Tincture of peppermint - instructions for use, reviews

Medicinal herbs are used in traditional and homeopathic medicine. Nowadays phytotherapy and aromatherapy are very popular. Also, herbs are a means of preventing, maintaining health and excellent restorative therapy. There are a lot of healing plants, but more often than not we do not know what they are for and how to use them.

Mint

Tea with mint and lemon is a favorite drink of many Russians. Peppermint grows in the gardens, in the gardens, and sometimes even just as a weed. It can be bought at a regular store and at every pharmacy. But what do we know about it? Plants of the genus "mint" a huge number (more than forty species). All of them contain menthol, although they differ greatly in the chemical composition of essential oils, and, accordingly, in smell and useful properties.

Consider one of the most popular types of mint - pepper. This is a cultivated plant, which is now everywhere in Russia.

Peppermint is widely used in cooking, and in pharmaceutics, and in cosmetology. The most convenient and useful way to use it is tincture of peppermint. The instructions for use will depend directly on the type of tincture.

The healing properties of peppermint

• If you have flatulence. Before you run to the doctor, undergo complex and unpleasant examinations, you should try to take such a medicine as tincture of peppermint. How to use? A couple tablespoons of regular decoction (without alcohol) to drink during or after a meal.
• If the skin appeared small wounds, pimples. The usual tincture of peppermint will come to the aid - the instruction on application here is not necessary. We put the product on a cotton pad and two or three times a day we lubricate the damaged area.
• If worried about cholecystitis, stasis of bile, digestive problems, gastritis. Peppermint will perfectly help to remove unpleasant symptoms and to adjust the work of internal organs.
• If your head hurts, you can try to drink mint tea.
• At a nausea, including a toxicosis of pregnant women, the smell of essential oil of mint helps a lot. But it is worth remembering that much can be taken, but not tincture of peppermint. The instruction on the use of contraindications clearly indicates, among them, pregnancy. Ladies in an interesting position can use only essential oils in aromalamp or mint drops.
• If the stomach hurts, mint tea will help reduce the pain, relieve the pain and spasms.
• With stenocardia, mint tea will help. A spoonful of dry mint is poured with boiling water and allowed to stand for 10-15 minutes.

Recipe for infusion

Usually, medicinal purposes use mint water (tea) or a medicine such as tincture of peppermint. Instructions for use, photo of the cooking process - more on this.

Prepare mint in dry weather, while about half of the flowers on the plant should already bloom. In our country, mint is collected only two summer months - June and July. Then twigs with leaves and flowers are dried in special electric dryers or in the shade, hanging them in small bundles. Then, from the dried stems, all leaves and flowers are removed, ground into powder and stored in glass or metal jars in a dark cool and necessarily dry place. You can also store mint directly on branches in sacks made of natural cotton fabric or in paper.

Further during the year, a tincture of peppermint is made, the instruction for the use of which must be in every house. It is customary to make alcohol tincture on purified medical alcohol or on good vodka. The concentration of alcohol in each case will be different. You can pour dried mint with pure alcohol and add to the tea only a few drops a day or, conversely, dilute alcohol with water and drink with spoons, for example, before going to bed. This will be an alcoholic tincture of peppermint, instructions for use in this case should be issued by the attending physician. After the preparation of the infusion, it is stored in a warm, dark place, the liquid is filtered and stored in a refrigerator.

Very popular means of home medicine are mint tea. In moderate amounts, such a drink can not bring harm, and a rich taste and aroma necessarily have a positive effect on overall well-being. Also, peppermint is often added to ready-made herbal preparations from many ailments.

Where can I get it?

Of course, it's not so difficult to grow yourself, to make raw materials and make such a medicine yourself. But in all pharmacies for a very affordable price you can buy crushed dried leaves, ready-made infusions for any occasion and even packaged bags of mint tea.

Tincture of peppermint. Directions for use externally

1. When migraine, alcoholic tincture of mint is rubbed into whiskey, and pepper oil is also used as an aromatherapy.
2. With neuralgia, infusion of alcohol rubbed into a sore spot and at a distance of 5-10 centimeters from it.
3. To improve the complexion and prevent wrinkles, many beauticians recommend washing with mint water without alcohol every morning.
4. To treat head skin disease, get rid of dandruff and strengthen the roots of hair after washing with a normal shampoo, rinse your head with a non-alcoholic infusion of peppermint water, and then rub it lightly into the roots of your hair and dry your head.
5. With problematic skin prone to acne and black spots, you can use weak alcoholic infusion once or twice a day to handle problem areas. Do not get too involved with the use of alcohol lotions, because excessive and frequent drying of the skin with alcohol can accelerate the aging process.

Peppermint with ARVI

With catarrhal diseases, sore throat, cough and runny nose, a general practitioner may advise using infusion in many ways:

• Gargling. Mint leaves are brewed with boiling water according to the instructions, they cool and rinse the throat 3-5 times a day.
• Rinsing of the nose. A weak water warm infusion in turn is washed with the nostrils of the yoga system.
• Inhalations. Infusion brew in a saucepan with water, allow to infuse, then heat again and, covered with a towel, inhale useful pairs of ethers.

Contraindications to use

Do not use alcoholic infusions if:

• You are in an interesting position.
• Breastfeeding.
• You have low blood pressure - hypotension.
• You have varicose veins.
• You can not conceive a child for more than one year.

Do not give alcoholic infusion to children under three years.

Excessive use of mint in men can cause problems with libido and erection.

Danger to drivers tincture of peppermint, instructions for use, reviews - all this reminds of the alcohol content. So lovers go by private car such medicine in the morning just does not fit.

Mint in cooking

Of course, such a fragrant plant could not but find its application in the food industry. And besides the numerous mint gum, candy, lemonade and alcoholic beverages with its addition, we can see recipes with mint for ordinary housewives.

Dried crushed mint is very well combined with vegetables (especially tomatoes, zucchini, cabbage, carrots) and beans. All over the world it is added to various sauces, homemade lemonades, compotes, fruit drinks, syrups and kissels. And of course, the most delicious combination can be considered mint and flour. Virtually any bake (whether it's buns, patties, cakes or cookies) peppermint can give a special, exquisite sound.

Most importantly, we must not forget that you need to add a little mint (not more than five milligrams per serving). Also here the usual for all spices rule applies: we put spice in the dish for 5-10 minutes until it is completely ready.