Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
665.55.01
665.55.01 Mentha piperita
English: Peppermint.
German: Pfefferminze.
Dutch: pepermunt, roekkruid, poddebalsem, broekmint, aalkruid, plasenmint, watermint, boerenbalsem, plei, polei, bakkekruid.
Source: Murphy, Massimo Mangialavori, Boericke.
Content: lithium; mentholum.
Introduction
The freshest of the Lamiaceae is in the first stage of impulsiveness, optimism and versatility. They are naive and impulsive, bright and fresh in their relations and their searching for connection.
Mind
Changeable, laughing alternating weeping, sadness alternating cheerfulness, serious alternating frivolous.
Sensitive, unstable.
Lots of contact but superficial.
Searching for the better, never finding it.
Changes desire, which ameliorates; averse stability, better in difficult circumstances.
Desire harmony, aversion quarrels.
Humour, fresh, grotesque.
Ambitious, much ambition; great expectation of himself. Reproaches himself because he had not accomplished enough. Ardent. Audacity.
Passionate.
Busy, industrious, active, mania for work, mental work; > occupation, diversion.
Confusion as to his identity; sensation of duality.
Narcissist.
Desire to be the boss, leader, even with lies and cheating.
Numb, cannot talk.
Powerless against domineering strategies.
Lost.
Profession: selling agents, insurance agent.
Delusions that he is unappreciated.
Dream: teeth falling out, pursued.
General
Weather: < cold wet weather, > wind.
Desire: cold food, fruit, vegetables; bulimia.
Aversion: vinegar.
Food: < milk.
Sleep: sleepless, < nightmare, in children; << early rising.
Body
Infection: influenza, acute sickness.
Nervous: insensible, motionless; cold feeling, perceiving, inner parts, nerves.
Head: migraine; cold forehead.
Nose: coryza, itching, sneezing; sinusitis, chronic.
Face: neuralgia.
Mouth: toothache; offensive breath.
Throat: hoarse.
Lungs: cold breath; bronchitis, dry cough excited by air entering larynx, by reading, < cold wet weather, by shocks, tobacco, fog, talking.
Stomach: pain and flatulence; deranged digestion.
Abdomen: gall colic, << suppressed anger.
Rectum: diarrhoea.
Female: endometriosis; cysts ovaries; < menopause.
Back: pain muscles neck, < touch.
Skin: burning, itching, allergic; mosquito stings; herpes simplex, zoster; baldness.