Mentha pulegium
The story
Throughout history, this plant has been woven into traditional medicine and folklore. It has served as a traditional folk remedy, an emmenagogue, and an abortifacient. Known also as squaw mint, it carries a deep and complex history as a powerful botanical agent across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
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- Family
- Lamiaceae
How to use it
This plant has been utilized as a traditional folk remedy, an emmenagogue, and an abortifacient. Additionally, its strong spearmint-like scent has earned it the name mosquito plant, suggesting its utility as a natural aromatic.
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In the kitchen
Though historically used as a culinary herb, extreme caution is required because it is toxic to the liver and has caused some deaths.
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About
Mentha pulegium, commonly (European) pennyroyal, or pennyrile, also called squaw mint, mosquito plant and pudding grass, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Crushed pennyroyal leaves emit a very strong fragrance similar to spearmint. Pennyroyal is a traditional folk remedy, emmenagogue, abortifacient, and culinary herb, but is toxic to the liver and has caused some deaths. European pennyroyal is related to an American
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Mentha pulegium
- Slug
- mentha-pulegium
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Genus
- Mentha
- Species
- pulegium
- Wikidata QID
- Q161235
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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