Nowadays medicine explores the healing power of food and says that the best way to strengthen and empower the body is eating right. The Mediterranean diet is now known worldwide for giving health and longevity.
"Wine is proof that God loves us and wants our happiness," they say in Greece. Howeveer, there is no happiness without health. That is why the wine accompanying meals daily table giving wellbeing, taste and flavors.
Wine is one of the basic ingredients of the Mediterranean diet that provides denser bones, increases intelligence and reduces stress. It improves the body's resistance to colds and protects against viruses and bacteria. It stimulates blood circulation and thus acts as an antioxidant and prevents cardiovascular diseases and strokes.
In ancient Greece used it as an antiseptic and for this reason they used to wash their wounds with it. It functioned also as a sterilant. Alexander the Great's soldiers put wine in their water in order to disinfect it and thus managed to realize their long expeditions. It seems that it was one of the main drugs of that time either taking it by itself or mixing it with herbs, wine was believed to have miraculous properties.
For all these reasons, wine is the only commodity in ancient Greek mythology has its own exclusive God, Dionysus the God of joy and life.