High quality Mentha haplocalyx Briq.

Mint, the Earth name is "Silver Dan Cao" , is the labiatae plant, namely also belongs to other dry Whole Grass. It is a kind of fragrant crop with special economic value. It is mainly grown on the side of mountain and wetland, underground, and at 2100 meters above sea level. The whole plant is green and fragrant. Leaves opposite, Flowers Lilac, lipped, with small dark purple-brown fruit after flowering. Mint is one of the most commonly used traditional Chinese medicines. It is Xin Liang sex sends diaphoresis antipyretic, treat influenza, have a headache, eyesight is red, body heat, pharynx and larynx, gum swells painful wait for a disease. External use can treat NEURALGIA, skin pruritus, skin rash and ECZEMA. Usually with mint instead of tea, Qingxin Bright Eyes. In China, the production of mint is the largest in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces. There are three kinds of cultivation methods of Mentha Haplocalyx Briq. , rhizome cultivation, ramets cultivation and cuttage propagation.

DESCRIPTION: Perennial plant. Stem erect, 30-60 cm tall, lower nodes with slender fibrous roots and horizontal creeping Rhizomes, sharply four-angled, four-sulcate, upper portion retrorsely puberulent, lower portion only prismatic and much branched. Leaf Blade oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate, elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, thinly oblong, 3-5(7) cm long, 0.8-3 cm wide, apex acute, base Cuneate to suborbicular, margin sparsely coarsely serrate above base, lateral veins Ca. 5-6 pairs, conspicuously below upper microdepression with Midrib, green above; densely puberulent along veins, sparsely puberulent or subglabrous except for veins, Pale green above, usually densely puberulent along veins; Petiole 2-10 mm long, ventral concave-convex, puberulent. VERTICILLAES axillary, globose in outline, flowers Ca. 18 mm in Diam. , pedicellate or sessile, pedicel up to 3 mm long, puberulent; pedicel slender, 2.5 mm long, puberulent or nearly glabrous. Calyx tubular-campanulate, Ca. 2.5 mm, outer puberulent and glandular punctate, inner surface glabrous, 10-veined, inconspicuous, calyx teeth 5, narrowly triangular-subulate, apex long acute, 1 mm long. Corolla Lilac, 4 mm long, outside slightly puberulent, inside surface puberulent below throat, limb 4-lobed, upper lobe apex 2-lobed, larger, remaining 3 lobes subequal, Oblong, apex obtuse. Stamens 4, anterior pair longer, Ca. 5 mm, both extending beyond Corolla, filaments filiform, glabrous, anthers ovoid, 2-loculed, cells parallel. Style slightly beyond Stamens, apex subequaling 2-lobed, Lobes subulate. Flat-topped disk. Nutlets ovoid, yellow-brown, with small glandular pits. Flowering 7-9 months, fruiting 10 months.

Peppermint has the functions of dispersing wind-heat, detoxicating and removing rash, clearing throat and soothing liver and regulating Qi, as follows: peppermint's function of dispersing wind-heat is mainly used to treat wind-heat cold syndrome, clinical manifestations are fever, fear of cold, sore throat, headache, cough, cough with yellow sputum or cough, dry stool and other cold symptoms; It is used for treating sore throat and headache caused by exogenous wind-heat or exogenous wind-cold entering the interior heat. Mint has the effect of detoxication and eruption of measles Peppermint has the effect of clearing the nose and Orifices, and can be used to treat nasal congestion caused by a cold, runny nose, or nasal congestion caused by allergies, for liver-qi discomfort caused by hypochondriac pain, mood disorders, insomnia dream, depression and other symptoms can play a very good role in treatment.