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PEPPERMINT
(Mentha piperita)
Lamb mint, brandy mint

Description: A perennial hybrid,with menthol or distinct peppermint aroma. Erect, square, branching stems, tinged with reddish-purple, coming from connected underground roots. Opposite, dark green, ovate to lanceolate, serrate leaves, smooth with few hairs. Flowers pale violet in loose, interrupted terminal spikes. Mostly cultivated, found wild in moist cool, damp streams in the lower altitudes, except California.

Edible, Medicinal: Has many culinary uses. Anodyne, carminative, refrigerant, tonic. Preparations from leaves, taken for colds, coughs, fevers, nausea, cramps, indigestion, gas, stomachaches, headaches, nervous tension, insomnia, heartburn. It anesthetizes the nerves in the intestinal tract where Catnip and Angelica have a low-level drug antispasmodic effect. Steep 2-3 tsp. leaves in 1 cup water. Take 1 1/2-2 cups a day. After 12 days wait a week before resuming. Repels mice and rats.

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