"Taste" be damned. A couple of hundred years ago, white pine tea was a way to prevent scurvy in the winter. When vitamin C was scare because fresh greens were scarce, this could keep you healthy until spring.
Pine needle tea is nice for its vitamin c content and its abundance. It's super resilient as you can see, it's thriving in snowfall. To have so much vitamin c available year round and so abundantly, pine needles are truly a blessing.
Great video! I frequently drink White Pine Tea. I never boil the needles. Let the water boil then take it off and pour over the needles. Let it steep until the needles turn a dull gray green and sink down in the water. When that happens the tea is ready. You might need to heat the tea back up a little and add up to a teaspoon of raw honey. White Pine Tea will chase away muscle tension caused by the cold!
+Molson Wanders Yes I pour the hot water over the pine needles in my cup let steep 7 min. or so & strain it into another cup I add honey & lemon so good I love it. I planted 6 big white pines in my yard 16 years ago.
The taste isn't bad, in all honesty it tastes like watery christmas. In saying that, I made some at home with a little it of honey and a couple berries steeped and its really tasty
i remembered an old guy, my neighbor, who lived his life over a hundred years in a good health condition. he made his own tea mixing with a handful pine needle, persimmon leaf and bamboo grass and took 3 times every day. he departed for the heaven because of an traffic accident.
@@niccoloaurelius1587 very true. When I discovered the edibility of coniferous trees, I always considered it just another edible item that wouldn’t kill you. I read somewhere that the younger ones have more flavor and are better for cooking, so this is what I did. Found a pine about the height of my chest, grabbed a wad, made a loop of the needles to prevent being poked by them, then I took the loop end and jammed it in my mouth. I swear it tasted just like a sour orange/not as sour lemon. Such a beautifully tart taste. Nothing like the smell at all(although the smell is pleasing), but so delicious.
I personally have found that steeping pine needles with a bag of orange pekoe tea has a really nice flavor. The subtle pine flavor and the subtle flavor with orange pekoe tea come together to create something very good being that, neither are too overpowering, in my opinion.
If people don't believe the technocracy exists and that our every mood, thought and discussion is listened to and predicted, I want to say this: Ten minutes ago I was discussing this very pine tea with my roommate. I described the needles and i guess it was less than a minute conversion in our home. Nothing on the Internet. Just a conversation. This video was recommended to me even though I've never searched for this type of video in several years.
You have to dig all the way down to the soil when making fires in pine beds! The partially-decomposed pine medium can smolder and spread fire underground. Just clearing the needles isn't enough.
I have made pine needle tea out of jackpine here in BC and found it actually had a lemony taste. It was rather good, but never realized the health benefits. I think I will start drinking it more often now.
It's actually most soluble in polar organic solvents like ethanol, acetone, and THF. But it will also dissolve in some strictly non-polar solvent like benzene
Why do other green leafed plant teas (such as nettle for example) turn a beautiful green color then? Is it because the broad-leafed characteristic allows for more surface area to contact the hot water vs a needle-type leaf?
Well I think I need a week long crash course if all things edible here in northern Michigan. I would love to have someone like you come spend some time showing my family and I all the things we could eat!
While I was doing my compulsory military service, I used to throw the leaves of pine trees into hot water and drink that tea. I still remember it had a very nice aroma.
I love this!! I'm a kid, but I want to find a way to eat outside without bringing stuff like oil, salt or flour outside. Of course this isn't eating, but this is amazing! Just what I imagined when I was thinking of how to make pine needle tea in the wilderness. Someday I'm going to live in the wilderness and this is going to come in handy. Adding this to my notebook! Thanks! Sincerely Viva
Viva's Art, ck out John Kallas, Ph.D. book Wild Foods Harvesting (or similar title). He's in Portland, OR and does wonderful outside seminars. He came to Eugene, OR to do one that I'd attended and we went to one of our local parks (Alton Baker). We stood in the same spot for 45 min and you couldn't believe all the edibles he identified in that one spot! And we think we're just walking on grass & weeds! If you ever get to attend any of his workshops, you'd be quite pleased. They're affordable and he's not only super well-informed but he's incredibly friendly, too. Look him up online by name or Wild Food Adventures. He does ocean foraging and clam digging workshops, too. And for some of his workshops, after foraging, they'll prepare the food they've harvested & they'll feast on that together. Nice, huh?
Oh, and John Kallas has extended workshops, too, where it'll be a camping trip & foraging for like 3-5 days. You'll see that if you look up his Wild Food Adventures.
if you happen to have any honey, I personally find it really boosts the flavor. after experimenting with different flavors, if found honey seems to mix the best with the "piney" taste. sugar was okay, sweetener was disgusting, and lemon was eh.
I've drank pine needle tea a few times. To me the flavor is mild and pleasant. You can also eat the pollen cones because the pollen has quite a bit of protien (though I normally chew the juice and pollen out of them then spit them out because they are quite fibrous).
a lot of youtube channels forget that the whole world could be watching their video not just the people in their local area. the white pine tree he is talking about only grows in the upper north west of the USA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_strobus. I would like to try this pine tea but I am not sure what pines in my area are poisonous or not and I don't trust his advice that only 3 types of pine trees in the whole world are poisonous.
