Guest guest Posted August 28, 2000 Report Share Posted August 28, 2000 Todd- Do I understand that a powdered extract which is extracted with a high alcohol menstrum and remixed as a powder will have the polysaccharides in a bioavailable form? How about a high alcohol tincture where the polysaccharides are clumped? Given that long chain polysaccharides can be difficult to absorb (hence the vitamin C recommendation), won't clumping make them less available, assuming you can get them off of the side of the bottle? My preferred theoretical method to tincture is to decoct the mushroom pieces, boil down the decoction, then to extract the marc in grain alcohol, adding the two together so that total alcohol is around 25%. Generally I just decoct. I'll ask Chris Hobbs when I see him next month, but his Medicinal Mushrooms book seems to list more compounds for the fruiting body than the mycelia. No numbers or bioavailability comments. I do remember his telling us to go for the mushroom rather than mycelial preparations. Karen Vaughan CreationsGarden *************************************** Email advice is not a substitute for medical treatment. " To know what kind of person has a disease is as essential as to know what kind of a disease a person has. " -Francis Scott Smyth ______________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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