If you're out in the wilderness bugging out and just enjoyed a nice meal by the fire, you may occasionally crave a tasty drink. You have plenty of water, but sometimes it's refreshing to add a little something to it, don't you think?
Luckily if you are near some pine trees all you need to do is locate one so you can use the pine needles to make yourself some tea. This tea not only is tasty, but it contains five times the amount of “normal” vitamin C that you get when you drink fresh-squeezed orange juice. Plus, it is also high in vitamin A!
If you're feeling ill while bugging out pine needle tea can also help with your symptoms and get you better quickly. It's an expectorant (thins mucus secretions), decongestant, and can also be utilized as an antiseptic wash when it cools down after boiling it. So not only will this tea taste good, but it's good for you!
To learn how to make pine needle tea while you're bugging out, check out the next page.
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Do not use ponderosa pine..
TEE? Ugh. I didn’t even read the article when I saw that.
Why not ponderosa. I lived my whole life on the east slope of the Rocky’s and we did needles with rosehips all the time
So if I am bugging out I don’t have to remember how to spell???
How can you be trusted when you can’t even spell tea?
Well that should taste like Hell, the best TEA I know of for wilderness survival is sand spur tea the Seminole Indians used it for mosquitoes, a cup a day for 3 days and it works against mosquitoes, ants, ticks and sand fleas.its also said that it promotes stomach protection against food born illnesses and keeps kidneys healthy
*Tea
Actually a cure for scurvy as well
Provides vit c
Tee? Lol!
Taste like weak regular tea to me. I enjoyed it.
Aren’t there certain pine trees that are poisonous?
Stay away from yew and Pondarosa pine
Pines described as white pines have
needles bundled in groups of five,
Yellow pines have needles bundled in groups of 2 (Lodgepole Pines) or 3 (Gray, Ponderosa
yes and hemlock is toxic
Edward Hamilton
Jennifer Elfers
Taste like turpentine. Yuck!
Or just drink water…
MaShawn Weaver
Delicious. Florida trail hiker here.
Everyone keeps talking how good pine trees are for shtf what happens when your allergic and need something other than pine
Sara Smith
You can also just have a little nibble on the soft tips. Nice.
Sean Defore haha
Sounds awful.
Drank pine needle tea every trip in the Boy Scouts!
Love to gather my medicine!
Love it very good moral booster
Pine needles are poisonous. It makes goats and cows abort fetuses. No joke… I have had a few cows get into pine needles and abort fetuses… why would I drink pine needle tea??
http://ucanr.edu/sites/UCCE_LR/files/151746.pdf
http://www.beefmagazine.com/mag/beef_needle_nightmare
Read and then tell me pine needles are ok to drink in tea.
Make sure it’s pine needles your using as well and not other needle trees.
Learned on how to make this back in my scotting days.