Step 1
Whole Fruiting Bodies
We start with 100% mushroom fruiting bodies, all domestically sourced. Some are wild harvested and some are cultivated by growers we've worked with for years.
Our Process
Separate, Purify, and Recombine
Every extract we make follows the spagyric method, a three part process that comes from traditional laboratory alchemy. We separate each mushroom into its parts, purify them, and bring them back together in one bottle.
Spagyric (spa-JEER-ick)
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Body, Soul, and Spirit
The word spagyric is usually credited to Paracelsus, the 16th century physician and alchemist. It comes from two Greek words: spao, to separate, and ageiro, to gather or bring together.
Alchemists described every plant and mushroom as having a body, a soul, and a spirit. We separate those parts through extraction, purify the mineral salts from what's left behind, and then bring everything back together. Most tinctures keep only the liquid and discard the rest. A spagyric returns all of it, so what's in the bottle reflects the whole mushroom.
How We Make It
From Whole Mushroom to Finished Extract
Every batch is made by hand, start to finish, in our cGMP certified facility in Estacada, Oregon.
Step 2
Alcohol Extraction
The mushrooms go into our Soxhlet extractors with cane alcohol under gentle heat, drawing out the alcohol soluble compounds and the subtle aromatics.
Step 3
Water Extraction
Next comes a hot water extraction for the water soluble compounds, including polysaccharides like beta-glucans. The Soxhlet is a closed system, so the volatiles stay in.
Step 4
Mineral Salts
We draw the mineral salts out of the spent mushroom material, purify them, and return them to the extract. This is the step that makes it spagyric.
We look at the laboratory and the flask we work in as the microcosm that mirrors the macrocosm, the below that mimics and captures the above. In this way, the vital force that would otherwise return to the firmament is captured within the universe of our flask.
Our Standards
What Goes Into Every Bottle
Sourcing
Domestically Sourced
100% mushroom fruiting bodies from US growers and wild harvesters.
Made Here
Made in Estacada, Oregon
Extracted from start to finish in our own cGMP certified facility.
Extraction
Complex Whole Mushroom Extracts
Our process captures a broad range of compounds from each mushroom, rather than standardizing to a few.
Ingredients
Grain Free, No Fillers
No myceliated grain, no starch, and no fillers added to bulk up our extracts.
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Spagyric Tinctures
Our single mushroom tinctures and spagyric formulas, made with the process above.
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Introduction to Spagyrics
A closer look at the spagyric tradition, from Paracelsus to how the practice works in the lab.
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Doctrine of Signatures & Correspondences in Fungi
How observation, archetypes, and correspondences shape the way we work with fungi.