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Tangich said:
Would it work ground up in capsules? Seems like the most painless way to me.

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brshroomer said:
i was thinking about throwing some cubes in a pan with water, boil for half an hour, add rice, then eat the rice, with or without the cubes...

what do you guys think? that would make it easier for me since i eat rice almost every day.

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brshroomer said:
reishii cubes dude.

i didn't notice that

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Ok I'll let you off this time Is your name a play on VRTroopers?

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MonkeyKnifeFight said:
Out of curiosity is there any difference in making tea vs grinding the reishi up and making gel caps?  Is there anything the heat does to make the good stuff more accessible or will it basically come to the same thing?

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On Thu Nov 18 2010 08:52 AM, curenado said:

We grind them to powder and eat 2-3 "00" size capsule 2-3 times per day. For regular use you can just go 2x2, but if someone gets sick, has diabetes or cancer it needs to be 3x3.

We also make liquid by
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=12095693&page=0&vc=1#12095693

EXCEPT here lately I have been making the final mix 20% or more of the alcohol part and,
on the last water wash of the reishi I pressure cook the batch and water already done (all the water part) for 1 hour so that it sterilizes everything.
Extracts can ferment in the heat, so we keep them in the fridge. If you pc your water and use a bit more mushie/alcohol as the preservative you can leave them out at room temp better.
*fermented extracts still work they just look ugly and taste kinda yuck.

But eating them is just fine. We have for years and it is easiest. Some of us so lazy we just throw a heaping teaspoon of powder in the last bit of our coffee or hot drink and down like a shot.
Capsules cost money and kind of a pain to make up, but we do that for some people too.

Reishi is hard and will destroy your coffee grinder. Try to see if you can find a herbalist or health food store that has a "plate grinder" or a "silver bullet" grinder to make you a fine powder.

To grind reishi it has to be BONE dry or it will spin up in a kind of "reishi floss" or "reishi polyfil" on you which is just as good, but hard to cap and measure for drinks etc.
(I get impatient and have made a few runs of reishi floss - still used it!)

OK! Congrats

Think over the whole thing about a hundred times and hit me back if you have any questions or probs - if you tried to buy full spectrum extract of the strength you can make yourself, you would be paying over $10US per ounce at wholesale. Capsules half the size of what you would make cost $30-$50US for 90 caps! (yes, they are going to hell...) So having your own is a great boon and health power that lets you eat "the food of kings" on a paupers budget.

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