In the countryside, patchouli and mint are very common plants, especially mint. There are many mints with natural gutters. Mint is one of the plants that were previously grown as crops in our local area. I still remember that in the 1990s, every family planted one or two acres of land. They planted in the spring and harvested twice in the summer and autumn. They put together a large iron pot specially made of tinplate and boiled the peppermint oil. Mint from an acre of land can produce 14 to 5 kilograms of oil. When sold to purchasers, every household will make a lot of money!

Patchouli is a kind of seasoning like fennel or nepeta. Sometimes a few plants are planted in the vegetable garden at home. The difference between Patchouli and Mint is so simple! Its appearance is actually different. The two are relatively similar. The mint leaves are small, long and dense, the edges of the leaves are relatively bare, and the branches are concentrated. The branches of Agastache rugosa are dispersed, the leaves are large and thin, and the leaves are shaped like a "heart" or a folding fan, and the edges of the leaves are prominently serrated. Also, the flavors of the two are significantly different, with fragrant patchouli and cool and numbing mint.

In the countryside, some weeds can smell their fragrance before they are seen, so they can tell that they are around. Mint and patchouli are two of them. Although mint and patchouli are easy to distinguish, they also have certain historical origins. After all, they are woody plants of the Lamiaceae family and both release fragrance. In addition, I feel that some people often ask about the difference between the two. This is probably because in some southern provinces, Patchouli is commonly known as small mint, mountain mint, pointed leaf mint, white mint, green stem mint and wild mint. People mistakenly believe that it has something to do with mint, and even think that it is a variation of mint.

In fact, no, there are not many similarities between the two. So how to actually distinguish the two? There are many kinds of mint, which often grow in areas with humid soil. It is a green plant with both medicinal and food uses. It can be used as medicinal herbs and wild vegetables. With mint oil, menthol can be made into drinks, whitening toothpaste, bubble gum and other products. .