{"id":2340,"date":"2008-09-07T13:15:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.grfolk-medicine-in-crete\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T22:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:32:48","slug":"folk-medicine-in-crete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/folk-medicine-in-crete\/","title":{"rendered":"Folk Medicine in Crete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_708561697\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"row row-full-width\"  id=\"row-1366274779\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1316204945\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_254281308\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div data-animate=\"fadeInLeft\">\t\t<div class=\"img-inner box-shadow-3 dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"511\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/\u039b\u03b1\u03b9\u0308\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03b9\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bd-\u039a\u03c1\u03b7\u0301\u03c4\u03b7-511x800.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\u0392\u03b9\u03b2\u03bb\u03af\u03bf \u039a\u03b1\u03bd\u03ac\u03ba\u03b7 \u0399. \u0393\u03b5\u03c1\u03c9\u03bd\u03c5\u03bc\u03ac\u03ba\u03b7\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/\u039b\u03b1\u03b9\u0308\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03b9\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bd-\u039a\u03c1\u03b7\u0301\u03c4\u03b7-511x800.jpg 511w, https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/\u039b\u03b1\u03b9\u0308\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03b9\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bd-\u039a\u03c1\u03b7\u0301\u03c4\u03b7-256x400.jpg 256w, https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/\u039b\u03b1\u03b9\u0308\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03b9\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bd-\u039a\u03c1\u03b7\u0301\u03c4\u03b7-768x1202.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/\u039b\u03b1\u03b9\u0308\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03b9\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bd-\u039a\u03c1\u03b7\u0301\u03c4\u03b7-981x1536.jpg 981w, https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/\u039b\u03b1\u03b9\u0308\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03b9\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bd-\u039a\u03c1\u03b7\u0301\u03c4\u03b7-1308x2048.jpg 1308w, https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/\u039b\u03b1\u03b9\u0308\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03b9\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bd-\u039a\u03c1\u03b7\u0301\u03c4\u03b7-scaled.jpg 1636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_254281308 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1403169669\" class=\"col medium-7 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-1028826885\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<h3>Remedies, herbs, spells, charms, edible wild greens, and more<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-1028826885 {\n  font-size: 1.8rem;\n  line-height: 1;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-268541617\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>ATHENS 2008<\/strong><br>Five thousand years ago, herbs were used against diseases. In 2700 BC, a list of 365 medicinal plants was recorded in China. Hammurabi, king of the Babylonians in the 17th century BC, also compiled a list of medicinal plants.<br>In ancient Egypt, medicine first took on scientific dimensions. However, it was still largely a tool in the hands of the priesthood and often mixed with magic. The Greek Cyron, teacher of the later deified Asclepius, introduced the development of the therapeutic use of herbs to Greece.<br>The first in the world to separate medicine from magic and the influence of the priesthood was the Greek Hippocrates, recognized as the father of medicine.   <\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-268541617 {\n  text-align: left;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"gap-1861079385\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-1861079385 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/\u039b\u0391\u0399\u039a\u0397-\u0399\u0391\u03a4\u03a1\u0399\u039a\u0397-\u03a3\u03a4\u0397\u039d-\u039a\u03a1\u0397\u03a4\u0397.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button primary box-shadow-2 lowercase\" rel=\"noopener\"  style=\"padding:6px 30px 6px 30px;\">\n\t<i class=\"icon-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" ><\/i>\t<span>Read the book<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-1403169669 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 0px 1% 0px 1%;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #col-1403169669 > .col-inner {\n    padding: 0px 2% 0px 2%;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_708561697 {\n  padding-top: 5px;\n  padding-bottom: 5px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five thousand years ago, we used herbs to fight diseases. In 2700 BC, a list of 365 medicinal plants was written in China. Also, Hammurabi, king of the Babylonians in the 17th century BC, had created a list of medicinal plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}