PDR for Herbal Medicines

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English Horsemint
Mentha longifolia
DESCRIPTION
£k Medicinal Parts: The medicinal part is the dried herb.

Flower and Fruit: The flowers are sometimes interrupted

lower down by 1 cm thick, gray to white, downy, panicled,

false spikes. The false spikes are arranged with linear, villous

bracts, which are longer than the flowers. The calyx is fluffy

and woolly pubescent with awl-shaped tips. The corolla is

lilac to flesh-colored. The fruit is a finely speckled nutlet

densely covered in 1- or more-celled tomentose hairs with

few glands and a mild odor. The stem is erect, simple or

branched, up to 1 m high, tough and obtusely angular. The

leaves are sessile, oblong-ovate to lanceolate, usually acumi-

nate, with 6 to 12 pairs of curved pinnate veins. The

underside of the leaves are gray to white tomentose.

Production: English Horsemint is the aerial part of Mentha

longifolia, the dried herb.

Habitat: The plant is common in all of Europe to southern

Sweden.

ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY

COMPOUNDS

Volatile oil: chief components piperitone (share 60-80%),

furthermore beta- caryophyllene (5-15%), germacren D (5-

15%), 1,8-cineole (2-7%), limonene (1-8%), with other

chemotypes chief components D-carvone, piperitone, iso-

menthone + menthofurane, menthone, piperitol, men-

thol or linalool

Flavonoids: including among others diosmin, hesperidin,

quercitrin, thymonin, apigenine-7-glucuronide

EFFECTS

English Horsemint has carminative and stimulant effects.

INDICATIONS AND USAGE

Unproven Uses: The drug is used for digestive disorders,

particularly for flatulence. Historically, it has been used for

all kinds of pain, headaches in particular.

PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS

No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction

with the proper administration of designated therapeutic

dosages.

DOSAGE

Mode of Administration: The ground drug is used internally

as an infusion; it is used externally as a bath additive.

LITERATURE

Hansel R, Keller K, Rimpler H, Schneider G (Hrsg.), Hagers

Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, 5. Aufl., Bde 4-6

(Drogdh), Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1992-

1994.

English Ivy

Hedera helix

DESCRIPTION

Medicinal Parts: The medicinal parts are the leaves and

berries.

Leaves, Stem and Root: The plant is a perennial. It has a

sturdy rhizome with underground runners. The shoots are