Peppermint is the dried aerial part of Mentha heplocalyx Briq. (Fam. Labiatae).

Action: To dispel wind-heat from the head and eyes, and to promote eruption.

Indications: Headache in influenza, upper respiratory infection and other epidemic febrile diseases at the inital stage; inflammation of the eye, sore throat, ulcers in the mouth; rubella measles; discomfort with feeling of distension in the chest and hypochondriac regions.

Usage: To be added when the decoction is nearly done.

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