If you enjoy the taste and health benefits of herbal tea, then creating your own hallucinogenic mushroom tea could be right up your alley. With various combinations of mushroom varieties to create unique drinks that could have healing properties to elevate mood or relieve pain, hallucinogenic mushroom tea can provide a versatile beverage.

Many people prefer taking mushrooms directly as whole meals rather than as tea, but this method of ingestion has different results than drinking mushroom tea. When taking whole mushrooms it may take up to 60 minutes before any effects become evident; while with liquid-form consumption starting between 10-20 minutes. This is due to liquids moving more quickly through your stomach and digestive tract as they pass through, and also due to mushroom powder having greater surface area that absorbs into gastrointestinal system faster.

A psychedelic mushroom tea can be made using different herbs that complement and augment the mushroom experience, such as chamomile flowers, lavender and lemon balm; all known for their relaxing properties – these flowers may help those experiencing difficulty sleeping or anxiety by relaxing both their mind and body. Other commonly used ingredients for mushroom teas are kava root for anxiety reduction as well as holy basil which has antistress effects.

Additionally to these traditional ingredients, a person can create tea from other natural plants and medicinal mushrooms believed to be therapeutic. Reishi, lion’s mane, cordyceps and turmeric are popular choices for creating psychedelic tea; their use has been demonstrated to support cognitive function while increasing energy levels. Likewise, chaga has proven particularly helpful against immune-system disorders while offering anti-inflammatory benefits.

Some individuals enjoy making lemon tek-style psychedelic mushroom tea, which involves mixing finely ground psilocybin mushrooms with citric acid from freshly squeezed lemon juice to speed up and intensify effects quickly. This process has been found to hasten their arrival and shorten duration due to more surface area for digestion and lemon juice jumpstarting the transformation of psilocin into psilocybin in their digestive tracts.

As this type of preparation may lead to overdose and be potentially dangerous, only those experienced with the use of psilocybin mushrooms should attempt this kind of preparation. This is particularly the case if injecting mushroom tea directly into one’s vein – such as was the case of one man from Nebraska who found himself hospitalized after injecting himself with an illegal solution containing magic mushrooms.