Reishi Mushroom with James Frosch

James Frosh of Family Fungi sits down with me to chat about the incredible reishi mushroom. We cover the story from the beginning with cultural context all the way up to modern pharmacology. We get into the mythic stories, doctrine of signatures and of course the many, many virtues of reishi as timeless medicine, especially suited to the modern era. The conversation takes us into the role of mushrooms in the environment and future substrates. There is extensive conversation on preparation and extraction methods, etymology, and even a deep dive into the corrupt world of "organic" food and medicine, This is the terrain of the terrain establisher, the fungus of an empire, the immortal reishi.

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