@@Amipotsophspond it's also primary forest in upper Michigan. I live in PNW, but have acreage in the upper peninsula, and it is entirely paper birch and white pine.
I could watch these videos all day with no voice, just the spund of the fire and boiling water and pouring water. So so relaxing. Reminds me of cadets.
Pine Tea (especially WHITE Pine) is actually better if you BOIL IT for 10-20 min, and its MUCH better from an OLDER TREE, because you will get a pinkish color to it. The younger trees lack this, and also lack the taste. Kids LOVE IT! It was a common food of the Ancient Chinese (where I learned about this was in China in 2006) which was called "The Food of The Fairies/Gods/Nymphs" and often is used to treat explainable illnesses in older people, and works very effectively. Everything from fatigue, to joint troubles, lethargy, stiffness, and even common problems as a supplement such as people with diabetes because it has no sugar unlike fruits which do. The Native Americans made a soup or tea from it which could cure Europeans suffering from scurvy and curing them within 7 days because it's got a higher amount of Vitamin C than a lemon. The bark also contains vitamin C, and you can grind it like cinnamon (which tastes awful) or boil it. Boiling it seems to work better than steeping it in my experience, and I've been drinking it since 2006. You can also use RED Pine which has 3 needles but its not as nutritious, and doesn't taste as good. it pairs very well with cloves (the spice) when you boil it. And, I've also prepared with with saffron steeped in if you want more color (AFTER its been boiled) as well as with rose buds, rose petals, or rose hips. Wild roses go well with it as well.
I;ve been told that pine needles add a great flavor to coffee. I've been wanting to try it since I love my camp coffee (made via percolator) but I wasn't sure what pine needles to use or whether to use dry or fresh. This clears it up! Thanks so much!
Sounds great, and thanks for doing this review and "how to" video. I enjoy pine very much and newly into teas so this will be a must try. Es with all the latest news on the C shots and is being touted as the thing to be taking in when suffering from transmissions and/or shedding off of the inoculated ones.
I like your videos! Ive been wanting to go hiking but i didnt really know much and just by watching some of your videos I know more. Thanks for your information that you put in your videos!
different pine trees vary a bit in flavor itried the pine tree needles in my neighborhood - and found one of the trees had a better flavor than the rest - very faint hint of floral citrus -only problem I couldnt remember which tree it was from - start over again and count which # tree i used. Definetly helped to lower my cholesterol a bit. my experiments need to be more consistent and try once a week for a period of time and then take the next blood test to how much it lowered cholesterol. FYI - if you look at the main ingredient in nature made cholestoff vitamins its pine! why buy when you can get free.
Great video! You probably already know this but those pine needles around the fire are super flammable. When I was a kid I built a much smaller fire than the one you have there and cleared about the same area out around it. It was sunny and as I sat feeding the fire I noticed a spreading black spot in the needles around the fire. Somehow they had lit! Couldn't see the flames in the sun but I saw the needles charring as they burnt. It spread fast! This was right behind our house...close and I panicked and managed to put it out by stomping on it and throwing dirt on it! Could have burnt the house down!
I've known about this for a long time and I've personally found the baby pine trees tend to make you feel much better and pack more flavor (could just be a placebo with me). However don't over harvest a baby tree cause it needs all the resources it can get. I'd just take a few off of different ones so each individual one wasn't missing much at all. Also I like to use my knife and cut them up into shorter slices than you have, might not make much of a difference though it's just what I do. You forgot to mention not only does it fight off colds and help your health, it is extremely effective on helping cure the flu and or prevent the flu. Everytime I go backpacking/camping I also make sure to brew me up some pine tea :)
Live in the swampy part of southern Sweden and we do the exact thing but with Spruce (Picea abies) instead! Can also be used to flavor wild game and the resin can be chewed as chewing gum, specifically the old dried resin, fresh resin will stick to your teeth like glue
The properties in these teas is said to help with the transmission/symptoms people are experiencing being around people who have gotten the experimental injections this year.... hopefully lots of people find this video!!
Thanks for the info! I was at a small gathering where one of the guests just got her 2nd Phizer jab, and she was sick after it. Of course she was not wearing a mask, because the jabbed ones have that privilege, you know.... She got really close to my face as she spoke to me, and what do you know... within the next 3-4 days I got sick with what felt like a light form of flu or cold. 2 weeks later and I still have something sitting in my lungs that won't go away. I won't go to the Dr or take a test- screw them and their covid protocols. I just got my white pine needles and really hope that this tea helps me with whatever I caught from my jabbed friend.
@@loris1067 yeah I'm in the same boat.. just drank my first cup of white pine tea today and it was great, better than i thought, hopefully this is the cure.. also to let you know the meat from the food store is magnetized now they are injecting the animals with the vaccine then selling the meat.. spread the word
I saw another video on pine needle tea and the guy said not to boil the pine needles in the water because it does something to the terpene content in the pine needles. That' might be what gave it that bitter taste. Its better to use more pine needles that is cut into smaller pieces or bruised, then add the just boiled water into the cup of pine needles and let steep for longer. Nice video!
