The herbal name for mint leaves is Mentha piperita, and the drug has the effects of dispersing wind-heat, clearing the head and eyes, clearing the throat and rash (clearing the throat and rash), and dispersing the liver and relieving depression. It can be taken with honeysuckle, burdock and other medicines in water according to the evidence. However, it should be noted that the efficacy of Chinese medicine tea drink is limited, and should not be used in place of drugs for the treatment of disease.
1. Mentha piperita: This medicine has the efficacy of dispersing wind-heat, clearing the head and eyes, facilitating the pharynx and penetrating the rash, dispersing the liver and relieving depression, and can be used for wind-heat colds and flu, the first signs of wind-heat, headache, redness of the eyes, mouth sores, rubella, measles, and distension and congestion of the chest and ribs. It should be noted that it is not suitable for people with deficiency of Yin and dryness of blood.
2. Combination of medicines: In the treatment of wind-heat colds, mint can be combined with medicines that have the effect of dispersing wind-heat, such as honeysuckle and burdock.
Honeysuckle has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying the toxin, evacuating wind-heat, which can be clinically used in the treatment of carbuncle swollen boils, laryngeal paralysis (pharynx red, swollen and painful, or dry, with a foreign body sensation, or pharyngeal itching and discomfort, dysphagia), feverish dysentery (dysentery caused by feeling the heat, see blood in the stools), wind-heat colds and fever of the warm disease, and so on.
In the use of attention should be paid to the spleen and stomach cold and qi deficiency sores and pus clearing people should not be served.
Burdock has the efficacy of dispersing wind-heat, promoting the lungs and rashes, detoxifying the pharynx, and can be used in the treatment of wind-heat colds, cough and phlegm, measles, rubella, sore throat, mumps, carbuncle sores and poisons, and other diseases. It should be avoided by those who have loose stools (thin and unformed feces) due to Qi deficiency.
If you need to use the above drugs, it is recommended to go to a regular hospital for consultation and treatment under the guidance of a professional physician.