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Do you know what mint is for? What kind of environment does it grow in?
You should have heard of mint, or eaten mint in your life, but do you know mint? Let's have a look today, Bian Xiao. What is the function of mint? Under what circumstances was mint born? Mint can also be used as medicine, containing some volatile oil components, which has the functions of anti-inflammation, bacteriostasis and refreshing breath, and also has obvious cough relieving effect on some respiratory infections. Mint leaves can be used for mosquito bites after being crushed.

First, mint can stimulate nerves, make people feel cool, relieve fatigue, relieve summer heat, relieve troubles and relieve stress. Pharmacological research shows that mint contains cholagogic components, which can promote bile secretion, improve the symptoms of jaundice or cholecystitis and protect the liver. Mint, also known as fish vanilla, is a perennial herb in Labiatae. It is a wild vegetable, which grows in lowlands, roadsides, beaches, lakes and gardens. Can be used as medicine and edible. It is widely distributed all over the country.

Second, it is cultivated in most areas, with Jiangsu and Anhui provinces producing the most. Mint, as a kind of wild vegetable with the same origin of medicine and food, has increasingly become a well-known green food and nutritional health food in people's daily life. Peppermint has a strong adaptability to temperature, and its roots can survive the winter and can withstand the low temperature of-15℃. The optimum growth temperature is 25 ~ 30℃. When the temperature is lower than 15℃, it grows slowly, and when it is higher than 20℃, it grows faster. 20℃ to 30℃, as long as the water and fertilizer are suitable, the higher the temperature, the faster the growth.

3. Peppermint is widely distributed in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere and all over China. There are many cultivated areas in China, among which Jiangsu and Anhui are traditional authentic producing areas, but the cultivated areas are decreasing day by day. Tropical Asia, Russian Far East, Korea, Japan and North America, south to Mexico. Mint, whose real name is Yindancao, belongs to Labiatae and other dry whole grasses. Most of it grows by the wetland river in Shan Ye, and its roots are underground. Most plants grow at an altitude of 2 100 meters, but they can also grow at an altitude of 3500 meters. It is an aromatic crop with special economic value. Mint leaves, the market price is about 200 to 400. Color is very important.