What are the benefits of eating mint

Peppermint is loved by many people for its special fragrance and its ability to dissipate wind-heat and clear the throat. The mint is not only used to make water to drink, but also as a seasoning, spice, made into mint porridge, mint soup and so on. So what are the benefits of eating mint?

Anti-bad breath

Eating peppermint can help to freshen breath, for bad breath has a preventive effect, and peppermint can effectively dispel wind and heat, for oral inflammation, fire and other symptoms caused by bad breath can also play a role in regulating.

Promote digestion

Consumption of peppermint, for the taste nerve and olfactory nerve are stimulating effect, for the oral mucosa has a stimulating effect, can promote oral salivation, increase appetite, increase the amount of blood supply to the gastric mucosa, promote digestion, for the treatment of food stagnation, lifting the stomach and epigastric stagnant feeling is helpful.

Relieves heat and summer heat

Peppermint water, peppermint porridge, etc. can help to clear the heat and relieve the summer heat, suitable for hot summer consumption, because the peppermint contains substances such as menthol can help to dissipate heat, and the special cool feeling of peppermint is a good medicine to cool the summer heat.

Refreshing

Peppermint contains menthol, isomenthol, rosemary acid and other ingredients that can help stimulate the brain and promote blood circulation in the body. When you are tired at work, eating mint infused water or other foods made from mint can help refresh your brain and improve your work efficiency.

Treating colds

Peppermint is also commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine and has a good effect of dispersing wind and cold. When you have a cold, you can drink some peppermint water or make peppermint porridge or peppermint tofu, which can help improve the symptoms of runny nose, nasal congestion, fever and other discomforts.

What are the bad effects of eating too much mint?

Insomnia

A small amount of peppermint can help relax your tension and make you feel happy and sleepy. But a lot of consumption at night, mint is with refreshing, waking, excitement effect, will affect sleep, and even insomnia.

Lead to poisoning

Peppermint contains volatile oil 1 to 3%, and the oil contains about 80% of menthol (menthol), followed by menthone, isomenthol, pinene, etc.. Not only does it have a stimulating effect on the digestive tract, it also has an inhibiting effect on the medulla oblongata center and the heart. Taking 20 ml of menthol can cause serious poisoning. Poisoning is often caused by overdose.

Causes paralysis of the respiratory system

The peppermint oil and menthol in peppermint have a strong paralyzing effect on the human body, and if consumed in excess, may lead to respiratory paralysis and, in the most serious cases, death.

Precautions for eating peppermint

1, pregnant women should not eat in excess, and mint has the effect of restraining the excretion of milk, lactating women can not eat more. 2, mint ingredients will easily evaporate because of the heat, which will lead to the failure of its nutritional value, so in the water should be rolled before putting mint. 3, because of mint aromatic pungent reason, Yin deficiency fever sweating, lung deficiency cough patients should be used with caution.