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Common Method of Extraction: Steam
Distilled
Color: Clear with a Yellow Tinge
Consistency: Thin
Perfumery Note: Top
Strength of Initial Aroma: Strong
Aromatic Description: Minty, reminiscent
of peppermint candies, but more concentrated. More fragrant than spearmint.
Possible uses of the essential oil of
peppermint: Asthma, colic,
exhaustion, fever, flatulence, headache, nausea, scabies, sinusitis, vertigo.
[Julia Lawless, The
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils (Rockport, MA: Element Books,
1995), 59-67.]
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