drank Juroku Cha by Asahi
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Caffeine-free grain and herbal Japanese tea produced in Taiwan. Ingredients: purified water, pearl barley, barley, habu tea leaf, malted barley, corn, vitamin C, brown rice, loquat leaf, black soybean, malted brown rice, shiitake mushroom, jujube, mulberry leaf, black rice, foxtail millet, Japanese millet (kibi), red bean

Tons of roasted barley-grainy-soybean flavor, some sweetness, some light tang probably from the Vitamin C, some mushroom earthiness to fills out the base tones. Overall, it tastes mostly like a roasted barley tea but with more complexity of flavor. Great cold refreshment.

Sierge Krьstъ

Very interesting. I am revisiting my caution with herbals as I tend overdo things. Latest horsetail with liubao. Like good hash. Everything sparks up inside my body. Heartbeat stabilized after vaccine. Joints tingling with joy. Almost pineal gland decalcifying at the back of my head. Oh, I forgot, I don’t have pineal gland. I traded it for third eye. And heart, probably for iron knee. So what are all these aches. Yearning to fill voids with whatever will keep my immune system busy. Like sports, all about participation

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mImuguOghRM

derk

Watching that video followed by the full Rammstein cover released something deep. That was a beautiful cry.

derk

Mugworth with shou this evening.

Sierge Krьstъ

It is amazing how what crave is hardwiring our sensory preferences in other areas

Sierge Krьstъ

Mugworth, the name along would float with me but one cannot deny synchronicities, apparently it is powerful detox on its own

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hEYj-_euEjc

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Sierge Krьstъ

Very interesting. I am revisiting my caution with herbals as I tend overdo things. Latest horsetail with liubao. Like good hash. Everything sparks up inside my body. Heartbeat stabilized after vaccine. Joints tingling with joy. Almost pineal gland decalcifying at the back of my head. Oh, I forgot, I don’t have pineal gland. I traded it for third eye. And heart, probably for iron knee. So what are all these aches. Yearning to fill voids with whatever will keep my immune system busy. Like sports, all about participation

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mImuguOghRM

derk

Watching that video followed by the full Rammstein cover released something deep. That was a beautiful cry.

derk

Mugworth with shou this evening.

Sierge Krьstъ

It is amazing how what crave is hardwiring our sensory preferences in other areas

Sierge Krьstъ

Mugworth, the name along would float with me but one cannot deny synchronicities, apparently it is powerful detox on its own

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hEYj-_euEjc

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