Dictamos (Origanum dictamus), the famous Cretan herb

quoted from the site : www.ilios.ch

There are so many stories and myths about this herb.

The Minoans for example appreciated dictamos as a holy plant and it is mentioned that dictamos was a part of the wine that Minoans drunk at their rituals.
Goddess Eileithya wore a chaplet of dictamos. She is the goddess of the birth.
The Greek myths tell us that Aphrodite healed her son Aeneas, when he was wounded in the Trojan War, with a bunch of dictamos, she got from the Ida mountains in Crete.
Aristoteles wrote: When a wild goat gets hit by the arrow of a hunter, she is running and eating Dictamos; then the arrow disappears and the healing process is activated.

Apparently Aristoteles was not wrong, about what he wrote. Present days doctors have verified that Dictamos contains thymol, which supports the healing process. Since the Minoan area, it was considered as the most precious medical plant. Today it is used as a panacea in Crete.

People use it externally for healing wounds and against effusions of blood. Besides this panacea, it is used against the common a cold, indigestion and as a tea to chill out. It is said that several liquors, even Martini, contain Dictamos.

Dictamos is a good tasting, stimulating tea. Some leaves in your bath revive the body and the soul. Dictamos got surnamed as "Erondas", which means "love herb".