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Peppermint
HISTORICAL USES
Peppermint is one of the ancient herbs. It was prized in ancient Egypt; sprigs of it have been found in the pyramids, and instructions for distilling the oil have been found in ancient Egyptian manuscripts. For centuries, it has been a social drink among the Arabs, also considered a stimulant to virility. It was well-known to the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations as well.
Pliny wrote that the Greeks and Romans crowned themselves with Peppermint at their feasts and adorned their tables with its sprays, and that their cooks flavored both their sauces and their wines with its essence. It was frequently mentioned by Dioscorides and Hippocrates as well. The Greeks scoured their dining tables with it before a meal, and added it to their bath water. The Romans used it to flavor sauce to stimulate the appetite. Pliny wrote that it makes men hungry for their meat.
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Peppermint is used for most of the minor ailments that plague people. It is a prime remedy for colds and flu. The classic formula for these ailments, which is said to break a fever quickly, is a combination of equal parts of peppermint and elder flowers. This is made in a usual infusion and given hot to the sick person, who goes to bed and keeps warm until he begins to sweat. Sweating always breaks the fever (and that is why we hurry to make the patient sweat; dry fever kills, but a moist, sweating fever kills germs and brings the patient to better health than he was before the illness). You can also make hot cups of infusion, as strong as you like, for the same purpose, without the elder flowers. The formula is soothing for restlessness and nervousness that often accompany the onset of illness; it can be used to calm people of any age no matter what reason their nervousness.
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