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May 13, 2021 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Special Report: Pine needle tea SECOND update, plus making quinine extracts from citrus peels
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Welcome to the special report podcast on pine needle tea.
This is the second update that I'm putting out there.
There's been a tremendous amount of interest in this topic.
And I'm Mike Adams, the health ranger of naturalnews.com.
And this is being recorded on Thursday, May 13th, 2021.
Now, so many people are interested in the pine needle tea topic because, of course, there's been a lot of buzz about making pine needle tea out of certain types of pine needles.
And these are fresh green pine needles, of course, not brown ones.
And they're only from certain species of pine.
And it's not entirely clear which species yet.
We'll talk about that here in a second.
But I wanted to let you know what else I've learned about this and the belief that there are chemical constituents in pine needles.
Specifically, the one that I've studied the most is shikimic acid, which is the basis for the Tamiflu prescription drug that halts respiratory viruses and halts viral replication in the blood and is also known to halt blood platelet aggregation, i.e.
blood clots.
And since so many people are being killed by blood clots from these vaccines, Especially Johnson& Johnson vaccine.
The CDC just put out new information.
That admits more people are dying from blood clots.
And remember, every person that the CDC or the FDA admits died from a vaccine is probably 1,000 or 10,000 more that actually died that they won't admit.
So there's a lot of people being killed by these vaccines with blood clots.
And natural medicine, decentralized medicine, medicine that you can make at home, may save lives.
And that's why I put this out there.
Now, here are a couple of things you need to know.
I'm going to keep this short.
First, I don't sell pine needles, and I can't make any commercial recommendation on who to buy them from.
I don't have any affiliate arrangements with anybody.
I can't profit from pine needles when I'm telling the truth about pine needles, because if I did...
The FTC or the FDA, they would send a freaking SWAT team to my door to arrest me and criminally prosecute me claiming that I'm selling unapproved or adulterated prescription drugs.
They would probably say, I'm selling Tamiflu without a prescription or something, because they've done this to people who are just offering natural products.
They've persecuted people over the years.
So the only way to avoid persecution and tell the truth and save lives is to have no financial ties whatsoever to any source of the thing you're talking about.
So from my point of view, this is a nonprofit message.
This is being shared for humanitarian purposes.
And as a result, I can't sell or represent any specific brand of pine needles, because that's Let's face it, we live under a medical tyranny.
We're living under really a militarized medical dictatorship, and the FDA will throw people in prison, and so will the FTC, and Or other government agencies, the DOJ will get involved.
It's completely insane.
Look at what they've done to the Grennan family over chlorine dioxide.
Or look at what they did to Greg Caton a few years ago for selling CanSema, a topical cancer treatment that really worked and really saved lives, and they prosecuted him.
There have been so many prosecutions over the years.
So I'm sorry to say I can't make a recommendation.
You're going to have to find out a source of fresh green pine needles of the right kind of pine.
Also, I've mentioned a lot of precautions in my podcasts on this because I am someone who cares about public health and safety.
And we do know that cattle that are pregnant will have spontaneous abortions if they eat a lot of pine needles.
And so there's a belief that maybe pregnant women of the human kind shouldn't drink pine needle tea.
That's a very reasonable precaution.
So if you're pregnant or expecting to be pregnant, I would not consume pine needle tea.
The other thing to realize is that boiling something and making a water extract, because water is a solvent, this will pull out certain chemical constituents in the substance that you are boiling.
I explained this in a more detailed podcast yesterday, but not every molecule is soluble in water, nor is it the right polarity as water is a somewhat polar molecule and like water.
It goes with like when it comes to using extracts to pull things out of plants.
This is something that we apply all the time in my food science laboratory.
We use water as a solvent, just as you're doing when you make tea.
There are lots of things that have come up on the radar recently that can benefit from a water extract and produce a very real kind of medicine, or natural medicine, you might say, food-based medicine.
So I just want to mention some of those things here and then mention what I think is the best extraction method that I've come across so far.
So on my radar right now, not only is there pine needles, which we know are rich in vitamin C, also vitamin A. I mean, pine needles can be used to treat and cure scurvy.
By the way, the Native American Indians knew that and used it in that way.
But pine needles also contain shikimic acid.
