🌿Western Herbalism🫒Mediterranean🏞️Appalachian Folk Medicine
Spearmint
Mentha spicata
About Spearmint
Spearmint (Mentha spicata) is a herb used in the Western Herbalism, Mediterranean and Appalachian Folk Medicine traditions to help with PCOS, Digestive Issues, Nausea, and Hormonal Imbalance, among 2 other conditions it addresses. The leaves are the part traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Spearmint, or spear mint (binomial Mentha spicata, synonym Mentha viridis), also known as garden mint, common mint, lamb mint and mackerel mint, is a species of mint native to much of Europe and Asia (Middle East, Himalayas, China etc.), and naturalized in parts of northern and western Africa, North America, and South America, as well as various oceanic islands.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Leaves · internal