Lion's Mane Mushroom
Lion's Mane is an edible mushroom belonging to the tooth fungus group. It can be identified by its long spines and is native to North America, Europe, and Asia. The fruit bodies can be harvested for culinary and medicinal use. Historically, Lion's Mane has been revered in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Asian culture for its medicinal benefits for cognition and brain health. Buddhist monks were known to use Lion’s Mane to increase brain focus in meditation. Today, it's one of the most researched mushrooms for brain related issues. Check our research section to see the many studies and uses of this amazing mushroom.
Labdanum Hydrosol
From the Mediterranean region, the Labdanum, aka "gum rockrose” or Cistus, is a shrub with very fragrant white flowers surrounding a scarlet heart. It’s one of the oldest known aromatic substances and highly revered for its magical smell and deep healing abilities. The Egyptian god Osiris is often depicted holding a crook and a flail which were used to harvest Labdanum from the hair of goats after they grazed through the labdanum shrubs. Pharaohs and Kings rubbed labdanum into their beards to be constantly attuned to its magical fragrance. Labdanum evokes very deep memories within those who use it. For this reason, it’s used to heal old trauma and ancestral scars that continue through one’s lineage. We feel that pairing Labdanum with Lion’s Mane is a perfect match since they both have an affinity for healing through accessing various parts of the brain and memory.
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 tested for active compounds.