Peppermint is perhaps one of the most popular mint varieties. It is used in the form of tea, decoction, infusion, and also in fresh form.
For most people, "peppermint" is primarily associated with freshness or pleasant chill, but we forget in vain that the beneficial properties of peppermint are used both in folk medicine and simply in everyday life.
Peppermint improves the activity of the brain, eliminates the "spleen". Used mint for the most part in the form of broths and infusions.
It is worth mentioning separately that "mint" in chewing gum is far from the natural plant product. There is nothing better than natural peppermint. Natural mint contains a number of useful substances: ascorbic acid (vitamin C), essential oil, carotene, tannins.
Where to get this medicinal plant? For example, you can plant mint in a pot as a home decorative plant. To enjoy mint tea, it will be enough for you to pick up from the plant no more than two or three leaves. Mint can be planted in the country - this is one of the unpretentious, does not require special care plants. Finally, you can simply buy peppermint in a pharmacy and use it instead of tea or mix it with tea. And for lazy, there is an option even easier - to buy ready-made sachets with mint.
The healing properties of peppermint
- Mint is used in the treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. It perfectly anesthetizes, relieves inflammation, is a cholagogue. The cooking process is extremely simple: 2 tablespoons of fresh or dry mint pour 500 ml of boiling water and let it brew. The resulting broth or mint tea take one third of the glass three to four times a day. You can add a little honey to the broth. This tool will help not only with problems with the digestive system, but also with pain in the liver.
- Peppermint can be used as a plant remedy to reduce heat.
- Doctors recommend tea with mint during depressive states, sleep disorders, as well as with rapid heartbeat.
- Peppermint is an effective remedy for the prevention of cataracts.
- Mint is also used as an anesthetic for insect bites, as well as for rheumatism as a mint compress on the joint.
- In the treatment of burns is very effective means of olive or sea buckthorn oil with mint.
- The inhalation of mint vapors avoids motion sickness in cars and air transport (that's why mint candies are recommended to have with you when flying in an airplane).
Useful properties of peppermint oil
Essential oil of peppermint contains menthol - it is a local anesthetic. In addition, the oil has a diaphoretic and disinfecting effect, helps relieve tension, increases human immunity and resistance to harmful effects. 2-3 drops of essential oil are added to a teaspoon of honey, and then mixed with tea. For topical application, 5 drops of oil are dissolved in 10-15 ml of vegetable oil. This remedy for catarrhal diseases rubs the thorax.
Contraindications
Peppermint, as a medicinal plant, has no contraindications. But do not forget that all the same, mint tea for children under 3 years is contraindicated. In addition, mint is called a female plant and some believe that mint can lower the male libido.
The beneficial effect of peppermint on female hormones is noted.
The useful properties of peppermint and in the treatment of hirsutism, i.e., pathological hair loss, were noted.
Thus, mint, the useful properties of which we have considered, can benefit many, and in many ways.