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Description
The Mint Family
About a dozen of the 30 odd species found in the North Temperate Zone are grown for use in medicine, cooking, household preparations and industry. All mints have an aromatic, refreshing odor, though each one is distinctive. This odor comes from the essential oil for which most mints are grown. Sometimes the distilled oil is used, sometimes leafy tops containing the oil in its natural state. All mints are characterized by their square stems, purplish flowers either in whorls or in terminal spikes, and shallow, creeping, underground roots.
Propagation: By seed; by cutting up of runners and resetting.
Nature of Plant: Apple Mint (Mentha rotundifolia) is also called woolly mint because of the soft woolly, round leaves, about 1 inch broad, on erect stems 18 inches high; it is often confused with M. sylvestris which grows much taller and whose leaves are not round. Apple Mint has lilac flowers in thick, interrupted spikes; because of the hairy leaves is not good for culinary use.
American Apple Mint (M. gentilis var. variegata): Low growing plant with smooth, green leaves streaked with yellow cream color, pale purple flowers in whorls on leaf axils, has a fruity, refreshing odor and taste.
Corn Mint (M. arvensis): Freely branching, hairy stems and leaves, very pale, lilac flowers in whorls in leaf axils, leaves are a rounded oblong, in Europe it is often grown with peppermint and deteriorates the oil of the latter.
Curly Mint (M. spicata var. crispata): Crinkly, heavily veined, broad leaves, pale purple flowers in terminal spikes, stems are hairy, long and weak so that the plant in late summer has sprawling tendencies.
Orange or Bergamot Mint (M. citrata): Reddish green branching stems with egg-shaped, smooth, dull green leaves edged with purple; the first whiff of odor is like lavender, purple flowers in axils and short spikes.
White Peppermint (M. piperita var. officinalis): Leaves and slender stems smooth, light green, purple flowers in dense terminal spikes, produces finest oil.
Black Peppermint (M. piperita var. vulgaris): Thicker stems than the white variety and grows higher, stems are purple, leaves are dark green tinged with purple, reddish purple flowers in terminal spikes, more prolific in oil and stronger than white variety.
Spearmint (M. spicata var. viridis): Called garden mint or lamb mint; erect stems are reddish, often light green at top, leaves are glossy, narrow, heavily veined, ending in a sharp point and have toothed indentations around the edge, pale purple flowers in whorls on stems.
Water Mint (M. aquatica): Hairy stems, oval shaped leaves, pale purple flowers in terminal spikes, very pungent odor, found along banks of streams and lakes.
Cultural Requirements: Need rather rich soil, not necessarily shady, if moderately moist; keep weeded, enrich soil after cutting, renew beds every 3 or 4 years. For small beds, instead of plowing or harrowing in spring, chop up the whole area with a sharp edging tool or spade deep enough to cut through runners; water well and cover with a thin layer of enriched soil, this will start new plants and avoid a tangled mat of roots; if bed gets too crowded, thin by pulling up runners.
Cutting plants improves the growth; do not permit flowering stalks to go to seed before cutting as quite often plants will die; spearmint is subject to rust and the ground should be burned over to eradicate the rust; manure is apt to cause rust and other fertilizer should be used when any is required.
Uses
Leafy Top: (Medicinal) Corn is used as an infusion for colicky spasms, remedy for rheumatic pains; Apple as a stomachic, stimulant, carminative, substituted for spearmint or peppermint in colic; Peppermint as an infusion to relieve nausea, colic, headache, to correct nauseating or griping effects of other medicines, for heat prostration; Curly, Spearmint, Water Mint used in colic, flatulence, cholera, diarrhea; Orange Mint as an infusion to produce perspiration, relief of nervous headaches;
(Culinary) Spearmint, Apple Mint, Orange Mint used in lamb and fish sauces, apple sauce, fruit cup, iced beverages, confectionery, sprinkled over vegetables, in pea soup, currant jelly, mint jelly, vinegar, teas, in French dressing for green salads, in chopped cabbage (Apple Mint and Orange Mint are more delicate in flavor than Spearmint and generally preferred);
(Industrial) Orange Mint used as oil in perfume, Chartreuse, a source of bergamot oil; Peppermint used in chewing gum, confectionery, menthol is the distinctive oil in oil of peppermint and much used, oil also used in dental preparations, toilet waters, moth mixtures; soaps, foot bath preparations, in paste as a preservative, in many liqueurs including Benedictine, Chartreuse, creme tie mentlie, used for testing steam boilers for leaks and in testing gas masks; Spearmint used in teas, confectionery, chewing gum, toilet water;
(Household) to keep mice away.
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Directions
Take 1 capsule, 3 times daily, with meals.
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