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.