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The Benefits of Peppermint:
- September 4, 2023
- Posted by: Plant Prana Calendar
- Category: Properties of Oils
Peppermint Essential Oil:
Peppermint Essential Oil: Your Body’s Multifaceted Ally
Peppermint essential oil is like a versatile superhero in the world of aromatherapy, ready to rescue you from a multitude of ailments and discomforts. Let’s embark on a fragrant journey to discover the remarkable benefits of peppermint oil and how it can enhance your overall well-being.
A Medicinal Marvel:
Combination Power: When blended with lemon and rosemary, peppermint oil helps counteract the impact of medications on your body.
Inner Ear Elixir: It’s a valuable remedy for inner ear issues like vertigo, providing much-needed relief.
Pain-Relieving Potency: Peppermint oil shines as a pain reliever, especially for nerve pain, headaches, and migraines.
Body and Mind Stimulant: This oil is a general stimulant, invigorating both your body and mind.
Headache Soother: For those pesky headaches, simply rub peppermint oil into your temples and experience soothing relief.
Digestive Savior: Peppermint oil is incredible for calming a stress-riddled and depleted digestive tract.
Liver Jump-Starter: Internally taken, it jump-starts your liver, aiding in detoxification and overall liver function.
Tonic for All Systems: Diffusing peppermint oil acts as a fantastic tonic for all your bodily systems.
Shingle Pain Relief: Experience relief from lingering shingle pain, a discomfort that can be quite challenging.
Respiratory Aid: Inhaling peppermint oil offers relief for a wide range of respiratory conditions, promoting easier breathing.
Nerve Function Booster: It stimulates proper functioning of the nerves, helping maintain optimal nerve health.
Combat Fatigue: Whether inhaled or taken internally, peppermint oil fights fatigue, providing a natural energy boost.
Liver Cell Regeneration: When mixed with carrot oil, it can help regenerate liver cells, which can be particularly helpful in cirrhosis (though it doesn’t reverse the condition).
Specialized Healing Blends:
Liver Rejuvenation: Combine peppermint, Rosemary Verbenone, Lemon, and Dill to treat a tired liver.
Anemia Assistance: Adding red thyme to the blend above can help combat anemia.
Hepatitis Support: Peppermint, Rosemary Verbenone, Basil, Lemon, combined with peppermint can be useful for hepatitis.
Digestive Aid for the Elderly: Peppermint, caraway, anise, and red thyme work wonders for digestive atony, a condition characterized by poor muscular movement, especially in the elderly and chronically ill.
Shingle Relief Massage: For shingles, try a massage oil blend of peppermint, ravensara, lavender, and eucalyptus citriodora, containing herbal extracts of St. John’s Wort.
Menstrual Comfort: To tackle stubborn menstrual cramps, mix peppermint with clove and cinnamon leaf.
Constipation Relief: For constipation, combine peppermint, savory, cinnamon, pine, and rosemary verbenone.
Skin and Beyond:
Skin Savior: Peppermint oil comes to the rescue for various skin issues, including dermatitis, toothaches, hives-related itching, nerve pain from shingles, and psoriasis or eczema pain.
A Balancing Act for Circulation:
Heart Harmony: It helps with palpitations, gently elevates slightly lowered blood pressure, and possesses antispasmodic properties.
Muscular Comfort:
Pain-Relief Partner: Peppermint oil is your go-to for neuralgia, muscle aches, headaches, migraines, and even for soothing bruises, sprains, and strains.
Respiratory Revival:
Breathing Easier: Combat bad breath, asthma, sinusitis, bronchitis, and spasmodic cough with the help of peppermint oil. It deepens your breath and eases aerophagy.
Digestive Delight:
Digestive Dynamo: Peppermint oil tackles various digestive issues, including gallstones, indigestion, nausea, motion sickness, and more. It’s a champion for reconditioning and healing a compromised digestive system. Additionally, it relieves painful digestion, heartburn, gas, cramping, and even gastric spasms.
Urinary and Immune Health:
Urinary Relief: Use it for urinary pain and light periods. It also shows promise in assisting with impotence.
