Meagan Rousseau<\/strong> is currently enrolled at Wintergreen Botanicals in the Home Herbalist series and is eager to further her herbalist knowledge! After spending several years dealing with different health issues, she started learning about alternative health and wellness avenues and was astonished at the healing power of herbs and natural remedies. \u00a0She has a bachelor\u2019s degree in Communications from the University of New Hampshire and is currently the Assistant Controller for Al Terry Plumbing and Heating. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, Corey, and her Westie, Ruger. She also loves to travel and enjoys reading.<\/p>\nPeppermint photos by Maria No\u00ebl Groves<\/p>\n
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Student Monograph ~ This Materia Medica assignment was written by\u00a0Meagan Rousseau for the Home Herbalist Series. Peppermint Latin Name: Mentha x piperita (1) Part(s) Used: leaves (1) crude as well as in a concentrated, potent essential oil (1) Key Actions: antispasmodic (1), antimicrobial (2), analgesic (2), carminative (2), aromatic (4), stimulating nervine (4), nootropic (1), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[42,311,450,451,310,92],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-materia-medica","tag-herbs","tag-materia-medica","tag-mentha","tag-mentha-x-piperita","tag-monograph","tag-peppermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintergreenbotanicals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintergreenbotanicals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintergreenbotanicals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintergreenbotanicals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintergreenbotanicals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wintergreenbotanicals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5572,"href":"https:\/\/wintergreenbotanicals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions\/5572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintergreenbotanicals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintergreenbotanicals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintergreenbotanicals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintergreenbotanicals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}