Peppermint - useful properties and applications
Peppermint tea - effective stomachic, especially with nausea, retching or vomiting. A single cup of moderately warm peppermint tea, drunk in small sips, you can achieve immediate action.
Also, this tea is fast acting in the gastro-intestinal diseases, which are accompanied by bloating, cramps and a chair with a bad smell. Dosage: 1 cup 3 times a day.
Not least of peppermint tea siphons and secretion of bile. Patients with cholelithiasis very well tolerated by this tea, while gastric ulcer patients - worse.
Recipe of herbal tea peppermint 1 tablespoon uppers leaves pour 1/4 liter of boiling water and let stand, covered for 10 minutes. Then cool. Drink it unsweetened best.
Recipe tincture of peppermint leaves: dried leaves are ground into a fine powder, and one part of this powder is poured twenty parts of 90% ethyl alcohol, insist in a dark cool place 10-14 days, finished tincture carefully decanted from the precipitate. If this alcoholate add peppermint oil, mint drops are obtained, enjoying great popularity among the people.
Peppermint is an integral part of so many tea fees that are prescribed for diseases of the stomach, intestine, gall bladder and liver. However, it is also found in many other tea gatherings: peppermint leaves enhance any tea for its taste and smell, as well as enhance its action as medicines containing both volatile oil, and tannins and bitterness have multilateral action. Especially good combination for all gastrointestinal diseases - a mixture of peppermint with chamomile in equal parts. Essential oil, diluted alcohol, gives so called mint drops that you can buy in every pharmacy. They act like peppermint tea, if taken 15 drops of water.
The use of traditional medicine, according to the findings above. Much love for this medicinal plant is shown that in the majority of the kits along with chamomile can be found and peppermint. Its becoming less use for headaches, heart palpitations and sleep disorders, and painful menstruation peppermint tea is highly valued.
Use as a spice. In the latest books on the recommended spicy plants even grow a few plants in the garden peppermint, especially because it is very simple, as it shoots peppermint root and grow, without requiring a lot of grooming. Enough landing area of 1 m. m, to constantly have fresh for family peppermint. Who prepares peppermint must collect leaves before flowering, dry them quickly (at a temperature not exceeding 35 ° C) and stored in tightly closed containers: humidity makes peppermint unuseable.
Salads, soups, vegetable dishes, which before serving sprinkle with fresh chopped peppermint, obtained not only well-flavored, but also more healthy. Cottage cheese and cream cheese are also improved by addition of fresh peppermint. Dried peppermint scarce, but some fish dishes when cooking (cooking) which use the dried leaves and peppermint, just win. Who makes their own vinegar with herbs, should not forget to add there are several peppermint leaves (fresh or dried).
Side effects. At therapeutic doses - no. Prolonged use of peppermint tea is not recommended.
Peppermint oil today has become one of the most frequently used. It is used to alleviate some health problems, and to maintain its beauty.
For example, it helps to efficiently and quickly cope with the first cold symptoms, eliminate the headache, and even lower temperatures. And, besides, it is considered very effective natural painkiller. In the area of beauty, there is peppermint oil is used even more widely.
Not least of peppermint tea siphons and secretion of bile. Patients with cholelithiasis very well tolerated by this tea, while gastric ulcer patients - worse.
Recipe of herbal tea peppermint 1 tablespoon uppers leaves pour 1/4 liter of boiling water and let stand, covered for 10 minutes. Then cool. Drink it unsweetened best.
Recipe tincture of peppermint leaves: dried leaves are ground into a fine powder, and one part of this powder is poured twenty parts of 90% ethyl alcohol, insist in a dark cool place 10-14 days, finished tincture carefully decanted from the precipitate. If this alcoholate add peppermint oil, mint drops are obtained, enjoying great popularity among the people.
Peppermint is an integral part of so many tea fees that are prescribed for diseases of the stomach, intestine, gall bladder and liver. However, it is also found in many other tea gatherings: peppermint leaves enhance any tea for its taste and smell, as well as enhance its action as medicines containing both volatile oil, and tannins and bitterness have multilateral action. Especially good combination for all gastrointestinal diseases - a mixture of peppermint with chamomile in equal parts. Essential oil, diluted alcohol, gives so called mint drops that you can buy in every pharmacy. They act like peppermint tea, if taken 15 drops of water.
The use of traditional medicine, according to the findings above. Much love for this medicinal plant is shown that in the majority of the kits along with chamomile can be found and peppermint. Its becoming less use for headaches, heart palpitations and sleep disorders, and painful menstruation peppermint tea is highly valued.
Use as a spice. In the latest books on the recommended spicy plants even grow a few plants in the garden peppermint, especially because it is very simple, as it shoots peppermint root and grow, without requiring a lot of grooming. Enough landing area of 1 m. m, to constantly have fresh for family peppermint. Who prepares peppermint must collect leaves before flowering, dry them quickly (at a temperature not exceeding 35 ° C) and stored in tightly closed containers: humidity makes peppermint unuseable.
Salads, soups, vegetable dishes, which before serving sprinkle with fresh chopped peppermint, obtained not only well-flavored, but also more healthy. Cottage cheese and cream cheese are also improved by addition of fresh peppermint. Dried peppermint scarce, but some fish dishes when cooking (cooking) which use the dried leaves and peppermint, just win. Who makes their own vinegar with herbs, should not forget to add there are several peppermint leaves (fresh or dried).
Side effects. At therapeutic doses - no. Prolonged use of peppermint tea is not recommended.
Peppermint oil today has become one of the most frequently used. It is used to alleviate some health problems, and to maintain its beauty.
For example, it helps to efficiently and quickly cope with the first cold symptoms, eliminate the headache, and even lower temperatures. And, besides, it is considered very effective natural painkiller. In the area of beauty, there is peppermint oil is used even more widely.