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May 28, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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MAKE YOUR OWN PLAGUE CURE: DIY pine needle tea video from Mike Adams...
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Alright, welcome to today's do-it-yourself science video involving pine needles.
I'm Mike Adams, the health ranger of brighttown.com.
Thank you for joining me today.
And over the Memorial Day weekend, I went out and harvested a lot of loblolly pine needles.
They're known as the lost pines in Central Texas.
And this is actually just one that I cut yesterday.
That's why it's still nice and green.
And as we've seen under the microscope, these pine needles have some really amazing, But those white dots represent certain types of crystalline structures.
And taken as a whole, this is very rich in shikimic acid.
Now shikimic acid is the molecule.
That is recognized even by the FDA in the form of a prescription drug as an antiviral medicine.
So there's a drug called Tamiflu.
You've probably heard of it.
A lot of talk about that molecule during COVID.
And Tamiflu is made from pine needles.
That's all they do is they take pine needles and then they extract the shikimic acid, which is what we're going to do here, and then they make a drug out of it.
Well, you can make it yourself.
Native Americans did.
And I do all the time.
I make pine needle tea out of this.
And that's what we're going to do here today is show you how to make this tea very cheaply, very easily.
And then we're going to just drink some right here and enjoy it because it's quite delicious.
Now, in order to do this, we're going to use an ultrasonic cleaner.
So can you show the side camera there?
Yeah.
You see that stainless steel cube with digits on the front?
That's an ultrasonic cleaner.
And I bought that online.
It's like 50 bucks or something.
It's not even very expensive.
Now, it's got an ultrasonic condenser, I guess, inside that emits these high-frequency waves.
And what that does is it speeds up the solvent extraction from the pine needles.
Now, for solvents, we're only going to use two things.
Water and some alcohol.
In this case, a little bit of vodka.
I think it's called Nikolai Vodka.
So there we go.
It's like the cheapest vodka I could find.
Or you could use great alcohol or any other, you know, consumable alcohol.
Now typically, for the water, again, you would use distilled water or rainwater.
Something that's very, very clean.
I'm just using bottled water, which is actually bottled rainwater here.
You could also just use deionized water as well.
But distilled water is the easiest thing to get.
Typically, you would mix it 50-50.
Half water, half alcohol.
I'm going to do a very different ratio today because I don't want to drink much alcohol.
So I'm going to use like 90% water and 10% alcohol.
But you'll get a better extraction if you actually go 50-50.
And if you don't want the alcohol, you can also evaporate some of that off after you're done with it.
So the first thing I'm going to do is just cut this into smaller pieces.
Get those pieces inside the ultrasonic cleaner.
I won't have my microphone there, but I'm just going to show you what I'm doing as we cut this up.
Let me save a couple pieces for the microscope.
We'll use these for the microscope shortly to show you what's going on there.
Then I'm going to cut these up and put them into the water.
You want to avoid the The branches.
You don't need to do an extraction on the branches.
Just try to get the pine needles themselves because that's where the chicemic acid is found.
So that's what I'll do next.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay, so that's running right now, blasting out high-frequency sounds, which I can hear, so it's a little bit annoying.
We're going to leave, I'm going to leave that going, and then we'll be back to get the resulting tea.
I've only put this on like seven or eight minutes, won't take long, and then we're going to have some pine needle tea.
All right, while the pine needle tea is being extracted with the ultrasonic cleaner, we're going to take a closer look at pine needles under our microscope.
So if you go to the microscope screen here, this is a triple pine needle with a common stem.
And you can already start to see there's some interesting sort of white lines or dotted lines that are showing up.
We're going to zoom in and get a much closer look at those right here.
So now we're starting to see the details here.
Now these crystalline structures actually contain Medicine.
So let's zoom in even more.
We'll go to 200x on these.
And there we'll be able to really start to get a look and you'll be able to see the crystalline structure of these.
Turn down the light a little bit.
See that?
You can see they're like little crystals.
And this might be where the shikemic acid is found.
These could be shikemic acid crystals.
