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Japanese Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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: 29-32, 2011.
Article
in English
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-376515
ABSTRACT
Chaga (the sclerotia of <i>Inonotus obliquus</i>) has been widely used as a folk medicine in the treatment of cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes in Russia, Poland, and several Baltic countries. More recently, this herb has been assessed for its cancer-preventing activity. Using a mouse model of skin cancer, oral administration of Chaga was found to inhibit tumor promotion by 12-<i>O</i>-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate following initiation with 7,12-dimethylbenz[<i>a</i>]anthracene in mouse skin.<br>