Medicinal Mushrooms: Foraging for Them and Making Potent Mushroom Medicine

Adaptogens and tonic herbs support a person through stressful circumstances but they aren’t without their dangers. Used for thousands of years in TCM, as Qi tonics, they are view today as a panacea for modern ills like stress and burnout. In this class you’ll how to evaluate adaptogens for your own use.   You’ll discover a few adaptogens you might want to grow in your own apothecary garden. You’ll also discover a few medicinal mushrooms, with adaptogenic and tonic qualities, that you can forage in the temperate zone, and the special techniques necessary to extract all of their benefits. Then in the final module we’ll look at some of the dangers of using adaptogens and how to get the benefit without the curse. Medicinal Mushrooms are a unique herb in the herbal apothecary. Mushrooms are strong healers that are attune to their environment and hold the best medicine to make the living creatures in their environment thrive. This masterclass looks at 6 medicinal mushrooms, where to forage for them and their unique qualities. Then you’ll learn the special techniques necessary to extract both their water soluble and their alcohol soluble qualities into a potent herbal medicine that is shelf stable.     In this module we’ll look deeper into 6 medicinal and adaptogenic mushrooms that grow in the temperate zone.  You’ll learn how to safely forage for medicinal mushrooms, which mushrooms are likely candidates for your own region, and how to ensure that the medicinal mushrooms you use are potent and therapeutic.  You’ll also learn the special techniques needed to extract the full medicinal qualities from medicinal mushrooms in a safe and effective way, by making a double extraction that is shelf stable and potent.

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How to Make a Double Extraction from Medicinal Mushrooms

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Create a double extraction tincture using one of the medicinal mushrooms that we looked at in this masterclass.  Share a picture of your mushroom tincture in the Facebook group.  Discuss any challenges that you had or any successes.