I'm not sure, but that would make sense.
Let me get a real good image here.
So pine needles have medicine, then, that's actually built in.
But wherever you go along here, you see these same crystalline structures.
Built by Mother Nature, and most people just walk right past it.
Let's zoom in to 1000x and get a closer look at these structures.
Marvel at the miracle of Mother Nature.
How about let's go 2000?
There's a really good image of that crystal.
And of course, we can go to a 3D display on this, try to get some depth information here.
It shows us a little bit of the texture.
So it's built right in.
It doesn't really stand out much.
It's not like a bump, per se.
But it's a crystalline structure that's built into the actual needle itself.
So inside each one of these is a structure that is now being extracted with the water and alcohol and the ultrasonic method.
Oh, and by the way, here's a scale if you want to see how many micrometers we're looking at are microns.
So a total depth of about 18 microns.
Yeah, pretty interesting stuff.
Now let's get a little bit of a bigger point of view on this, and let's look at the structure of the needle as a whole.
Yeah, this is what I want to show you here.
And this gives you an idea of the diameter of each of those needles, although it's still only imaging the surface.
It can show you essentially the height of one of those needles.
Here it is.
735 microns off the stage.
So there you go.
Very useful information.
Alright, next we're going to strain out the finished extract and we're going to drink some pine needle tea and take in some of this incredible, powerful medicine that Mother Nature makes for us for free.
Yes, it's medicine that can help end plagues.
You don't need to wait for the government to give you permission to be healthy.
You can make yourself healthy again by taking advantage of natural medicine that Mother Nature just puts all over the planet free of charge.
So, we'll do that next.
Alright, now that we've done the extraction, we're going to pour it through a nut milk bag, which is a filtration bag, and we're just going to get out the tea.
Now, I haven't done this for enough minutes.
Typically, I would want to do this maybe 45 minutes.
I haven't done it that long.
So it may not be as nutrient-rich as it would normally be, but it's something, and I want to show you how to do this, so take a look.
Here's the next step.
Here's the next step.
Alright, so what we have here, folks, is a giant collection here of pine needle tea.
And we'll know by the taste if we subjected it to enough extraction.
Oh, that's so delicious.
It's got a natural sweetness to it.
It's definitely on the lighter side right now.
I would want this to be two or three times as strong.
I'd probably want to run it, like I said, 45 minutes.
I can taste the nutrients in here right now.
It's really amazing.
In fact, I'm just going to leave this here and sip on this for the rest of my studio day here.
I've got a guest coming.
He might want some as well.
He's used to wild foods as well.
So that's how you do it, folks, okay?
So you just made, or we just made together, all kinds of natural medicine from Pine needles.
Now, if you go out and you collect pine needles, be sure you understand what species you're collecting from.
I'm not saying to collect from spruce trees or fir trees or, you know, cedar trees.
I'm saying pine, and in this case, this is called loblolly pine, and those are called the lost pines in central Texas.
But pine trees grow over a significant portion of North America.
And, of course, other continents as well.
So just make sure you understand what species that you have.
And if you don't know, do your own research.
And it's also a good idea to grow these as well.
I grow pine trees because that way I know I have natural medicine I can harvest at any time.
And just be safe about it.
And try a little bit at first.
If you've never done this before, only try a small amount.
Make sure you're okay with it.
Sit with it for a few minutes and make sure that your body loves it.
My body loves it, that's for sure.
I could drink this all day.
This is just the best tea.
It's better than black tea or Lipton tea or any other kind of tea as far as I'm concerned.
And I can make it for free all day long.
So that's how you make pine needle tea.
That's how you make your own natural medicine.
So I hope you enjoyed that video and note that...
So we are wild harvesting pine needles.
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And there aren't many of them.
Sometimes they're only offered on special gifts during sale events, things like that.
But we don't use overseas pine needles.
We harvest these from Central Texas.
They're all loblolly pine with confirmed very high concentrations of chicemic acid.
So if you enjoy natural medicine, then thank you for supporting us.
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This is actually over here.
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