+John Godwin Thanks again John! I can't wait either. I'm currently doing some scouting in the bush to find some more good trees for felling. I'm already starting to film for episode 8!
One of our fav. wild edibles. I try to drink as much pine needle tea during our "dirt time" outings as possible. Love the way in which you put your vids together man. Had to sub, almost docu. style info vids, but still enjoyable. -Nate
Bro, great content. I'm glad i just found your channel. Now i know what tea i'll be making the next time i go camping... I had no idea pine needles had that much vitamin C, such a great endless source of it!
A good way to remember a white pine has five needless is the word WHITE has five letters A way to remember the Latin name for white pine (pinus stobus) is to think "strobe lights are white".
That warning at the beginning is precisely why I never use books with illustrations instead of photos as research material. Especially with mushrooms. When looking through stores, no two illustrations in the various books lacking actual photos look alike with any regularity. It's deeply concerning.
True but the main reason you should NEVER eat mushrooms in the wild unlike some people do againsed perfessional advise, is that mushrooms unlike regular plants eat toxins from the soil to survive instead of sustain on their own chlorophyll like green plants.
@@seedsofparadise "Unlike regular plants?" Buddy, what are you smoking? If it grow in the soil, it absorbs things from the soil. People around here get terribly sick every summer from eating blackberries growing near the banks of a contaminated creek and pretty much every edible plant in the largest wooded area at the edge of town is inedible because hobos have been using the whole place as a toilet for decades.
Yew trees definitely have to avoid eating from what I have heard but they are not pines. The berries are apparnently edible but the seed is poisonous as is the rest of the tree. Pines are all edible according to Linda Runyon.
A pained tea drinker: NEVER boil water for tea dear boy! Catch the water just before the boil. All those boiling bubbles? Oxygen leaving the water; oxygen is a flavor enhancer. Tut, tut. Also: A Retired Librarian.
Though I agree you should not boil water for tea, the boiling bubbles are primarily water transitioning from liquid to gas (water vapor). Yes, there's _some_ oxygen dissolved in water and _yes_ it will start to leave solution as you heat up the water, but the vast majority of the bubbles in boiling water is simply water undergoing phase change.
Love your foraging videos. This past February, I got very into learning about foraging. Your videos definitely helped me learn! I've made a few foraging related videos, too, but with little success.
If I make a tea infusion from pine needles in bulk for the whole week and keep it in the fridge or out of the fridge (which is recommended?) Will the nutritional values remain? Do pine wood needles contain surmin? And does surmin also cleanse toxins from vaccines?
I would say yes to making it in bulk, but refrigerate it if keeping it for more than a couple days. And yes, the big interest in pine needle tea currently is for its suramin content to counteract spike proteins from the jab. Best of luck 🙏
@@sonayamiller3689 Thank you for the important information you share.🙏🙏🙏💖 How many types of pine trees exist in the United States (New York)? And are they all safe to use? And do all their needles contain the same nutritional values? And most importantly, do they all contain surmin? And which pine tree needles do you think are most recommended? 🙏💖
Pine, spruce, cedar and fir are all safe and contain suramin. Look up videos on TH-cam for how to identify, there are some good ones out there! It’s not hard to identify them. You can buy over the internet, but why? sourcing locally gets you the freshest and most potent source. Have fun foraging!
@@sonayamiller3689 Thank you very much and appreciate your reference. 🙏🏼❤️ I will definitely watch your videos. At New York in the Central Park has all kinds in abundance so as you mentioned it is better fresh from the tree. Another question that bothers me a lot and I very much do not want to damage the trees so do I harm the tree when I cut the twig / branch from the tree? Will it grow again?
It's also recommended that you wash or at least just pour cold water over the pine needles before using it for tea. Don't want any bear pee in your tea!
@Vape Girl No one really knows for sure as it was an experiment. Depends on the amount of injections you have had. But at least 3 months, the equal time you have had the vaccine in your body.
I had pine needle tea a few years ago when we went to the Wye Marsh Sweetwater Festival. I was surprised when the person said it was made from pine needles and was eager to try it. It is a mild tea and was enjoyable. I didn’t know how beneficial it was for your health. Thanks for the information on that.
I’ve been making it with needles from trees in my backyard, but I didn’t know some are toxic. We just call them Conifers. I love the video, very well made, and soothing to listen to.
"Taste" be damned. A couple of hundred years ago, white pine tea was a way to prevent scurvy in the winter. When vitamin C was scare because fresh greens were scarce, this could keep you healthy until spring.
I learned that last year from a park ranger in Vancouver, but if I remember correctly it was hemlock. Really neat!
@@Madmun357
Don't drink hemlock ....
Poison.
@@DARisse-ji1yw I think there are different varieties. Socrates (or Plato) died of poison Hemlock. But I'm gonna take your advice and not consume it.
