Peppermint - Mint

Nana

A medicinal plant with a characteristic smell and taste. It can be wild and tame. As a tame, it is grown in gardens or fields in the case of larger production for industrial processing. It is used to relieve various ailments, as a spice and for industrial purposes. There are about thirty types of mint, but the most useful and therefore the most commonly used is mild mint (lat. Mentha x piperita). The smell and medicinal properties of mint come from the essential oil, which is most abundant in the leaf.

Mint is used as a medicine for:

• soothing
• insomnia
• against gas, bloating and cramps.
• treatment of bile (as an integral part of a mixture of several medicinal plants)
• reduces tension in lung diseases by relaxing the bronchi.
• for regulating high blood pressure
• for bad breath and gum disease

It is successfully used for various diseases in combination with these medicinal plants: motherwort, cumin, fennel, anise, chamomile...

Mint dissolved in alcohol is used to make different tinctures. as such, it can be used externally against pain from neuralgia, rheumatism, colds...

It is also used in the form of capsules. While boiling, mint tea is poured over with boiling water and must not be boiled, because otherwise all useful substances would evaporate.  It can be used as a spice during the cooking of various savory dishes.

It is also known by the following names: White mint, dimlyus, lamb's mint, hot mint, merka, mint, peppermint, mint, mint, peppermint, peppermint, peppermint, tame mint, peppermint, black mint.

In the appendix are the Latin names of several types of mint:

•     Mentha aquatica
•     Mentha arvensis
•     Mentha asiatica
•     Mentha australis
•     Mentha canadensis
•     Mentha cervina
•     Mentha citrata (syn. M. odorata)
•     Mentha crispata
•     Mentha cunninghamii
•     Mentha dahurica
•     Mentha diemenica
•     Mentha gattefossei
•     Mentha grandiflora
•     Mentha haplocalyx
•     Mentha japonica
•     Mentha kopetdaghensis
•     Mentha laxiflora
•     Mentha longifolia - ?????? ???????
•     Mentha pulegium
•     Mentha requienii
•     Mentha sachalinensis
•     Mentha satureioides
•     Mentha spicata (syn. M. viridis)
•     Mentha suaveolens (syn. M. rotundifolia)
•     Mentha vagans