Materia Medica de A a Z

MENTHA PIPERITA (menth)

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 (Rumx)]. TRACHEA PAINFUL TO TOUCH.

Skin

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

Relationship

Compare: Rumex (Rumx); Lach; Mentha pulegium (Menth-pu) — European pennyroyal — (pain in bones of forehead and extremities). Mentha viridis (Menth-v) - Spearmint — (scanty urine with frequent desire).

Dose

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