Brazilian Mint Tea Kills Pain

Traditional Brazilian healers who used indigenous mint to relieve headaches and stomach pain were onto something, say researchers who found the mint tea is as effective a pain reliever as aspirin-type medication. But this isn't just any mint tea: The leaves of a Brazilian mint variety are boiled for 30 minutes and cooled into a strong drink. The sage-like taste, a researcher tells the BBC, is "not that nice, really, but then medicine isn't supposed to be nice, is it?" (More mint stories.)