(Mentha australis)
🍃 Bush River Mint is an Australian native mint, with comparable, or superior, anti-oxidant capacity to spearmint.
🍃 Mint is cultivated the world over for use in food flavouring, and traditional medicines, as well as, in aromatherapy, toothpaste, mouthwashes, and topical preparations.
🍃 Mint has multiple biological activities including antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antihypertensive, antiviral, antipyretic, bronchodilator, decongestant, antiallergic and carminative actions.
🍃 These actions are linked to bioactive compounds such as terpenoids and aromatic substances
🍃 mint is used to treat fever, coughs, colds, headache and digestive disorders, bad breath, cognitive improvement, dental plaque, and urinary tract infection.