dittany
Dictamnus albus latin

I then bought some dittany in the fine, covered, nineteenth-century market.

Dittany of Crete is also a valuable medium.

Look for the dried herb, dittany (díktamus), commonly used to make herbal tea.

Dittany can refer to three different plants, the first two with similar medical properties, the second two closely related:

Rare herbs include the endemic Cretan dittany.

His ribs were wrapped tightly in filthy linen, stuffed to bursting with blood-soaked dittany leaves.

These include aconite (also called hecateis), belladonna, dittany, and mandrake.

Hermione heals him with a liquid - essence of dittany - that she carried in her bag, a process which took several days.

Dittany (díktamus) is a popular Cretan herb that is boiled to make tea.

Oribasius was bent over the wound, holding a poultice of dittany, but had stopped his probing, listening to the conversation.

Additionally, dittany of Crete is one of the few well-known etheric condensers.

Another mixture, not abortifacient, but rather intended to relieve missed abortion, contained dittany, hyssop, and hot water.

The dittany of Crete is widely used for food flavouring and medicinal purposes, in addition to it featuring as an ornamental plant in gardens.

Within minutes he was absorbed in the problem of whether the "dittanders" of Aelfric was, or was not, the same as his own "dittany".

Dittany and fraxinella, when in flower, bring on intoxication in gardeners who touch them, as if the gardeners had drunk wine.

Today, the wild, naturally grown dittany of Crete is classed as "rare" and is protected by European law so it does not become extinct.

Cunila mariana (common dittany)

I had collected a pocketful of eyebright and dittany by the time they finished talking and Hugh Munro rose to go.

First shelf: dittany, fennel, tansy, rue. . . . Was it realty almost sixty years ago?"

In his work Enquiry into Plants, he noted that dittany was peculiar to Crete, and that it was:

--- The incense should follow the nature of the particular Deity, as, mastic for Mercury, dittany for Persephone.

The Greek scholar and philosopher Theophrastus agreed with Aristotle about the healing properties of dittany of Crete.

It is known variously as burning bush, false dittany, white dittany, gas plant and Fraxinella.

Origanum majorana (marjoram) and Dittany of Crete are rich in carvacrol, 50% resp.

Keats couldn't have been so poetic without bowers of dittany and sweetbriar; Fitzgerald required Delmonico's, bespoke shirts and the south of France.

The larvae feed on the flowers and leaves of Dictamnus albus.

There are also reports of these chemicals in gas plants (Dictamnus albus).

It is the main alkaloid in the roots of Dictamnus albus and responsible for the mutagenicity of extracts derived from the crude drug.

Dictamnus albus (white dittany, false dittany)

Other scholars of Ancient Greece and later have made reference to dittany, but probably referred to Dictamnus albus, known as false or white dittany.

Dictamnus is a genus of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, with a single species, Dictamnus albus, which has several geographical variants.