3 Ways To Make Turkey Tail Tea

Written by: Kat Gal

What do you do when you are craving tea? You reach for your tea collection, look through all your colorful tea boxes of filtered tea and select a delicious herbal, green or black tea. It’s so much fun.

Why not add more fun to the game by mixing up your routine and making some turkey tail tea?

A turkey WHAT tea? Don’t worry, it’s all plant-based.

Turkey tail is a powerful medicinal mushroom named after its fall-like palette stripes similar to a turkey’s feathers. It’s been popular for many centuries across various cultures. In Asian cultures, it symbolizes longevity, health, spiritual attunement and infinity.

Like other medicinal mushrooms, such as reishi, cordyceps and chaga, turkey tail can bring you an array of health benefits.

Benefits Of Turkey Tail

• Boosts your immune system
• Fights colds and the flu
• Supports cancer treatment
• Promotes digestion
• Improves chronic fatigue/ME
• Helps the treatment of HPV
• Helps those with HIV

Turkey tail can be found fresh in nature and health food and ethnic stores and as a powder, tincture or part of a superfood mix, such as Organifi Gold in health food stores, ethnic supermarkets and online.

One of the best ways to enjoy the benefits of turkey tail is by making tea out of it. What makes it so fun is that there are several ways to make turkey tail tea!

3 Ways To Make Turkey Tail Tea

Turkey Tail - Turmeric Tea

Ingredients:

• ¾ cup chopped turkey tail mushroom
• 4 cups purified water
• 2 tsp Organifi Gold
• ½ tsp honey or maple syrup
• 1 tsp lemon juice

Ingredients:

1. Chop the mushrooms into small pieces.
2. Add them to a large pot of water.
3. Bring the water to a boil then simmer for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 mins.
4. Strain the mixture.
5. Add Organifi Gold, honey or maple syrup and lemon juice. Stir well and enjoy.

Turkey Tail Tea With French Press

Ingredients:

• ¼ cup of mushroom
• 2 cups water
• 2 tsp loose leaf tea of your choice
• Optional: honey, maple syrup, lemon

Instructions:

1. Chop the mushrooms into small pieces.
2. Add the turkey tail and loose leaf tea to your french press.
3. Add boiling water and let it sit for 45-60 minutes.
4. Pour into cups. You can flavor it with honey, maple syrup and lemon as you wish.

Turkey Tail Tea

Ingredients:

• ¾ cup chopped turkey tail mushroom
• 4 cups purified water

Instructions:

1. Chop the mushrooms into small pieces.
2. Add them to a large pot of water.
3. Bring the water to a boil then simmer for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 mins.
4. Strain the mixture.

If you don’t have turkey tail mushrooms on hand, you can always make a cup of Organifi Gold. Organifi Gold is powered by turkey tail and many other superfoods, such as turmeric, ginger and cinnamon to cleanse your system, relax your body, calm your mind, aid your immune system and lower inflammation. What else would you want?

Add Organifi Gold to your evening routine to help sleep, recovery and healing and drink turkey tail tea regularly to experience all the benefits it has to offer.

Have you ever tried turkey tail mushroom tea or other medicinal mushroom teas? What benefits have you noticed since drinking Organifi Gold regularly? Share your experiences below, we always love hearing your stories and cheering on your journey.

And remember, we're in this together.

Kat Gál is a multi-passionate writer, world traveler, nomad, runner, and cat-person. She is a lifelong learner who lives outside of her comfort zones stretching her boundaries and discovering beauty around the world. She is a Certified Holistic Health and Life Coach who encourages others to embrace their unique authentic selves, follow their heart and find their own version of freedom in life.