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Mentha Piperita

Q / 30CMentha Pip
Peppermint · "The Nausea Flatulence Mint"
menth.PlantUncommonPsoric
Source
🎯 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.
👤 Constitution
•No specific constitutional type is defined, but it is often indicated for individuals suffering from flatulent colic or respiratory sensitivity to air and smoke.
⭐ 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
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
📝1 to 20 drops
Primary Dosage
30C
Centesimal
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Lachesis Mutus →Rumex Crispus →Mentha Pulegium →Mentha Viridis →
📚 Sources & References

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