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The use of herbs in medicine is still used today in Crete, you to can try these old remedies for your ailments. See above.
 

ROSEMARY: Therapeutically it is used as a digestive, Samoyedic and anti rheumatic. Rosemary has many healing properties. It is good for stomach ailments, menstrual disorders, gallbladder, liver, jaundice caused by hepatitis, as a antiseptic for wounds and also as a anti-convulsive drug. It is also used for chronic catarrh in the lungs and rheumatism. As a tonic for blood circulation. Excellent for nervous head-aches. Young shoots in wine is a tonic for the heart. Washing hair with rosemary improves hair growth. The flowers and leaves are good for asthma, whooping cough, flu, and weakness. The list of healing properties are unlimited.

DITTANY: One of the mostly used medicines in ancient Greece. Hippocrates applied it on the diseases of the stomach and the digestive system, rheumatism and arthritis. It has wound healing, tonic and antispasmodic properties and helps menstruation. Dittany grows only on Crete.The popular Diktamo as a special warm drink with its aromatic healing properties can be used for anti convulsive, menstrual and as a tonic. It can be used externally as a poultice on wounds and bruises. It is thought to strengthen the heart muscles and arteries. Growing only in Crete, 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 tone and heal. It was named after the mountain Dikty (Lassithiotika) where it grows in abundance.

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