Mushrooms have long been revered in various traditions, such as Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, for their potential health benefits. Now they’re being brought into the tea world with flavors and blends designed to fit into daily routines.

One of the best ways to enjoy mushrooms is by making a delectable mushroom tea. Fungi are known to provide numerous health-promoting benefits, including increasing immunity and aiding digestion.

Psilocybin mushroom tea is one of the most widely consumed forms of mushroom tea, prepared by steeping dried psilocybin mushrooms in hot water for 20-40 minutes to infuse their psychoactive compounds and induce altered states of consciousness and pleasurable feelings. These effects typically take effect within 20-40 minutes and may last as long as six hours.

An increasingly popular type of mushroom tea is medicinal chaga mushroom tea, made with the fungus that grows on birch trees and consumed by Siberians for centuries. Chaga tea is said to help lower blood pressure, relieve stress and fatigue, improve immunity and enhance overall wellbeing; additionally it contains antioxidants, polyphenols and is rich in superoxide dismutase (an enzyme which detoxifies free radicals in your body while simultaneously stimulating your liver to produce digestive bile that assists with digestion as well as lowering cholesterol).