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Mentha Piperita

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Peppermint · "The Nausea Flatulence Mint"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the respiratory system and digestive tract, stimulating cold-perceiving nerves and relieving flatulence and dry, irritated coughs.

📖 Boericke writes:

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.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Dry cough, worse from air into larynx, tobacco smoke, fog, talking; with irritation in suprasternal fossa (Rumex).

respiration

Trachea painful to touch.

respiration

🩺 Systems & Indications

🔵Abdomen

Useful for treating digestive distress characterized by excessive gas, bloating, and colic.

Bloated, disturbing sleep.

Infantile colic.

Bilious colic with great accumulation of gas.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture

Mother Tincture

📝1 to 20 drops

Primary Dosage

30C

Centesimal

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Lachesis Mutus →Rumex Crispus →Mentha Pulegium →Mentha Viridis →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Mentha Piperita is listed in 15 rubrics across 3 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 6 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System10 Abdomen4 Nose1