Nutritional

- Cultivated as a spice for cooking.

- Leaves used for tea.

- Used in salads to provide flavor.

- Used as a flavoring in confections, mint flavors, and beverages..

Folkloric

- One of the oldest household remedies known.

- In the Philippines, tops and leaves are considered carminative; when bruised used as antidote to stings of poisonous insects.

- Mint is used in neuralgic affections, renal and vesical calculus.

- Used for stomach weakness and diarrhea.

- Decoction and infusion of leaves and stems used for fever, stomach aches, dysmenorrhea, and diuresis.

- Pounded leaves for insect bites, fevers, toothaches, headaches.

- Crushed fresh plants or leaves are sniffed for dizziness.

- Powdered dried plant as dentrifice.

- Crushed leaves are applied on the forehead and temples for headaches.

- For toothaches: (1) Wet a small piece of cotton with juice expressed from crushed leaves; apply this impregnated cotton bud to the tooth. (2) Boil 6 tbsp. of leaves in two glasses of water for 15 minutes; strain and cool. Divide the decoction into 2 parts and take every 3 to 4 hours.

- For flatulence: Boil 4 tbsp of chopped leaves in 1 cup water for five minutes; strain. Drink the decoction while lukewarm. Facilitates expulsion of flatus.

- Alcohol or ether extract used as local anesthetic for affections of the nose, pharynx, and larynx.

- Used for obstinate vomiting of pregnancy.

- An alcoholic solution of menthol has been used as inhalation for asthma. Menthol is also used as local anesthesia for headache and facial neuralgia.

- Decoction or vapor from menthol used with lemon grass as febrifuge. Also used in hiccups.

- Plant used as emmenagogue; also used in jaundice.

- Dried plant used as dentrifice.

- Leaves and stems used as carminative, antispasmodic, and sudorific.

- Infusion of leaves used for indigestion, rheumatic pans, arthritis and inflamed joints.

- For coughs, boil 6 tbsp of chopped leaves in 2 glasses of water for 15 mins; cool and strain. Divide the decoction into three parts; take 1 part 3 times a day.

- Diluted essential oil used as wash for skin irritations, burns, pruritus, scabies, ringworm and as mosquito repellent.

- For arthritis, warm fresh leaves over low flame; then pound. Apply pounded leaves while warm on the painful joints or muscles.

- As mouthwash, soak 2 tbsp chopped leaves in 1 glass of hot water for 30 minutes; strain. Use the infusion as mouthwash.

- In Japan, used as home remedy for coughs and colds. In Chinese medicine, aerial parts used for colds, influenza, headaches, and sore throat. 

Others

- Peppermint oil is often used in pharmaceutical preparations to subdue unpleasant medicinal smells.

- Menthol derived from the essential oil is used in pharmaceutical, perfumery and food industries.

- The oil and by-product, menthol and dementholized oil (DMO), have highest share in the global mint markets.