The original source for my tea

December 10, 2025

Elsewhere on this page I document how I make this as a 3x thing and keep it in the fridge.

You all sound like you want a complete extraction. Lucky for you, I can help.

Psilocin (and -cybin) don’t degrade in boiling water (at least not in a short period of time like Tea requires). You can get more out with hot water faster, as opposed to cold. The heat improves solubility. The major problem with using water alone is that Psilocin isn’t as water soluble as the -cybin, so hot tea extractions are probably incomplete, as are water-only extractions.

You’ll likely get a better extraction by just letting the mushrooms sit overnight in water, regardless of the starting temperature because you’ve added the other crucial component for getting an extraction to completeness, which is time. The cleaner the starting water, the better the extraction as well. Ideally at home distilled water (or RO water if you have one of those) will give you the best results.

You can still improve the extraction of the psilocin component by adding some alcohol to your extraction (100 proof vodka, or everclear if you really wanna go hard).

You can also get another improvement to this some by increasing the amount of particle/unit surface area of the components you’re trying to extract by grinding them up - the finer, the better.

Lastly, since we’re dealing with alkaloids, salting them out with acid is the final improvement. That’s what the lemon juice in the Lemon Tek does. So how about we put all of that together in one method.

An ideal time-effective, complete extraction would look like this (For up to 5 grams of ground dry fungus, or 30g wet):

Keep in mind, 1 fluid ounce = 30mL if you’re outside of the States. If you’re on the ball, this can be done in 30 minutes, not including cleaning the kettle beforehand.

Distilled water is ideal, but make sure you get the mineral scale out of your kettle first. (White vinegar works nice for that - then double rinse with distilled)

Set your pot or kettle on heat to boil.
Weigh out mushrooms, and then grind them up. (blender, if they’re not dried)
Transfer to a small glass container or jar, and add 1 oz high-proof vodka or everclear. (High proof = 100 or better, don’t use anything else besides vodka or everclear)
Once the water boils, add 5-6 ounces of it to the liquor and fungus. (You can do less, but the less you have, the more you need to wait - solubility is king!)
Immediately after adding the water, add 1 ounce of lemon juice. You can use 2 oz of 100% Grapefruit juice if you really want a kick in the pants - Never use “juice cocktail” for extraction.
Let stand for 15-20 minutes. I usually wait until the solution is just warm, not quite tepid. Filter the mushroom bits out with a funnel and a coffee filter. (Unnecessary additional nausea)

If you really want to suck the alkaloids out, use an insulated coffee mug for your extraction vessel. If it holds heat longer, you’ll get another incremental improvement in your extraction.

Cheers!

You have 15 min or less to get some place comfortable once you chug your tea.

God bless Paul Stamets, but he’s not a chemist.

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