ColorChallenge - Thursday Green : Amazing Health Benefits Of Pine Needles | Pine Needle Tea

Did you ever wonder about that pine needle tree in your yard like I have? Have you ever walked by a pine needle tree and smelled that fragrant aroma and wondered how good it smelled? Well as for me, I was little bit too curious on what it was and I had to do some digging on my own. Doing my research on Pine Needles, I found out some of the most interesting health benefits of pine needles that include its amazing ability to boost up the immune system, improve the vision health, stimulate body circulation, protect us against pathogens, and improve our respiratory health as well.

I was shocked to see how many health benefits that this pine tree has to offer and how we go about our daily lives not having a single clue that some of our health problems can be cured with something that has been in front of us this whole entire time. Nature is really our best choice for medicine.

The pine needles, cones, bark, and resin all hold restorative qualities to our bodies, and in addition the pine's basic oil can be extracted as well. I also dug into some information about how the deepest bark can be dried and eaten, and is esteemed for its high nutrient substances, while pine needles can be prepared into a mainstream tea that has various advantageous qualities.

What are these advantageous qualities that are in pine needles? Well to my discovery, pine needles contain vitamin C, which is a fundamental component of our immune system, as it fortifies the creation of white blood cells and has antioxidant qualities that help prevent chronic illness and disease. Besides, vitamin C is a vital part of collagen, which is important to make new cells, muscles, tissues, and veins. Regardless of whether you eat the dried bark peels of pine trees or blend a tea from the pine needles, you will have the capacity to get to a lot of vitamin C from pine needles!

Wow, so you mean to tell me that there's vitamin c in pine needles, pine cones, pine bark, and pine resin? But wait, there's more...

I also found out that there are high levels of vitamin A & various amounts of carotenoids found in the pine needle tea and bark. If you don't know what carotenoids are, carotenoids act as antioxidants in our body, especially for ours eyes, preventing development of cataracts in our eyes, increasing our vision strength, and slowing the onset of macular degeneration in our bodies. By reducing our oxidative stress in our ocular system, this pine needle tea can keep your vision strong well into your oldest age.

Vitamin A does a lot more than help our vision though, it also prevents oxidative stress on our skin, helping to keep our skin looking young and wrinkle free by eliminating those free radicals in our system. Other amazing benefits of pine needles include the ability to boost our circulatory system and increase our red blood cells, resulting in increasing oxygenation to our body’s organ systems.

Don't I sound like I know all about pine needles? But in actual reality, everyone has the capacity to learn the same information that was sparked up from my curiousity about pine needles, it's all there for us to learn. Be careful though about picking pine needles because there are varieties out there that are toxic so you would have to do some more due dillignece on which pine needles you can pick and use to make your tea. Furthermore, there is a lot of information out there that you can learn about pine needles. I just touched on just a small amount of info that I found on my own because I didn't even mention on how pine needles can also help out our respiratory health as well.

In conclusion, to make your own particular pine needle tea, first wash your needles that you have picked (non-toxic). At that point remove the ends and roll the needles in your hands to discharge the oil. At that point put the needles in some high temp water and soak for 15 minutes. Strain and enjoy your pine needle tea. It's really that simple to get the amazing health benefits of pine needle tea!