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Mysterious healing plant
« on: Monday, 30 September, 2019 @ 23:24:56 »
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The mysterious healing plant that only grows on Greece's Chios island

What's particularly mind-boggling is the variety of lentisc tree that produces this particular resin (Pistacia Lentiscus var Chia) only grows around 24 villages in southern Chios, including Pyrgi, collectively known as "Mastihohoria" or '"mastiha villages."

There have been attempts to graft such trees in Italy, across the sea in Turkey and even in northern Chios, but all have proved futile.

According to local legend, this is because of St. Isidore, a Christian sailor in the Imperial Roman fleet who was martyred on Chios in the third century, during the reign of Emperor Decius, and dragged by horses on the rough terrain of Chios.

When the lentisc trees saw his suffering, they are said to have cried tears of mastiha.

However, modern agronomists say...
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/chios-island-mastiha/index.html