The roots of the Athonite pharmacy, which is based on the secrets of the plentiful herbs of Athos, reach deep down centuries. Herbs, elixirs, spirits, rare and selective natural products, which all come from the Garden of Virgin Mary; a garden blessed with an impressive collection of 1,453 plants.
The last serving pharmacy closed, before the World War II, in 1897 by the sigillum of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The Athonite pharmacy passed from one generation to the other, through the oral tradition of the wise Elders, as well as through the written testimonies and resources, available in the libraries of the Holy Monasteries. The recipies of the products were bequeathed by significant botanists, doctors monks (indicatively are cited: Klemes Gymnasios, Agapios, Theofilos), and all of them offer what lacks the human body because of the modern everyday life, the stress or the bad diet.
The Pharmacy of Mount Athos offers divine gifts for the human body, which have been made by excellent varieties of healing/therapeutical products, such as: Herbs for the memory, the stress, insomnia or cough, Elixirs for glucose diseases, or uric acid diseases or diseases of the blood pressure or the heart, Tinctures for gum diseases, infections of the mouth and others, Healing oils for allergies, gallbladders and others, Bee products (Pollen, Propolis, Royal Gelly, Liqueur, Tea, Handmade soaps).