Peppermint

Peppermint

Peppermint: Description. Perennial herb with square fuzzy or bare stem. The leaves are opposite, ovate oblong, toothed, hairy. The flowers are small, bilabiate, white and pink, clustered in globose whorls in the axils of upper leaves. Calyx campanulate with five prongs. Stamens four, a pestle. Fruit-four round nut. Plant height 40-100 cm
Flowering time. June-August.
Habitat. Plantations. Medicinal plants in their gardens (near-mint wild species growing in moist meadows near rivers, lakes, ponds, wet forests).
The applied part. Leaves.
Collection time. June-August, during flowering.
Peppermint: chemical composition. Peppermint contains an essential oil (menthol, menthone, mentofuran), bitterness, carotene, flavonoids, tannins, organic acids (ursolic, oleanovaya, acetic, melisovaya), trace elements (copper, manganese, strontium).
Peppermint: Action. Calm, choleretic, antiseptic, antispasmodic, analgesic, astringent diaphoretic, anti-zhelchetvornoe, diuretic. Reduces rot and ferment in the intestine, enhances the secretion of digestive glands, improves appetite, increases coronary blood vessels, regulates the digestive tract, disinfects the internal organs, stimulates the heart's activity, increases heart rate.
Peppermint: Apply. Constipation, diarrhea, heartburn, flatulence, vomiting, nausea, pain in the stomach and intestine, cholera, dysentery, gastritis with high acidity, enterocolitis, nervous excitation, hysteria, hypertension, atherosclerosis, migraine, severe headache, spasms of cerebral vessels, insomnia, convulsions, neuralgia, angina, arthritis, rheumatism, liver, gallbladder, gallstones, bronchitis, tracheitis, bronchiectasis, erysipelas, dental pain, kidney disease. In the itching and inflammation of the skin - externally.
The method of application.
1. 1 tablespoon mint leaves to 1 cup of boiling water, 1 hour in a warm place. Drink 1 / 2 cup a day for 30 minutes. before eating. Powder on the tip of a knife. Drink 2 times daily with water.
2. Fresh mint leaves to make a flask - for headaches.
3. Strong water infusion of mint is used for cramps, rheumatic, prtricheskih pain, inflammation and itching of the skin as a wash, lotions, compresses.
Contraindications. If hypotension (low blood pressure).