This product is the stems and leaves of Mentha (Mentha haplocaly Brio.), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Lamiaceae family.

It is produced in both the north and south of my country, especially those produced in Jiangsu. The harvest period varies from place to place. Generally, it can be harvested 2 to 3 times a year and used fresh or dried in the shade and cut into sections for raw use.

[Property]

acrid, cool. act on lung and liver channels.

[Efficacy]

releasing exterior with pungent-cool, clearing and disinhibiting the head and eyes, disinhibiting benifiting the pharynx, promoting eruption, soothing liver and relieving depression.

1. It is used for common cold and warm disease. This product is pungent to disperse, cool to clear away heat, and is a commonly used product for releasing exteriors with pungent-cool. Therefore, it can be used to treat common cold or warm disease at the beginning, the evil aspect is in the defense aspect, headache, fever, and micro-aversion. For those with cold to wind, it is often used with Lonicera, Forsythia, Great Burdock Achene, Schizonepeta, etc., such as Lonicera and Forsythia Powder.
2. For headache red eye, sore throat. This product gently lifts and floats, aroma unblocking the nose, good at dissipating upper energizer wind-heat, clearing the head, disinhibiting benifiting the pharynx throat. Used to treat wind-heat attack and headache red eye. Use with Mulberry Leaf, Chrysanthemum Flower and Chastetree Fruit. For congestion of wind and heat, swelling and pain in the throat, often take Platycodon Root, raw Liquorice Root, Stiff Silkworm, Schizonepeta , Saposhnikovia Root are equivalent.
3. Used for measles, rubella cutaneous pruitus. This product is of light dispersing quality, has the effect of releasing exterior with pungent-cool and promoting eruption. It is used to treat wind and heat, superficial and measles. It is often used with Cicada Slough and Schizonepeta , Great Burdock Achene, Arnebia, etc., such as promoting eruption soup; to treat rubella cutaneous pruitus, it can be used with Sophora, densefruit pittany root-bark and Saposhnikovia Root can be used equally, whichever has the effect of dispelling wind promoting eruption and relieving itching.
4. For liver depression, stagnation, chest tightness, hypochondriac pain. This product also enters the liver meridian and can soothing liver and relieving depression. It is often used with soothing liver products such as Bupleurum, Peony Root, Chinese Angelica etc. and regulating menstruation products, treating liver depression, stagnation, distending pain in the chest and ribs, menstrual irregularities, such as Peripatetic Powder.
5. In addition, this product dispelling filth with aroma can also be used to treat summerheat dampness, filthy turbidity, filthy-attack eruptive disease, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea caused by summer heat. It is often used with Patchouli, Fortune Eupatorium, Hyacinth Bean etc. can be used.

[Documentation]

1. Xinxiu Bencao: "The main treatment is Zefeng disease caused by cold, sweating, and treatment of malignant qi, abdominal distension and fullness pain."
2. " Medication "Xiang": "Clear head wind, remove wind and heat."
3. "Materia medica steed": "Disinhibiting benifiting the pharynx, various diseases of the throat, mouth and teeth, and treat scrofula, scabies, wind and urticaria."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoction, 3~6g; should be decocted later. Its leaves are good for sweating and its stems are good for regulating qi.

[Precaution]

This product is fragrant and pungent, causing sweating and consuming gas, so it should not be used by those who are weak and prone to sweating.

This product mainly contains volatile oil. The main components of the oil are Mentha alcohol as well as Mentha ketones, iso-Mentha ketones, etc. Oral administration of Oil of Wild Mint stimulates the central nervous system, dilates skin capillaries, promotes sweat gland secretion, increases heat dissipation, and plays a diaphoretic and antipyretic effect; Oil of Wild Mint can inhibit the contraction of gastrointestinal smooth muscle and can resist the effects of choline acetate. It has an antispasmodic effect; Oil of Wild Mint can promote the secretion of respiratory glands and has a therapeutic effect on respiratory inflammation; in vitro tests, Mentha decoction has an inhibitory effect on simple vesicle virus, forest virus, and mumps virus, and has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus albus, Streptococcus A, Streptococcus B, catarrhalis, Enteritidis, dysentery bacilli, anthrax bacilli, diphtheria bacilli, disease caused by cold bacilli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, large intestine bacilli, etc. have antibacterial effects ; Oil of Wild Mint is for external use. It can stimulate the cold receptors of nerve endings to produce a cold sensation, and reflexively cause changes in blood vessels in deep tissues to reduce inflammation, relieve pain and relieve itching.