@@Madmun357 Hemlock is in the carrot family and is extremely poisonous. It's a plant/weed. Steer clear of it.
@@cttraiden wildfoodsandmedicines.com/fir-hemlock-and-spruce-tips/
Pine needle tea is nice for its vitamin c content and its abundance. It's super resilient as you can see, it's thriving in snowfall. To have so much vitamin c available year round and so abundantly, pine needles are truly a blessing.
Great video! I frequently drink White Pine Tea. I never boil the needles. Let the water boil then take it off and pour over the needles. Let it steep until the needles turn a dull gray green and sink down in the water. When that happens the tea is ready. You might need to heat the tea back up a little and add up to a teaspoon of raw honey. White Pine Tea will chase away muscle tension caused by the cold!
+Molson Wanders Yes I pour the hot water over the pine needles in my cup let steep 7 min. or so & strain it into another cup I add honey & lemon so good I love it. I planted 6 big white pines in my yard 16 years ago.
Great advice!
Decoctions and infusions work for this.
@@z5959 Thanks
🌲 Molson 410
How many Pine Neddles go
Into a cup of Pine 🍵 tea❓
Pine tree tea is what the natives served to the early settlers to stop scurvy lack of vitamin C .
Love your video's thanks
And the invaders (settlers) killed them off. Some gratitude.
The taste isn't bad, in all honesty it tastes like watery christmas. In saying that, I made some at home with a little it of honey and a couple berries steeped and its really tasty
Bear Grylls made it with some of his pee steeped in. Nutritious
@@KandiKlover how dare you
@Doogie Carpit Burger Smooth Geryd Street oOoOoO solid burn, dudebro. If I don't put some aloe on it quick I fear I won't survive.
I used to do a combo of mint and pine as a child, and we kept (and re-used) long cinnamon sticks to stir it with.
@@jackstrubbe7608 I actually bought a good portion of cinnamon sticks the other day. I hate pre-grated cinnamon, it has no flavor to me.
i remembered an old guy, my neighbor, who lived his life over a hundred years in a good health condition. he made his own tea mixing with a handful pine needle, persimmon leaf and bamboo grass and took 3 times every day. he departed for the heaven because of an traffic accident.
Is it wrong that your last line made me laugh?
I know I'm late but isn't that much vitamin c dangerous? Just asking idk much
@@komocho7195 as did you lol what's it to ya ?!?! Jk :)
100 year old on the streets doesn’t seem very safe
@@1995Rebel Vitamin c is a water soluble vitamin, meaning that any excess will be excreted in urine
Try using the younger pine needles. They are softer and have more flavor.
This is the secret. Collect young needles in the spring, and dry them.
@@niccoloaurelius1587 very true. When I discovered the edibility of coniferous trees, I always considered it just another edible item that wouldn’t kill you. I read somewhere that the younger ones have more flavor and are better for cooking, so this is what I did. Found a pine about the height of my chest, grabbed a wad, made a loop of the needles to prevent being poked by them, then I took the loop end and jammed it in my mouth. I swear it tasted just like a sour orange/not as sour lemon. Such a beautifully tart taste. Nothing like the smell at all(although the smell is pleasing), but so delicious.
Yes, the nice green tips
It’s it interesting that pines stay green all year? A good indicator that the maker knew we would need it.
JUST watching this but look under power lines. You'll see they get fried along with other plants. Must be radiation.
Amen, brother!
Matthew 24:20 ✝️
What I always thought. I thought it was interesting as a child, that pines stayed green throughout winter. I knew they had to be very important.
I personally have found that steeping pine needles with a bag of orange pekoe tea has a really nice flavor. The subtle pine flavor and the subtle flavor with orange pekoe tea come together to create something very good being that, neither are too overpowering, in my opinion.
+Hughes Card Great suggestion!
Back when i was is scouts, they always said that the new leaves tasted better then the normal ones. More Christmas, less turpentine.
If people don't believe the technocracy exists and that our every mood, thought and discussion is listened to and predicted, I want to say this:
Ten minutes ago I was discussing this very pine tea with my roommate.
I described the needles and i guess it was less than a minute conversion in our home.
Nothing on the Internet. Just a conversation.
This video was recommended to me even though I've never searched for this type of video in several years.
You have to dig all the way down to the soil when making fires in pine beds! The partially-decomposed pine medium can smolder and spread fire underground. Just clearing the needles isn't enough.
Stephen Woods i was gonna comment on that myself
@@DawnDBoyerPhD a year ago?
First thing I thought too.
After drinking all the tea I'm sure he had enough to put it out.
I actually have a white pine in my front yard. I use it for compost because it makes a good nitrogen supplement.
I have made pine needle tea out of jackpine here in BC and found it actually had a lemony taste. It was rather good, but never realized the health benefits. I think I will start drinking it more often now.
careful of diarrhoea
How often do you need to drink it to get the benefits from it?
chemist here
the green stuff in the needles are chlorophyl, which are not solvable in water, but non-polar solvents e.g. hexane
greetings from germany
It's actually most soluble in polar organic solvents like ethanol, acetone, and THF. But it will also dissolve in some strictly non-polar solvent like benzene
@Huskington CONTINUE WITH THE BOROPHYLL!
