Azul Fungi is a San Francisco community-based organization focused on the cultivation and responsible distribution of entheogenic fungi. We are driven by the need in our current society for spiritual fulfillment, natural medicines, and reconnection to nature.
Psilocybin is a powerful tool that has the potential to accomplish many different goals for the end user depending on their intentions. Our job is to provide a safe and reliable access point to spiritual divinity and physical health. To ensure that psilocybin is responsibly used, we are committed to obtaining informed consent for all adults (21+) who seek the psychedelic experience. This means ensuring that each patient understands the duration, effects, and potential risks with consumption of psilocybin mushrooms.
The positive benefits attributed to psilocybin are too numerous to ignore any longer, we believe that it should be a natural right for all peoples to have a connection to the divine.
What Is Psilocybin Used For?
Psilocybin is often used in many different ways that can sometimes be dependent on dosage. Important to remember is that the strongest influence on your psilocybin experience is your mindset and your physical setting. Catering these two things to your needs is crucial for receiving the outcome you are looking for. Different strains and species of psilocybin mushroom will have different potencies. The below serves as a general guide that is applicable to intentions and experiences.
At Low Doses
Psilocybin is often used for microdosing, recreation, general wellness, mood enhancement, and dancing. Effects are mainly mentally stimulating with light euphoria and minimal visual changes.
At Medium Doses
Psilocybin can be used for meditation, hiking under supervision, light tripping, and supervised recreation.
At High Doses
Psilocybin is used for divination, spiritual experience, connection to God, inward introspection, healing from traumatic experiences, and depression relief.
Understanding the importance of dosage-dependent intentions is vital for safe psilocybin use. Psilocybin potency can vary from fruit-to-fruit and is nearly impossible to correctly dose without a food scale. To achieve a desired dosage we recommend always weighing psilocybin fruitbodies with a food scale to determine dosage by weight (grams). By determining the weight of your dose you can more accurately predict the outcome of effects and better plan for your psychedelic experience.
What Is a Fruitbody?
A fruitbody is the reproductive organ of mycelium which serves to produce spores and complete its reproductive cycle. What we think of as “mushrooms” are only a small visible portion of mycelial organisms which are composed of highly intelligent strands of hyphae that often serve as decomposers in soil, wood, and other organic materials. Underground networks of mycelium play an extremely important role in our ecosystems ensuring soil health, effective nutrient cycling, and often symbiotically interacting with plant roots. The resulting “fruit” aboveground is often evident of a much larger mycelial network below. The lab cultivation of mushrooms reproduces this process in a controlled semi-sterile environment where all other competition is eliminated allowing fungi’s natural reproductive cycle to be reproduced in a controlled setting. The resulting fruitbodies are then collected and dehydrated using professional stainless steel equipment.
Why Fruitbodies?
As the psychedelic renaissance has ushered in a new era of psilocybin containing consumer products, more and more options are being made available in non-fruitbody edible forms. These “magic mushroom edibles” can often take the form of chocolate bars, gummies, or honey sticks. As investigations by the LA Times and others have proved: discerning the actual contents of these psilocybin edibles is difficult or often impossible. Widespread adulteration and mislabeling is rampant with many “magic mushroom chocolate bars” containing 0% psilocybin and instead muscimol or 4-AcO-DMT. Users of 4-AcO-DMT often claim that the synthetic chemical produces a very similar feeling to psilocybin for a similar duration of time. Despite this, 4-AcO-DMT is not psilocybin and is instead synthetically derived and chemically processed. Individuals interested in holistic wellness and the recent breakthroughs in medical research surrounding psilocybin are inevitably duped by the marketing of organic natural plant medicines into buying grey market chemical cocktails.
What we offer is different. If you can see and hold a fruitbody you are seeing tangible proof that what you are consuming is naturally derived genuine psilocybin. Our commitment to producing dehydrated psilocybin fruitbodies ensures that the end user knows what they are consuming and can further process it to their liking (tea, chocolate, lemon tek). We are focused on giving you the consumer the option to consume fruitbodies as-is without further processing as we believe this is also one of the best ways to get the full psychedelic experience. Psilocybin containing fruitbodies are a complete chemical package where psilocin itself produces the “trip” while other numerous alkaloids and minor chemicals help to modulate it. The science surrounding these alkaloids and minor chemicals is still developing and not fully understood. But as cannabis is not as simple as just “THC”, psilocybin mushrooms are not as simple as just “psilocybin”. To boil down these medicines to just their isolated chemicals ignores a larger entourage effect that can influence one’s experience. In a 2024 study supported by Parow Entheobiosciences, preliminary research found that mice given a full spectrum psilocybin mushroom extract demonstrated more increased synaptic plasticity compared to mice given psilocybin isolate aloneJohnson-Groh M. Is There More to Magic Mushrooms than Psilocybin? ACS Cent Sci.. There is some reason to believe that psilocybin fruitbodies or full spectrum extracts from fruitbodies may have higher medical potential for neuron plasticity in the brain.
Benefits of Psilocybin
- Neuroplasticity
- TBI healing
- Disrupts destructive thought loops
- Anti-inflammation (ochraceocentrata)
Commitment to Quality
Having quality inputs, hygienic practices, and professional equipment enables us to provide high quality lab cultivated psilocybin fruit bodies.
- Cultivated using 100% OMRI Listed Organic Coco Coir and food-grade grains. We never use animal feed for our cultivation.
- All equipment and grain spawn undergo high temperature autoclave sterilization. No bacteria, no mold, just quality product.
- Professionally cultivated with assistance from HEPA medical grade air filtration. Hygienic, fast, and industry standard.
- Absolutely no synthetic chemicals or pesticides used during cultivation or processing. Organic, natural, pure psilocybin.
Commitment to Sustainability
- Mindful practices. Minimizing plastic use and reducing waste.
- 100% eco-friendly home compostable packaging. ASTM certified child resistant.
- Small-craft low scale cultivation. Reduced carbon footprint.