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How Long Will Mushroom Tea Keep?
When it comes to psychedelic mushrooms, many people prefer tea over eating whole mushrooms or taking mushroom-infused chocolate bars or gummies. Making your own shroom tea enables you to control both dosage and experience. Plus, liquid delivery often has faster onset times than when ingesting mushrooms raw; helping prevent stomachaches associated with such consumption.
Mushroom tea can be easily prepared using only minimal ingredients and ingredients. All that’s necessary to create it are some ground or whole mushroom pieces (depending on your desired effect), water, a strainer/cheesecloth strainer and straining method – boiling of course being necessary before adding your mushrooms! Once the water has boiled you should add your mushrooms and simmer them for around 10-15 minutes before straining out any pieces using either a coffee filter or sieve to ensure optimal results.
Add other flavors such as lemon juice, ginger root or honey for an enhanced tea-drinking experience. Even adding in some chai can provide extra caffeine boost!
After 15-20 minutes have elapsed, remove them from the heat and allow the mushroom tea to cool before adding any additional flavors you desire. Store this drink in an air-tight jar or glass jug for later use and ensure its safekeeping from light and air exposure.
Once your tea is prepared, simply pour it into a cup or mug to enjoy! Some people enjoy adding lemon juice for additional psilocybin extraction from mushrooms; others find their mushroom tea is already tasty enough as is.
Once you’ve consumed your tea, it will typically take one or two hours for the effects of psilocybin to kick in, depending on factors like your tolerance to its effects and dose consumed. Keep in mind if taking a drug test in the near future as shrooms could still remain detectable through blood, saliva, and urine tests for several days afterwards.
Care should be taken when storing mushroom tea, as it can quickly go bad and become unsafe to consume. Without adequate drying and protection from sunlight and moisture, shrooms may quickly spoil, developing slimy textures or black spots that make them unfit for consumption. Mushroom tea that has gone bad should never be consumed; its psilocybin will have degraded over time and won’t provide its intended effects.