Let food become your medicine and your medicine become your food – Hippocrates
When Hippocrates, the father of Medicine, said this phrase about 2,400 years ago, it was considered something simple and perfectly understandable for the simple way of life and diet of his fellow human beings. Today, after 2 millennia and the tremendous differences in lifestyle, way of thinking and diet, it sounds complex and demanding.
One of the most famous herbs in Greece, flax, belongs to the family Linaceae and is native to warm European countries. We now find it all over the world and it is cultivated successfully all over Europe.
St John’s wort is a great herb of Greek nature, with many beneficial properties. Antispasmodics, antipyretics, analgesics, diuretics and natural antidepressants are just some of the many properties that we will mention.
Herbs and spices beautify our gardens, flavor our cuisine and benefit our body in a variety of ways. During the summer months it is easy to keep an herb healthy on our balcony or in our garden without much effort, especially the Greek herbs which do not need constant care. In fact, fresh herbs and spices when used directly from the pot, have a much more intense taste, aroma and have retained much of their essential oil!
Mallow is an herb native to all parts of the Mediterranean, and to Europe. It prefers barren dry soils but at the same time has a special tolerance to both drought and moisture so it can be found from coastal areas to high altitudes.
"Your food is your medicine and your medicine is your food."
