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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;74:1291
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Hemostatic herbs

Alejandro Aris, MD, PhDa

a Cardiac Surgery Service, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Av San Antonio M. Claret 167, 08025 Barcelona, Spain

e-mail: aaris@hsp.santpau.es

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To the Editor

I read the interesting letter by Dr Hollaus [1] about military medicine in ancient Greece. He wrote: "Bleeding was stopped with herbs that also are described to have analgesic effects. Unfortunately, the used plants are not described and still remain unknown."

I believe that I have the answer. The plant with these properties is dittany plants (Origanum dictamnus). It is mentioned in . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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