plant

Dittany

Nature

The named Origanum dictamnus of Crete, classical wound-herb and later grimoire speech. Not oregano as kitchen Origanum, and not marjoram as the sweet kitchen kin.

Also known as Dittany of Crete · Origanum dictamnus

  • Dittany is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists Cretan dittany (δίκταμνον) among wound-drawing and uterine drugs famed from that island. A named dittany in that handbook, not kitchen oregano as a generic Origanum dump and not later grimoire speech as this sentence.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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