Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study

Noticing that the waist circumference on average went down on the peppermint group (85.17 -> 84.61) while the placebo group it went up (88.33 -> 88.65)? Also the resting heart rate dropped for the peppermint group. My initial suspicion is that the peppermint group coincidentally was also the 'got in better shape' group. Maybe the peppermint helped, but for relatively small groups that also seem to be improving waist circumference and heart rates likely due to good diet and exercise, I'm not convinced the peppermint did jack shit. More investigation needed! Would be awesome if it helped though!

herbal tea is good for you, it seems

There are two types of peppermint supplements being sold: mentha pipereta that this study looked at, and mentha arvensis.

I wonder if mentha arvensis has the same effect. Supplements vs mint tea would be another interesting thing to study in future.

HN really upvotes some dumb medical articles, come on, n=20 about peppermint?

That is very accurate sphygmomanometry!

Peppermint group N=20. Mkay. 2 of those lost to followup, one because they didn't like the taste (control group got peppermint cordial). The result might be real but needs followup before we all starting gulping down peppermint oil.

Doctor Bronner was right!

Peppermint - Pure-Castile Magic Soap: Cool, Refresh, and Awaken with Invigorating Peppermint

https://www.drbronner.com/products/peppermint-pure-castile-l...

Dr. Bronner invented the peppermint oil soap for soiled diapers

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1978/nov/02/cover-look-f...

Created in California: How Dr. Bronner’s became the soap for every subculture

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-07-12/dr-bronner...

>Perhaps inspired by that experimental ethos, customers have discovered their own unusual uses in the years since Emanuel started mixing gallons of peppermint castile soap out of his Pershing Square tenement apartment in 1948. [...]

>David, Mike and Lisa Bronner grew up in Glendale, not giving much thought to the prospect of one day taking over the family business and generally regarding their grandfather as a bewildering figure.

>“My granddad was always talking about uniting ‘Spaceship Earth,’ and it was kind of sailing over our heads,” David said.

>“He’d be talking to us as if we were all PhD students in religious studies,” Mike said of visits to Emanuel’s home when the siblings were in elementary school. “He was blind, and every once in a while he would say, ‘Are you there?’ and we’d be like, “All-one, Grandpa!’ And he’d be like, ‘Very good. OK, I want you to recite the peppermint bottle.’”

Lisa Bronner: The Poetry of the Lavender Label

https://www.lisabronner.com/the-poetry-of-the-lavender-label

>The label on the quart size of the Lavender Pure-Castile Magic Soap holds the greatest insight for me into his motivations and goals. The Peppermint label records the tenets of his Moral ABC, his guidelines for humanity to find unity and a path forward. But it is the Lavender quart that hosts his poetry, and in that I see his heart. [...]

>"To keep my health! To do my work! To love, to live!"

>"Great peace is found in little busyness."

>"Work well yourself and work for all."

>"Til we rally, raise, unite!"

>"All-One-God-Faith, All-One! Unite!"

>"Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime."

>"Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal."

>"Let us then be up and doing ... still achieving, still pursuing"

>"In all we do, let us be generous, fair & loving to Spaceship Earth and all its inhabitants."

>"We're ALL-ONE OR NONE! ALL-ONE!"