Frequently Asked Questions
Dosing
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For Extracts:
Most folks take 1 dropperful (one full squeeze) as a daily maintenance dose.
For more acute situations, you can take up to 3 dropperfuls up to 3 times a day.
For Gummies:
1 gummy per day is a daily dose.
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Yes! You can combine our single mushrooms and blends to fit your individual needs.
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No, although some people prefer to take them in the morning, on an empty stomach.
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Our focus at Feral Fungi is purity and potency. We never add flavorings, colorings, or any other additives to our tinctures. While we are proud of how true to each mushroom our extracts taste, the flavors of mushrooms can be polarizing to some.
Luckily, there are quite a few ways to take these. They can be mixed into water, juice, coffee, tea, smoothies, soups, stir fries, etc.
If that is still challenging, we now make delicious gummies.
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Yes! These can be easily mixed into dressings, sauces, and soups. The culinary mushrooms in our line (Shiitake, Lion’s Mane, Oyster, etc.) lend themselves quite well to food dishes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sourcing
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We work closely with local growers and harvesters, and we onlyuse only pure fruit bodies. Most of our fungi come from growers in Oregon and Washington. All our mushrooms come from the USA, not just businesses based in the USA that import or repackage imported ingredients.
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Everything we use in our spagyric tinctures is either organic or comes from the forest.
We are working on organic certification for the extracts that we can get certified. Our extracts that contain mushrooms that have been wild harvested can never be certified organic because they were not grown by humans.
Frequently Asked Questions
Process
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We believe all parts of the mushroom contain medicine.
However, fruit bodies are the part of the mushroom that has been used for thousands of years in traditional forms of medicine.
They have a much longer history of usage and contain a broader range of constituents. Working with fruit bodies also allows us to have a completely grain-free product.
Most importantly to us, the fruit bodies are where each mushroom’s identifying smells and tastes are developed. Taste and smell are an important part of the healing process.
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Spagyric is a term coined by the Swiss chemist, physician, and alchemist, Paracelsus. It literally means to separate and re-combine, from the greek words:
Spao- To Separate
Agiero- To Recombine/Reawaken.
There is a lot to a spagyric tincture. The term “spagyric” is derived from the practice of traditional Alchemy, which is has since become associated with the search for a way to turn other metals to gold. The practice of Alchemy is so much more than that, however. It provided some of our oldest and most holistic methods of making medicine. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and is still used today in Ayurvedic medicinal preparations. Like so many other things throughout history, it was misunderstood and outlawed during medieval times. The dedicated few who kept it alive also kept it very secretive.
The simplest way to talk about our spagyric tinctures would be to refer to them as holistic, 3-part preparations. Through our process, we extract 3 essential parts of the mushroom:
1). The alcohol-soluble compounds (ie. flavonoids, terpenes, etc.)
2). The water-soluble compounds (ie. polysaccharides)
3). The trace minerals contained within each mushroom
Our custom-designed and specialized equipment allows us to apply gentle heat to the extraction mediums and concentrate the compounds without losing all the volatile compounds due to evaporation.
The result is something within which you can see, smell, taste, and feel the potency!
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There are a lot of things that set us apart from other tinctures and/or mushroom products on the market, including:
1). Our Sourcing
An extract can only ever be as potent as your starting material, so sourcing is key with medicinal extracts! We work closely with local growers and harvesters, and we only use only pure fruit bodies. Most of our fungi come from growers in Oregon and Washington. All our mushrooms come from the USA, not just businesses based in the USA that import or repackage imported ingredients.
2). Our Business Standards
From raw material to the mail box, we do everything ourselves! It is often easier and more cost effective to outsource some part of your process, but we firmly believe in being fully submersed in every aspect of our business.
We extract, bottle, ship, and take care of our customers and accounts ourselves in Estacada, OR.
