Medical benefits of peppermint

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Often occur to us sweets and (ice cream), especially in this summer, but the peppermint (stinging) Peppermint is also an old herbal remedy used to treat a wide range of ailments, abdominal pain from bloating and gas end of stomach cancer and gallbladder disease .


And traditional medicine does not necessarily mean it's effective, and spent the doctors said the best answers to the many problems that are supposed to be handled by pepper mint, or heal.


And it turned out that peppermint was the best bit of many plant drugs in clinical trials. Many recent studies that olive oil is very effective in alleviating intestinal irritability syndrome IBS irritable bowel syndrome, which is a set of symptoms that include pain and abdominal cramping and feeling bloated, constipation and diarrhea.


, Italian investigators reported in a study conducted in the year that about 75 per cent of the patients who took peppermint oil capsules for four weeks had a significant reduction in their IBS symptoms compared with 38 per cent of those who took a placebo pill.
There are other discoveries of questionable quality, namely, that additional applications for the peppermint oil to help relieve headaches caused by tension, but a mix of peppermint and caraway oils also helps to treat poor digestion difficult.