Essential Oils

Peppermint Oil (Mentha Arvensis) This oil is obtained by steam distillation of the flowering herb, and is produced in India. It has a penetrating odour. Peppermint tea helps in indigestion and heart palpitation. It can be used for cough, cold, ulcers, headaches, to increase local blood flow, to stimulate secretion of bile, for alimentary canal pains, in cholera and diarrhoea, nausea, to disguise the taste of unpalatable drugs, in raising internal heat, influenza, hysteria, rheumatism, neuralgia, lumbago, sea-sickness, puerperal fevers, dermatitis, scabies, burns, muscular pains, bronchitis, migraines, insomnia, shock and mental fogginess, dental cures, in many foods and cosmetics, in balms and liniments, to keep away rats. It is an anti-septic, stimulant, anaesthetic, antibacterial, carminative, stomachic, anti-spasmodic and disinfectant.