How To Make Mushroom Tea The Right Way: A Better Lemon Tek

Have you ever excitingly eaten 2-3 grams of mushrooms and find yourself fighting stomach pains and discomfort during your come up? Undoubtedly this is one of the least enjoyable aspects of eating raw dried cubensis, and sets the stage for an uncomfortable experience for some.

The stomach issues are partly due to the hard to digest Chitin in mushroom cell walls. Chitin is made of long chains of simple sugars, called a polysaccharide. Chitin is not readily digested by human stomachs.

You can avoid having to ingest most of the chitin by extracting the Psilocybin with a solvent. In simpler words, making tea! Additionally, dissolving the Psilocybin into water increase its rate of absorption, making the onset of effects faster.

Making mushroom tea may seem straight forward, but we can significantly improve the extraction by making a few adjustments.

Tip #1: Break Up Your Mushrooms

I will be using 3 grams of Melmak Cubensis for every dose of mushroom tea I make, but the amount and strain are up to you. Begin by breaking up your dried mushrooms into pieces approximately 2-4mm wide. We want to increase the surface area of the mushroom exposed to water, but not so much that filtering it later is difficult. I personally use a cheap dollar store herb grinder, which gives me great results.

Place your ground mushrooms into the bottom of your mug. You are now ready to add start your extraction!

The Extraction

Here is where the process diverts from your typical cup of tea. Our goal is to pull as much medicinal ingredients out of the mushroom as possible. Many believe this is as simple as adding hot water and leaving it for as long as possible. While a longer steeped tea is stronger, this is not where I’ve found the greatest improvement.
Tip #2: Use Lemon!

You may have heard of the Lemon Tek method, in which the mushrooms are soaked completely in lemon juice.

Many Lemon Teks use excessive amounts of lemon, soaking the entire amount of mushroom with lemon juice. This is unnecessary! We only need to convert in the ballpark of 10-20mg of psilocybin. One lemon slice has enough acid in it to easily convert this amount.

First, squeeze your fresh lemon into the mug.

Next, add just enough water to wet all of the dried mushroom. The water allows the acid to reach all parts of the mushrooms. Let this sit for 10-20 minutes. You will begin to see the mushrooms turn blue.

Tip #3: Hot or Not?

You may assume that if we are making tea, we need hot water. This is certainly the conventional way, but its importance is overstated. If you wish to flavour your tea with a bag of another tea, hot water is your best option. However, if you have added lemon, cold water works fine!

The only reason we heat solvents in extractions is to increase the solubility of compounds in a solvent. However Psilocybin is quite soluble in room temperature water! It is estimated around 2g/L, or 2000mg/L. To give perspective, we are ingesting around 10-20mg of Psilocybin/Psilocin. So, a cup of room temperature water has plenty enough space to dissolve our medicine into!

To convince any skeptical readers, who are cringing at all of the conventional methods I’ve just thrown out, let us experiment!

I will prepare one glass with just mushrooms and hot water. To the second, I will follow the methods I described (lemon, grind), and use room temperature water.

Here we go! Time to add the water. First, I’ll add the hot water and give it a head start. Now, I’ll add water to the glass with lemon.

Time to let these steep! I left both for 30 minutes and returned. First, let’s look at the one steeped with hot water. As you can see, we have definitely extracted something judging by the colour. Keep in mind, as we have not acidified the solution, so the classic blue colour has not formed! Most of the active compound is still in the form of Psilocybin,which does not have the blue colour of Psilocin.

That’s our hot cup of tea, now lets look at the cold refreshing lemon beverage we have prepared. We can clearly see a colour difference!

Our glass of blue mushroom juice might look like blue raspberry, but it still taste like lemon and fungus. Not bad in my opinion, but not everyone’s taste. Masking the taste is not difficult, so I’ll give a few ingredients I’ve tried and enjoyed.

Ginger
Great for settling your stomach and getting relaxed before an experience.

Honey
The sweetness hides the mushroom taste and gives you a small energy boost.

Stinging Nettle
My favourite addition, its rich, bright, green flavour, along with its high nutritional value, wake your taste buds and your body. This is one of the most synergetic combinations I have ever tried.

Your Favourite Bag Of Tea
Simply plopping a tea bag into your mug of mushroom tea will give you enough masking flavour. Just be sure to not add the tea bag too early.

[jordan]

It is amazing to see how good people get along when talking about mushrooms. If only the world was this simple.

