Wild mint (menthastre). Wild mint kills worms just like other mints; it is useful for asthma, can help start menstruation, and fight hearing loss. It can also be an ingredient in sitz baths or baths to calm the nerves. Several people apply the crushed plant, in the form of a poultice, as a way to relieve the pain caused by sciatic gout by causing the blisters to burst. Tournefort, in his study of plants surrounding Paris, claims that the herbal tea made from this mint is good for hot flashes.

Doctors hardly ever use this plant, even though it is very effective against worms; this property is demonstrated by the age-old experience of peasants from several provinces who gave its sap to children suffering from worms, with much success, and who crushed it and applied it to their stomachs, which was less effective than many doctors would have thought.

This plant is an ingredient in a laurel berry powder and in myrrh tablets.