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Peppermint is a plant with a unique fragrance full of poetic colors. To say that it is poetic means that mint is a plant full of hope, although it is a bland flower, but its taste is refreshing, refreshing from every pore into the skin, every cell in the body is transparent, it is a feeling of happiness.
The flower language of mint is "I want to meet you again", and there is also a good virtue.
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Introduction to Peppermint
Peppermint, also known as "silver dancao", is a plant of the family "Peppermint", that is, other dry whole grasses of the same genus, mostly growing in the mountains and wetlands next to the river, rhizomes grow underground. The whole plant is green and fragrant. The leaves are opposite, the flowers are small lilac, lip-shaped, and the flowers are dark purple-brown with small fruit.
Peppermint is one of the world's three major spices and is also a common medicinal and food-use herb. The main edible parts are the stems and leaves, and can also be taken by juice. In terms of consumption, mint can be used as a flavoring agent, and can also be mixed with wine, tea and so on.
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nutritive value
Peppermint contains volatile oils, including menthol, menthol, limonene and other ingredients, these ingredients can cool and dry, but also promote capillary dilation, conducive to sweating, can play a refreshing, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect. These volatile essential oils also promote appetite.
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Efficacy of peppermint
Peppermint flavor spicy, cool, into the lungs, liver meridians, has the effect of evacuating wind and heat, clearing the leader, diphtheria, thinning the liver and so on.
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Peppermint, xin can be divergent, cool can be clear, specialized in the breeze to dissipate heat." Therefore, headache, head wind, eyes, throat, mouth and teeth diseases, children's fever fistula, scabies are the medicine. ”
1. Evacuation of wind and heat
Peppermint is a medicine that is very effective in treating wind fever and colds.
The main manifestations of wind fever and cold are fever, mild cold, no sweat or poor sweating, headache, thirst and sore throat, pulse float and so on.
In addition, if you suffer from wind fever and cold, you may also have dry and itchy eyes and red eyes, and your throat is also itchy. At this time, you can drink a glass of mint water. Peppermint is cool and can disperse the surface evil, clear the surface heat, and have a certain sweating effect, so it is especially suitable for those who have no sweat or sweating in the wind and heat table.
2. Qingli leader, sharp throat
Peppermint gently rises and floats, is good at evacuating scorched wind and heat, and can clear the head and throat.
Therefore, for the headache, dizziness, sore throat caused by the evil attack of wind and heat, peppermint has a good effect.
In addition, if you are listless and sleepy because the weather is too hot, you can apply some cool oil to the temples, and the peppermint oil and menthol brain will make you feel energetic after a while.
3. Diaphragm and antipruritic
Peppermint is not transparent to the measles caused by the wind and heat beam table, can go out through the rash, although measles is now relatively rare, but peppermint can also dispel wind and relieve itching, so it can be used for skin itching.
The "Medicinal Properties" says: "Mint leaves should be clean and swollen." "Especially for the itch on the body, a scratch will come out, directly with a mint leaf mashed and wiped on the affected area can stop the itch, or even without cooking."
4. Thin the liver and qi
The main liver is drained, and the sexual cord is comfortable. If the liver is lost and leaked due to illness or infestation due to illness and evil, it will present a sign of liver qi depression.
Clinical common such as chest swelling pain, emotional depression, good sighing, or see pharyngeal foreign body sensation, women will also have menstrual irregularities, dysmenorrhea and other symptoms.
Peppermint enters the liver meridian, and can also thin the liver, so it can be used for hepatic depression qi stagnation. You know, the famous formula for treating liver depression and stagnation is compatible with mint.
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How to eat mint
Mint porridge
30 grams of fresh mint or 15 grams of dried product, 1 liter of water, fry over medium heat to about 0.5 liters, cool and remove the mint juice. Cook the porridge with 150 grams of stalk rice, and when the porridge is ready, add the mint soup and a little rock sugar and bring to a boil.
Benefits: Fresh and pleasant, wind and heat dissipation, increase appetite, help digestion.
Fresh mint crucian carp soup
1 live crucian carp, cut and washed, cooked in water, add 1 white shallot, 1 slice of ginger, 20 grams of fresh mint, boiling water can be put in condiments and oil and salt, soup meat to eat together. Eat once a day for 3 to 5 days.
Efficacy: Can treat children's cough for a long time.
Mint black tea
1 g of mint leaves, 3 g of black tea, pour into a porcelain cup, pour in boiling spring water or purified water, add rock sugar or honey, cover and simmer for a while, strain into another glass with tea leaks, and drink.
Efficacy: Suitable for summer heat is intolerable, tired and sleepy, appetite is not open to drink.
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Contraindicated
1. Postpartum women, if feeding the baby with breast milk, do not eat mint, because this will cause "de-milking" situation.
2, mint taste is cold, can not be served for a long time.
3. Peppermint sweats and consumes gas, so those who are yin deficiency and sweat should not be taken.