And chicemic acid is this molecule I mentioned earlier that's also found in star anise herb, which is a traditional Chinese medicine herb named ba jiao in Chinese as part of TCM. And ba jiao is known to cure plagues.
It was used, I think, 2000 years ago by a very famous ancient Chinese medicine doctor to halt a major plague that was wiping out a city in China at the time.
And it's just called star anise, and it's a flavoring component in certain types of Chinese foods that I've mentioned earlier, such as beef noodle soup known as.
And let's see, what else?
Oh, yeah.
We also learned that fennel seeds contain shikimic acid.
And so fennel seeds are delicious.
They have a licorice type of taste.
I'm wondering if the shikimic acid chemical has a licorice taste.
I strongly suspect it does.
Now, my laboratory has ordered shikimic acid standards, and we're going to get those soon.
Kind of expensive.
It's like $120 for 50 milligrams, I think, is what we paid for.
But hey, as far as standards go, I guess that's not crazy expensive.
But I'm going to taste some of that.
Personally, I'm not recommending you do it.
I'm going to taste it because I know it's safe and I'm a food scientist and this is what I do.
I use my tongue and my neurology also as a kind of chemical sensor because you have a chemical sensor in your mouth too.
It's called the sense of taste.
And it's very sensitive if you don't, you know, inundate it with salt and sugar and garbage processed foods all the time.
Your taste is very, very precise.
It's a scientific instrument itself.
But in addition to fennel seeds, which you can grow fennel plants yourself and you can produce fennel seeds, I believe in the second year, they can produce a lot of seeds.
You could do this in a garden or hydroponically or whatever.
So you can actually grow and therefore synthesize your own medicine.
But in addition to fennel seeds, there's something else, and this has been circulating for a while on the internet, and it's true.
The rind of citrus fruits, such as oranges, lemons, limes, and I think grapefruit, contain quinine, which is the precursor molecule to hydroxychloroquine.
It's not the same exact molecule, but quinine is also known as tonic water, and it is actually quite well documented that this can help prevent serious problems related to respiratory viruses and illnesses that are threatening the planet right now.
So if you want to make a quinine tea, All you have to do is take organic citrus fruit.
I wouldn't do this with non-organic.
Take organic citrus fruit, peel them, and take the peels and put them in a pot of water and boil that for a while.
You're making an extract.
You're making a tea.
Then you pour off that tea and filter it through, let's say, a coffee filter.
into a mason jar, and you've got yourself basically quinine tea, which again is kind of a form of hydroxychloroquine.
Now, given all these things, we know now ways to extract shikimic acid from all these different plants, and the best way that I've seen in the science papers is, and this was published in Organic Letters in 2015,
based on research out of Tasmania, Australia, where a research team So they use an espresso machine.
And the espresso machine...
Uses pressure and heat in combination.
Pressure and heat to force water, and by the way, also some alcohol, which I'll mention here, to penetrate the cell walls of the plant matter and to pull out the targeted chemical constituents, which in this case is shikimic acid, and to bring those out into the Let's say.
Now, by the way, an espresso machine, when you use it with coffee, it's doing a water extract of coffee.
So you're getting caffeine.
You're getting all kinds of antioxidants.
You're getting, I don't know what all the elements are in coffee, but that's what gives it its aroma and its taste and also its antioxidant properties.
Coffee is a very, very complex plant.
And if you're a coffee drinker, you know what I mean.
So espresso machines use pressure and heat in order to do that.
So in essence, an espresso machine is kind of like a home lab extraction device.
Thing is, you can use it for things other than coffee.
You can use it with pine needles if you want to extract what's in the pine needles.
You can use it with grapefruit and orange peel if you want to extract the things that are in the peel.
You can use it with fennel seeds or you can use it with star anise herb.
You can use it with, I don't know, cinnamon bark or if you want to make a cinnamon extract, whatever.
So the principles to keep in mind in this are, number one, Whatever you're using, I mean, whatever you're trying to extract from, let's say it's a star anise herb, you want to grind it up in the same way that you would grind coffee.
You know, you wouldn't throw whole beans, whole coffee beans into the espresso machine and try to run water over them.
Why?
It wouldn't pull out the coffee flavor.
Why?
Because you don't have enough surface area.
So you want to grind coffee.
This is why you grind coffee before you run it through the coffee machine.
