DITTANY
OF CRETE
ESSENTIAL
OIL
"Dittany of Crete" essential
oil is produced from the herb 'Dittany of Crete' (Origanum dictamnus) with distillation.
Dittany's therapeutical properties were known from the antiquity and a lot of ancient philosophers
and healers have reported about them (Euripides 480-406 BC, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Cicero 106-43 BC,
Theophrastus, Virgil 70-19 BC, Pliny 23-79 AD, Plutarch 46-127 AD, Dioscorides, Galen and others).
From Dittany
cultivated in our own plantations in Crete, in co-operation with the University of Athens,
we have produced Dittany's essential oil, for the first time worldwide.
Dittany's therapeutical properties, according
to a study performed by the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI),(8-10 May 1996,
CIHEAM, Vallezano-Bari, Italy), are: insectifuge -
anti-endemic - analgesic - anti-inflammatory
- antiflu - perfumery - antirheumatic - spasmolytic
- bactericide - termitifuge - fungicide -
anesthetic - herbicide - antiplaque - vermifuge - antiseptic
- carminative - tracheorelaxant - expectorant - febrifuge
- nematicide - hepatoprotectant - prostaglandin -
cicatrizing.
Properties Color: About red. Essence:
Special thin aromatic (high tones).
Special weight: 0.933 - 0.935 Curver-power :+3. All the chromatographic analysis is from University of Athens ,School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products (prof.
C. Harvala)
Dittany's essential
oil comes either pure in 5ml bottles or as an aromatherapy dilution in base-oil (almond-oil and
germ-oil) in 20ml bottles.
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