| HABIT: Perennial herb from rhizomes, glabrous to hairy. |
| STEM : generally ascending to erect, generally branched. |
| LEAVES : petioled to sessile; blade elliptic to ovate or lanceolate, toothed to lobed. |
| INFLORESCENCE : head-like in leaf axils or collectively spike- or panicle-like and subtended by bracts. |
| FLOWER : calyx +- radial, generally 10-veined, lobes 4--5, equal or not; corolla +- 2-lipped, lips generally equal, upper lip notched, lower lip 3-lobed; stamens 4, +- equal, generally exserted, filaments glabrous, anthers segments parallel, distinct. |
| FRUIT : nutlets +- ellipsoid, tip rounded. |
| The infusion of leaves is used to treat rheumatism, indigestion, infantile troubles, vomiting in pregnancy and hysteria. |
| The leaves are acrid, thermogenic, stimulant, anodyne, deodorant, vulnerary, anti-helmenthic, sudorific, dentrific, antispasmodic, febrifuge, and contraceptive. |
| The dried plant is used as an antiseptic, carminative, stomachic, refringent, stimulant, emmenagogue, and diuretic. |
| The tea prepared from the leaves is used as an antidote for poison. |
| Mint has been reported to be used in vitiated conditions of arthralgia, halitosis, indolent ulcers, wounds, cuts, helminthiasis, dipsia, flatulence, colic, peptic ulcer, vomiting, diarrhea, cardiac debility, cough, asthma, bronchitis, strangury, skin diseases, amenorrhea, dysmenorrheal, dental caries, hepatopathy, spleenopathy, jaundice, cephalagia, fever and general weakness. |