Ok I'm impressed!
Now.. in plain English, gentlemen?
Why do other green leafed plant teas (such as nettle for example) turn a beautiful green color then? Is it because the broad-leafed characteristic allows for more surface area to contact the hot water vs a needle-type leaf?
W Johnston good info! Yes, I only use quality teas (organic and many from Mountain Rose or my backyard lol).
Well I think I need a week long crash course if all things edible here in northern Michigan. I would love to have someone like you come spend some time showing my family and I all the things we could eat!
While I was doing my compulsory military service, I used to throw the leaves of pine trees into hot water and drink that tea. I still remember it had a very nice aroma.
I love this!! I'm a kid, but I want to find a way to eat outside without bringing stuff like oil, salt or flour outside. Of course this isn't eating, but this is amazing! Just what I imagined when I was thinking of how to make pine needle tea in the wilderness. Someday I'm going to live in the wilderness and this is going to come in handy. Adding this to my notebook! Thanks!
Sincerely
Viva
Viva's Art, ck out John Kallas, Ph.D. book Wild Foods Harvesting (or similar title). He's in Portland, OR and does wonderful outside seminars. He came to Eugene, OR to do one that I'd attended and we went to one of our local parks (Alton Baker). We stood in the same spot for 45 min and you couldn't believe all the edibles he identified in that one spot! And we think we're just walking on grass & weeds! If you ever get to attend any of his workshops, you'd be quite pleased. They're affordable and he's not only super well-informed but he's incredibly friendly, too. Look him up online by name or Wild Food Adventures. He does ocean foraging and clam digging workshops, too. And for some of his workshops, after foraging, they'll prepare the food they've harvested & they'll feast on that together. Nice, huh?
Oh, and John Kallas has extended workshops, too, where it'll be a camping trip & foraging for like 3-5 days. You'll see that if you look up his Wild Food Adventures.
@@ncognito7137 thank you 😊
@@ncognito7137 that is so cool!! Thank you so much! I had no idea about John kallas so I will go check him out. 😊
I have the same dream but i live in Massachusetts and im curious what type of pines grow here because i would rather not poison myself!
One can never seem to find enough natural vitamin C during these harsh winters. I will definitely this thanks!
if you happen to have any honey, I personally find it really boosts the flavor. after experimenting with different flavors, if found honey seems to mix the best with the "piney" taste. sugar was okay, sweetener was disgusting, and lemon was eh.
+Blacklilly22 Great thanks for tips :) I've got some super flavorful unfiltered honey around, so I'll try that!
+sarahbojangles1 Very true. Thanks again for watching Sarah!
When I feel sick I usually chew on some pine needles.
TheAmazingJimmy me too
Can we eat and swallow?
Does it taste like anything?
Me too🙂
@@BlackArcherGaming Yes, chicken!
I've drank pine needle tea a few times. To me the flavor is mild and pleasant. You can also eat the pollen cones because the pollen has quite a bit of protien (though I normally chew the juice and pollen out of them then spit them out because they are quite fibrous).
I love pine needle. Tea. Good on a cold morning to start your day....
Hey I love the amount of time and research you put into these videos. They're really pretty great.
+Katherine Broderick Thanks Katherine!
I have a beautiful blue spruce in my backyard. The tea its needles make is delicious! Tastes exactly like the smell!
Outsider: you’re unlikely to find any of these species of pine
Me: *lives in largest ponderosa pine forest in the world* 😐
Danielle White I know! That’s the only Pine tree we have in AZ
lol California, Oregon, Washington, or British Columbia? I'm in BC here.
Yeah forget this I don’t know the difference between pine trees 😂
a lot of youtube channels forget that the whole world could be watching their video not just the people in their local area. the white pine tree he is talking about only grows in the upper north west of the USA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_strobus. I would like to try this pine tea but I am not sure what pines in my area are poisonous or not and I don't trust his advice that only 3 types of pine trees in the whole world are poisonous.
@@Amipotsophspond it's also primary forest in upper Michigan. I live in PNW, but have acreage in the upper peninsula, and it is entirely paper birch and white pine.
You have to brake / cut pine needles more for the juice to seep out more.
I didnt expect mr slav to be in this comment section
@@agust8474 same lol
Nope. You don't
Break*
and the needles don’t need to be broken or cut they naturally steep.
@@PieFaceGuy9000 thank u
I could watch these videos all day with no voice, just the spund of the fire and boiling water and pouring water. So so relaxing. Reminds me of cadets.
This is the most comprehensive pine needle tea video I’ve found. Than you!
Pine Tea (especially WHITE Pine) is actually better if you BOIL IT for 10-20 min, and its MUCH better from an OLDER TREE, because you will get a pinkish color to it. The younger trees lack this, and also lack the taste.
Kids LOVE IT!
