Peppermint makes people feel cool mainly related to the ingredients contained. Modern research peppermint mainly contains volatile oils, such as menthol, menthone, menthol ketone, menthone, isomenthol ketone, limonene, etc., peppermint volatile oils make people feel cool.
Mentha piperita has the efficacy of dispersing wind-heat, clearing the head and eyes, inducing diaphoresis, penetrating rashes, dredging the liver and promoting the flow of qi. It is used for wind-heat colds and flu, the first signs of wind-warmth, headache, eye redness, paralysis of the throat (redness, swelling and pain in the throat, or dryness, foreign body sensation, or itchy and uncomfortable pharynx, and difficulty in swallowing), mouth sores, rubella, measles, and distension and stuffiness of the chest and ribs (collectively referred to as the chest and ribcage area).
Mentha piperita is used in the treatment of wind-heat colds or the beginning of warm diseases, evil in the Wei division, fever, headache, etc., with honeysuckle, forsythia and other medicines; or with mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum and other wind-heat dispersing medicines with the first; if the first warm disease, pain in the joints of the body, the skin strong heat and no sweating, headache, the back of the slight cold (fear of cold), the pulse floating and slippery, can be matched with gypsum, cicadas, etc., with the use of.
It should be noted that, yin deficiency, blood dryness, liver yang hyperactivity, surface deficiency sweating should be avoided. The adverse effects of the drug is not clear, need to follow the doctor’s instructions for rational application.