Pennyroyal

Pennyroyal has carminative, antispasmodic, diaphoretic, and emmenagogue properties, and is used topically as a refrigerant, antiseptic, and insect repellent. Traditionally, it has been used for flatulent dyspepsia, intestinal colic, common cold, delayed menstruation, and topically for cutaneous eruptions, formication, and gout. 

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The leaves and other pirts of the plant MentKa puLgium yield the ordinary pennyroyal oil. This plant is a native of most parts of Europe, the C.ano sus, (Ihili, Teneriffe, etc. The volatili oil is of a yellow or grei nish-yellow colour, and possesses a strong odour of the plant. 

American pennyroyal oil is dialilled Irom a herb lodij euoua to Horth. Ameriea, Sedeoma puiegoiAes. The oil is principally distilled in North Carolina, Ohio, and Tenneasee. The dried leavfes yield about 3 pec eent,. and the leaves and stalks together about I D per cent, ol essential oil. 

Methyl-l-hexanone-3, C-HjjO, is found naturally in pennyroyal oil, and is obtained by the decomposition of pulegone. It is an aromatic liquid having the following characters —... 

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Source Formic acid naturally occurs in carrots, soybean roots, carob, yarrow, aloe, Levant berries, bearberries, wormwood, ylang-ylang, celandine, jimsonweed, water mint, apples, tomatoes, bay leaves, common juniper, ginkgo, scented boronia, corn mint, European pennyroyal, and bananas (Duke, 1992). 

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Also syntheses based on 3-carene from Indian turpentine and on D-pulegone from pennyroyal oil have been practised on a commercial scale in the past, but these approaches have been abandoned, because they were considered uneco-... 

Pulegone is the major constituent of pennyroyal oil from Mentha pulegium L., which is available in large quantities. 

Pennyroyal Digestive aid induction of menstrual flow abortifacient Pulegone and pulegone metabolite, liver failure, renal failure Avoid... 

This method is also used for the determination of ketones, such as carvone and pulegone, in caraway and pennyroyal oils.1... 

The determination of aldehydes and ketones is of importance in the analysis of those essential oils characterised especially by aldehydic or ketoruc principles, e g.,the citral contained in lemon and lemongrass oils, citronellal in citronella Oil and some eucalyptus oils, benzaldehyde in bitter almond oil, salicylaldehyde in meadow-sweet oil, anisaldehyde in aniseed and fennel oils, cuminaldehyde m cumin oil, cinnamaldehyde in cinnamon oil, carvone in caraway oil, pulegone in pennyroyal oil and methyl nonyl ketone in rue oil The determination of the aldehydes and ketones presents, however, difficulties and the above methods are moderately exact in only a few cases, especially when the content of aldehydes or ketones is considerable The bisulphite method is applicable particularly to the determination of cinnamaldehyde and benzaldehyde in cinnamon oil and bitter almond oil, and, up to a certain pomt, to that of citral in lemongrass Oil. The sulphite method gives good results in the same cases and for the determination of carvone and pulegone... 

In menstrual obstruction, usually with Pennyroyal and Southernwood. Infusion of 1 ounce to 1 pint boiling water, wineglass doses. 

American or Mock Pennyroyal are the names given to the dried leaves and flowering tops of Hedeoma pulegioides. This plant, although quite different in appearance from the European Pennyroyal, has similar medicinal values. 

The 1 ounce to 1 pint infusion is widely used as a mouth-wash and gargle, and for the cleansing of wounds and ulcers. Frequently combined with Slippery Elm as a poultice. With a little Ginger and Pennyroyal it is recommended for the stomach and bowel disorders of children. 

Southernwood is mainly employed in menstrual obstruction, frequently in combination with Mugwort and Pennyroyal. Wineglass doses are taken of the infusion of 1 ounce of the herb to 1 pint of boiling water. The powdered herb is sometimes given in teaspoonful or smaller doses to children suffering from worms, but such agents as Tansy and Wormwood are perhaps more effective as anthelmintics. 

Boneset, Heartsease, Marigold, Pennyroyal, Prickly Ash, Ragwort, Wood Sage, Yarrow. 

EMMENAGOGUES Provoke and. enhance the menstrual flow.—Black Cohosh, Mugwort, Pennyroyal, Southernwood, Wood Sage. 

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