[znkxezk]

Upon my first shroom trip, my depression disappeared overnight. It shifted my perspective on the way I viewed myself. It showed me that I was stuck in one way of thinking. This was unhealthy mentally and it was affecting me physically. Within 6 months of the trip, my chronic lower back pain disappeared, I'm sure it was due to tension and stress, and hasn't returned. I haven't been seriously sick since then and that was just about 3 years ago from the time of this writing. The oneness and awareness of the self within the psychedelic experience provides a wonderful opportunity to reset and shift your mental position for the better if used constructively and intentionally in the right mindset (of healing, forgiveness, and love) and setting (a comfortable and safe place, I recommend being outside in nature).

[Hison-Dcarman]

I could remember several years ago, I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Was actually diagnosed with ADHD. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

[dorathyfoster]

I guess everyone arrives to mushrooms with different expec- tations. For me it was my eternal search for answers.

[HorusBloodmoon]

I made mushroom tea for my band and myself some 15 years ago. Everyone loved taking mushrooms but there was always that moment right as the trip would come on when there had to be a toilet break. I suggested that I make tea and that sit and shit problem would be solved.

I took the ounce that we were all sharing and made a half gallon of green tea with honey. I just brought the water to right under a boil, dropped the chopped mushrooms into the large pot, added the honey and green tea bags, then lowered the heat and simmered everything for 20 minutes. Everyone loved how it tasted and the high came on in 15 minutes without the stomach cramps or having to shit into a toilet. Hours of laughs, Pink Floyd albums, and Looney Tunes made for a memorable night.

[JosephRichard-zowf]

Depression haunted my life from a very young age, and I was put on a bunch of SSRIs as a child in attempt to deal with it. None worked. Psychedelic mushrooms was brought to my attention. It was the first thing that actually had real effects. They should only be used with great care and respect.
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[JoseLopez-tlyt]

Psychedelic is the answer to most severe anxiety and depression. The use of magic mushrooms completely helps one get over depression and makes you feel like yourself.

[steceymorgan]

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

[simonminchiny]

This comment section was as good as the vid, good hearing different opinions, as someone said find what works for you and stick to it. I have a very weak stomach from abuse, I grind 5 grams to powder just cover powder with lemon juice for no longer than 20 min add a Little cold water easy to drink works perfect for me never had stomach issues.

[BrianLeevoice]

Tried this today. It worked great! Thanks for helping to save me a lot of stomach pain. Mixed it with ginger tea.

[SorryWereOutOfNames]

It's not only better for your stomach's digestion, but lemon or citric acid also intensifies the effects significantly. It seems to condense and amplify your trip into a couple of hours instead of the usual 4-6 hours.

[alanbaker]

Golden teachers has been my go-to mushroom for months, it has helped in my recovery journey

[kxplorer]

Lol, casually making a brew with 3.3 grams of APE, no big deal 😆

[Cole-lzni]

I love the community surrounding mushrooms, how many alcoholics can sit there and have a conversation with you about what’s happening to their body while drinking lol. Mushroom people are the best people ✌🏼

[beauxjames]

I grew some mushrooms that I was convinced weren’t that good at all. After a few times eating them I tried this method, on an empty stomach, with 12+grams split with my wife.
It was a hot day so I poured cold lemonade into the already lemon mix.
IT I felt like it was 20 years ago. I had an unbelievable spiritual experience with incredible visuals and I forgave myself a lot for things.
This is the only method I’m using going forward. Thank you!

[RTR]

I just did this and to anyone who is doing it for the first time please be aware that this will hit you so much harder and all at once vs the gradual onset from the mushroom normally dissolving in your stomach. Not sure why but 4 grams hit me harder than any other trip at any other dose and from any other drug. I had to have my brother come trip sit me because I thought I was going to die it was so intense😂💀😂💀 it was like 3 hours of the most intense mental torture. But hey that’s why we do em. The bad trips remind you how fragile your “comfortable” world is and reminds you to appreciate it all! even the bird sitting on your ledge because we’re all just a few minutes of no oxygen away from being piles of dead meat

[mikewonder]

To prevent nausea or stomach discomfort
I usually drink chamomile tea after eating the shrooms

[jorgparker]

Psilocybin containing mushroom saved my life. The drastically reduced my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quite illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would had became medically dangerous to quit. it has also helped me to survive depression

[cturner]

Basically guys. Do what works for you. I didn’t have any lemon lol. Made tea with hot water, lemongrass tea bag steeped for 15 to 20 minutes. I am floating right now

[ssandz]

I love how casual this video was. Very informative too. Sticking this in my watch later for when I need :)