A viewer asks: “How feasible is it to create a similarly effective substitute for Cho Wa Tea from Kumato Labs by mixing the following ingredients, but perhaps not in the same ratios and with different preparation methods—start with a base of green tea and add powdered or extract forms of the other ingredients to taste (from supplements or herbal teas); Rhodiola as an herbal supplement; Ginkgo as a supplement; Epimedium in supplement form; Astragalus in immune-boosting herbal teas and supplements; Goji Berries available as dried berries; Ginger; Tangerine Peel; Licorice; Shiitake, Reishi, and Maitake Mushrooms, available as supplements or in specific mushroom tea blends?” What can we tell him?

You will then have a representation of Cho-Wa. It might be quite acceptable, but it will not match exactly what is done according to the formula with respect to the ratio of the various ingredients as well as their sources and how they are processed. There are many, many variables involved here. So we need to be honest with you here, that you will have a semblance of Cho-Wa but not exactly the same thing. We cannot predict what you might come up with, nor can we analyze and tell you specifically where you might be deficient and what to do to correct your combination of ingredients, as that would be leading. The fact is that Cho-Wa has been created through a very arduous and complex series of iterations and much intuitive guidance to arrive at the recipe. In general, if you take all of the ingredients at greater concentrations than in the Cho-Wa formula itself, you will have an acceptable substitute. So this is theoretically possible to do. It might end up costing more to have the ingredients in sufficient amounts to ensure you have ample quantities of each. Through divine augmentation, there can be some extrapolation to get you there even if there is a shortfall, as well as tempering an excess of one or more ingredients that might work against the overall benefit if present at too high a concentration. What we are describing here is an uncertain process at best. Using some common sense and reasoned judgment, the odds favor your getting something useful, and it might be a quite suitable substitute, but this will be uncertain.