I especially like eating mint-flavored things and feel addicted. What harm does eating too much mint have to the body?
Peppermint in traditional Chinese medicine has the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing throat and penetrating rash. Clinical application: 1. It is used for patients with mild initial symptoms of cold, wind-heat and fever. Mint is an important medicine to dispel wind and heat, and it has the effect of sweating. It is mainly used for exterior and interior wind-heat, anhidrosis, headache and red eyes. It is often used with Schizonepeta, Mulberry Leaves, Chrysanthemum and Burdock. If you don't sweat when you have a cold, you can also use perilla and notopterygium root. 2. For sore throat, mint has obvious effect of clearing throat, which is mainly used for wind-heat sore throat and also has the effect of dispersing wind-heat. It is often used with burdock, puffball and licorice. It can also be used to treat sore throat and heat pain by blowing throat at the end of the study. 3. Peppermint is used to prevent measles from penetrating and can help measles penetrate. It can be used with Schizonepeta, Burdock and Cicada.