Immunity Booster: Peppermint oil is a preventive powerhouse against colds, flus, fevers, and various viral conditions. It aids in recovery from long illnesses, combating fatigue.
Nervous System Support:
Nerve Nirvana: Peppermint oil alleviates neuralgia, pain, headaches, migraines, mental fatigue, and viral neuritis. It prevents stress-related issues, vertigo, and dizziness, acting as a stimulant to the nervous system, ensuring it functions properly.
Mood Uplifter:
Psychological Boost: Enjoy an uplifting and mentally stimulating experience with the aromatic wonder of peppermint oil.
Energetic and Spiritual Heights:
Focused Energy: Peppermint oil is perfect for increasing focus and provides terrain treatment while offering physical stimulation.
Spiritual Fortitude:
Spiritual Strength: This oil fortifies your convictions and inner strength.
Incorporate peppermint essential oil into your wellness routine, and let its myriad benefits enhance your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. This aromatic powerhouse is a versatile and valuable addition to your holistic health toolkit. Elevate your senses and experience the magic of peppermint!
Here are some key points for Peppermint:
- Combined with lemon and rosemary it helps to drain the impact of medications on the body
- Helpful for inner ear issues such as vertigo
- Great pain reliever especially with nerve pain, headaches, and migraines
- General stimulant to the body and mind
- Rubbed into the temples for headaches
- Incredible for stress plagued and depleted digestive tract
- Taken internally for jump starting the liver
- Diffused as a great tonic for all systems
- Relief from left over shingle pain
- Inhaled for a wide range of respiratory conditions
- Stimulates proper functioning of the nerves
- Fatigue when inhaled or taken internally
- Mixed with carrot it can help regenerate liver cells, helpful in cirrhosis (but not reversing the cirrhosis)
- Peppermint, Rosemary Verbenone, Lemon, and Dill treats a tired liver
- Adding red thyme to the blend above can help anemia
- Rosemary Verbenone, Basil, Lemon combined with peppermint can be useful for hepatitis
- Peppermint, caraway, anise, and red thyme for digestive atony (poor muscular movement especially in the elderly and chronically ill)
- Shingles may be treated with peppermint, ravensara, lavender, and eucalyptus citriodora in a base of massage oil containing herbal extracts of St.John’s Wort
- Headaches, pains, migraines mix peppermint with lavender and Petitgrain in a base of St.John’s Wort massage oil
- Combined with clove and cinnamon leaf for stubborn menstrual cramps
- Peppermint, savory, cinnamon, pine, rosemary verbenone for constipation
SKIN:
Dermatitis, toothache, itching from hives, nerve pain left from shingles, pain from psoriasis, eczema
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM:
Palpitations, tonic, elevates slightly lowered blood pressure, antispasmodic,
MUSCULAR SYSTEM:
Neuralgia, dull ache in muscles, sharp pain, radiating pain, headaches, migraines, bruises, sprains, strains
RESPIRATORY:
Bad breath, asthma, sinusitis, bronchitis, spasmodic cough, deepens breath, paradoxical breathing, aerophagy,
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM:
Gallstones, Indigestion, Reconditioning and healing a compromised digestive system, Nausea, motion sickness, nervous stomach, food poisoning, painful digestion, difficult digestion, heartburn antacid effect), stimulates and supports liver function, sluggish digestion, gas, cramping, aerophagy, gastric spasms, diarrhea, gas, bad breath, nervous vomiting, intestinal parasites
URINARY SYSTEM:
Urinary pain, light periods, impotence
IMMUNE SYSTEM:
Prevention, colds, flus, fevers, viral neuritis, shingles, herpes, fatigue, recovery from a long illness
NERVOUS SYSTEM:
Neuralgia, pain, headaches, migraines, mental fatigue, viral neuritis, fainting, stress prevention, vertigo, dizziness, stimulant to the nervous system (proper functioning), tonic
PSYCHOLOGICALLY: Uplifting, mentally stimulating
ENERGETICALLY:
Great for increasing focus, terrain treatment, physically stimulating
SPIRITUALLY: strength of convictions