How do you eat mint? Can I plant potted plants at home? How do you plant it?

Peppermint is a kind of aromatic crop with economic value, which is commonly used by people in summer. It can be used medicinally, orally, externally, and edible. So how do you eat mint? Can I plant potted plants at home? How do you plant it?

First, how to eat mint?

1. Make tea: mint leaves can be eaten directly raw, or you can choose to make tea or wine as a seasoning and spice. Can eat more in summer, can clear away heat and detoxification.

two。 Mint porridge: go to fresh mint and add water at 2:1, then cook over medium heat and cool to remove dregs. Then wait for the rice porridge to mature, then add peppermint soup to boil, you can add rock sugar.

3. Mint cake: add a little sugar, sweet-scented osmanthus and mint leaves to the cooked mung beans to make stuffing, then stew the glutinous rice and flatten it, then wrap the stuffing. Flatten it on the chopping block and cut it into slices.

Second, how to grow mint?

1. If you buy peppermint seedlings, you can buy them at the florist. There are many kinds of mint, such as sweet mint, chocolate mint, mint, lemon mint, apple mint, mint.

two。 Prepare loose and breathable soil, you can use garden soil and coconut bran to configure yourself, this kind of soil is more suitable for the growth of mint.

3. Soak the branch in a cup with water, and then put it on the balcony so that it can bask in the sun. After about a week, the branch will sprout and take root, and then the branch can be planted in the flowerpot.

4. Do not apply fertilizer before peppermint sprouts, compact the soil when it is first planted in the soil, water it thoroughly, slow the seedlings in a place with astigmatism for 2 or 3 days, and then carry out normal maintenance.

5. Peppermint has strong adaptability to temperature, its rhizome survives the winter and can withstand the low temperature of-15 ℃. The optimum temperature for its growth is 25 ℃-30 ℃. The growth was slow when the temperature was below 15 ℃ and accelerated when the temperature was higher than 20 ℃. At 20 ℃-30 ℃, as long as water and fertilizer are suitable, the higher the temperature, the faster the growth.

Third, the function of mint

Peppermint is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine in China. Young stem tips can be used as vegetable food, and whole herbs can be used as medicine to treat colds, fever, throat pain, headache, skin rubella, itching, measles and other diseases, as well as carbuncle, gangrene, scabies, ringworm and lacquer sores.

Peppermint contains menthol, can refresh breath and has a variety of medicinal properties, can relieve abdominal pain, gallbladder problems such as spasm, but also has antiseptic, diuretic, expectorant, stomach and digestive effects. Eating large amounts of peppermint can lead to insomnia, but small doses can help you sleep.