"It is also possible that the act of slow, deep breathing while inhaling peppermint oil is actually responsible for some of the perceived effects," Ravindra says. "I extrapolate this data to support using inhaled peppermint oil as an option to treat my primary care patients that may have nausea due to migraines, stomach viruses, food poisoning, or other conditions," says Ravindra.Īccording to Ravindra, the same muscle-relaxing qualities that peppermint oil offers for headaches are likely responsible for its nausea-relieving abilities. However, the quality of the study is somewhat lacking. Both groups experienced nausea relief, but those who chose peppermint oil alone had significantly more improvement. In a 2020 study, hospitalized patients could choose to treat their nausea with either peppermint oil alone or peppermint oil and a prescription anti-nausea medicine. Simply inhaling the scent of peppermint oil - or applying a few drops of peppermint oil to a cool damp washcloth and applying to the forehead - has been shown to alleviate nausea in pregnant parents, patients receiving chemotherapy, and patients recovering from surgery. If you aren't experiencing relief after 15 to 30 minutes of peppermint oil, Ravindra advises that patients use more traditional oral pain-relievers like Advil, Aleve, Tylenol, Excedrin, or any prescription headache medications you might have. "Additionally, topical peppermint has been shown to increase blood flow to the area it is applied to, which can speed up healing." "The associated cooling sensation also appears to distract nerves from the pain response," Ravindra says. Scientists aren't exactly sure how peppermint oil eases headaches and migraines, Ravindra says, but it's thought to help by relaxing muscles around the skull. In a small 2010 study, topical menthol was shown to be more effective than placebo at reducing pain for migraines without aura. So the study result concludes that peppermint oil is effective in reliving only abdominal pain in diarrhea predominant IBS transiently."For my patients with headaches, I typically recommend initially treating pain with topical treatments like peppermint oil, or with a pain-relieving ointment like Tiger Balm, which contains menthol, a cooling substance derived from peppermint," says Lisa Ravindra, MD, an assistant professor of medicine and a board-certified internal medicine physician at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Other symptoms and quality of life did not improve significantly. But two weeks after end of trials pain score again increased (6.09☑.93). It was observed that, at six weeks of therapy abdominal pain is markedly improved (mean±SD) 4.94☑.30 in peppermint oil group compared with 6.15☑.24 in placebo group and the difference was statistically highly significant (p>0.001). Finally sixty five patients completed the trial. Data were analyzed by paired and unpaired 't' test. Changes of symptoms were assessed three week interval during treatment and two weeks after the end of treatment. Seventy four patients were enrolled in the study and randomly allocated to receive either peppermint oil or placebo three times daily for six weeks. Patients who fulfilled ROME II were initially selected but those had red flag signs or any organic disease was excluded from the study. This was a prospective double blind randomized placebo-controlled study conducted in the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University during July 2008 to September 2009. This study observed the efficacy of peppermint oil for relieving the symptoms and changes of quality of life (QOL) in diarrhea predominant IBS. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common functional gastrointestinal disorder which is associated with considerable sufferings of patient and Peppermint oil is volatile oil, its active principle is menthol-contain a cyclic monoterpine which has anti-spasmotic properties due to its ability to block calcium channel of intestinal smooth muscles.
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