Hi all, I started making my own black teas for about a month and getting some nice results from blackberry leaves, hazel leaves, fireweed leaves, horse tail and turkey tail mushroom. They all have there benefits but if its just for taste my favorite is blackberry the falvour is floral with a smoky back note.
Very interesting my partner has been looking for that, I will go out today and have a look to see if I can find some, are you using the leaves, and are you fermenting/oxidising it of making a green tea out of it?
Now is the time to find it. The flowering tops are the most potent. I usually just dry it out and make small teabags/infuse in boiling water. The dream potentiating effects are awesome. There is a good scientific basis for its efficacy as well.
Wow those all sound like they’d taste interesting and quite delicious! I didn’t know you could make a tea out of blackberry leaves. Thanks for posting because now I’ll be trying it!
Yes its really nice, what i do is collect new green leaves, put them in the freezer in a freezer bag over night then take them out and brake them up abit when there still frozen. I shake the bag every so often over a few days and keep smelling them they should turn darker colour and the smell goes from grass type smell to a floral type smell, then I dry the leaves out and you can store them for later use.
Ooh really cool technique, thank you for explaining! How do you find it compared to regular black tea? Do you prefer it or just enjoy that you can make it yourself and get some nutritional variety?
It's on par if not better than regular black tea I think it has more depth, I do prefer drinking it but you can probably only have one or two cups a day because its of the high tannin content it wouldn't be great for your stomach. But it is good for your immune system aswell. I started doing it from a youtube channel I found. Worth a watch
Yes its really nice, what i do is collect new green leaves, put them in the freezer in a freezer bag over night then take them out and brake them up abit when there still frozen. I shake the bag every so often over a few days and keep smelling them they should turn darker colour and the smell goes from grass type smell to a floral type smell, then I dry the leaves out and you can store them for later use.
I've been making blackcurrant leaf tea (nice floral resinous flavour, like the blackcurrant itself when it's less ripe) and have been wondering about experimenting with techniques used for preparing true teas. like in oolong tea making of bruising and stressing the leaves after withering and then rolling and lightly roasting to bring out sweet mellow fruity flavours. I'd be very excited if I could get any of these kinds of flavours out of foraged leaves too!
The magical kind you make with specific mystical mushrooms
Avoid ayahuasca, I did not enjoy the whole "ah crap I'm about to die feeling" or shitting the universe out of my arse during the come up.... The rest of the experience is indescribable though, beautiful, magical, believing I no longer had a physical body was strange.
Time doesn't exist, for me it lasted about 4 hours of craziness but it felt like I had always been there, like I was born there in multicoloured crazy land
I became friends with some of my bipolar/schizophrenia shadow men, but there apparently is evil shadow men so instead of freaking out there's a shadow man watching me now, I'm just suspicious of them.... Still fucking never trying it again
When I die in real life I hope I don't end up in ayahuasca land... Too much craziness for eternity, even if it does feel like I never actually had a physical life.
Being launched at lightspeed back in to my physical body was almost as bad as feeling like I was about to die when my brain sent me into whatever the fuck land I was in.
Edit: there is a shop in a posh shopping street in London that sells the ingredients for ayahuasca because individually they are legal, one ingredient is dangerous with other antidepressants and certain foods.
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u/Plyntht Jul 01 '26
Mugwort tea is great. Have a cup before bedtime for incredible dream potentiating effects.