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CALAMINT(CALAMINTHA
ASCENDENS), (MELISSA CALAMINTA)
Family: Labiatae
---Synonyms---Mill Mountain. Mountain Balm. Basil
Thyme. Mountain Mint.
---Part Used---Herb.
It contains a camphoraceous, volatile, stimulating oil in
commonwith the other mints. This is distilled by water, but its virtues are
better extracted by rectified spirit.
---Medicinal Actions and Uses---
Diaphoretic, expectorant, aromatic. The whole herb has a
sweet, aromatic odour and an infusion of the dried leaves, makes a pleasant
cordial tea, which was formerly much taken for weaknesses of the stomach and
flatulent colic. It is useful in hysterical complaints, and a conserve made
of the young fresh tops has been used, for this purpose.
The decoction of the herb bringeth down women's courses and provoketh
urine. It is profitable for those that have ruptures or troubled with
convulsions or cramps, with shortness of breath, or choleric torrnents and
pains in their bellies or stomach. It helpeth those with yellow jaundice
and, taken in wine, it stayeth vomiting. It helpeth such as have the leprosy
and it hindereth conception in women.
Applied to the buckle-bone, it will by continuance of time spend the humours
that causeth the pain of sciatica. The juice dropped into the ears killeth
worms in them. The leaves boiled in wine and drank provoke sweat and open
obstructions of the liver and spleen. The decoction with some sugar is
profitable for those troubled with the overflowing of the gall and that have
an old cough or are scarce able to breathe.
It should not be taken in
pregnancy.
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