Menthol: Nature’s Pain Reliever
In Natural History, published 77-79 AD, Pliny the Elder
identified over 60 medicinal applications for mint. Chewed
and applied topically, he reported that mint leaves were
useful as a remedy for elephantiasis, lumbago, gout, scrofula,
headache, all eruptions of the head, and maladies of the
rectum. He claimed that the smell alone reanimated the spirits
and, if bound into a crown around the head, it stimulated
the mind and soul. As a juice, it prevented the recurrence
of lascivious drea