Description
Peppermint is a perennial rhizome herbaceous plant with a characteristic strong odor and cool taste. Stems oppositely branched with lower branches that rise up, quadrangular, dark purple. Leaves opposite, petiolate, oblong-ovate, pointed, sharp-edged on the edge. Inflorescence spike-shaped, with pseudomotors, corolla pink or purple.
Content
Peppermint leaves contain essential oil (2-3%), which includes menthol, pinene, limonene, phellandrene, cineole and other terpenoids, in addition it contains flavonoids, ursolic acid and oleanolic acid, betaine, carotene, hesperidin, tannins , organic acids, trace elements
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