일반명-영어 Mentha herb
라틴명 Menthae Herba
이명 소박하(蘇薄荷), 죽양채(竹陽菜), 번하채(蕃荷菜), 선박하(鮮薄荷), 박하경(薄荷梗), 계소(鷄蘇)
학명 Mentha arvensis Linné var. piperascens Malinvaud ex Holmes (박하)
기원 박하 Mentha arvensis Linne var. piperascens Malinvaud ex Holmes (꿀풀과 Labiatae)의 지상부

약성/귀경
맵고(辛) 서늘하다(凉).
폐(肺)와 간경(肝經)에 작용한다.

효능
소산풍열·청리두통(疏散風熱·淸利頭痛), 이인투진(利咽透疹), 소해간울(疏解肝鬱), 피예기(辟穢氣)

소산풍열(疏散風熱): a therapeutic method to treat external wind-heat contraction by using pungent-cool exterior-releasing medicinals
두통(頭痛): pain in the head
이인(利咽): a therapeutic method that relieves a sore throat
투진(透疹): a therapeutic method used to promote skin eruptionin measles for preventing complications, the same as promoting eruption
거풍(祛風): a general term for relieving external wind pattern/ syndrome
산한(散寒): a therapeutic method of dissipating external cold pathogen
소간(疏肝): a therapeutic method of restoring the normal functioning of stagnated liver qi
간기울결; 간울(肝氣鬱結; 肝鬱): stagnation of qi in the liver resulting from impairment
of free coursing, also called liver depression
피예(辟穢): a therapeutic method of using aromatic medicinals to treat diseases caused by pathogenic foul turbidity