The document discusses various herbs that are commonly found and used in Greece, including thyme, dill, basil, spearmint, sage, dictamnus, crocus, mastic, and lemon balm. Many of these herbs have been used for hundreds of years in cultures throughout the Mediterranean region for both nutrition and health purposes. The herbs are described in terms of where they are found, their traditional uses, and current applications in food, beverages, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical products.

1. Herbal emotion

2. MULTICULTURAL HIGH
SCHOOL OF
SAPES,GREECE

3. HERBS
Thrive in Greece more than 100 species of
herbs, from which 60 are considered and for
beekeeping. From the great variety of the
main cultivated are the yolk, the dittany,
oregano, mountain tea, the fennel, and
anise. In trade, the greater awareness have
mountain tea, chamomile, oregano, sage,
mint, cumin, aniseed, lavender and melissa.

4. USES OF AROMATIC
PLANTS
These herbs have been used for hundreds of years
in every part of the earth from many cultures, not
only in nutrition but also in health’s
troubleshooting.Herbs are widespread throughout
the Mediterranean region and is the centerpiece of
the flora.Firstly,they were used as condiments,
beverages and for therapeutic reasons.Nowadays,
herbs and essential oils are used for the
production of food, beverages, cosmetics,
pharmaceutical industry,and in beekeeping.

5. HERB’S NAME : Thyme
AREAS TO FIND :
In the meadows and fields
of northern Greece
USES:
1) Adjust the
dysmenorrhea
2) The anticonvulsant and
sedative
3) It helps in hiccups
aerophagy and nervous
vomiting
4) Good for insomnia and
colitis

6. HERB’S NAME : Dill
AREAS TO FIND:
grocery stores and
farmers' markets, gardens
USES:
1) It helps in upset
2) Combats indigestion

7. HERB’S NAME:
Ocimum basilicum
AREAS TO FIND IT:
Everywhere in Greece
USES:
Used in pharmaceuticals
as a popular herb and is
believed to be a good
diuretic, soothes
stomachache and
headache while in
antiquity and was used as
a suffix after biting insect,
scorpion or snake

8. HERB’S NAME:
SPEARMINT MINT
AREAS TO FIND: Except that
grows only in the plant
moist and mountainous
places, cultivated by many
people usually in pots in
the garden because of the
aroma, its usefulness as a
seasoning in food and
pharmaceutical properties.
USES: It is tonic, digestive,
soothing the stomach,
antispasmodic, stop the
hiccups, while chewing the
leaves relieves migraines

9. HERB’S NAME:SAGE
WHERE IT IS FOUND :
Sage grows everywhere,
without any particular
preference on the ground.
But the most powerful and
fragrant grows in wild,
uncultivated areas.
USES :
It has tonic properties and is
used as the cardio and
neuralgia. Reduces
intestinal gases, is a diuretic
and emmenagogue.

10. HERBS NAME: Origanum
dictamnus
Whrere it’s found:
It only grows wild on the
mountainsides and gorges of
the Greek island of Crete,
Greece.
Uses:
It is a healing, therapeutic and
aromatic. The dittany of Crete is
widely used for food flavouring
and medicinal purposes, in
addition to it featuring as an
ornamental plant in gardens. It
is easily recognised by the
distinctive soft, woolly covering
of white-grey hair on its stems
and round green leaves, giving
it a velvety texture.

11. CROCUS KOZANIS
1) Antioxidant activity.
This action is now considered highly beneficial for the body
in many ways.
2) Antithrombotic action.
Result of antiplatelet effect observed in laboratory scale.
This action is attributed to a decreased incidence of
cardiovascular events in Valencia, Spain, where egg
consumption is great.
3) Anticancer activity.
The action was seen by many researches on purely
experimental.

12. Crocus is only produced in
Greece , Kozani.

13. MASTICHA CHIOS
The mastic has significant antibacterial and
antifungal properties.
Mastic oil has in vitro and in vivo
anticancer properties. The mastic seems
to significantly reduce levels of blood
cholesterol and lipoproteins A and B. In
addition, ipatoprostateftiki action after
exercise reduces transaminases

14. Masticha is only produced
in Greece , Chios.

15. THE TEAM
Sophia Papageorgiou
Georgia Parsalidou
Sophia Aidinidou
Stefania Petridou
Despina Pantazi
Elias Papageorgiou
Dimitris Adamidis
Dimitris Skopianos

16. Grape Seed Extract
• Water / ethanol extract of Vitis
vinifera
• Mixture of proanthocyanidin
polymers (PCO)
• 90+% PCO’s / Expensive: @
$500.00/kg

17. MELLISA OFFICINALIS

18. MELISSA OFFICINALIS
• PERFORMANCE AND CARCASS
CHARACTERISTICS OF BROILER
• CHICKENS AS AFFECTED BY THE
DIETARY SUPPLEMENTATION OF a-
• TOCOPHERYL ACETATE, AND LEMON
BALM (MELISSA OFFICINALIS

19. FAMILY: Lamiaceae
GENIOUS: Melissa
SPECIES: officinalis
CLASSES: Lamiales

20. GREEK TEAM OF
SAPES 2011-12