Peppermint

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History
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Peppermint (Mentha piperita) is a self fast spreading lake person whose birthday it is hardy plant. Peppermint blossoms t/m September from July with small violet flowers. The leaves its mint green and stand crosswise opposite each other on the stem. The leaves are elongated, oval and have saw tooth shape and a striking menthol smell.

The seed of mint is dark brown approximately spherical and small.
The plants is a crossing of water mint (Mentha aquatica) and green mint (Mentha spicata) and knows many varieties (20 until 35 different kinds of peppermints). The dark purple variant is the most suitable for medical applications. The many mint kinds have approximately the same properties although the taste sleepiness differs strengthen. Mentha arvensis becomes used in China and North-America many. Mint kinds become used especially in the kitchen and for refreshing teas.

Place.
The plant grows best in partial shadow or in the full sun.
Ground.
Mint grows the best on damp, good drained, alkaline ground with many nutrients.
Increase.
Take root or stem slip or divide mint, in for or fall. Of the Summery the root cutting in water set. Sow peppermint in the spring.
Cultures.
Thin out or end replant in 30 cm distance, in large pots or plastic bags to limit from the roots. All blossoming stems cross pollination remove to prevent between the different kinds. Mint can be cultivated also indoors.

According to an old Greek gods story is the peppermint plant arise through a quarrel between two women.
Hades, the Greek god of the underworld, became in love with a beautiful girl that Mentha was named. Because of this the woman of Hades made violent quarrel with Mentha. Hades tried to soothe the quarrel, but this succeeded not. When he had decided to change the girl Mentha in a beautiful plan, that the name got of the girl.

Mint has been valued in the history very and appeared the dear of it under others from references in the bible, in which the Pharisees tens collected by mint, dill and cumin. The Jews laid it on the synagogue floor and this use became centuries later on in Italian churches taken over, where the herbs Erba Santa Maria are called.
Mint as a symbol of hospitality becomes by the Roman closer Ovidius described. He tells rubbed over two farmers, Baucis and Philemon, that their tray with mint before she the guests clerks.
The Romans brought also their these and sauces with mint on taste. When however women, that wines were threatened drunk with the death, surreptitious wine drinkers camouflaged their breath through on a mixture of mint and honey to jackdaws. In Japan became the refreshing, beneficial smell of mint so high praised that the Japanese smell ball with mint leaf carried.
Many mint kinds were imported in the ninth century in Europe. A monk from that time wrote that there so many kinds were that he yet rather the sparks from the fire hearth of the Vulcanus would want to count. With more than six hundred kinds and bastard form, can one a good plant better with the nose then descending on the name choose.
According to Bird, the wild mint became descend used through the Missouri-Valley to lower as a flatulence means and through other tribes fever.

Use the herb in bouquets for ill persons.

Culture Peppermint (or fall mint) straight with steeds leaf people to fight.
Scatter fresh or dried leaf to hold around food of mice away. Impute (fall mint) on a new beehive by to pull. Use bath oil tobaccos smell to drive away.
Scatter ( Pennyroyal ) in cupboards and beds fret and to drive away delouse.

Use a strengthen to cure decoction (fall mint) gaps in hands. Add at bath water for a revitalising and refreshing bath.

As a medical herb, one used the leaves and the ethereal oil.

Working and character.
Cramp defence, against Flatulence, water retention, menstruation cheerful.
Externally cooling and antiseptic.

External.
- As a compress by "warm" headache and neuralgia.
- As a rinse by hot and itching skin illnesses. The tea gives evaporates cooling when he.

Internal.
- By cramps and colic, intestine problems.
- By indigestion.
- By trip illness, nastiness and pain by gall bladder problems.
- By headache through indigestion.
- Insomnia, with name when worsened through tension in the stomach and restlessness.
- By ailment pain and postponed menstruation.
- Use as a tea and inhale by infections of nose and sinus.
- As a mouth water for a fresh breath.

Quantity.
Drink the tea to wish, can lead already large doses till exuberant excitement.
Join by digestions problems closed at other herb teas for instance by Spirea (Filipendula ulmaria) and grease root. Take to promote after heavy meals the digestion.
Use by an itching skin the tea as a rinse or single drop esthetical join oil closed at lotions and creams.
Breath by agree (often in combination with eucalyptus oil) the steam of the tea, or join single drops ethereal oil closed on warm water.

The oil is obtained by water vapour distillation of the leaves and bloom top. It is a colour lynx becomes ages till light yellow oil, that thicker than he.
Peppermint can become used hooked by o. a. ring worm, scabies, dermatitis, nerve pain, heart palpitations, stomach disorders, cold, fever, spastic cough, asthma, faint traps, vertigo, mucous membrane inflammation, winter feet, flaw at appetite, bowels complaints, tiredness, tooth and toothache, nastiness, diarrhoea, trip illness, sinusitis, bad breath, shock, acne, stuffed pores, headache and migraine.

Here single applications of the ethereal oil of Peppermint follow.

By a bad breath
1 drops Peppermint on a toothbrush do and clean 2 time per day. Or 5 drops Peppermint hydrolate in a glass water and drink this on.

By headache or migraine
Lubricate 2 drops Peppermint on the temples.

By mosquitoes inconvenience
For the sleeping 2 until 3 drops Peppermint on the cushion sprinkle.

By tooth and toothache
1 drop Peppermint on the painful tooth/ molar lubricate.

Evaporate
Single drops Peppermint in the car, raised the concentration during it driving.

