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Looking to make reishi tea from scratch
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I wasn't sure which forum to put this in, cooking, gourmet mush, or market place.. hopefully no one minds me putting it here. Its a multipart question, and each part could probobly go in a different forum, but I had a bad day and I'm lazy.

The more I read about the health benefits of reishi tea, the more I want to get back into growing. I know that they can be grown in pretty much any technique that would work for cubes, which is awesome since I can keep my current kit. But are there any other growing considerations I should watch out for?

Next, how do you prepare the mushrooms for brewing tea? I know they're hard and leathery compared to most mushrooms, making them unpalatable to eat straight up. Do you need to dry them, and then grind them, and finally just toss them in a tea bell? Or are there any other processes I have to worry about? How does the tea taste by itself? I've had a number of teas where reishi is a component, but never just by itself.

And finally, does anyone have an LC syringe of reishi, or a spore syringe laying around they might be willing to part with? I was considering going to the store, but they don't really stock those things on the shelf in an unprepared form so I could get an untainted sample from the middle of the fruitbody.

Thanks so much guys, I appreciate it!


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Re: Looking to make reishi tea from scratch [Re: wiggles]
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You can grow reishi spawn on pf cakes, then use those to inoculate sawdust or a sawdust/coir substrate. Actually, just about anything with a bit of wood in it works, as the Ganoderma genus isn't too picky. You can see my yellow pages fruiting in this forum.

It's best to dry the reishi first, then boil for a few hours. The tea itself is pretty nasty, but with a bit of honey or mixed with reguar tea it's not too bad. Mrs rabbit often boils it up in bulk, then freezes the liquid to use later when making rice or pasta. We generally eat a bit of reishi every day.

You're correct that you can't eat them directly. They're woody and very tough, but the actives will extract into water.
RR


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Re: Looking to make reishi tea from scratch [Re: RogerRabbit]
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Have you noticed any actual health benefits since you began your daily intake? I'm trying to figure out the exhaggeration versus the fact about its benefits. I trust Asian medicine, but at the same time inconclusive western testing makes me wonder about the true benefits.


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Re: Looking to make reishi tea from scratch [Re: wiggles] * 1
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Yes, I feel healthier and have more stamina then before. I'm a grandfather and just got back from a 12 mile backpack/hike in the mountains, all done within six hours. I've taken a lot of teenagers and young adults on hikes, and none of them can keep up with me. I'm sure it isn't all just the reishi, but I give a lot of credit to a good diet overall, which includes at least one or two species of mushrooms every day, and of course the whiskey and beer I drink as well. Everything in moderation.
RR


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Re: Looking to make reishi tea from scratch [Re: RogerRabbit]
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Awesome! I'm hoping to get a bulk grow or two going... dad has cancer and ailing health in general... I figure I can grow enough for my own daily usage plus my parents.

Thanks for info once again RR, much appreciated :smile:


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Re: Looking to make reishi tea from scratch [Re: wiggles]
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They will help your dad, as will shiitake which reduces tumors. I switched all my efforts over to 100% edible and medicinal mushrooms last year after mrs rabbit was diagnosed with cancer. That's when we drastically upped our daily intake of medicinal mushrooms, and she finished chemo last December with over 90% of her hair. Her doctor was amazed and had never seen anything like it. Of all the people we got to know at her chemo sessions, they were ALL bald by the fourth month, but she barely lost any hair at all. We attribute that to drinking massive amounts of Ganoderma oregonese tea, and using it in our cooking, which seems to be far more potent than the more common and easier to grow G lucidum. We picked over 100 pounds of it last summer in the old growth forests of the PNW, which is the only place it still grows.
RR

Ganoderma oregonese on a 5 lb substrate bag.


Ganoderma oregonese on a 300 ton substrate.


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Re: Looking to make reishi tea from scratch [Re: RogerRabbit]
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I heard reishi's are very slow growing. I think I am going to read over your other yellowpages thread Roger.

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Re: Looking to make reishi tea from scratch [Re: FriendlyNeighbor]
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Actually, reishi is one of the fastest fungi to grow next to cubes. You'll want to inoculate grains, then transfer that to hardwood sawdust/chips or coir/sawdust, or a phone book. The phone book took a total of six weeks from inoculation to harvest.

You could probably pick up a few hundred phone books from your local phone company when the new ones come out. They'll need to get rid of the leftovers from last year. That's one of the reasons I did that grow, was to prove the tek for recycling old phonebooks.
RR


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Re: Looking to make reishi tea from scratch [Re: RogerRabbit]
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Any link for that old phone book tek? I've got piles of them at the college, and old text books. I could probobly fill a massive tupperware full of them. And hve enough for 20-30 more tuperwares full.
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NM, found it!!


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Re: Looking to make reishi tea from scratch [Re: wiggles]
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http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/6349168/an/0/page/0

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Re: Looking to make reishi tea from scratch [Re: zee_werp]
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Hi,wiggles ,
The reishi have good effect to cancer ,because of its ingredients polysaccharide and beta 1,3/1,6 D glucan. And regarding the reishi tea that you want to make , we already have it in our daily life . It is made by the reishi extract (main polysaccharide and beta D glucan).That tea is really have effect to cancer. Maybe my state here is not very detailed. If you have other questions ,pls contact me, We can have a talk about the reishi and other mushroom.Wish everyone health !
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