Recipe: The "Money Shot" Herbal Aphrodisiac Elixir for Valentines Day Fun (Part 1 of 2) #86

[Necrowitch]

this is for both men and women?

[SecretsOfLongevity]

For sure, although in part 2 I'll be making it a certain way specific for men but will offer suggestions for a female version.

[flinzz78]

Is your Asparagus root nice, soft and sweet? If so, where did you buy it?

[SecretsOfLongevity]

Yep, I got it at Sun Ming Hong in Toronto, a Chinese herb shop. Probably the biggest in Eastern Canada.

[laurenmichellekinsey]

Money Shot!!!!!! One of my favorite phrases. xoxoxoxo

[sherabfri]

hi ho

What are the pots you are cooking in? I notice at the Chinese shop they use specific ceramic pots for tea making . does this affect tea?

Did you put that strange shot at 5.05 in, or is it my computer?

[SecretsOfLongevity]

Yes I put that clip in.

I will talk about the pots on the Sunday episode as it's too much to write about here. I actually had a segment filmed about them but it was too long and I had to cut it.

Ceramic is great for tea, glass pots would be best though. Again I'll talk about this in Sunday's Q&A :)

[sherabfri]

your erotic valentine Artist ! wow

[ravendream33]

Daniel Vitalis has demonstrated some boiling of reishi and other mushrooms, saying it is impossible to destroy the properties of them by boiling.....and is needed to extract the properties because of the hard wood cellulose. That makes sense, but it almost seems that alcohol extraction would be less traumatic to the herb???

[SecretsOfLongevity]

There are properties in all herbs and even all foods that aren't harmed by heat, however there are always some properties that are harmed. The Chiten (tough cell walls of mushrooms) does need to be broken through in some way. Heat seems to do it but I have yet to see any specifics on what temperature is "official". David Wolfe gets results with chaga and reishi extracting it without boiling but using this finger method. Alcohol is good too.

I haven't done enough experimentation to know myself.

[JackNeedles]

I don't understand how you'd be able to get a lot of them medicine out of these herbs by keeping it under 70 F because of the hard bark, etc.

[SecretsOfLongevity]

The roots and leaves (no bark) in this tea do produce colour and flavour in the tea without it having to be boiled. Whether or not I am getting the maximum out of this or not I don't know, it would be neat to test two teas in a lab or something.

Generally the tougher something is the more agressive the extraction method it needs, yeah, but a long slow fairly warm temperature may be equivalent to a shorter simmer. I have to experiment with this more myself!