Scientific Name mentha x verticillata - mentha x piperita MINT
Castilian: Mint
English: Peppermint.
Recommended in: Slow digestions. Inflammations of the liver and vesicle. Intestinal gases. Mareos. Stimulating and simultaneously sedative.
For burns: the infusion mixed with olive oil, in compresas.
This species is used from very old times and its use for almost all the country is reported. Mainly it is used for digestive disorders like acidity and stomach, diarrea pain, bile, gastritis, constipation and intestinal infection; in its treatment a cofoundation of buds is prepared to tier to us mixed with other plants like manzanilla, grenade, guayaba, tamarind, estafiate, files, tejocote and other species; this infusion is recommended to take like tea in uninformed, one or twice to the day. Another use of the cofoundation of the branches is for obtaining good digestion and alleviating upset stomach in children. The Mint, also, is used to expel parasitic intestinal, by means of a ingested infusion or the buds in baking sweetened with honey and mixed with epazote and estafiate, taking itself during one week.
Herbaceous that gets to measure up to 60 cm of height and has the square stem. Their leaves are very aromatic when squeezing themselves and have extended form. The flowers are born of ears in the highest end and go of the white color to the purple. She is original of Europe, Africa and Asia. In Mexico it lives in climates warm, semiwarm, dry, cold tempering and. It grows cultivated in houses room and she is associate to different types from insane vegetation.
15 species of mint exist, difficult to distinguish of the others; in addition, they are crossed among them hybrid forming who, sometimes, adapt better to the atmosphere than their ancestors: it is the case of Mentha arvensis, the only own mint of the American continent.
The mint is a hybrid of two species, the green mint and the aquatic one, that were described and praised by its medicinal properties in the century xll;
When we spoke of mint or we bought it in a herbolario, we talked about the pzperita Mentha, which is a hybrid that obtained in the century xvll when crossing the aquatic mint (aquatica M.) the green mint (M. viridis). Was a grass much more rich in active principles and so easy to cultivate as its ancestors. What we know as "good grass" is another species of mint, the sativa M., also called "sándalo". All the mints have, practically, identical medicinal properties and can, therefore, be used in the same way.
CHARACTERISTICS: The first description of the mint (piperita M.) dates from the century xll, and it is located in England, where the hybrid had to be discovered or to cause itself. From him, by means of esquejes (directly planting in the ground a small branch), one extended by all the country and one exported Europe and America, where it is cultivated for his uses farmacológico and culinario. Vivaz is a plant, of green, graft stem, of not more than half meter of height. The leaves, made oval, finished in puma, with the sawed edges, are had two in two, one as opposed to the other, throughout the stem, forming naked from which the ramifications of the stem and the inflorescencias arise (groupings of flowers). The inflorescencias I know develop to the end of the stems and its ramifications, forming a long pink cone of florcillas. The plant gives off a delicate very characteristic aroma.
LOCATION: To the being a hybrid obtained by the man does not exist in natural state in any of the globe, although yes is as result of left cultures or lost or rejected plants that has taken root. It requires fresh grounds and humid places; one reproduces with extreme facility.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: Leaves and (flowers have variable essence in amounts, because according to the place in where it is cultivated, the altitude of the land, the humidity insolation, the quality of the ground or the installments it can vary Ia production. The mint is made up basically of mentol and substances of smaller importance. The industry cultivates the mint for the extraction (by distillation) of mentol.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: It is used like tranquilizer, tonic, she is stimulating stomach, stomach and carminativa (to eliminate intestinal gases). In Greece and 13 stimulating afrodisíacas properties of the sexual appetite were attributed to him).
HARVESTING: The flowery sumidades or, simply, the leaves are used. These can be cut at any time if they are going away to use fresh (in the kitchen). If the mint is going to keep, must cut the small branches when the plant is on the verge of blooming, then leaves and flowers are dried scattered in the shade and they keep in hermetic containers, in dry and dark atmosphere.
USES And APPLICATIONS: The mints were known in old Greece by their medicinal properties. Although the Chinese, by their side, used mint like tranquilizers. The most current form to administer it is in infusion (about 10 gr. by cup). from that one takes three cups to the day after the meals
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