Preparation
highKing's gives peppermint as one ingredient in aromatic wine, a percolated preparation with lavender, origanum, rosemary, sage, wormwood, and stronger white wine.
Found in the Hermetikon archive
Mint
Mentha x piperita
Mint appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.
- Risk
- moderate
- Books
- 8
- Contexts
- 4
- Mentions
- 116
Archive Profile
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Herb identity
- Common name
- mint
- Latin name
- Mentha x piperita(ambiguous)
- Identity note
- Mint is broad and can mean coinage; botanical contexts and specific species are the strongest archive matches.
Safety
moderate
Peppermint oil can worsen reflux and requires caution around infants and some medications.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
- NCCIH Herbs at a Glance: Peppermint oil can worsen reflux and requires caution around infants and some medications.
Aliases
mintMenthaMentha x piperitapeppermintspearmint
Mint in Historical Sources
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Mint (Mentha x piperita) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 1 preparation or ritual-use entry. The strongest recurring contexts are preparations, symbolism, and identity. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Identity
highHill's peppermint entry names Mentha piperata and compares it with wild mint and spearmint, giving a specific species context for this mint evidence.
Symbolism
highMiller's dream dictionary treats peppermint as a dream symbol of pleasant entertainments, romance-tinged pleasure, and caution for young women, not as a materia medica entry.
Preparations and ritual uses
aromatic wine
highKing's aromatic wine reduces peppermint with lavender, origanum, rosemary, sage, and wormwood to coarse powder and percolates it with stronger white wine.
Mint Archive Contexts
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
Medicine
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Liber 777.
Matched as peppermint; high confidence.
Astrology
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted.
Matched as peppermint; high confidence.
Preparation
12 passages across 5 books; strongest source: King's American Dispensatory.
Matched as peppermint; high confidence.
Symbolism
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Primitive Culture, Vol. 2.
Matched as spearmint; high confidence.
Mint Cited Excerpts
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"...ose, as a laxative, about 4 fluid drachms. VINUM AROMATICUM.— AROMATIC WINE. Preparation. — Take of lavender, origanum, peppermint, rosemary, sage, wormwood, of each, 1 part; stronger white wine, a sufficient quantity to make 100 parts. "Mix the solid ingredients, and reduce them to a coarse (No. 20) powder. Moisten the powder with 4 parts of stronger white wine, pack it moderatelj' in a conical class percolator, and gradually pour enough stronger white wine upon it to make' the tiltcn-.l li, |ui(l weigh 100 parts"— (f. 8. P., 1880). Action and Medical Uses. — Thi..."
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Preparationalias: pepperminthigh confidence
The Family Herbal
John Hill
1755
"water distilled from them, and made sufficiently strong, is by much the most efficacious. PEPPERMINT. *Mentha piperata.* A PLANT kept in our gardens, but much more resembling the wild mint last described, than the spear mint, both in form and qualities. It grows two feet and a half high. The stalk is square and firm, upright, and of a pale green; the leaves stand two at each joint: they are broad, not very long, of a dark green, and serrated deeply at the edges. The flowers grow in thick spikes, but not very long ones, they are large,..."
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Liber 777
Aleister Crowley
1909
"...nd Sandals . . . | **9** | | Corn . . . . . . | Dittany of Crete . . . | The Magical Circle and Triangle . | **10** | | Peppermint . . . | Galbanum . . . . . | The Dagger or Fan . . . . . | **11** | | All cerebral excitants | Mastic, White Sandal, Mace, Storax, all Fugitive Odours | The Wand or Caduceus . . . | **12** | | Juniper, Pennyroyal, & all emmenogogues | Menstrual Blood, Camphor, Aloes, all Sweet Virginal Odours | Bow and Arrow . . . . . | **13** | | All aphrodisiacs . . | Sandalwood, Myrtle, all Soft Voluptuous Odours | The Girdle . . . . . . . | **14** ..."
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Medicinealias: pepperminthigh confidence
Pow-Wows
John George Hohman
1820
"...am, 181 Pennsylvania DutehiGerman, 1-3,22-23,32, 35-36, 139 140 ensses Blum, 73,181 pepper: black, H1LI3t peppercorn, 1 peppermint, 131 pestilence, preventing, 74-75, 80 Peter, Apostle see St. Peter Petit Albert,29 petroteum, 109 Pheat river, 85, 194 Philadelphia PA, 2, 22,34, 36-37, 1.9 pile, St pimpernel bread, 68, 120 Pimpernel, caret, 357, Pimpton, Tom, 29 pine ol resins, 118 pine, yellow, 259 Pipes white lay. $4 Poa, river, 8 plantain, 70, 126-127, 129,249, 258 plaster 35-56, 65,67, 69-70, 113, 134 plate, dirty, tin, 60, 252 pleuri, 131 poisoning, curing, 255..."
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Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted
Gustavus Hindman Miller
1901
"...p reproaches or quarrels. For a young woman to put it on her food, foretells that she will be deceived by her friends. *Peppermint*. To dream of peppermint, denotes pleasant entertainments and interesting affairs. To see it growing, denotes that you will participate in some pleasure in which there will be a dash of romance. To enjoy drinks in which there is an effusion of peppermint, denotes that you will enjoy assignations with some attractive and fascinating person. To a young woman, this dream warns her against seductive pleasures. *Perfume*. To dream of inhali..."
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Astrologyalias: pepperminthigh confidence
Books Mentioning Mint
Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854
peppermintspearmint
98 mentionscited
Pow-Wows
John George Hohman | 1820
peppermint
4 mentionscited
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted
Gustavus Hindman Miller | 1901
peppermint
4 mentionscited
Ritual and Belief
A.W. Buckland | 1891
peppermint
3 mentions
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
peppermint
2 mentionscited
Psyche's Task
Sir James George Frazer | 1909
peppermint
2 mentions
Primitive Culture, Vol. 2
Edward Burnett Tylor | 1871
spearmint
2 mentions
Liber 777
Aleister Crowley | 1909
peppermint
1 mentioncited