SEVEN SENSES ORGANIC BLOG

Greece has long been known for its rich cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty, but did you know that it is also home to some of...

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  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 13