The popular Diktamo as a special warm drink with its aromatic healing properties can be used for anti convulsive, menstrual and tonic. Externally as a poultice on wounds and bruises. Strengthens the heart muscles and arteries. Growing only in Crete Island Greece. The locals called it also “eronda” which means love for its aphrodisiac properties. Popular in Minoan Crete and Ancient Greece, it was considered highly therapeutic plant. Hippocrates recommended it for stomach and digestive system diseases, rheumatism, arthritis and used it to regulate menses, to tone and heal. It was named after the mountain Dikty (Lassithiotika) where it teemed.
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