Chaga Mushroom
Chaga grows in Northern Canada and the United States, Russia, and Northern Europe. Most Chaga grows on birch trees in these cold climates. The sterile conk is irregularly formed and resembles burnt charcoal. Chaga has a very interesting history dating back to 3350 and 3105 BC. Ötzi, also called the Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived sometime between 3350 and 3105 BC. Ötzi had Chaga in his pouch that was used for fire making. Other ancient cultures used Chaga to make fire and put the smoldering conk into hot water for use to clean and purify women's genital region after menstruation and birthing. Chaga has been used in Russia as far back as the 16th Century for various kinds of healing. Today, Chaga's ancient benefits are being corroborated by modern scientific research. See our research section for a small sampling of a few of its studied benefits.
Organic Rose Hydrosol
Roses have been used in foods, cosmetics, and perfumery for thousands of years. In America, there are rose fossils that date back 35 million years! The ancient world used roses to heal many types of maladies. In the 1930s, rose hips became a part of the pharma-ceutical industry when it was dis-covered they had high vitamin C levels. Today, there are hundreds of varieties of native roses all over the world. Long before these discov-eries, roses have been known by Ayurvedic and natural medicine practices to have anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and diuretic properties that can promote healing.
Organic Plant Hydrosols
All tinctures have multiple parts: the plant extract, water, and some type of preservative (usually alcohol, glycerin, or vinegar). For the water portion of our tinctures, we love using hydrosols due to their gentle healing properties and flavorful effects. Since 5000 BC, alchemists have used secret techniques to extract the healing properties of plants. In the practice of plant alchemy, every plant is seen to possess 3 philosophical elements that alchemists work with: The Plant Body (physically expressed as its crystalline mineral content), The Plant Soul (expressed as its essential oil, which captures the true essence of the plant), and The Plant Spirit (expressed as the alcohol derived from the plant during the process of fermentation). Hydrosols are created when the Soul aspect of the plant (the essential oil) is extracted using the sacred art of distillation. When the essential oil is separated, the aqueous part remaining is the hydrosol.
We feel hydrosols are a perfect medium to add both an additional healing aspect and flavorful signature to our extracts. They perfectly dance with the many healing properties of the mushrooms that rest in our bottles.
Organic Exotic Craft Alcohols
Alcohol is typically used as a way to dissolve and extract the healing constituents contained within plants and mushrooms. Alcohol also ensures the longest preservation time and is safe, natural, and organic. This has been the case for thousands of years, and to be exact, the use of medicinal wines in ancient Egypt dates back to about 3150 BC. Although some components of plants and mushrooms are only soluble in water (like when you brew tea), other components of the same plants and mushrooms are only soluble in alcohol. Therefore, for the extraction phase, alcohol is the most standard way to pull the most healing properties out of our plants and mushrooms. Our organic hand-crafted alcohols are made from exotic fruit sources which we feel highly enhance the overall enjoyability of our extracts. We love them, and hope that you do too.
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Our Mushrooms
Only a fruiting body can be called a “mushroom”, not the mycelium. We spare no expense and give you only the “fruit”. Our mushroom fruiting bodies are grown in nature with natural sunlight, on substrates native to the mushrooms (like hardwoods), thereby giving our mushrooms a unique complex of potent full-spectrum constituents only found in naturally grown mushroom fruiting bodies.
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Our Gold Standard
Our gold standard extraction process pulls all constituents from the mushroom. We use only fruiting bodies grown on natural substrate (no myceliated grain). Our mushrooms are USDA organic, GMO-free, and lab tested for active compounds.