kombucha

[vanessa]

i haven't seen anything about kombucha in my macro books - does anyone know if it would be considered macrobiotic or not? thanks, vanessa

[Bruce Paine]

Vanessa,

In one sense, everything is macrobiotic, and in that sense, kombucha tea is macrobiotic but as a beverage for everyone to drink regularly or to take for a wide variety of ailments, it is not.

According to Fred Pulver at the Carbondale Center For Macrobiotic Studies http://www.macrobiotic.org/letters3.html#paulette, kombucha tea is yin because it is a fungus that is grown on simple sugars and might be okay for some yang people but certainly is not good for people with yin conditions and/or constitutions.

Did you think that kombucha looks and sounds like a combination of kombu sea vegetable and tea (kombu + cha)?

It's only coincidental!

The fungus that most macrobiotic people are using now-a-days in cooking and healing is the dried shiitake mushroom, which grows on oak logs and is more yang than kombucha.

And most macrobiotic people don't use it every day.

Does this make any sense, to you?

Thank you, very much.

Bruce Paine

[vanessa]

hi bruce,

that makes sense, thank you. it makes sense that it's yin. i suppose it is rather stimulating

best,
vanessa

[laurel s.]

Originally Posted by vanessa

i haven't seen anything about kombucha in my macro books - does anyone know if it would be considered macrobiotic or not? thanks, vanessa

vanessa
The only recipes that I have seen for growing kombucha mushrooms use white sugar and Liptons tea, so NO, it would'nt be considered macrobiotic since those things are not macro. I wonder if a kombucha mushroom and tea could be made from macro ingedients like barley malt syrup and bancha tea?