And for the same reasons, you want to grind star anise herb or you want to grind fennel seeds or grind pine needles or grind citrus fruit rinds.
Make it a smaller granule so that you have high surface area because the transit time of the pressurized water moving through that system is very short.
So you need high surface area in order to get the transfer of the phytochemicals out of those herbs into the water and ultimately into the collection glass or jar, whatever you're collecting it in.
So that's one thing to keep in mind.
The second thing to keep in mind, and this is an important safety precaution, is make sure you know what's in the thing that you're going to be drinking from.
So pine needles, there are different kinds of pine trees that may be safe and other kinds that may not be safe for routine consumption.
You know, you want to be careful with this.
You really want to know what's in it and can your body handle that and what's a safe intake.
Per kilogram of body weight, let's say, on a daily basis.
And so we know that there are some types of conifers, such as yew trees, that's Y-E-W, not Y-O-U, that's you.
And by the way, you can also use this to be very honest in your relationship if you're Significant other comes up to you with a glass of you tea and you're like, I can't drink that, honey.
It's not me.
It's you.
You can just be honest about it.
But I'm sorry, I couldn't resist conifer jokes.
But in any case, make sure you know what's in the thing that you're using for extraction and make sure it's safe for you.
So this requires some taking of personal responsibility, right, for what we're taking in.
And I know that we live in a culture where everybody wants their doctor to tell them what to do.
I ask my doctor, doctor, can I take this drug with milk or without milk, with food, without food, standing up, laying down?
Can I take it in the morning?
Can I take it in the doctor?
Tell me what to do.
That attitude is going to get everybody killed.
We need to take responsibility for our own food and medicine, and we need to listen to our bodies the way Native Americans did.
They would try an herb, try a little bit, and if they didn't know if something was poisonous or not, they would go through multiple steps.
They would take a little bite, swish it around in their mouth, spit it out, wait 30 minutes, see what happens.
If they got dizzy and nauseous, they're like, no, that's poison!
They wouldn't just swallow it.
It's like, hey, let's go around eating unknown plants and swallowing them.
No, that's how you die.
Especially with mushrooms that you don't know.
And especially with poisonous fruit berry looking things that are on certain types of conifer trees.
You're walking through a forest, you don't know what you're doing.
You're like, wow, look at all these amazing red and purple fruits.
Why aren't the birds eating them?
They left them all for me.
No, the birds aren't eating them because they're toxic.
There was a guy that came to visit us one time when I lived in Ecuador.
And he was into raw foods and such.
And no, it's not the guy you're thinking of.
Not a famous raw food guy.
Just another guy who was into raw foods.
And he went on a hike in Ecuador with some of the locals.
And halfway through the hike, he was like, hey, look at this tree of amazing nuts.
And it looked like...
I don't know, they look like cashews or something like that.
And he's like, this is amazing!
How come nobody's eating these nuts?
And the local Ecuadorians were like, yeah, you shouldn't eat those nuts because you're going to have explosive diarrhea.
And the guy's like, are you kidding me?
I can handle nuts?
And so he kept eating all these nuts.
And four hours later, he was vomiting and just blowing out both ends.
And learning a lesson.
You should know what you're eating before you swallow it.
And keep that lesson in mind.
I mean, he survived, and the human liver is amazing at detoxification, but it doesn't mean that you should overload the liver with a detox job.
So be kind to your body.
Know what you're doing.
Be smart about it.
And do your research.
This is all I'm saying.
And so when people come to me, And say, hey, what pine needles should I eat?
I don't know.
I don't know if you should eat them at all.
It's up to you.
Maybe pine needles aren't the right thing for you.
Maybe fennel seeds would be better for you.
Maybe Chinese medicine would be better for you.
This is a decision between you and God and maybe your naturopath.
You figure out what's right for you.
All I'm saying is, we don't have to go to the pharmacy to get medicine anymore.
We can grow our own medicine.
In fact, as most of humanity has done for the history of Earth, you know, I mean the history of humans on Earth, we can extract our own medicine with an espresso machine or just a pot of water.
We can share our own medicine by sharing seeds and sharing knowledge.
We can take care of ourselves and each other.
We don't need corrupt pharmaceutical prostituting doctors to inject us with unknown experimental toxic substances that might alter our genes.
That is not medicine.
That's a death cult.
