Mint in species
Mint, mint, mint, mentha. It is not only in toothpaste or in sweets, but is a real plant. And his use began a long time ago. In Ovid, for example, who described how the daughter of the water god, called Menthe of minthe, was loved by the god of the underworld but turned into a plant by his jealous wife. Those gods, but that's how we can enjoy all those fresh coins.
Other coryphies of that time, Hippocrates and Dioscorides in the head, often mentioned the coin in their writings on medicine. Pliny prescribed its use in 41 medicinal drinks, and in some of them the herb was named separately as a gastric agent, fortifying agent and carminative. The Roman soldiers spread the mint plants throughout the Roman Empire. Already in the ninth century, this herb was grown in many European monastery gardens. In the Middle Ages, mint leaves were not only used in the well-known way in cooking, but the crushed leaf also served to whiten the teeth, heal mouth ulcers, heal bites of mad dogs, relieve the pain of wasp stings, prevent the milk from curdling, and to prevent the milk from curling, and to prevent to scare away rats and mice.
Mint species intersect on it ludly. They have a strong tendency to bastards, say the boring botanists. Then those old writers would have used a different language. Walahfrid Strabo, abbot of the Reichenau monastery, wrote in his' Hortulus' herbal poem from 840 in the 18th stanza about 'Mentha':“If a person is able to completely memorize the forces, species and names of 'Mint', he is also able to list the number of fish swimming in the red sea”.So we will not try to list them all. It is also not clear which types of mint were mentioned in old herb books. In the historical texts there is certainly often mention Mentha aquatica L., the Water Mint. It grows along the banks of streams, the stem carries a round petiole (while most mint species have flicks).
Very aromatic is the field mint (Mentha arvensis L.) whose flowers are in the leaf axils. On the other hand, without a pleasant smell is the deer mint (Mentha longifolia Huds.), which has long lanceolate leaves and where the flowers stick in long shimmer. Herts mint is often mentioned in the herb books, usually with the remark that it is not medically applied.
An ancient medicinal mint is Mentha pulegium L. de Poleimunt, which is found mainly in the Mediterranean countries. It is a plant with oval leaves and a crowd of dense flower wreaths that sit one above the other. It is a marsh and riverside plant that is found in the Maasvlakte. The name pulegium refers to the repellent properties of this herb. The Romans used it against fleas (pulex).