3). Our Extraction Process
We are proud of our extracts and their potency. That potency can be attributed to our intensive 3-part extraction process, using equipment that has been custom-designed by our owner and founder, Jason Scott.
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We do, and we follow GMP practices. We also go above and beyond that:
1). We source all our raw materials as close to the source as possible. We know our growers and harvesters, know their standards, and pay them fairly.
2). We never receive powdered raw materials. We want to see the quality of the mushrooms and ensure their quality. We want to be able to ensure that they were grown and dried properly. You can’t see mold, moths, or adulterant items (garbage, filler, etc.) in powders.
3). We extract and bottle everything ourselves, and we pay and treat our team well. We all genuinely care about the products we make together.
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Jason, our founder, started down the path of studying and learning about Alchemy almost a decade ago. He stumbled across Alchemy and Ayurveda early in his journey through the realm of medicinal herbs and mushrooms.
Jason went on to study practical laboratory Alchemy with Robert Allen Bartlett out of Marysville, WA where he learned the foundation of the alchemical works and the spagyric method. Elucidating on those processes he developed what he termed AlcheMycology, which was looking at specifically how the mushrooms fit into an alchemical framework and cosmology.
While studying with Robert throughout the years, Jason went on to study in person with Sajah and Whitney Popham at The School of Evolutionary Herbalism to deepen in his relationships with looking at and understanding plants through a holistic framework of Herbalism. Through that study Jason began working at Organic Unity, producing Spagyrics and Spagyric Tinctures with Sajah and Whitney.
Jason has also spent time working with and studying under Todd Caldecott in the art and study of Ayurveda, and joined him in Nepal in 2017 to study directly under Vaidya Madhu Bajracharya in the Ayurvedic tradition of Rasa Shastra, from clinic to medicine making. The Rasa Shastra tradition, while not producing Spagyrics, has much in common with the tradition of Western Alchemy; and can be found in traditions that have never been broken.
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Traditionally different plants are associated with different planets and worked with accordingly - however it is difficult to find any literature on the subject relating to mushrooms.Jason Scott has spent years working with the planetary archetypes and the specific fungi to make associations and correspondences based on morphology, actions and energetics in the mushrooms as they relate to the planets.This is a framework that he has worked and taught with as the philosophical concepts and practical applications of AlcheMycology, and stand as one potential of working with specific fungi, but there are many other ways to see and use the fungi as they correspond to planets.His work through AlcheMycology lays a framework for people to make their own associations and to work with them accordingly.
Frequently Asked Questions
General
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Domestic shipping can take up to 5 business days.
Foreign shipping could take up to 14 business days.
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All our products are subject to quality control.
Our warranty provides a guarantee against manufacturer defects.
The guarantee covers any manufacturing, design, or material defect. Please notify us within 2 months of noticing any defects.
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Yes, we offer full and partial refunds.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Wholesale & Private Label Inquiries
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Yes! For a everything you need to get set up, please see our New Vendor Packet.
You are also always welcome to give us a call or submit questions to orders@feralfungi.com.
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Yes. We offer retail tinctures at wholesale pricing.
Because we make everything in-house, we also offer bulk tinctures of everything listed on our site.
We also craft various herbal extracts and custom formulas, depending on your needs.
If interested in learning more, please submit inquiries to orders@feralfungi.com
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We do. Please contact us at orders@feralfungi.com for more information.
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Yes, please send inquiries to orders@feralfungi.com.
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Yes, yes, and yes. Education is important to us! We offer both virtual and in-person consumer lectures on mushrooms, alchemy, and the spagyric process as well as virtual and in-person product trainings for staff. We also continually add new educational material (articles, podcasts, etc.) to our blog.
We happily provide product demonstrations. Individual stores have specific demo needs. We can work on tailoring a demo program that fits your store.
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You can place an order through your local sales rep (this will ensure you get the best deal possible) or by sending an email to orders@feralfungi.com.
For a copy of our fillable wholesale pricelist, click here.