In order to make the guards forget Mansi, Persephone used magic to turn Mansi into a humble grass, which grew on the roadside and was trampled by others. However, after the strong and kind Manxi has turned into grass, it has a comfortable, cool and charming fragrance. The more it is crushed and trampled, the stronger it is. Although she has become a grass, she is loved by more and more people. People call this grass mint.
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Mint has a unique cool and fragrant smell, which is widely used in modern medicine, food, cosmetics, spices, tobacco and other industries. Fresh mint contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, dietary fiber and vitamins, which has high nutritional and dietetic value. It can be used for seasoning, making incense, making tea, stewing porridge soup and cooking. Specifically, its health care efficacy is roughly as follows:
1, prevention and treatment of wind-heat cold. Menthol is a common material for treating wind-heat cold, especially suitable for people who have no sweat or have poor sweating. "Experience of Western Medicine" records: "Peppermint is used for sweating due to fever". Modern pharmacological research shows that peppermint oil can promote sweat gland secretion and increase heat dissipation, thus playing a role in sweating and antipyretic.
2. Treat wind-heat in the head and face. "Medicine Meaning" records: Mint is good at treating aphonia, mouth and teeth, and clearing throat. In addition to oral administration, it can also be brewed with boiling water, and fumigated in the nose, eyes or mouth after a little cooling to help people clear their heads and relieve symptoms such as headache, red eyes, sore throat and gums, and burning nose caused by wind and heat. You can also dry the decoction with gauze and apply it to the fever parts such as eyes and mouth.
3, anti-inflammatory and itching. Mint is light and scattered, mainly entering the lung meridian, and the lung governs fur, which can promote the opening and drainage of pores, spread the rash poison accumulated in pores, and its cool feeling can alleviate the itching feeling of rash.
Studies have shown that peppermint oil can stimulate the cold receptors of nerve endings, produce cold sensation, and reflexively cause changes in deep tissues and blood vessels, thus playing an anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antipruritic role. Can be used alone or decocted with Schizonepeta, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Fructus Arctii, Periostracum Cicadae, Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, etc.
4, soothing the liver and regulating qi. Peppermint haplocalyx enters the liver meridian again. Because of its fragrance, it can promote the release of the liver, and then adjust the mood. It can be used to treat depression caused by stagnation of liver-qi and relieve tension and anxiety. Potted mint can be placed on the table, with light green leaflets, fragrant and pleasing to the eye.
The fragrant smell of mint can also relieve summer heat, avoid filth, eliminate dampness and harmonize. It can be compatible with Pogostemon cablin, Elsholtzia, Perilla frutescens, etc. Can be used for treating damp-heat syndrome in summer, and can be taken orally or made into small bags for carrying. However, mint should not be decocted for a long time, because it has local irritation, so skin sensitive person should be used with caution; It also has anti-implantation and anti-early pregnancy effects, and is used with caution by pregnant women and pregnant women.
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