Mint or Mentha is a sweet healing plant full of medicinal properties. Often described as cool tasting, these plants tend to grow in shady dark places by damp, pools and in rain. Fragrant and flowering, blueish green in colour, the leaves are often used to make as food ingrediants, in tea and even in bath essentials, shampoos, soap and perfume.
Mint is full of menthol, often used in medicines to treat pain. Mint also helps to ease feelings of nausea. Farmers that prefer organic treatments of crops use mint insecticide. Mint is known to grow anytime of the year.
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| Minthe from Gods School |
In Greek myth, a beautiful naiad called Minthe from the mountain by Elis was looked upon by the god of the underworld, Hades. The wife of Hades, goddess Persephone was offended and out of jealousy, the goddess of the underworld transformed Minthe into a plant. She became the mint plant who was most cherished by Hades that Minthe was his sacred plant.
More on Mentha family
"Mint leaves, without a qualifier like 'peppermint' or 'apple mint', generally refers to spearmint leaves. ... The taxonomic family Lamiaceae is known as the mint family. It includes many other aromatic herbs, including most of the more common cooking herbs, such as basil, rosemary, sage, oregano, and catnip."
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