In the 1990’s intensive research af dittany took place at MAICH (Mediterranean Agricultural Institute of Chania) in order to ascertain the active agents in the plant and to work out a way to utilize the plant in a way, which was commercially viably. Also at the Institute for Subtropical Plants and Olive Trees experiments are carried out where both dittany and another medical plant, malotira, are cultivated in aquaculture, meaning that the plants are grown with their roots in water. In a thesis written by Kostas Oikonomakis you can, among other things, read: We don’t intend to question Theophrast’s words that dry and sun-parched places are the best for aromatic plants, but we did in fact grow erondas in aquaculture, and it grew so big that it actually gave us twice as much ethereal oil as its wild brothers, which had grown in “the fissure of the rock”.