By asthma
The cramp removing properties of Peppermint makes it till a valuable damp bath by asthma. Mix 6 drops Peppermint in a scale hot water and steam here daily 10 minutes with.


An example of available ethereal oil, is the peppermint oil of the brand Chi.

Ethereal oil (among other menthol ), tan-bark matter, bitters matter, Carotenes, Choline, Flavonoids (among others: menthoside and rutine) and Rosemary acid.

(Variable according to the different clone)

Monoterpenoids
alpha-pinene 2%, beta-pinene 4%, limonene 3%

Sesquiterpenoids
beta-caryophyllene, bicyclo-elemene, z-bulgarene

Not terpenic alcohols
octane-3-ol

Monoterpenols
menthol 50%, neo-menthol 3%, isomenthol, neo-isomenthol, (+) and (-)piperitols, piperitenol, isopiperitenol

Monoterpenons
(-)-menthon (20-30% and sometimes until 65%), (+)-iso menthon, neomenthon (2,7%), neo iso-neomenthon 2,5%, (+)-piperiton, (-)-piperiton, isopiperiton, pulegon (<3%)

Terpenic acids
1,8-cineol 5,75%, (-)-menthofuran (<3%), piperitonoxide

Terpenic esters
menthyl-acetate 2,8-10%, neomenthyl-acetate, isomenthyl-acetate, butyrate-acetate, menthyl isovalerate acetate

Coumarins
aesculetine

Sulphur containing matters
dimethyl sulfide, mintsulfide

Use no mint during the pregnancy (unless processes in courts) and avoided it during the breast-feeding. Babies can get there digestions problems through and can slow down it the milk production. Give also no peppermint at children under the 12 year, in the form of infusion or as ethereal oil. Use in this cases Catnip (Nepeta cataria) instead of peppermint.
The most ethereal oils cannot be taken in without risk. Use ethereal exclusive internal oil has as you sufficient knowledge or consult a (homeopathic) physician.
Over the general is however the working by external use more strongly than by internal use.

The leaf becomes uses in the kitchen.

With mint is be fresh, sharp taste, separate or in mixtures, good for the digestion.
An extract make of separate or mixed mint kind (and) for a refreshing tea.
Mint is lovely in mint sauces, mint vinegar and mint syrups.
Confute are delicious as a piece of candy or as a decoration.
Join the fresh leaves closed at new potatoes, dip sauce with garlic and pot cheese, peas, fruit salads and drinks. Join mint also closed at chocolate cake, desserts and at cake with raisins or forest berries.
Mint fit best by lamb.
Use mint thriftily in soups and stuffing.

Ingredients.
- 250 g side magnifying glass or eye melon
- 250 g sturdy tomatoes, in parts cut
- 175 g cucumber, peeled and grated
- 1.25 dl minced mint
- 2.5 dl yogurt
- salty and black pepper

Preparations manner.
- Divide the melon meat with an knife in balls or cut the flesh in blocks.
- Mix the melon in a salad basket with the tomato and the cucumber.
- Rudder the mint through the yoghurt and serve the sauce over the salad.
- Add salt and pepper to taste closed and garnish the salad with mint leaves.

Ingredients.
- 2 dl mint leaf (by preference peppermint)
- 50 g soft white sugar.
- 75 g bitter chocolate
- 2 eggs, split up
- 2.5 dl whipped cream

Preparations manner.
- The mint leaf Mix with 25 g of the sugar and hack the completely so fine possible.
- Place a bowl in a pan boiling water and melts in this 50 g of the chocolate. Take after the chocolate has been melted the bowl from the pan.
- Knock the egg yolks through the melted chocolate till it a fumy whole arises.
- Salad the whipped cream in a bowl stiffen and create there the minced mint through.
- Spate the whipped cream mixture through the cooled down chocolate mixture.
- The mixture Freeze in a freezer box with a content of 1 litter.
- The mixture want to have formed through when self at the edge of the box ice crystals.
- It Place back in the freezer and knock the ice of every 45 minutes through till it sturdily enough is.
- Knock the proteins stiff and mix they with the rest of the sugar.
- Spatula the protein carefully through the ice.
- The rest of the chocolate Grate fine and stir him through the ice.
- The ice Place back in the deep freeze and let the complete freeze.
- The ice Serve mint with in melted chocolate baptized leaves (late this on fat free paper stiffen)

There much different variants of the slaughtered Mentha (about 3500) are sore. The many mint kinds have approximately the same qualities, although the taste sleepiness differs strengthen. Here stand there single described.

Cross mint (Mentha crispa)
Height 20 - 80 cm and blossoms from July until August with dark lilac flowers. Stem mostly bald, often red come towards. Leaf elongated and egg round and sow tooth till waned.

Fall mint (Mentha silvestis)
Resembles Mentha crispa, curly leave like mint kind.

Green mint (Mentha spicata)
Resembles Mentha crispa, curly leaf mint kind.

Water mint (Mentha aquatica)
It is a fixed plant for a swamp. Height 30 - 70 cm and blossoms from April until June with lilac flowers. The herb smells strengthen less then Mentha piperita.

Creeping mint (Mentha reguienii)
Small, clear green leaf with peppermint smell and whole small flowers. Height 25 mm. This variant forms a good soil coverer.

Pennyroyal ( Mentha pulegium)
Clear green, notwithstanding that peppermint fragrant leaves. Has weak stems that roots shoot when they the ground hit. Height 15 cm.

Apple mint (Mentha suaveolens)
Hairy, notwithstanding that apple smells, clear green leaf. Height 60 cm.

Literature

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