two standing trees and dead pine branches, waist high, are racked in an 'A frame row'. Plugs of spore are inserted into drilled holes in the dead wood. Later the fungus mushrooms are harvested. It's a biggish industry in the forest.

Because Korea is the home of a lot of Ginseng and Asian Herbalism heritage, the stuff is GOOD, and CHEAP. Like the old, traditional way just seem to get passed by in favour of the new, a product that is under-rated and overlooked. With all the yellow dust in the spring and continued pollution from China, Korea itself, and Japan it might definately do a person some good to get some supplement with potent anti-oxidant, cell purifying and protecting properties. People do seem to age quickly here these days.

The ginseng (and Reishi) stores are at Namdemun around/outside the underground entry to the imported goods mart, in broad daylight up at street level.

[OiGirl]