Medicinal Value of Mint

When it comes to mint, many people generally think of words such as cool, refreshing, and invigorating. In fact, these words are also very appropriate to describe mint. However, relatively few people know about the medicinal value of mint. Mint generally grows in summer. Of course, anyone who has seen mint knows that mint grows on the soil, and most people usually eat mint in the summer. In summer, many people like to drink mint tea.

People use mint to make tea in the summer because of its taste and because mint tea actually has a certain effect of relieving heat. That is why so many people use mint to make tea in the summer. In fact, in addition to making tea, mint has many other ways to be eaten. For example, the mint candy that we often ate when we were children is also made of mint. Next, let’s talk about the medicinal value of mint.

Mint, also known as fish grass, is a perennial herb of the Lamiaceae family. It is a wild vegetable that can be used as both medicine and food in lowlands, roadsides, riverbanks, lakesides and gardens. The whole plant of mint can be used as medicine or as food.

The medicinal value of mint: dispel wind-heat, clear the throat, relieve rashes and itching, and reduce inflammation and relieve pain. It is mainly used to treat wind-heat symptoms on the surface, headache and dizziness, red and swollen eyes, sore throat and hoarseness, sinusitis, toothache, measles that does not break out, hidden rash and itching, liver depression, flank pain and abdominal distension, scrofula and tuberculosis, etc.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" believes that mint is spicy, cool in nature and non-toxic. Cooking and eating raw or cooked food for a long time can remove evil toxins, eliminate fatigue, relieve sleepiness, and make people have fragrant and clean breath. It can also treat excessive phlegm and various colds. In addition, the decoction can be used for washing to treat knee sores, the juice can be squeezed and taken to remove wind-heat and oral diseases, the juice can be mashed and taken orally to remove the bitterness of the tongue coating; the leaves can be used to plug the nose to stop bleeding; it can also treat bee stings and snake bites.

In addition, mint also has beauty benefits. Mint tea can be used to wash your hair, which can eliminate dandruff and make your hair refreshed. After shampooing, there will be a natural fragrance to refresh you. Applying mint juice externally can make your skin smoother. In addition, brushing your teeth with dried mint leaves for a long time can make your teeth whiter and your breath fresher.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, mint is spicy, cool in nature, enters the lung and liver meridians, and has a refreshing and ascending fragrance. The above introduces the nutritional value and medicinal effects of mint. I hope it will be helpful to everyone.

Therefore, through reading the above text, we know the medicinal value of mint and another nickname of mint. I believe that many people do not know this nickname. In fact, through understanding, we will find that the medicinal value of mint is specifically reflected in: clearing heat, relieving pain, detoxifying, relieving fatigue and so on. Therefore, you can use mint frequently in your future life.