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How to Prepare Fly Agaric Mushroom Tea
Amanita muscaria (commonly referred to as Fly Agaric) is an psychoactive mushroom with long been associated with spiritual experiences and recommended in ancient Indian texts for people seeking enlightenment or immortality. Additionally, this mushroom may cause hallucinations and nausea.
Before making mushroom tea, its mushrooms must first be dried. You can do this using either a circulated air dehydration unit, forced air food dryer, or any other device capable of maintaining a constant temperature set by the user. Drying occurs via conduction (direct heating), convection (heating through currents of gas or liquid) and/or radiation (heating absorbed from cooler bodies by warmer ones).
Once mushrooms have been dried, they can be ground into powder using any method necessary. They can then be subjected to quality assurance tests to make sure muscimol, muscarine and ibotenic acid levels meet safety and production specifications while heavy metals and pesticide analysis results are recorded as part of quality assurance checks.
Next, dried mushrooms are placed in a filter bag or other suitable container and heated at an appropriate level until decarboxylation takes place, which transforms ibotenic acid to muscimol. Often this process can be speeded up using acids such as HC1.
Once ibotenic acid has been converted to muscimol, it must be separated from any remaining water using a filtration system and separated in a beaker with its filtrate collected from this step. Once done, this mushroom extract mixture must be mixed with water at an approximate speed of 1120rpm for one hour before stirring has resumed at this rate.
This method is the standard way of making Amanita tea. Once the mixture has been prepared, straining it is done and put into a glass bottle for storage; you may store this tea for several weeks in your refrigerator before drinking it.
Diluted mushroom extract can be drunk either alone or combined with other beverages for a healthy snack option or used as a replacement for coffee. Tea also makes an excellent addition to healthy diets and may provide an alternative source of caffeine consumption.
Amanita muscaria is a mycorrhizal basidiomycete fungus native to temperate and boreal regions in the Northern Hemisphere and introduced into some countries of the Southern Hemisphere, where it has since been introduced into some countries of its native range. Although edible species exist within this genus, its poisonous species include some of the deadliest poisonous mushrooms around. These toxic components include ibotenic acid and muscimol which have been reported as producing feelings of invincibility accompanied by sweating or twitching when consumed; their toxic components include ibotenic acid which produces these effects as well as sweating or twitching symptoms; high concentrations can be detected days post consumption when using this mushroom species.

