How to take shilajit: resin, drops and gummies, step by step

The rules that apply to all four

Once a day, every day. All four formats are built around a single daily serving. Consistency matters far more than quantity: a small serving daily beats a large one twice a week.

Morning is the usual choice, though nothing requires it. Pick a time you will actually repeat.

Never use boiling water. Warm is the limit. Heat is exactly what we spend 45 to 70 days avoiding on the drying beds, so boiling it at the last step undoes the point of buying sun-dried.

Storage: room temperature, lid closed, out of direct sunlight. No refrigeration. Cold makes resin stiff and hard to work with.

Resin

Serving: 300mg once daily, a rice grain to a small pea. How: dissolved in warm water or milk. Jar life: 15g is about 50 servings, 30g about 100, 50g about 166.

Scoop with the steel spatula in the jar. If the resin is stiff, stand the closed jar in warm water for a minute rather than heating it directly.

Drop the portion into a mug of warm water or milk and stir until it fully dissolves. Genuine resin disperses rather than leaving grit at the bottom.

Taste: earthy, bitter, slightly smoky. That is what real resin tastes like. If it tastes sweet, it is not pure. In milk it is noticeably easier for most people.

Best for: people who want the purest form and do not mind the ritual or the taste.

Capsules

Serving: one capsule daily with water, with or without food. Each capsule: 150 to 170mg of sun-dried powder, equal to a 300mg resin serving. Bottle: 40 capsules.

No spoon, no jar, no taste at all. The shell means you taste nothing.

These are sun-dried for 100 to 120 days, longer than the 45 to 70 the resin gets, because powder for encapsulation has to be drier than resin for a jar and we will not use heat to get it there.

Best for: travel, offices, and anyone who tried resin and could not get past the taste.

Gummies

Serving: one gummy daily. Each gummy: 200mg of real sun-dried resin. Pouch: 30 gummies. Apple flavoured, honey-sweetened, gluten-free, made in the USA from our resin.

One per day, not sweets. They are formulated as a single daily serving. The fact that they taste good is exactly why that needs saying.

They are darker and taste more of mineral than most gummies on the market, because most are made with a cheap extract or powder rather than actual resin.

Best for: anyone who keeps forgetting, and for people starting out.

Drops

Serving: 4 drops, about 0.3ml, once daily. Bottle: 30ml, about 100 servings. Composition: 80% sun-dried resin, 20% herbal spring water.

Shake before use. Four drops into water, juice or tea. The dropper is marked, so every serving is identical without measuring.

Per drop it is less concentrated than resin. Per serving it is not: four drops is formulated to sit alongside a full resin serving. What changes is convenience, not the material.

Best for: travel, and anyone who wants no ritual at all.

Three mistakes worth avoiding

Boiling it. Warm only.

Taking more to catch up. More is not better here. One serving daily is the design.

Judging it in three days. This is a daily-habit product, not an instant one.

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