Re: Kombucha:Mongolian (?)elixir of health-do you drink it?

 do you drink it?
have you experience with it?
do you make it?


I'm drinking a glass (Well, actually, four tonight!) of kombucha that has added small amounts of fresh bluebery juice, fresh-grated ginger juice and some cracked juniper berries added...I meant to let it sit and ripen a bit after bottling up the 'doctored' kombucha tea, but it's too good
to wait for. Delicious. Loaded with good things.


In case you have windered about it, many people will give of seel you the SCOBYS for a very fiar rate--I got my first SCOBY from ebay--and it was lovely.

any thoughts?

I used to make the tea nearly 20 years ago when they were really popular.  I got busy and stopped making it though and now I no longer have a scoby. I need to get a new one and some water kefir grains. Actually not so much for drinking though as for an experiment.

I do like the tea though. It provides a number of heath benefits provided the culture does not get contaminated.

When I was making the tea I talked to m dad's neighbor who was using various herbs as bases as opposed to tea. My favorite was the damiana based kombucha. I have always wanted to try anticancer herbs as a base such as red clover and especially chagas. Chagas are high in antiviral and antitumor betulinic acid.  I am hoping that the bacteria in the kombucha will take the betulinic acid and synthesize even more of the compound. Would make another great experiment.