Daily Archives: August 31, 2021

Pure essence of Greek Mountain Tea Being a mountainous country showered by sunshine for a good part of the year, Greece has natural landscapes blanketed by over 3,600 species and subspecies of plants. The healing properties of many of these medicinal plants have been lauded and used since antiquity by doctors such as Hippocrates, Theofrastus, Dioscorides and Galen, and became known to the wider world when the ‘herbal bible’, Dioscorides (40-90 AD) De Materia Medica, was translated into Arabic and Latin in the 12th and 13th C and in German, Spanish, French, Italian and finally English after the 16th C), emerging […]