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CuriousGG

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Amount of San Pedro Tea
#19111999 - 11/09/13 08:38 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Someone told SWIM on a different post that reducing the amount of tea you take is for the sake of taste. While another person told me reducing the amount is for not making you sick? Can someone please elaborate on this?
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SnowDaze
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Re: Amount of San Pedro Tea [Re: CuriousGG]
#19112147 - 11/09/13 09:12 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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its to make it easier to get down
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Re: Amount of San Pedro Tea [Re: CuriousGG]
#19112619 - 11/09/13 11:06 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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By "reducing" I assume you're talking about reducing down the amount of liquid in the tea by evaporating it off?....
Evaporating/reducing the amount of liquid just means you will have less tea to drink down. But, when the amount of liquid is reduced down, the tea will become more bitter tasting because it is more concentrated.
So there's a trade off of sorts....You can reduce it down to a small amount to drink, but it will be considerably more bitter. Or not reduce it down as much, and you'll have more to drink, still bitter, but not as bad .
Personally, I'd prefer to get it down to a small amount. I usually get it down to around a cups worth of tea per foot of cactus, give or take. I'd rather just get it down into my stomach and over with, taking a few drinks over 15 to 20 minutes or so. And a smaller amount of tea/liquid should come on a bit quicker since it is more concentrated, compared to drinking a larger amount of tea that's relatively diluted.
You can even evaporate the tea all the way down to a tar. When reducing, once the liquid in the pot starts to get really low, pour the tea into a dish or pan that has a lot of surface area and will be easy to scrape out of. Using very low/mild heat in an oven, or leaving a fan blowing on the dish/pan, will evaporate the remaining liquid. Once it's dry enough to be worked with and scraped up with out making a mess, you can roll the "tar" into small balls and chase them down with a drink with virtually no taste if you swallow em' down just right. Or if it's dry enough it can even be pulverized into a powder and put into capsules. Or it can be re-dissolved into water and drank down.
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