The mint pouliot is a herbaceous Plante long-lived of the family of the Lamiacées, sometimes cultivated like plants condiment for its Feuille S very aromatic.

Scientific name: Mentha pulegium L., family of the Lamiacées (Labiées).

Common noun: pouliot, pouliot royal, grass with the chips, bleach on grass of SAINT LAURENT, dictamme of Virginia, frétillet. of: Feldminze, Poleiminze, in: pennyroyal, field mint, be: poleo, it: menta terragnola, menta poleggio .

The name of “pouliot” comes from Latin pulegium , who derives from pulex , the chip, the plant having the property to move away the chips.

Description

It is a hardy perennial by its rhizomes, low, from 10 to 55 cm in height, frequent in moist environments, which exhales a strong aromatic odor. The stems broken into leaf, quadrangular, spread out or lying very easily emit adventitious roots with the lower face of the nodes. The floriferous stems are more or less drawn up.

The sheets, opposite, small, oval almost whole (slightly notched) and are provided with a short petiole.

The flowers, which appear the summer, from July to the end of September, are pink lilac, sometimes white, and are grouped with the armpit of the sheets in clusters (false verticils) spread out along the stem. The fruits are Akène S.

Origin and distribution

It is a spontaneous species in the whole of the Europe, the west of the Asia (of Cyprus to the Turkménistan) and the north of Africa (of the Morocco to the Egypt).

In France, this plant is very common up to 1800 m of altitude.

Mint pouliot appeared among the vegetables recommended in the Capitulaire De Villis to the Moyen-âge.

Use

It is sometimes cultivated for the extraction of the Menthol and in the gardens like plants condiment. It is used to aromatize sauces, the desserts, and drinks. One withdraws this plant the “gasoline of pouliot”, a essential Huile.

Out of infusion, it has antispasmodic and stimulative properties. It is considered to move away the chip S.

The oil of pennyroyal to abortive properties by irritation of the utérino-génito-urinary area with side effects on the nervous system and the liver.

Mint pouliot is a Mauvaise rather common grass by places and tough because it multiplies very easily by vegetative way (rhizomes).

It is a Plante mellifère, very visited by the bees for its nectar.

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