Mentha piperita

ment-pip

Peppermint

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.

Materia Medica — Keynotes

abdomen · William Boericke

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.

dose · William Boericke

Tincture, 1 to 20 drops, to thirtieth potency. Locally, in pruritus vaginæ.

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