Materia Medica
Mentha Piperita
Peppermint
Marked action on respiratory organs and skin.
Abdomen
Bloated, disturbing sleep. Infantile colic. Bilious colic with great accumulation of gas.
Respiratory
Voice husky. Tip of nose sore to touch. Throat dry and sore, as if pin crosswise in it. Dry cough, worse from air into larynx, tobacco smoke (Merc.), 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.]
Relationships
Compare: Rumex: Laches.: Mentha pulegium (pain in bones of forehead and extremities).
Dose
'Third to thirtieth potency. Locally, in pru- ritus vagina. 491