Jeremy_Davis said:

People commonly take reishi as a powder or as a tea because it's texture is very woody, and it's taste is rather bitter. Also when I took a little nibble out of one of my reishis, it actually numbed my mouth for about 45 minutes. I immediately know how ancient people could see this as a medicine.

Anyway, reishi tea can be made many ways, basically steeping the fruitbodies in hot water. You can add honey or fruits as is suggested here. I had a friend in Nicaragua tell me they were making passion fruit-reishi tea and it was very good.

So people are interested in reishi because of its medicinal properties, not it's culinary appeal (which is non-existent ). And the best way to get at this is by either making capsules or pills of the dried powdered fruitbodies, or by making teas.



I've heard it claimed that the bioactive medicinal compounds in reishi get trapped in the cell walls, so eating powdered reishi is no good. It has to be boiled.



I asked John Holiday from Aloha Medicinals about that, and he told me it was absolute hogwash, and eating the powdered raw organic mushrooms is actually the best way to get all the medicinals.

Light and Love,
JD

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