Sideritis

As a Greek mountain tea (Greek Τσάι του βουνού Tsai tou Vounou ) offered in Greece regionally different endemic species of section Empedoclia from the kind of member herbs ( Sideritis ). Important species are Sideritis clandestina ( Peloponnese ), Sideritis athoa ( Macedonia), Sideritis raeseri (Central and Western North Greece ), Sideritis scardica (eastern North Greece ) and more regionally widespread species.

Some Sideritis species are now placed in culture. But is prevalent to be the harvesting of wild plants that affect the stocks of several species. Since the devastating forest fires in the Peloponnese in 2007, picking an Sideritis clandestina there is illegal in many areas.

It serves the tea with honey and a slice of unsweetened biscuit.

Typical uses are colds and digestive problems. In addition, there is evidence of central nervous system effects, such as inhibiting the reuptake of monoamines.

As a Cretan mountain tea is there, the endemic Syrian member herb ( Sideritis syriaca subsp. Syriaca ), also called Malotira, sold, sometimes also mixed with the burning bush - Dost (Origanum dictamnus ) ( Diktamos ) is offered.