And we've had enough of that death cult.
It's time for us to take our medicine back.
And that means becoming knowledgeable, knowledgeable, About local herbs, local foods, what weeds are edible, how do you wild craft your food and medicine, how do you preserve food and medicine, how do you make extracts?
Oh, I forgot to mention too, in that Tasmania, Australia paper, they use 30% ethanol, which is just grain alcohol, and 70% water.
And ethanol is a little bit more of an aggressive solvent compared to water, and that's what they found worked best.
So it's up to you.
If you want to use 30% alcohol, 70% water.
The thing that's kind of nice about that is...
It does work better as an extract and if you want to you can pretty easily evaporate off the alcohol if you want to to make a more condensed water extract that has no alcohol because you've evaporated it.
So whether or not you want to consume alcohol is up to you but since alcohol evaporates more easily than water it's pretty easy to end up with just a water extract even though the alcohol is doing its job of getting more nutrients out of the plants.
Okay, so that's my message, folks, and there are so many ways to use this knowledge.
In fact, Chinese medicine, you know, if you go to a TCM practitioner and they'll give you a little brown bag of herbs and they'll say, you know, take this home, make a decoction, boil it in a pot of water.
You can, if it's the right size particles, you can just put that in your espresso machine.
You can get a more powerful extract out of that.
And if you're asking me, well, how much should I drink of this and that?
How many cups a day?
I can't tell you that.
Again, that's a conversation between you and your naturopath and maybe someone that you know who's an herbalist and depends on what you got and what you're drinking and where it came from and everything.
You're not going to get a label like on the side of a prescription bottle here that says, take three, three times a day between meals.
You're not going to get those kinds of instructions because this is the real world.
Real medicine, every plant is different.
You use your taste, you use your senses, you use in some cases your intuition or natural wisdom in order to know what's the right amount.
With knowledge, I don't mean take a wild guess, but you get knowledge and then you augment that.
By listening to your body and getting closer to the world of plants and natural medicine and Mother Nature all around us.
Yes, we have to listen.
We have to...
What's the right way to say this?
Stop being so isolated from nature.
As you get closer to nature, it will speak to you.
I don't mean literally, but you will gain information from it.
It will talk to you.
And as I've said before...
I've said I don't know how people can't believe in God because to me it seems impossible to walk through nature and not see God everywhere.
In a flower, in a blade of grass, in a leaf, a sprout, a bark, even in microbes in the soil.
I mean, it's all living and it's all medicine.
When you are able to walk through a forest and see that there is nothing that isn't medicine, And there is nothing that isn't an expression of the mind of God.
Maybe then you will understand what it means to listen to nature so that you can embrace its healing.
Because everything, everything from nature is medicine.
In one way or another, at a different dose or another, everything.
And this is a fundamental truth that traditional Chinese medicine understands and Aborigine medicine in Australia and Himalayan medicine and Amazonian medicine in South America and so on and so on and so on.
Native American medicine in Native people's cultures.
Everything can be medicine, but Western medicine has forgotten that.
Western medicine says that nothing can be medicine except for their poisons.
That's what vaccines are.
That's what pharmaceuticals are.
It's all poison.
And as we know now, it's designed to kill you.
So we are at the pivot point in human history where it's kind of like, learn or die.
Listen to nature or die.
Make a choice.
You can choose to live in harmony with the natural miracles of nature.
You can choose to die as a guinea pig for the vaccine companies.
Make a choice.
But don't think that I'm the one who makes the choice for you or that I'm the one who tells you how to do this or what to do.
I'm just sharing knowledge that, frankly, has already been learned and forgotten a thousand times over.
This is nothing new, folks.
Human beings have been doing this for tens of thousands of years.
Everything that I just described, except without the espresso machine.
Just doing it with fire and hot water, making tea, smoking things, eating things, whatever.
They've been doing this for tens of thousands of years.
So this is just...
This is just ancient knowledge coming back now in this time, this dire time of need for humanity because we're on the verge of facing extinction if we don't remember who we are and where we came from.
That's the essence of this.
We must remember who we are and we are beings of this earth.
We are compatible with this earth, and this earth embraces us with natural medicine if we are only wise enough to recognize it.
If we reject it, we will perish.
So thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams, The Health Ranger, naturalnews.com.
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