Horse Mint
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Common name: Horse Mint, Habek Mint, Biblical Mint, Cow-weed
Botanical name: Mentha longifolia
Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Horse Mint is an aromatic perennial herb. Stem erect, leaves lanceolate, ovate or oblong, tooth, nearly sessile arranged opposite on stem. The unusual long, narrow leaves of Habek Mint are true to its Latin name, longifolia. Flowers small, lilac in whorls forming slender spike often interrupted below, borne at the ends of branches and forming a lax densely hairy inflorescence. Flower hairy out side. Bracts lanceolate. Sepals sharply 5- tooth, bell shaped, petals 4- lobed, lobes erect, stamen 4, exerted. Fruit, nutlet.
Medicinal uses: The infusion of leaves is taken as a cooling medicine. Dried leaves and flowers tops are carminative and stimulant. It is believed to the best remedy for headaches.
