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to make a place for a fresh, peppermint plant to treat peppermint for the purpose of treating mintThis unpretentious herb is used in home cooking along with other plants - dill, parsley, oregano. On the other hand, the grass has healing properties. Decoctions and infusions are used in traditional medicine, oil and tinctures are produced industrially. The healing properties of peppermint and its contraindications are well studied.

Characterization of the chemical composition of peppermint

Essential aroma to peppermint leaves gives essential oil, which is a mixture of menthol and its derivatives. In addition, organic cyclic compounds are present in the leaves: Camphen

• ;
• limonene;
• pinene;
• cineol;
• Pulegon;
• meyanton.

Together with the compounds of the menthol group and essential oils, they constitute 60% of the chemical elements extracted from peppermint leaves. The rest are biologically active additives, organic acids, anthocyanins, azulene and trace elements. Such a saturated content of substances necessary for a person is 3% by weight of green mass. Naturally, the properties of peppermint have found application and the plant is cultivated on an industrial scale.

Use of peppermint for medical purposes

Medical forms of mint include products obtained from fresh raw materials by the method of extraction in solvents and using it in complex preparations:

• mint oil;
• tincture of mint, or mint drops;
• pharmacy fees with mint;
• dry briquetted products;
• complexes "Validol", "Corvalol", "Valokardin".

Knowing the beneficial properties of peppermint and contraindications, you can use weed, harvested independently, at home. It can be used not only for medicinal purposes, but in cooking and perfumery.

Patrician servants before the feast mint rubbed the tables and sprayed the walls with infusion, bringing the smell of freshness to the room. And the soldiers were forbidden to drink infusion of mint before the fight, as it was believed that the "Grass of Aphrodite" reduces belligerence.

The medicinal property of mint is based on the action of the substance menthol. When the substance comes into contact with the skin or mucous membrane, menthol irritates the nerve endings. Signal is transmitted in the form of tingling or cooling. At the same time, the blood vessels receive a signal to constrict, retaining heat, and the internal vessels dilate, thereby removing the spasm and pain effect. It has a beneficial effect in attacks of angina pectoris, reduces headache, improves the functioning of the veins, strengthens the work of the gastrointestinal tract. Mint has a beneficial effect on the liver and bile ducts, the composition of bile changes.

Based on the complex action of the components extracted from mint, many dosage forms are prepared. One of the preparations is peppermint tincture. In the factory, the extraction of medicinal elements from the green mass occurs by the extraction of active substances with ethyl alcohol. In the official form, tincture of peppermint( Tinctura Menthae piperitae) consists of equal parts of oil and alcohol extract.

At home, tincture is prepared by mixing equal parts of ethyl alcohol or refined moonshine and mint leaves. After insisting in a warm dark place for 20 days, the resulting liquid is cleaned from suspension and stored in a dark cool place.

Instructions for use of peppermint tincture includes using it for problems:

• as a painkiller for neuralgia;
• antiemetic and carminative agent;
• with vascular tone, hypertension, poor blood circulation;
• insomnia and cerebral nutrition.

However, this drug cannot be abused. Uncontrolled use of menthol drops can cause a spasm of the respiratory organs, up to and including the cessation of breathing. Therefore, for chronically ill people, before using the mint elixir, you should consult a doctor.

Produced peppermint oil( Ol. Menth. Pip.) Is applied externally. The analgesic effect is achieved by rubbing into the temporal part, with pain and itching of the skin, relieves the condition of insect bites. So acts known ointment "asterisk".Internal consumption of oil is possible only on prescription.

Herbal medicine is used in folk medicine. It is used for digestive disorders, for colds, as a sedative. More often used mint tea. It is brewed and allowed to infuse. After use with honey or one. Especially useful this tea for insomnia. It is noted that patients with a stomach ulcer do not tolerate good tea.

The benefits and harms of peppermint depend on many factors. Since menthol reduces pressure, soothes, lowers activity, it cannot be taken by people driving a vehicle. For people with low blood pressure, this substance is also prohibited. You can not drink mint tea to a nursing mother, since lactation is reduced and the addition of mint in milk is harmful to the baby.

When it is possible to collect peppermint and how to do the harvesting

The highest concentration of nutrients in medical raw materials is present in the budding phase. This is usually in June or July, depending on the region. Cut the twigs laid out in the shade on the ventilated place. Before you dry the raw materials, you need to wash the leaves. Some do it after harvest, others make mint showers in the garden. In this case, start cleaning after drying leaves.

When drying mint, you cannot use the drying cabinet, as the light esters will evaporate. At home, the dried material is stored in linen bags or tightly closed glass jars.

When harvesting from large plantations, mowed grass is dried under a canopy, stirring with a pitchfork. The sheet material is used for packaging for sale and for use in fees. The remaining branches are used to extract essential oils and the preparation of liquid forms. GOST pharmacy raw materials should be a mass of crushed sheets without the inclusion of blackened plates.

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