The use of herbal medicine is widespread in Slovenia, and on visits to rural areas you’ll often encounter drying rooms or tables covered with leaves and flowers, the specimens gathered from gardens or the wild, to be later stored in jars and turned into teas for various ailments or left to soak in alcohol for a certain pick-me-up. Information on the use of medicinal plants in Istria isn't available in the literature, but collection of plants is still an important and widespread practice in this region. "There is a healing flower for every illness", say the people, and who has had in the family elders from the country side knows this.
About the stamps
The stamp is part of the series Flowers of Slovenia, designed by Julija Zornik, issued on January 1, 2007, and containing 17 stamps (the country's first euro stamps).
• Asplenium adulterinum (0.01 EUR) - It's on the postcard 3395
• Moehringia tommasinii (0.02 EUR) - It's on the postcard 3395
• Pulsatilla grandis (0.10 EUR) - It's on the postcard 3395
• Serratula lycopifolia (C) - It's on the postcard 0085
Sender: Slavica Radej (direct swap)
Sent from Brestanica (Styria / Slovenia), on 29.08.2017
Photo: Ubald Trnkoczy / Zaloznik: Katika Vukovic
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