1. Is eating mint harmful to your health?
Mint is non-toxic and can be eaten or used as medicine. As long as it is eaten in moderation, it is harmless to the body. But be careful not to eat too much. Some people with weak constitution had better not eat mint.
2. What are the benefits of eating mint?
(1) refresh your mind
Peppermint contains volatile peppermint oil, which has a cool smell, can refresh the mind and stimulate the nerves, and is especially suitable for people who are sleepy at work or study. Crushing mint or drinking a glass of mint water can sober people up.
(2) Soothing the liver and regulating qi
Mint enters the liver meridian and has the effect of soothing the liver and regulating qi. Eating mint can relieve symptoms such as liver depression and qi stagnation, chest tightness and hypochondriac distension.
(3) Evacuate wind and heat
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, mint is cool, pungent, pungent, cool and clear. Therefore, eating mint has the effect of dispersing wind-heat and relieving exterior syndrome, and can relieve wind-heat cold and sore throat. The peppermint oil contained in peppermint can also dilate skin capillaries, promote sweating, and achieve the purpose of sweating and relieving exterior syndrome.
(4) diminishing inflammation and relieving itching
Mint also has the function of relieving itching, but it is not for eating, but for rubbing. Rub mint on the itchy and swollen part after being bitten by mosquitoes to stop itching. Menthol should contain menthol, which can paralyze nerve endings, diminish inflammation, relieve itching and relieve pain.
It is very dangerous to eat too much mint.
Although mint has many benefits, you should be careful not to eat too much. Peppermint contains menthol and peppermint oil, which has a strong paralyzing effect on mammals. Excessive consumption of mint can lead to respiratory paralysis and death.
Generally speaking, when eating mint, each person does not exceed 2 mg/kg body weight per day.
4. Who shouldn't eat mint?
1, pregnant women should not eat mint. Mentha contains menthol, which will have an impact on the health of the fetus after being eaten by pregnant women. In severe cases, it may lead to fetal malformation or abortion.
2, yin deficiency and blood dryness, physical weakness and sweating should not eat mint. Mint has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome and regulating qi. People who are already weak and sweaty often eat mint, which will make them weaker.
3, people with spleen and stomach cold diarrhea are also best not to eat mint, because mint is cool, eating it will aggravate the symptoms of stomach cold diarrhea.
5, recommend mint to eat.
1. mint porridge: add clean water 1l to fresh mint 30g or dried mint 15g, fry for about 0.5l on medium fire, and take out mint juice after cooling. Cook porridge with 150g stem rice. When the porridge is ready, add mint soup and a little rock sugar and boil it. It can refresh the brain, dispel wind and dissipate heat, stimulate appetite and help digestion.
2, fresh mint crucian carp soup: live crucian carp 1, cut clean, cooked with clear water, add onion 1, ginger 1, 20 grams of fresh mint, boiled water can put seasoning and oil and salt, soup and meat to eat together. Take/kloc-0 once a day for 3-5 days. Can be used for adjuvant treatment of chronic cough in children.
3, mint silver scented tea: mint 10g, honeysuckle 15g. Soak in boiling water instead of drinking tea. It can relieve colds, wind and heat, fever, dizziness and sore throat.
4, mint chrysanthemum tea: 6g mint, chrysanthemum 10g, 3g tea. Soak in boiling water instead of drinking tea. It can relieve wind-cold, wind-heat and dizziness.
6. What is mint like?
1, mint turtle. Mint can't be eaten with turtles, which may cause food poisoning symptoms.
2, mint and nail fish. Don't eat mint with turtle meat, or you will get hernia easily.