The difference between peppermint and patchouli

Peppermint is called Yindan grass, a perennial herb of Labiatae, which is a kind of aromatic crop with special economic value. Patchouli is also a perennial herb of Labiatae, which has the effect of aromatization, stopping vomiting and relieving summer summer. do you know the difference between peppermint and patchouli? Let's take a look at it together.

Peppermint and patchouli have different families and genera.

1. Peppermint: peppermint belongs to the perennial herbs of plant kingdom, angiosperm phylum, dicotyledonous class, synpetal subclass, tubular flower order, Labiatae, wild sesame subfamily, Tarim family and mint genus.

2. Patchouli: patchouli is a perennial herb of the genus Huoxiang, which belongs to the plant kingdom, angiosperm phylum, dicotyledonous class, synpetal subclass, tubular flower order, Labiatae, wild sesame subfamily, Euphorbiaceae, and patchouli.

The difference between stems and leaves of peppermint and patchouli

1. Peppermint: stem erect, 30-60 cm high, lower nodes with slender fibrous roots and horizontal creeping rhizomes, sharply tetragonous, with four grooves, distally inverted puberulent, lower puberulent, much branched, leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, 3-5 cm long, 0.8-3 cm wide, apex acute, base cuneate to subrounded, petiole 2-10 mm long, ventral concave back convex, puberulent.

2. Patchouli: the stem is erect, 50-150 m high, 4-angled, 7-8 mm thick, the upper part is covered with very short fine hairs, the lower part is glabrous, with fertile branches in the upper part, the leaves cordate-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 4.5-11 cm long, 3-6.5 cm wide, small upward, apex caudate-long acuminate, petiole 1.5-3.5 cm long.

The difference between flowers and fruits of mint and patchouli

1. Peppermint: mint small lavender, lip-shaped, dark purple-brown small fruit after flowering, with small glandular fossa. The florescence is from July to September and the fruiting period is October.

2. Patchouli: Corolla purplish blue, about 8 mm long, mature nutlets ovate-oblong, 1.8 mm long, 1.1 mm wide, florescence from June to September, fruit from September to November.

Peppermint and patchouli have different effects.

1. Peppermint: peppermint taste pungent, cool, return to the lung and liver meridian, divergent wind-heat, clear throat, rash and detoxification, soothing the liver and relieving depression and itching and other effects. it is suitable for cold and fever, headache, sore throat, no sweat, wind-fire red eyes, rubella, skin itching, hernia pain, dysentery and dysentery. External use has a slight analgesic effect for neuralgia.

2. Patchouli: patchouli flavor, mild temperature, spleen, stomach, lung meridians, dampness, summer heat, antiemetic effect, suitable for dampness blocking middle coke, epigastric flatulence, nausea, summer dampness, dampness, stomach vomiting and other diseases.