A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.
Anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness.
Bitter; unpleasant; bitter, green oil used in making a liqueur called absinthe.
any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium
Wormwood can counteract fevers, regulate the liver and treat anemia and arthritis. It is taken as a bitter tonic and given to eliminate intestinal worms -- from whence it gets its name.
Also known as green ginger. Completely safe herb used to deter insects. For centuries, wormwood has been burned on a fire with low embers to destroy fleas and lice.
Often when people ask, "What is wormwood?" they will be told it is a popular landscaping plant. Certainly the gray-green leaves of the wormwood plant are attractive. The plant, which reaches a maximum height of about three feet, puts out yellow flowers in the summer. It is extremely bitter to the taste. When used for medicinal purposes, wormwood is usually mixed with peppermint or caraway and in that combination treats gastric distress and irritable bowel syndrome. In this fashion the three herbs are normally brewed as a tea. Wormwood should not be used for more than a month at a time and has actually been declared unsafe by the Food and Drug Administration because the plant contains thujone, which damages the liver.
Exhibits bitter, anti-microbial, carminative, and anthelmintic properties. Powerful remedy in the treatment of worm infestations, especially pinworm and roundworm. Also used to help the body deal with fever and infections
In Revelations 8:10/11 of the Holy Bible, WORMWOOD is defined as a "great star" that fell from heaven and made the earth's waters bitter as it burnt the land. Perhaps the word "WORMWOOD" identifies the leftover worm-ridden wooden artifacts from the antediluvian era of Atlantis. If COMET PHAETHON, which destroyed Atlantis, collided into the sun by vaporizing its metallic makeup into space, then, in turn, this action could cause a global fire storm and flood if the metallic particles reacted with the earth's atmosphere - thus destroying all wooden construction projects and associated artifacts. Many years later, any ancient worm-ridden wooden artifact - of which there must have been many examples, would be identified with the global event that destroyed the Atlantean era before the Biblical flood.
(Artemisia absinthium L.). Nerve tonic, fevers, to increase appetite, liver and gall bladder ailments, for delayed menses. Formerly used for flavoring absinthe liquors. Relatively small doses may cause nervous disorders, convulsions, etc.
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