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Wonderful Infusions: Mint

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It has medicinal applications and effects on your health that will make you go out to the supermarket tomorrow to buy it.

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 This little herb deserves more attention than is usually given to it.

Its uses go beyond cooking as a spice. It has medicinal applications, and effects on your health that will make you go to the supermarket tomorrow to buy it.

Mint has countless applications beyond haute cuisine. Its tannins, flavonoids, beta-carotenes, vitamins and minerals have very beneficial effects on your body.

They contain a large amount of antioxidants that make it ideal for fighting old age, as well as the proliferation of various degenerative diseases.

After a copious lunch, a mint infusion is an incentive to digestion. Helping to relax intestinal spasms, bad breath and even nausea.

It has antiseptic effects, you can use its leaves to combat mosquito bites and other animals.

Its essence is a magnificent bronchodilator, like eucalyptus you can use it with a humidifier to improve your nights and reconcile dream.

However, it has stimulating effects on the nervous system, it is good to take it during the day, but not before sleeping, like the coffee.

Among the thousands of uses and benefits of peppermint is aromatherapy. Since essential oils such as soaps are used to favorably stimulate the nervous system, relieve respiratory problems and relieve stress.

Planting a peppermint plant is not a bad idea, knowing that it is a medicinal plant that can be part of your emergency kit at any time!

How to prepare a MINT INFUSION

Place 5 to 6 grams of mint leaves in boiling water for ten minutes, and let it steep. If you want to sweeten it a bit, we recommend adding a few leaves of stevia or a few drops of agave honey.

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The benefits of drinking mint teas include relieving digestive problems such as indigestion and gas, calming headaches and migraines, improving concentration and mood, relieving symptoms of colds and flu, and helping to combat bad breath. Read more here: https://www.equilibriumx.com/tips/infusiones-maravillosas-la-menta
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Last modified: March 21, 2024