Mentha Piperita ment.

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.

Bloated, disturbing sleep. Infantile colic. Bilious colic with great accumulation of gas.

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.

Every scratch becomes a sore. Itching of arm and hand when writing. Vaginal pruritus. Herpes zoster (Ars; Ran bulb).

Compare: Rumex; Laches; Mentha pulegium--European pennyroyal--(pain in bones of forehead and extremities). Mentha viridis-Spearmint--(scanty urine with frequent desire).

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

Mentha piperita. Peppermint. N. O. Labiatæ. Tincture of whole plant. Dilutions of essence.

Cough, dry . Headache. Hoarseness. Influenza. Pruritus. Throat, sore. Voice, weakness of.

A remarkable proving of Menth. pip . was made by Demeures, who took a single drop of the tincture, the effects of which lasted into the third month. A case of fatal poisoning with the essence is on record. The patient, a boy of six, took between 1 and 2 ounces and died in two hours. When seen he was insensible, eyes fixed, pupils unmovable, stertorous breathing, cold skin, lips livid. The most remarkable symptom of the proving was the cough, and this has been fully confirmed. It was a dry cough, excited by air entering larynx, by reading aloud, by exposure to cold, by shocks of any kind. Demeures says he cured with Menth. pip . every case of influenza that came under his care in the winter of 1847-8. "It is to dry cough, however caused, what Arn . is to injuries and Aco . to inflammatory complaints. It relieves even the cough of consumptives." A single globule of the 30th sufficed. Demeures gave it to singers a short time before singing, and it greatly helped them to hold the voice. After the proving Demeures found that he could rise earlier than usual and yet feel bright and fresh, whereas before it he could not. Gibson Miller ( J. of Hcs ., v. 34) relates this case: Teacher, 43, since whooping-cough in boyhood had a dry, spasmodic cough, < in cold weather. The inhalation of the smallest quantity of smoke , either of coal, wood, or tobacco, at once induced a most distressing paroxysm. < By the least breath of air or any fog. Scarcely any expectoration. Husky on attempting to sing. Menth. pip . 30 completely removed the cough and enabled him to sit in a room full of tobacco smoke and sing with clearness. Hansen commends it in — Bilious colic with great accumulation of gas; severe pain of shingles; and as an external remedy in pruritus vaginæ. — The symptoms were < rising, > lying down in bed. > Whilst eating. < Cold air; smoke; reading aloud; stooping; turning head; writing.

Compare: The Labiatæ. < From smoke, Ign. < Fog, Hyper. < Rising, > lying down, Bry. < Cold air, Rumex c.

Early rising.

Eager for work; despatches it quickly. — (Cured mental dulness, which previously always followed early rising.). — Insensible.

Confusion. — Headache: tension towards both ears; < on rising, > returning to bed. — Acute lancinations from ear to head, on stooping or turning head. — Frontal headache from one temple to the other. — (Hair ceases to fall out.)

Flashes before eyes when writing.

All day when walking, shooting from one ear to the other, as if abscesses were forming, < l. — When writing sharp lancinations extend from l. ear to all l. teeth.

Tip of nose sore to touch (11th d); swollen but not painful (21st d.)

Very severe toothache in lower molars when chewing a bit of sugar.

Throat dry and painful on swallowing, as if a pin stuck crosswise in pharynx. — Momentary lancinations in parotids; > during breakfast and dinner. — Throat externally painfully sensitive to touch.

In evening two hours after dinner, weight in stomach which seems to extend to ears.

Entire trachea from larynx to pit of throat painful to touch. — Husky voice from reading aloud. — (Given to a singer a few hours before he is to sing, this remedy will certainly enable him to hold out to the end without straining his voice.). — Frequent cough. — Dry cough, excited by merely speaking; expectoration every morning of thick mucus like the core of a boil (4th to 8th d.). — Dry cough continues; it is not caused by titillation, nor by mucous accumulations in the bronchi, but merely by the passage of air into the larynx (9th d.). — Least feeling of cold excites a cough (11th to 21st d.); reading aloud; tobacco smoke and smoke of all kinds excites it.

All muscles round neck are painful to touch.

Sensation under r. foot at extremity of metatarsus, as if shoe sole was too tight there.

Every scratch becomes a sore. — Pimples with much itching near l. ear, with heat in part. — Frequent itching behind r. ear. — Formication in arm and hand when writing.

Sleep good, refreshing. — Waking early.

A tincture is made of the fresh plant of peppermint.

Eager for work and dispatches it quickly. ▶ Insensible. ▶ Motionless, limbs relaxed, pulse slow and full, breathing stertorous, skin cold, lips livid, pupils immovable, eyes fixed. ▶ Headache beginning in morning, tension towards ears, agg. right. ▶ Sharp pain in left temple when writing. ▶ Pain from one temple to other at night on waking; from one ear to other on rising, amel. returning to bed, but returning on rising again at 7 A.M. ▶ Lancinations from one ear to other on stooping or turning head; all day when walking, as if abscesses were forming in them, agg. left. ▶ Confusion of head.

Flashes before eyes when writing. ▶ Lancinations in left ear when writing, extending to all of left teeth. ▶ Tip of nose swollen. ▶ Tip of nose sore to touch. ▶ Aching in lower molars when chewing sugar. ▶ Lancinations in parotids, amel. during breakfast and dinner. ▶ Pharynx dry and painful when swallowing, as if a pin were sticking crosswise. ▶ Weight in stomach two hours after dinner, extending to ears.

Trachea painful to touch. ▶ Voice husky from reading aloud. ▶ Cough; excited by reading aloud, exposure to cold, tobacco-smoke, or may smoke. ▶ Dry cough caused by passage of air into larynx (Hep., Rumex); D., caused by speaking, and expectoration every morning of mucus like the core of a boil.

Neck sensitive to touch. ▶ Feeling in right sole, at end of metatarsus, as if the shoe-sole were too thick and made walking painful. ▶ Skin liable to inflammation every scratch becomes a sore. ▶ Itching pimple near left ear, with heat of part. ▶ Formication of arm and hand when writing. ▶ Itching behind lobe of right ear. ▶ Early waking.

Bilious colic, with great accumulation of gas. ▶ Valuable as a topical application for pruritus of the vagina. ▶ Irritable cough from supersternal fossa, agg. cold air (Rumex). ▶ It seems to have removed extreme sensitiveness to cold. ▶ It has relieved the severe pain of herpes zoster.

Voice husky from reading aloud.
Cough caused by talking, cold weather, smoking.
Cough dry or slight, expectoration in the morning.

Clinical:
Flatulent colic.
Pruritus of the vulva.