🌾Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
Spearmint (Hung Lui)
Mentha spicata
About Spearmint (Hung Lui)
Spearmint (Hung Lui) (Mentha spicata) is a herb used in the Vietnamese Traditional Medicine tradition to help with Digestive Issues, Nausea, Headache, and Cold. The leaves are the part traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Spearmint, or spear mint (binomial Mentha spicata, synonym Mentha viridis), also known as garden mint, common mint, lamb mint and mackerel mint, is a species of mint native to much of Europe and Asia (Middle East, Himalayas, China etc.), and naturalized in parts of northern and western Africa, North America, and South America, as well as various oceanic islands.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Leaves · internal