Spearmint (Δυόσμος)

Mint Δυόσμος

Spearmint is a delicious tasting herb that is used for a variety of dishes. It is traditionally made into a mint sauce to be used as an accompaniment to roast lamb. Its leaves may also be used fresh and mixed into all sorts of vegetable, fish and meat dishes and also used to flavour drinks, such as a delicious mint tea or the Cuban Mojito cocktail. Mint can also be chopped and added to sweet dishes, such as fruit salad.

It is one of the most aromatic and pleasant tasting herbs with many healing properties.

• The flowers and fresh leaves can be used.
• Mint is a tonic, good for the stomach, a digestive, and anti-convulsive.
• Strengthens the production of the gallbladder and the function of the liver.
• Also helps prevent flu, rheumatism and ailments of the bladder.
• Mint leaves, as a poultice is beneficial for burns.
• In a hot bath it is a antiseptic, tones the face and good for the blood circulation.
• Mint oil is used for headaches, as a digestive and as a poultice for dermatological problems.

Breastfeeding mothers should not take mint as it stops milk production.