It was a common food of the Ancient Chinese (where I learned about this was in China in 2006) which was called "The Food of The Fairies/Gods/Nymphs" and often is used to treat explainable illnesses in older people, and works very effectively. Everything from fatigue, to joint troubles, lethargy, stiffness, and even common problems as a supplement such as people with diabetes because it has no sugar unlike fruits which do.
The Native Americans made a soup or tea from it which could cure Europeans suffering from scurvy and curing them within 7 days because it's got a higher amount of Vitamin C than a lemon. The bark also contains vitamin C, and you can grind it like cinnamon (which tastes awful) or boil it. Boiling it seems to work better than steeping it in my experience, and I've been drinking it since 2006.
You can also use RED Pine which has 3 needles but its not as nutritious, and doesn't taste as good.
it pairs very well with cloves (the spice) when you boil it.
And, I've also prepared with with saffron steeped in if you want more color (AFTER its been boiled) as well as with rose buds, rose petals, or rose hips. Wild roses go well with it as well.
I just might take a walk tomorrow in the blizzard heading our way. Thanks
+Bryan Resch I love hiking in a good blizzard. Makes me feel alive! lol Just be careful my friend.
oooh! have some hot soup when you get home!
Grinding the needles in say, a small mortar and pestle would release much more flavor as well and steeping for a longer time?
Hey, I found this really awesome Etsy listing at www.etsy.com/listing/1032396428/dried-scots-pine-needle-tea-pinus
My eperience using it for cold was awesome, excellent night sleep and quick recovery, I been using it eversince watching this video !
I;ve been told that pine needles add a great flavor to coffee.
I've been wanting to try it since I love my camp coffee (made via percolator) but I wasn't sure what pine needles to use or whether to use dry or fresh. This clears it up! Thanks so much!
SoulDevoured that would give Vit C to the coffee ☕️ very energizing
Sounds great, and thanks for doing this review and "how to" video. I enjoy pine very much and newly into teas so this will be a must try. Es with all the latest news on the C shots and is being touted as the thing to be taking in when suffering from transmissions and/or shedding off of the inoculated ones.
I like your honesty in your videos. great content!
I appreciate your artistic cinematography. Especially with the first mug of tea.
pine needle tea is being touted as something very beneficial for people at this time.
I like your videos! Ive been wanting to go hiking but i didnt really know much and just by watching some of your videos I know more. Thanks for your information that you put in your videos!
your videos are great. simple and informative!
Nice.
The Wooded Beardsman hey! I love you content!
Omg hii
No one realizes him and it has been 2 years
different pine trees vary a bit in flavor itried the pine tree needles in my neighborhood - and found one of the trees had a better flavor than the rest - very faint hint of floral citrus -only problem I couldnt remember which tree it was from - start over again and count which # tree i used. Definetly helped to lower my cholesterol a bit. my experiments need to be more consistent and try once a week for a period of time and then take the next blood test to how much it lowered cholesterol. FYI - if you look at the main ingredient in nature made cholestoff vitamins its pine! why buy when you can get free.
Great video! You probably already know this but those pine needles around the fire are super flammable. When I was a kid I built a much smaller fire than the one you have there and cleared about the same area out around it. It was sunny and as I sat feeding the fire I noticed a spreading black spot in the needles around the fire. Somehow they had lit! Couldn't see the flames in the sun but I saw the needles charring as they burnt. It spread fast! This was right behind our house...close and I panicked and managed to put it out by stomping on it and throwing dirt on it! Could have burnt the house down!
I've known about this for a long time and I've personally found the baby pine trees tend to make you feel much better and pack more flavor (could just be a placebo with me). However don't over harvest a baby tree cause it needs all the resources it can get. I'd just take a few off of different ones so each individual one wasn't missing much at all.
Also I like to use my knife and cut them up into shorter slices than you have, might not make much of a difference though it's just what I do.
You forgot to mention not only does it fight off colds and help your health, it is extremely effective on helping cure the flu and or prevent the flu.
Everytime I go backpacking/camping I also make sure to brew me up some pine tea :)
Live in the swampy part of southern Sweden and we do the exact thing but with Spruce (Picea abies) instead! Can also be used to flavor wild game and the resin can be chewed as chewing gum, specifically the old dried resin, fresh resin will stick to your teeth like glue
The properties in these teas is said to help with the transmission/symptoms people are experiencing being around people who have gotten the experimental injections this year.... hopefully lots of people find this video!!
Thanks for the info! I was at a small gathering where one of the guests just got her 2nd Phizer jab, and she was sick after it. Of course she was not wearing a mask, because the jabbed ones have that privilege, you know.... She got really close to my face as she spoke to me, and what do you know... within the next 3-4 days I got sick with what felt like a light form of flu or cold. 2 weeks later and I still have something sitting in my lungs that won't go away. I won't go to the Dr or take a test- screw them and their covid protocols. I just got my white pine needles and really hope that this tea helps me with whatever I caught from my jabbed friend.
