Mentha piperita
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Peppermint
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General
Stimulates the cold-perceiving nerves, so just after taking it, a current of air at the ordinary temperature seems cold. Marked action on respiratory organs and skin. Useful in gastrodynia, flatulent cold.
Abdomen
Bloated, disturbing sleep. Infantile colic. Bilious colic with great accumulation of gas. Respiration.––Voice husky. Tip of nose to touch. Throat dry and sore, as if pin crosswise in it. Dry cough, worse from air into larynx, tobacco smoke, fog, talking; with irritation in suprasternal fossa (Rumex). Trachea painful to touch.
Skin
Every scratch becomes a sore. Itching of arm and hand when writing. Vaginal pruritus. Herpes zoster (Ars; Ran bulb).
Relationships
Compare: Rumex; Laches; Mentha pulegium––European
pennyroyal––(pain in bones of forehead and extremities). Mentha viridis- Spearmint––(scanty urine with frequent desire).
Dose
Tincture, 1 to 20 drops, to thirtieth potency. Locally, in pruritus vaginæ.
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