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Mushrooms & adaptogens.
Lion's mane, reishi, cordyceps, chaga and turkey tail, with traditional adaptogens such as rhodiola, tulsi, schisandra and ashwagandha. Research on most of these is early, so we describe what was studied and no more. Our mushroom guide explains fruiting body versus mycelium and why the beta-glucan figure matters.

Mushrooms & adaptogens
Reishi Powder
Duanwood reishi, Ganoderma lucidum grown on oak logs, dual-extracted 10:1 and milled to a fine, deep-brown powder: bitter and earthy, lovely in warm cacao.
$25.00
Mushrooms & adaptogens
Velvet Bean (Mucuna) Powder
Roasted, stone-ground velvet bean, near-black with a rich, almost cocoa-like smell, an old Ayurvedic tonic bean.
$24.00
Mushrooms & adaptogens
Jiaogulan Tea
Jiaogulan, the five-leaf sweet tea vine of southern China, steeps into a pale jade cup that opens bitter and finishes surprisingly sweet: an afternoon tea in place of the second co
$17.50
Mushrooms & adaptogens
Brahmi (Bacopa) Capsules
Bacopa monnieri, the brahmi of Ayurvedic tradition, hand-cut, shade-dried and milled into simple capsules: one each morning with breakfast.
$19.50
Mushrooms & adaptogens
Dried Amla Berries
Sun-dried Indian gooseberries from Uttar Pradesh, wrinkled, chewy and bracingly sour, with no sugar or sulfur added: the fruit behind chyawanprash and one of the three in triphala.
$16.00
Mushrooms & adaptogens
Shatavari Root Powder
Shatavari, the tuberous root of Asparagus racemosus, grown in Madhya Pradesh, shade-dried and milled to a pale ivory powder: a rasayana of Ayurvedic tradition, stirred into warm mi
$21.50

Mushrooms & adaptogens
He Shou Wu Powder
Prepared fo-ti root, steamed with black bean liquid until near-black, then milled to a powder that smells of molasses and dried fig.
$27.50
Mushrooms & adaptogens
Astragalus Root Powder
Stone-milled astragalus root from Shanxi, fine as flour and the color of pale straw: mild, sweet and almost beany, for stirring into soups, broths and congees the old way.
$18.00
Mushrooms & adaptogens
Eleuthero Root Extract
A deep tea-brown tincture of eleuthero, the hardy shrub of the cold forests of the Russian Far East and northeast China, slow-extracted over six weeks for a morning ritual.
$22.00

Mushrooms & adaptogens
Schisandra Berry Extract
Wu wei zi, the five-flavor berry: Schisandra chinensis extract, concentrated twenty to one from the crimson berry alone and packed in plain vegan capsules, a steady daily ritual fr
$24.50

Mushrooms & adaptogens
Chaga Extract
Chaga, the charred-looking fungus of the northern birch forests, wild-harvested in Finnish Lapland and brewed dark as coffee.
$28.00

Mushrooms & adaptogens
Maca Root Powder
Gelatinized maca from Peru's Junín plateau: a warm, malty powder with a flavor not unlike butterscotch.
$19.50

Mushrooms & adaptogens
Tulsi (Holy Basil) Extract
Holy basil from the household gardens of Uttar Pradesh, the whole leaf concentrated 10:1 into small vegan capsules, faintly clove-scented: a daily habit borrowed from a much older
$20.00

Mushrooms & adaptogens
Rhodiola Rosea Extract
Wildcrafted Rhodiola rosea from the Altai Mountains, the golden root of cold, thin cliff soil, whose broken root smells faintly of roses.
$23.50

Mushrooms & adaptogens
Cordyceps Extract
Cultivated Cordyceps militaris in capsules, cousin to the wild fungus of the Tibetan plateau, taken as the day calls: two capsules ahead of a walk, a workout or a long day on your
$31.00