dittany
dittany of Crete
Origanum dictamnus 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.

Dittany of Crete is also a valuable medium.

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

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

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

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

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

Plants in the genus Origanum go by the common names sweet marjoram, wild marjoram, pot marjoram and dittany of Crete as well as oregano.

Strangelove, Poindexter Fortran (taking over from Count Zero Interrupt), and Dittany of Crete were the primary founding members.

Like dittany of Crete, dictamnus was believed to be useful for cordial and cephalic ailments, to help resist poison and combat putrefaction, and to be useful in malignant and pestilential fevers.

Dittany of Crete has always been highly prized; it is gathered while in bloom in the summer months, and is exported for use in pharmaceuticals, perfumery and to flavour drinks such as vermouth and absinthe.

Even in recent times, the collection of dittany of Crete was a very dangerous occupation for the men who risked life and limb to climb precarious rock faces where the plant grows wild in the mountains of Crete.

At the north-western tip of the island I picked malotira, on the long empty golden beach of Phalasarna, thinking from its exotic perfume that I was gathering the famous dittany of Crete which grows nowhere else but on this island.

In Ancient Greece, Hippocrates prescribed plant cures to aid all manner of ailments, and considered dittany of Crete useful for stomach aches and complaints of the digestive system and as a poultice for healing wounds, as well as inducing menstruation.

Origanum dictamnus is a many branched plant with discoid to ovate, grey-green leaves that are sited in pairs opposite each other.