@@loris1067 yeah I'm in the same boat.. just drank my first cup of white pine tea today and it was great, better than i thought, hopefully this is the cure.. also to let you know the meat from the food store is magnetized now they are injecting the animals with the vaccine then selling the meat.. spread the word
@@loris1067 Make and take some CDS as well. Or home made Hydroxychlorine, using lemon and grapefruit skins boiled in water/ Anything to help.
@@terrythomas790 Thank you!
I am surrounded by White Pine. I'll have to brew some up soon. Thanks
I saw another video on pine needle tea and the guy said not to boil the pine needles in the water because it does something to the terpene content in the pine needles. That' might be what gave it that bitter taste. Its better to use more pine needles that is cut into smaller pieces or bruised, then add the just boiled water into the cup of pine needles and let steep for longer. Nice video!
Hey, Very good video on white Pine Needle Tea. Thanks for sharing.
You always make great videos. Wow, I can't wait to see more Log Cabin work. :-)
+John Godwin Thanks again John! I can't wait either. I'm currently doing some scouting in the bush to find some more good trees for felling. I'm already starting to film for episode 8!
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Is Bear Grylls drinking his pee or pooping off the side of a cliff not famil friendly?
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standing bear yeahhhh ok. they all say that.
Back to the Basics 101 try drying them first
You showed great depth in your subject matter thank you! Great job well done!
Your videos are very precise, clear and educational. Subbed! Thank you.
White pine -5 needles -5 letters
Red pine -3 needles -3 letters
HMMMM
Red pine has 2 needles.
Re pine has 2 letters
Robert Kingswood what about yellow pine?
white oak trees leaves look like clouds and red oak tree leaves look like fire
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Awesome, I am a new sub and will for sure try it.
+DIY Kid Awesome!
Very nice ! Tea always gets me uplifted.
Hmm. Maybe I used a different kind of pine? But when I've made this tea, it tasted like oranges. No kidding. Delicious. Surprisingly delicious.
native americans used the leaves from a tree called yaupon holly for ceremonial tea. lots of interesting history on that.
MrTributesTreesOfAtomity The only native North American plant with caffeine!
@Stacy Caruso yessir. ilex vomitoria. the natives called it white tea for its purification and the settlers called it black tea for its bitterness.
Yaupon holly makes a very delicious tea, no vomiting here. I roasted the leaves first though.
@@nuffsez5625 i think the version of tea, the plant is named for, may be a more concentrated recipe.
One of our fav. wild edibles. I try to drink as much pine needle tea during our "dirt time" outings as possible. Love the way in which you put your vids together man. Had to sub, almost docu. style info vids, but still enjoyable. -Nate
+Tea In The Trees Thanks Nate for the sub ! Glad you're enjoying the channel.
Thank you for making these videos I suffer from stress and depression and these videos call me down just keep doing what you’re doing
I read about this tea, in Tom Brown's survivalist book! Thanks, for bringing it up again! 👍
I have boiled it and made aroma home spray never knowing i could drink it as tea.
teas like this usually steep 10-15 min. and for the hardcore, 30 min.
I steep it overnight.
Made some. Love it. Thank you so very much for sharing!
Bro, great content. I'm glad i just found your channel. Now i know what tea i'll be making the next time i go camping... I had no idea pine needles had that much vitamin C, such a great endless source of it!
A good way to remember a white pine has five needless is the word WHITE has five letters
A way to remember the Latin name for white pine (pinus stobus) is to think "strobe lights are white".
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That warning at the beginning is precisely why I never use books with illustrations instead of photos as research material. Especially with mushrooms. When looking through stores, no two illustrations in the various books lacking actual photos look alike with any regularity. It's deeply concerning.
True but the main reason you should NEVER eat mushrooms in the wild unlike some people do againsed perfessional advise, is that mushrooms unlike regular plants eat toxins from the soil to survive instead of sustain on their own chlorophyll like green plants.
@@seedsofparadise "Unlike regular plants?" Buddy, what are you smoking? If it grow in the soil, it absorbs things from the soil. People around here get terribly sick every summer from eating blackberries growing near the banks of a contaminated creek and pretty much every edible plant in the largest wooded area at the edge of town is inedible because hobos have been using the whole place as a toilet for decades.
Yew trees definitely have to avoid eating from what I have heard but they are not pines. The berries are apparnently edible but the seed is poisonous as is the rest of the tree. Pines are all edible according to Linda Runyon.
love the background shots through the cup of tea
Thank You for this video! I've been wanting to try pine tea for the longest time. I'll be searching my area for whit pine!
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A pained tea drinker: NEVER boil water for tea dear boy! Catch the water just before the boil. All those boiling bubbles? Oxygen leaving the water; oxygen is a flavor enhancer. Tut, tut. Also: A Retired Librarian.
I did not know this. Thanks for very interesting facts!
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I too, was horrified by that, lol! Glad I'm not the only one! :D
Though I agree you should not boil water for tea, the boiling bubbles are primarily water transitioning from liquid to gas (water vapor). Yes, there's _some_ oxygen dissolved in water and _yes_ it will start to leave solution as you heat up the water, but the vast majority of the bubbles in boiling water is simply water undergoing phase change.
