Mentha Piperita

Peppermint

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

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.

Abdomen

Bloated, disturbing sleep. Infantile colic. Bilious colic with great accumulation of gas.

Respiration

Voice husky. Tip of nose to touch. Throat dry and sore, as if pin crosswise in it. Dry cough, worse from air into larynx, tobacco smoke, fog , talking; with irritation in suprasternal fossa ( Rumex ). Trachea painful to touch .

Skin

Every scratch becomes a sore. Itching of arm and hand when writing. Vaginal pruritus. Herpes zoster ( Ars; Ran bulb ).

Relationship

Compare: Rumex; Laches; Mentha pulegium --European pennyroyal--(pain in bones of forehead and extremities). Mentha viridis -Spearmint--(scanty urine with frequent desire).

Dose

Tincture, 1 to 20 drops, to thirtieth potency. Locally, in pruritus vaginæ.

Mentha Piperita across the other classic books

Mentha Piperita appears in 3 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Mentha piperita, Huds. Natural order , Labiatæ. Common name , Peppermint. Preparation Tincture of whole plant. Authority. Dr. Demeures, Journ. de la Soc. Gall., first series, IV, p. 115, symptoms observed from one drops of the tincture. Eager for work, and dispatches it quickly (soon). All my life, after rising…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Peppermint. N. O. Labiatæ. Tincture of whole plant. Dilutions of essence. Cough, dry / Headache / Hoarseness / Influenza / Pruritus / Throat, sore / Voice, weakness of A remarkable proving of Menth. pip. was made by Demeures, who took a single drop of the tincture, the effects of which lasted into the third month. A…”

Mentha Piperita in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Mentha Piperita in 6 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic.

EXPECTORATION - LUMPY - lump,like core of boil
COUGH - SMOKE - of all kinds agg.
COUGH - SMOKING agg.
COUGH - INSPIRATION
COUGH - TALKING
GENERALITIES - SENSITIVENESS - externally

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