Sodium increases fluid retention, so don't use the salt shaker. And if recipes call for salt, try adding more pepper or another spice instead. But, most importantly, cut down on processed foods and fast foods, all of which are overflowing with salt.
The plant flowers from mid to late summer and are purple in colour. The leaves and the flowering tops of the peppermint are used, and they are harvested as soon as the flowers begin to open so that they can be dried.eppermint is a hybrid mint variety of spearmint and watermint. â¢ Peppermint extract is made from pure peppermint oil whereas mint extract can be derived from any number of, or combination of, culinary mint plants.
Diamond-flowers or bluet stems form clumps and become branched in the upper portion. Its small but abundant flowers are pink or white, trumpet-shaped, four-lobed, and in clusters at the ends of stiff branches. Leaves are very narrow and thread-like with rolled margins. Nigricans so named because the leaves turn black when dry.