Talk:Peppermint extract

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Is it right that the medical properties have not been proven? I have been prescribed peppermint oil capsules as treatment for IBS in the UK, the NHS are not well known for prescribing drugs which are not proven to work.

They have been, according to the main peppermint article which has citations.Straw Cat (talk) 01:06, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

I also agree that this article is inaccurate in saying there is no evidence of the medical effectiveness of peppermint oil. Here are links to some reliable sources https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5814329/ and https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(19)41246-8/pdf Westwind273 (talk) 20:23, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

The two sources offered are not high-quality WP:MEDRS reviews. There are no national clinical guidelines or government regulatory agencies substantiating a clinical benefit of peppermint extract or oil for treating irritable bowel syndrome. See WP:MEDASSESS, left pyramid, for the hierarchy of evidence needed for a medical claim.

This Cochrane review presented preliminary evidence for ingested peppermint oil having a useful effect on IBS, but there were concerns about the quality of studies reviewed. Use of peppermint oil for this or any disease remains part of folk medicine worldwide. There are no MEDRS sources to indicate it is in standard clinical use for treating any disease. Zefr (talk) 22:09, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

From a common sense perspective, it seems odd that there are all these medical doctors at well-known medical colleges saying there is some effect, and yet that viewpoint cannot be represented in the Wikipedia article. This is a stark contrast with the article on perfluorooctanoic acid, which contains a lot of information that fails the same WP:MEDRS and WP:MEDASSESS standards. I guess it depends one's political leanings. There are so many crackpot essential oil treatments out there, so when an essential oil shows some actual benefit, the politically correct beat it down with all the others. I doubt that all those well-known medical colleges would consider their professors as part of "folk medicine". Westwind273 (talk) 17:02, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Citation 6 should be removed, the link is to an article that is trying to sell a product and could contain bias and misinformation to sell said product with no outside sources. EmOneGarand (talk) 16:04, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

I think some rewording is needed since the antispasmodic effects are proven to be medically useful in a number of areas, even if it not a frontline treatment for anything. You do have to be very carful with any essential oil stuff though since even just a single incautiously worded sentence in a wikipedia article can spawn a thousand essential oil pseudoscience treatments. MasterTriangle12 (talk) 05:41, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Does it exist?

Hi folks, does peppermint extract exist at all? The etheric oil is very important (peppermint oil), therefore it is absolutely not sensible that "peppermint oil" redirects to "peppermint extract". Peppermint oil is an important article of commerce, but an extract of peppermint I have never heard of. This is not a good situation not to have an article on the oil, but one on the exract. People easily might mix up the two. Also I believe most of the things written here apply to the oil, not the extract.Elhacat (talk) 19:28, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Well you can have an aqueous extract, but I feel like that is more of a footnote since it is rather uncommon, there should be some clarification since they have quite different composition. MasterTriangle12 (talk) 05:37, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Peppermint extract is a flavouring sold in grocery stores in the baking aisle, along with vanilla extract and almond extract, at least in Canada. It is not the same thing as peppermint essential oil. Rosemary Amey (talk) 01:17, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

It would seem that when a user enters "peppermint oil", it should redirect to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppermint#Oil, not here. Westwind273 (talk) 17:21, 31 December 2024 (UTC)