Can strengthen the stomach, expectorant, expectorant, choleretic, anti-spasmodic, improve the sensation of fever, throat, swelling and pain, and to eliminate headaches, toothache, nausea. It is also commonly used in cooking or desserts to remove the fishy odor of fish and lamb, or with fruits and desserts. Peppermint contains large amounts of peppermint oil, menthol, menthone, and rosemary acid, which, when introduced into the body, can promote brain stimulation, as well as increase blood circulation in the body, which has the effect of evacuating wind-heat.

Peppermint water instead of tea also has the health of the spleen and stomach, expectorant cough, as well as to prevent colds and fever, and promote the health of the throat and other effects. In addition, if the spirit becomes nervous or angry, you can also drink mint water, can play a calming effect, but also to improve the quality of sleep.

Peppermint after taking a lot of efficacy, has a certain health effects, in addition to soaking water to drink this method, in many parts of our country will also be mint to make desserts or food to take. The mint into the food has the role of flavor, and fish and mutton and so on after cooking together is to have the effect of fishy. In addition, mint can be used as a moisturizer, which can be applied to the skin to reduce inflammation and pain.

Also, if you have been bitten by an insect or if your muscles are sore, you can crush fresh mint leaves and apply them to the discomfort. You can use mint leaves in a bath to relieve the soreness of muscles as well as nerves. In normal life, we also make mint into soaps, toothpastes, medicinal oils and deodorants.

Mint Leaf Introduction:

1. Mint Leaf is the leaf of the plant mint, the flavor of the cool, with the tomato lotus leaves, the mint of the herb, the mint of the herb, the mint of the herb, the mint of the herb, mainly containing peppermint oil, menthol, as well as menthyl ketone, isomenthyl ketone, rosmarinic acid, and other ingredients.

2. It can strengthen the stomach and expel wind, expectorant, choleretic, anti-spasmodic, improve the sensation of fever, throat, swelling and pain, and eliminate headaches, toothache, nausea. Also commonly used in the production of dishes or desserts to remove the fishy smell of fish and mutton, or with fruits and desserts, to enhance the flavor; can also be made into anti-inflammatory moisturizing water to reduce swelling. Produced in various places in the north and south; born in moist places near water, up to 3500 meters above sea level.

3. Mint leaf blades oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate, elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, sparsely oblong, 3-5(7) cm long, 0.8-3 cm wide, apex acute, base cuneate to subrounded, margins sparsely coarsely dentate serrate above the base, lateral veins ca. 5-6 pairs, conspicuous with the midribs in a slight depression below the upper part, greenish above; the remaining sparsely puberulent along the veins in a dense clump.

4. Or remaining nearly glabrous except for veins, light green above, usually densely puberulent along veins; petiole 2-10 mm long, ventrally concave-dorsally convex, puberulent. Produced from all parts of the North and South; born in moist places near water, up to 3500 m in altitude. Tropical Asia, the USSR Far East, Korea, Japan, and North America (as far south as Mexico). The type was taken from Sri Lanka.

5. Mint is very adaptable, at an altitude of 2100m below the region can grow, in full sunshine, altitude 300 ~ 1000m areas can be cultivated. Mint on the soil requirements are not strict, in clay, loam, sandy soil can grow, general soil pH 6.5 ~ 7.5 is appropriate. Prefer a mild and humid environment, rhizome planting the average daily temperature of 6 ℃ can be seedlings, above ground can withstand temperatures above 30 ℃, May to June the fastest-growing, suitable for the growth temperature of 20 ~ 30 ℃.

6. When the temperature drops below zero, the above-ground part shrinks and dries up and stops growing. Roots are more cold hardy, a 30 ℃ can still overwintering, the growth of the early and mid-term need for abundant rainfall, buds, flowers need adequate sunlight. Insufficient light, cloudy and rainy days, mint oil and menthol content is low. Peppermint roots are 30cm deep in the ground, and most of them are concentrated in the soil layer of about 15cm. Peppermint flowering in late July to early August, buds to flowering 10 to 15d, flowering to seed maturity 20d. after cutting the first cut peppermint in October later can also flower.

7. Mint rhizome propagation is generally carried out in late October to early November. In the leveled beds, according to the row spacing 25 ~ 30em lateral ditch (10cm deep). Select the color white, thick, short internodes rhizome cut into 10 cm small sections, according to plant spacing 15em planted into the ditch. After planting thin manure water, covered with fine soil, raking and compaction, generally per 667m?with white new rhizome 100kg or so.

8. Selected good growth, variety of uniform, no pests and diseases of the field for seed retention. Immediately after harvesting in autumn, ploughing, weeding and fertilizing 1 time. In April to May of the following year, when the seedling height of 15cm when pulling seedlings transplanted, transplanted according to the row spacing of 20 cm, plant spacing 15cm dug holes, each hole planted seedlings 2. After planting, cover the soil pressure, apply dilute human and animal fecal water to fix the roots. Seedlings should be strengthened in the early stage of towel plowing and hoeing 2 to 3 times. After the field flush seedlings. Timely check seedlings, seedlings and seedlings, transplanted seedlings should be timely irrigation. Transplanting to "Qingming" forward behavior is appropriate, can improve the amount of leaf production and increase the amount of oil production, brain.

9. Generally in the spring sowing seedlings, each 667m? with a seed amount of l.2 g, sowing to germination takes 20d. Seedling height of about 15 cm when transplanted to the field. This method of seedling growth is slow, easy to produce mutations, the quality of the essential oil extracted from the seedling plant is poor. Therefore, the production is generally rarely used.

10. Generally in April to May each year, the above ground stem branch cut into 10cm of small sections for the plug. In the whole of the seedbed, cuttings seedlings, cuttings rooted and germinated transplanted to the field: can also be dug thick, short internodes, color white and disease-free rhizome. Cut into 6 ~ 10cm long, according to the plant, row spacing 20cmx45 cm, using the ditch planting or cave planting, planting the soil about 3cm, 15 ~ 20 d sprouting.

11. Mint on the soil requirements, although not strict, but planting mint is best to choose a flat terrain, good drainage and irrigation, loose and fertile 2 to 3 years have not been planted mint plots. In the fall, according to the conventional deep turning, combined with the turning of the ground per hectare into high-quality farmyard fertilizer 60,000 ~ 7.5 million kg, spring thaw combined with the harrowing of the ground per hectare of ammonium nitrate 300 ~ 375 kg, 300 ~ 375 kg of diammonium phosphate, calcium superphosphate 525 ~ 600 kg. harrowing the fine importance of the flat beds, the width of the beds of 100 ~ 120 cm, the beds spacing of 30 ~ 40 cm, the beds height 15 ~ 20 cm.

12. The production of rhizome reproduction and planting reproduction is mainly. The planting propagation is to pull the seedling transplantation. Choose good growth, no insects and no disease, pure varieties of fields for transplantation field, April to May when the seedling height of 10 to 15cm, you can start seedlings, planting transplantation.

13. Rootstocks reproduction planting period from late October to the end of April of the following year, planted in late fall is the best. Early planting fast rooting, sprouting more, and roots, buds thick. Before planting, the rhizome turned up, selected white, thick, short section of the annual rhizome, planting row spacing of 25cm, can also be cut into small sections of rhizomes 10cm long, evenly spread in the ditch, followed by mulching, repeatedly harrowing to prevent the bridge empty solid, the invasion of the cold winds, freezing rhizomes, each hectare of rhizomes need to be planted about 1.2 ~ l.5t.

References:Baidu Encyclopedia of mint leaves