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Funny 😁. And you sound like a very sharp cookie!
I'm sure you know of what you speak!
Thanks for the information....spit spot. 😁.
Awesome channel. Great info to know thanks . And subbed.
Very informative👍
Thank you for sharing!
38 dislikes, the morons who used the wrong pine tree needles for the tea 🤦🏻♂️
Yup and they are shitting their brains out!
Or from people like myself who know that if you boil the needles you make turpentine not tea.
@@DarrylBass ....which would work best for a topical use medicated salve? An infusion would work better then a decoction for ingestion then?
@@DarrylBass The slaves used this turpentine for healing remedies, colds, flu, and maybe CV-19
They can't count to 5
What makes the other pines inedible will they cause vomiting or kill you or what
Love your foraging videos. This past February, I got very into learning about foraging. Your videos definitely helped me learn! I've made a few foraging related videos, too, but with little success.
Loved this video Thankyou 💜 watched from Australia 😊
is the white pine the only pine that has clusters of 5?
5:10 I will now taste it
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This is the best information my brain has received all day. Thank you. Subbed.
Geee I didn’t know that was a Thing.
I never fail to learn something new every day.
Glad I found your channel 🤙🏽🌋
If I make a tea infusion from pine needles in bulk for the whole week and keep it in the fridge or out of the fridge (which is recommended?) Will the nutritional values remain?
Do pine wood needles contain surmin? And does surmin also cleanse toxins from vaccines?
I would say yes to making it in bulk, but refrigerate it if keeping it for more than a couple days. And yes, the big interest in pine needle tea currently is for its suramin content to counteract spike proteins from the jab.
Best of luck 🙏
@@sonayamiller3689 Thank you for the important information you share.🙏🙏🙏💖
How many types of pine trees exist in the United States (New York)?
And are they all safe to use? And do all their needles contain the same nutritional values?
And most importantly, do they all contain surmin?
And which pine tree needles do you think are most recommended? 🙏💖
Pine, spruce, cedar and fir are all safe and contain suramin. Look up videos on TH-cam for how to identify, there are some good ones out there! It’s not hard to identify them. You can buy over the internet, but why? sourcing locally gets you the freshest and most potent source. Have fun foraging!
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Thank you very much and appreciate your reference. 🙏🏼❤️
I will definitely watch your videos.
At New York in the Central Park has all kinds in abundance so as you mentioned it is better fresh from the tree.
Another question that bothers me a lot and I very much do not want to damage the trees so do I harm the tree when I cut the twig / branch from the tree? Will it grow again?
@@ruthk9223 I wouldn't worry about shedding, unless you actually took the jab and want to detox from it.
It's also recommended that you wash or at least just pour cold water over the pine needles before using it for tea. Don't want any bear pee in your tea!
I've never seen a bear lean back and shoot for the branches before.
Bear pee is high in vitimine P
I'm sorry...but what sort of bear is gonna reach those branches? It's up pretty high, brah!
@@TheMurlocKeeper bears climb trees.
Very informative!Thank you for sharing!
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They are also useful for combatting the spike proteins from the covid vaxes
qanon much?
@@reality_bites7887 never
I had no idea that pine needle tea would taste like pine needles.
this is so tasty. a friend of mine told me about pine needle tea years ago. i was skeptical, bu i tried it. the whole family loved it
I love your videos and even keeled narration!! Haha 😸😹
I drank 4 cups of pine needle tea a day for 3 weeks. Had to stop 'cause my dog kept peeing on me.
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My understanding us that water above about 140 degrees Fahrenheit destroys vitamin C.
So he still destroyed it anyways pouring it right in like that lol
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Steve Ala That's a good idea to try. I wonder if the "pine juice" could be extracted from the needles without high heat though.
This is fantastic. Well done . Very interesting and well recorded.
I've brewed pine sap beer and it was actually very good. Definitely need to do it again.
Also great for removing the spike protein from the C19 vaccine.🙂
@Vape Girl No one really knows for sure as it was an experiment. Depends on the amount of injections you have had. But at least 3 months, the equal time you have had the vaccine in your body.
Add honey.
+MUDSWAT Good suggestion.
I had pine needle tea a few years ago when we went to the Wye Marsh Sweetwater Festival. I was surprised when the person said it was made from pine needles and was eager to try it. It is a mild tea and was enjoyable. I didn’t know how beneficial it was for your health.
Thanks for the information on that.
Ty so much! I always wanted to learn more about what nature stuff is edible or used for tea. I learned a lot today😁
Wouldn't putting these in a juicer be better?
I assume a lot of people are here looking for ways to protect themselves from any side effects of the vax. ~sending love and healing vibes to all ~
I’ve been making it with needles from trees in my backyard, but I didn’t know some are toxic. We just call them Conifers. I love the video, very well made, and soothing to listen to.
New subscriber! Love this channel.
Dude you are one cool guy with tons of valuable information thank you.