I'm sick and i was wondering if it is okay to use Pine needles off a Pine tree to make a tea, i have a Pine in my back yard, i think it is a blue spruce or a wintergreen but i have no clue, it is very tall.

Anyway, i read in a book that a man was stranded in a forest of New York and he would brew tea from pine needles because they contained vitamin C and some other vitamins and things like that. so I'm wondering if it is okay!?