Peppermint and Increased Cardiac Parasympathetic Activity

• Gastric cooling and menthol cause an increase in cardiac parasympathetic efferent activity in healthy adult human volunteers.

  • 2018-08-19
  • RCT
  • Experimental physiology 103(10)
  • • Lubobo-Claude Kazadi
    • Janine Fletcher
    • Paul A Barrow

  • PubMed: 30070742
  • DOI: 10.1113/ep087058

  4 Insights on

  • Increased Cardiac Parasympathetic Activity

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  Stimulation of gastric cold thermoreceptors with menthol also caused a significant reduction in heart rate and concomitant increase in the root mean square of successive differences.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  300 ml of solution at 6°C